News Archive for October 2002

October 03, 2002
12:43a ~ All Kinds of Stuff!
  Hoo-boy! This update is Chock Full O' Stuff +5™! In "order", as I think of them:
  Directly above the new poll (see below for info on it) is a new link: Webstats. This will let you view the various statistics for this site, if you care...
  I've finally thought of a new poll. As you can see, it focuses on Square, and the Final Fantasy series. See, in my latest issue of PSM, they have a little blurb about the Final Fantasy 1 & 2(j) remake for the PSX. Then, on Square-Haven, they have news about Square rereleasing Final Fantasy's 7, 8, and 9 for the PS2.

  Now, if Square were to decide that they're only going to bring one of those two projects to the US (or whatever your country of residence may be), which one would you rather have? If you vote, I'd like to ask you to leave a comment stating what choice you made, and why you made it. As you can see, I voted for bringing the FF1 & 2 remakes over, mainly because, along with the Gameboy Advance remake of Final Fantasy 3(j), the US would finally have all 10 titles in the series (as it currently stands).
  On Sunday, September 29, I recieved an e-mail (which you can read here) from Aaron J. Ethridge, the President of Console Classix, concerning my August 21 update about them becoming a pay site. Basically, they will remain a free site for any console that is older than the NES (inclusive). Newer consoles will be available on a payment basis, at a cost of $5/month for unlimited access. Now, $5/month isn't a bad price, and it's only $60/year. For those of you paying for such things as EverCrap, it's half the price you're currently paying, and it's for real games. While it's still out of my price range, it is something I may consider at a future date, when I have more money.
  It's October again (already? Where'd the rest of the year go?!), so I've once again repalced Setzer with the Duncan Pumpkin GPK image. This year, I know better than to try to make a Haloween layout for the site.
  Lately, people have been asking me for the various utilities I run while online. In an effort to help out, I will now list them here, along with links to their homepages.

  • AnalogX's POW! - This is an excellent, free pop-up killer. When you get a pop-up that you don't want, just click the icon in the system tray, and double click on the window's name. Any time a pop-up with that window title appears, it will automatically be closed. You can get my Pow.dat file here, which already has tons of sites in it. Simply copy it over the existing Pow.dat file.

  • AnalogX's CookieWall - This is an excelent, free cookie manager. It will scan your internet cache for cookies, which you can view with a simple right-click on it's icon in the system tray. Any new cookies will be displayed in the middle pane. You can either move a cookie to the left pane, where CookieWall will delete it as soon as it detects it, move it to the right pane, where CookieWall will automatically accept it, or just delete it altogether.

  • Mail Washer - This is an excellent, donateware SPAM stopper. You configure your e-mail accounts (currently, only POP accounts are supported), and it will log in to your account, check for new messages, and download their headers. It then displays them in a list, where you can mark an e-mail as being from a friend, to be deleted from the server without having to download it, or, best of all, if it's SPAM, you can blacklist the sender. This causes MailWasher to bounce a copy of the SPAM right back to the sender, along with a message that your e-mail address is invaild. Once you've processed all the SPAM, you're left with the real e-mail you want. Even though it's donateware, the downloadable version is not crippled in any way, so if you don't want to pay for it, you don't have to. If you don't want to pay, the author only asks you to use word of mouth to let others know about his product.

  • Naviscope - This product is great! It blocks ads, javascript, blinking text, sounds, cookies, backgrounds and pop-ups, it prefetches pages, hides the referring document and/or system information, updates your clock with the NIST Atomic Time, and more! It seems like the program isn't developed any more (it was last updated in 2000 or 2001), but it still works great!

  • Ad-Aware - This is the tool to have! It will check you computer for spyware, and give you the option to remove it! In my opinion, EVERY computer user should have this, and an anti-virus program installed. Everything else is optional.
      Wow. I do believe that's everything...

    October 25, 2002
    2:51p ~ Testing The News...
      This is a test. This is only a test. I bet it doesn't work...

      Edit: Well, it didn't, but I managed to make it work, and I did it all by myself. Huzzah!
      Tuvai News is a great addition to the site. The index page is smaller, and now I don't have to edit and upload it or the news archive (which could mean editing anywhere from one to 3 pages, depending on the date) everytime I want to add a new news item.

      Now, I don't promise that this means more updates from me. I'm still lazy. Thanks, Tuvai, for helping my laziness!

      And yes, I realize that the page looks odd. When I get six more news items up here, it should look a little better...

    October 25, 2002
    3:54p ~ New Topsites List
      As you can see by the new button, I've joined Tuvai's Topsites list. Please take a moment to click on it and vote for me. Thanks.

    October 25, 2002
    3:58p ~ EDS Mario Bros. Updated!
      Yup. You can now download EDS Mario Bros. v0.64 from the EDS Mario Bros. section.

      While uploading it, I noticed that I forgot to upload and release v0.54, so it's been an even longer wait for the next version than I thought... Sorry about that.

    October 26, 2002
    12:39p ~ Modified Layout, New Poll
      I've modified the layout to better accomodate the news script. Now it's just in a simple table with a background.

      I've also added a new poll, which, unfortunatly, I can't modify to fit the table, unless I pay them. Anyway, the voting ends in 1 week (on 11/01), and I'll have a new poll, for SNES emulators, in it's place. If you vote for Other, please, please, please specify what "Other" is.

    October 28, 2002
    2:30a ~ Link Page Update & Cleanup
      I've converted the links page to php, and removed the non-working sites. Two things came of this:

      1 - There are now just 20 sites linked, including the 5 former Links of the Moment.

      2 - The page size was reduced from 16.63k to 0.81k. Much, much faster loading.

    October 28, 2002
    3:36p ~ More Links
      Wheee! I've added 4 more links. They're links to online comics that I feel are funny, and worth reading. One of the new links, Bob & George, also has tons of fan comics (which I don't read), and some good sub-comics (two of which I read: Jailhouse Blues and Oddball Comics), so that should keep you busy... er... *runs*