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Archive for July, 2007


Shippuuden ED2 Download

Wondering what is the title of the latest Naruto Shippuuden Ending song? After a few days of looking I already found the information. The song is from Alüto’s group the title of the song is Michi-To You All (Path To You All).
Okay, so you are asking if there an mp3 version of it? You are in luck, Fortunately I found a site that offers a direct download. Enjoy!!
Michi/Path to you all - Naruto shippuden Ending 2 Mp3

Michi - To You All (Path To You All) by Alüto
Lyrics (TV-Size Only)
Daitai itsumo doori ni
Sono kado wo magareba
Hitonami ni magirekomi
Tokete kiete iku

Boku wa michi wo nakushi
Kotoba sura nakushiteshimau
Dakedo hitotsu dake wa
Nokotteta nokotteta kimi no koe ga

Warau kao mo okoru kao mo subete
Boku wo arukaseru
Kumo ga kireta saki wo mitara kitto
Nee wakaru desho?
Nee wakaru desho?

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iPhone Hacked?

iPhone hype is all over, I have read and wrote a few articles about iPhone lately from the announcement to the release we can say that iPhone and Apple had lived up to its hype. In this article I will enumerate “iPhone Hacked” related stories, which is generating public awareness from the time of iPhone release date. Here are a few stories that caught my attention:

iPhone Independence
This blog claims that he could activate the iPod + WiFi capability of iPhone without the phone functionality of a unactivated iPhone. It means you can use your iPhone as iPod and a Wi-Fi device, without paying for AT&T’s two-year service plan. Jon Lech Johansen the DRM-hacking Norwegian programmer stated that :

Note that this application will not do anything unless you understand the magic numbers as well as add the hosts entry.

Since I iPhone is not yet available on my location, I could not confirm if this hack really works. Wondering what does the numbers mean?

Magic iTunes 7.3.0.54 numbers:
Offset 2048912: 33C0C3
Offset 257074: 28
Offset 257013: 33C9B1

I assume this are hex locations of iTunes 7.3.0.54, you need a hex editor. For example offset 2048912 should be replaced by 33C0C3, and so forth.

Add 127.0.0.1 albert.apple.com
to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

This is fairly simple, it means that instead of contacting albert.apple.com which is the activate server for AT&T and directing it to your local PC. The Phone Activation Server v1.0 is need to be installed along with MS .NET Framework 2.0 to emulate the AT&T server on your local PC.
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New 7 Wonders of the World

As of July 7, 2007 New7Wonders of the World held on Lisbon, Portugal, announced the new 7 wonders of the world.

From the original lists:

  • the Pyramids of Giza
  • the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  • the Statue of Zeus at Olympia
  • theTemple of Artemis at Ephesus
  • the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
  • the Colossus of Rhodes
  • the Pharos of Alexandria

The new 7 wonders of the worlds are the following:

  • Chichén Itzá, Mexico
  • Christ Redeemer, Brazil
  • The Great Wall, China
  • Machu Picchu, Peru
  • Petra, Jordan
  • The Roman Colloseum, Italy
  • The Taj Mahal, India

So whenever someone ask you this, “What are the Seven Wonders of the World?”, you can answer correctly.

The New7Wonders Foundation, which is the body behind the New7Wonders campaign, has the express aim of documenting, maintaining, restoring and reconstructing world heritage under the motto:

“OUR HERITAGE IS OUR FUTURE.”

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iPhone New Features


Marco Tempest’s new iPhone features exclusively available at your nearest future. This guy is great, he is a high-tech poet that loves magic. Think of him as David Blane and Nikola Tesla into one. And this video is one of my favorite, just hours after the official release of Apple’s iPhone, Marco performs a magic trick of his new iPhone features.

You can checkout his official website at www.marcotempest.com Enjoy!

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Tower Defense - Flash Games

WARNING!
A current study shows that playing this game would decrease productivity 100%! Many people have been fired by their boss as we speak. You have been warned!

Naaahhh!!! Whatever! From Warcraft’s customized maps tower defense style of gaming have been gaining popularity. Ok so for those who have not yet been playing tower defense games, here is a quick explanation on how the game works. The game will be played either by a single player or more, there will be a entrance point and an exit point for creeps. You will begin on a fixed number of lives, each creeps that would be able to exit through the exit point would decrease your lives. You need to create a defense of towers, to prevent the creeps from exiting, each creeps killed will earn you gold points to be able to build more towers. As the game progresses a more powerful type of tower could be build. If you loose your lives to zero the game ends, but if you survive the whole level you win!

So that is the basic rule of the game. I have been playing this kind of game on Warcraft and I have been surprised that this kind of game had been one by one appearing on Flash based type of game with different varieties. Here are the following Flash based Tower Defense sites I have been playing.

Flash Circle TD
This type of tower defense is a little bit different, instead of having an exit point, creeps will go on circle throughout the maze, but if you let 100 creeps to accumulate on the maze, the game ends. This puts a level of stress on the element of strategy which I find interesting and addicting. I had been playing on this game for quite sometime. From 10 being the highest I rate this game 7 emphasizing on the gameplay’s originality.
Flash Circle TD

Flash Element TD
A normal type of tower defense game, but with a few changes. Every 7th level you will be given a wood point to learn 3 types of research (Water, Earth, Fire). Each research will enable you to build element type of towers. You also can spend gold to lengthen your lives. This flash game is based on Element TD map from Warcraft III. What I do not like on this is you have to start each level and the games will pause each level, to give you time to build your defenses, this game is quite easy for me and did not gave any challenge at all. Controls for building and upgrading is quite confusing since upgraded towers are the same as not upgraded towers, you need to click on the tower you want to build everytime. Building of towers does not consume time, thus making the game much more easier to finish.
From 10 being the highest I rate this game 5 for the worst game controls.
Element TD


Desktop Tower Defense

This game does not have a maze at all, the game starts with a big empty transparent box having and entrance point on NORTH and WEST sides and exit points on EAST and SOUTH side. You need to build a maze of towers to defend among the creeps. This game uses a pencil-drawn design, making the game light but hard. This game takes a lot of time, beating the Normal mode in 3 hours, Hard mode in 24 hours. And 100 Levels in 7 hours. Damn and there are lots of different modes which caters to all kinds of gamers. Sound is a bit terrible but in all, the game had a challenging levels, such as Spawn, Dark and Flying creeps. Upgrading towers slows down as you upgrade to a higher level. Selling towers will also slow down as you sell more towers in game. From 10 being the highest I rate this game 9 for depth difficulty and easy to use game controls.
Desktop Tower Defense

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