The 1997 blockbuster Half Life has been ported to Windows RT, meaning it owners of ARM based Windows RT tablets, such as the Surface RT can play Half Life. In order to play Half Life your tablet will need to be jail broken as third party desktop applications are not allowed to run as standard on Windows RT. The Half Life for Windows RT port was created by S1yRuleZ over at XDA-Developers Presuming you have a Jailbroken Windows RT device you can do the following to play: Download Half-Life for Windows RT Unzip the files Copy the Pak0, Pak1, Pak2 .PAK files from an install of the origional Half-Life in ID1 folder contained within the files you unzipped Start the game from “Run Half-Life.bat” Note: You need to obtain the Pak0, Pak1, Pak2 .PAK files from an original copy of Half-Life, not the steam version or demo of the game. Half Life RT Controls: W,A,S,D = walk F = use LMOUSE = fire SPACE = jump N = noclip P = console 0 = change weapon So there we have it, some glassic gaming on Windows RT for people who want something more than modern apps.
An apps button has recently appeared in my bookmarks bar on Google Chrome, linking to chrome://apps/. I personally don’t use any apps on Chrome and find its presence in my bookmarks bar a bit annoying, luckily however you can remove the apps button despite the delete option been inactive when you right click it. Google Chrome Apps Button Removal To remove the button you first need to right click it, then simply look near the bottom of the menu and un-check the “show apps button” menu item to remove the new button. That’s it, your day can now go on as normal. I must admit it took me a good half a minute to realise how to remove the button from Chrome, however that was at 6am, before my morning cuppa tea, so my excuse is I was half asleep at the time!
Outlook.com (Hotmail) setup with IMAP in the Apple OSX Mail App. By default if you want to access your Outlook.com / Hotmail or MSN email account in the OSX Mail app you had to do it with POP. Using POP is not ideal as it simply downloads the massage from the Outlook servers. You can not organise your email and sync changes back to Outlook, and between devices such as your desktop pc, laptop and mobile. Although not as good as Exchange Active Sync which is supported by most smartphone and Outlook 2013 on Windows, Mac OSX users can now use IMAP to sync mail to OSX. Outlook.com IMAP settings: Incoming IMAP Server: imap-mail.outlook.com Server port: 993 Encryption: SSL Outgoing SMTP Server: smtp-mail.outlook.com Server port: 587 Encryption: TLS Setting up OSX Mail using IMAP for Outlook.com: Open Mac Mail, from the File menu, choose Add Account then enter your Hotmail, Outlook or MSN email address and password, finally clicking continue. The account type you need to select is IMAP, you can enter anything you like for the description. The username is [email protected], your password is the password you usually use to sign in to outlook.com unless you have two factor…
The aim of this tutorial is to explain how you can easily update the quantity and price of many Ebay listing, including items with variations. This task will be completed with one simple upload to Ebay File Exchange. If you have been re stocking your item quantity or revising prices manually, this is guaranteed to save you a lot of time. I have decided to split this tutorial in to two parts, this first blog post will cover the basics on: What is Ebay File Exchange Creating a template for Ebay File Exchange uploads Revising the price and quantity of multiple single item listings Uploading to Ebay File Exchange A second blog post will advance on what you have learned in this blog post, the next blog will show how to update listing with variations, and even multiple variation listings all from the same file upload. So lets get started. 1. What is Ebay File Exchange? Ebay File exchange is an advanced web based tool provided by Ebay. File Exchange allows sellers greater control to manage high volumes of eBay listings. I find File Exchange is very useful for quickly updating the quantity of items in stock, and altering the prices…
Why Create an Xbox Live account for a different region? Xbox Live account’s for a different region can offer various benefits. Most people want an account in a different region to gain access to an alternate marketplace which offers content not available in the region the person is currently in, for example you could be in the United Kingdom and wish to access to exclusive content on the Japanese marketplace. This content might be DLC or simply to gain access to special offers such as free games been offered to Xbox Live members in different regions. How to create an Xbox Live account for a different region, e.g. the USA, Japan or UK? Creating an Xbox Live account for a different region is simple, you will first need a Microsoft account that does not have an Xbox Live account / profile associated with it. You can use an existing email address as a Microsoft account or signup for a free Microsoft email address @outlook.com or @hotmail.com To do this go to https://signup.live.com/ and complete the Microsoft account sign-up. Not the part in the screenshot highlighted in red, click “or get a new email address” if you do not have another email address to use. …