Microsoft Songsmith
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I am going to download this. I think the girls will love to use it. Okay, who am I kidding — I want to play with it, too! I think it will especially be fun for Christmas tunes we make up. I haven’t found out what it exports to — maybe it will even interface with my piano!
You Convert It
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Free online media file conversion (Document, Images, Audio, Video & Archives)
I was looking for something to convert an Access ACCDB file, and stumbled upon this link. Unfortunately, it did not work for my file; but this looked interesting enough to keep a link on it to try again in the future!
C++ Compiler Error C2360
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Compiler Error C2360 I was getting this error after I added another case to a switch statement. This link proved to be helpful in rearranging those silly {}’s.
I am currently running the 2010 Beta 2 version of Visual Studio.
Attaching your Flickr Account to Email and Your Blog
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Flickr: Help: Photos – This link helps you add tags when you upload via email or phone to your special flickr email address.
Basically, whatever you type in the Subject line becomes the photo’s title. Whatever you type in the body of the message becomes the photo description. Then type tags: tag1, tag2, “really cool”, tag 4 in either your subject line or body to add your tagging to the photo.
WARNING: Be sure you send optimized — smaller-sized photos to your account. A good way to do this from your computer is to right click on the photo and send the smaller sized photo to your special email address.
Family-Friendly Christian Games
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I probably prefer a little more “family-friendly” games than I do any of the more “mature” games. I found this site with demo games and thought it looked interesting. I have downloaded the demos — they even have some beta pre-releases on the site, but I haven’t had a change to look at them. I didn’t want to lose the link so I am blogging it here. Christian Games! Now! – The One Stop Shop for Christian Games!
Cisco Mind Share Game
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Cisco Mind Share Game – The Cisco Learning Network
I downloaded the demo version of this game for three purposes:
1. To see if this would be helpful in studying for the CCNA exam.
2. To evaluate it for the Game Design class.
3. To see if I might want to buy it for $49.95.
As I first opened the game (it is a very large download and install), I thought it was geared for the “younger generations.” It is a learning game — quiz game if you will. Those have a tendency to be, well, boring! As I started through the game, I thought it was a good study tool, but not sure of it’s “stickiness.” Would someone play this to learn/review instead of the more “traditional” means. Then the bugs came out…they started to eat my bonus points if I hadn’t answered that portion of the question yet. I found the game play to be very interesting, and definitely player-centric. I later was working strategy of finding questions that I wanted to answer right away — then stacking up my points on those questions.
I still am not sure how anything is scored, or what the scores mean; but it is definitely worth a try. If you’re not into networking, just look at it for the design and learning aspects of it.
