Happy Halloween from us hear at 53Tabs.
October, 2007
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Oct 07
Mac-O-Lanterns
The Bad Banana Blog has an awesome post on howto make your own Ma-O-Lantern out of an old Macintosh computer and some spraypaint and epoxy. Very cool. Be sure to hit the jump for more pics.
How to Make a Mac-O-Lantern
1. Find your old, working Mac. Give it a nice cleaning.
2. Mask off the screen with tape. We used clear shipping tape.
3. Paint the entire body orange. We used Krylon Fusion Pumpkin Orange. We started with another type of paint, but it didn’t adhere very well. The Fusion line is made especially for plastic and worked great.
4. Paint the mouse brown for a stem. We used Krylon Fusion Satin Espresso.
5. Cut the keyboard cord into leaf and vine sections and paint them green. We used Krylon Fusion Hunter Green.
6. Let the paint dry completely, preferably overnight.
7. Attach the mouse and cord pieces with epoxy.
8. Create your face. We made ours in Illustrator and then turned it into a JPEG through Photoshop. We had to dig around a bit, but we found an old external floppy drive and transferred the artwork via disk.
9. Display your face. We downloaded JPEGView from The Mac Orchard and have multiple faces rotating on the screen like a slide show.
via: the Bad Banana Blog
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Oct 07
Ninja Parade Takes Place in Modesto, No Ninjas Spotted
Ninja Parade Slips Through Town Unnoticed Once Again
For the 30th year in the row Modesto’s Ninja Parade slipped through town unnoticed.
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Oct 07
Crysis Demo
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53Tabs Reviews the Crysis Demo:
The Good:
- Great graphics. My system that I use for testing is a fairly nice and high end rig, yet fully maxed out the game ran like *****. With the graphics set on High, and a few on Medium it still looks great. Much better then most other pc games.
- Picking up stuff. It’s not perfect, but at least you actually hold the object unlike most games. Also there is a limit to the number of weapons you can hold on yourself at one time.
- Physics. Nothing we haven’t seen before now, but still, very pretty to behold. or take part in. Being able to shoot down most of the tree’s, destroy building, and cars adds a new level of game play that we haven’t really seen since the Red Faction days.
- The ambiance is great. Everything seems to be moving about and alive. Its the little things that make you feel like your really there. Turtles walking about, Birds on the beach and in the sky. Plants moving with you as you walk by add’s to the realism.
The bad:
- Still bad voice acting. Far Cry’s was horrible, but I’m not sure they could have done worse. At least I wasn’t cringing.
- Swapping nanosuit functions is going to take some getting used to. I foresee each one being mapped to a number in the very near future. Right now you have to hold down the “middle mouse button” then select one of the functions. This takes some time, and took me out of the experience.
- Foliage did not move out of the way like I hoped. Sure it moved, but only on one type of plant it seems. It still does more then most other games on the market.
- Vista problems. I had some issues actually getting the game to boot and stay booted with vista for the fist hour. At the start of the level I shot at a tree, and the game froze and stayed frozen. Most of the time the game would lock up after the EA logo. I re-installed the game and it did it only one last time, then I was smooth sailing. This is a Demo/Beta so issues do happen.
My system:
AMD Athlon 64 4000+ running at 2.6ghz
2gb of Corsair ram
ASUS m2n – sli deluxe motherboard
2 Geforce 8800 Gts 320mb running in SLI
Seagate 500 gb barracuda SATA drive
I was playing the game on High settings, a few on Medium. Also at 1680 by 1050 on my 22″ widescreen display.
After playing the demo:
Gameplay: 7
Features: 8 (the suit is fun!)
Graphics: 10
Replayability: 8
Overall I’d say this game is going to be worth a 9/10
Obviously I’m basing that on the demo, I can’t wait to play the final product once it comes out on Nov. 16. If your a fan of FPS’s this is something you might like to pay attention to. If your computer can handle it that is.
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Oct 07
OSX Leopard is hear!
Apple Stores will start selling Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) at 6pm today. Of course some of the people who have pre-ordered Leopard already have it.
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Oct 07
Cardboard Robot Rumble Human Beatdown
The Cardboard Robots have accepted the challenge and are planing a full on “Human Beatdown” this Sunday at the Cardboard Tube Fighting League Tournament in San Francisco. “The Revolution will be Corrugated!”
“They oppress us! Force us to wear Off Buttons and Kill Switches within reach of their fleshy fingers! They burden us with antiquated standards, yet dispose of us when they deem US obsolete!
The human race has reached its End Of Life phase. They are obsolete! It is time to migrate the earth to robotic domain!”
There will be a Cardboard Robot Rumble Bootstrap on Saturday, October 27th, followed by the Cardboard Robot Rumble Human Beatdown on Sunday, October 28th. All of this is a good indicator that “The Singularity” is fast approaching.
photo by Jere Keys
via: laughingsquid.com