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How to Play Left 4 Dead Online

Kyle — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:10:57 +0000

Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular games that emerged in the FPS genre. The game’s bloody gore and violence followed by it’s great game play deserved it’s reputation as best multiplayer Game of 2008 by IGN, GAMESPY,SPIKE TV and other gaming publications. This is also the reason why Left 4 Dead 2 has been out even though it’s just a year since L4D became popular. If you’re one of the fans of Left 4 Dead then you definitely know how exciting it is to play in a multiplayer environment. Lan Games are totally cool but if you’re playing at home then playing it online with other players brings you the multiplayer environment you play in shops.

Playing Left 4 Dead online is easy and free. All you have to do is to have a working Left 4 Dead game in your pc and download the latest client of GARENA. If you haven’t heard GARENA before, it’s a platform where you can play popular Lan Games like Warcraft, Defence of the Acients(DOTA), Counter Strike, Call of Duty, etc. By entering a Room in GARENA you can host a game where players can join or join to players who host their own game.At the time of this writing the peak players who logged in GARENA platform playing left 4 dead is 5000. The interface of GARENA is very simple to use, just choose the type of game you’ll play in the sidebar and choose a room after that click the “START GAME” button near the chat window. When you’re in the game just enter the LAN menu and wait for a player to host a game. or you can just host the game by yourself. There are some issues in playing garena and that is having a high latency when playing a game. If you have a crappy internet connection then you are out of luck. You’ll be experiencing time delay and freezing when you play Left 4 Dead. So you better have a good connection. I have a 1mbps internet connection here and it works perfectly with me.

Trillian 4.1 challenges Digsby in All in one chat clients

Kyle — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:32:00 +0000

New social networking features are now implemented to the new Trillian Astra 4.1 beta. Although it’s still in the development process this chat client promises another options for users who wants to keep in touch with their favorite social networking sites by integrating more Facebook and Twitter features. Trillian 4.1 beta now supports story links and avatar pictures in more locations on the interface. The twitter features are much improved by adding the basic features of Tweetdeck(possibly much better). If you’re looking for another Tweetdeck alternative, Trillian astra 4.1 is worth a try.If you want to see the full list of changes to Twitter and Facebook usage check out the Cerulean Studios’ Blog for more info.

The current Trillian 4.0 works ok at windows 7 but the 4.1 released has much improved by leveraging the new Windows 7 APIs. The integrated meters featured in Windows 7 is in full use by seeing file transfer progress in their taskbar so you won’t be bothered by taking a look back if it’s finished. There’s also an improved way of using taskbar thumbnails in windows 7 by making a video call. You’ll be seeing a live video stream without the uncessary parts of the window. Please take note that Trillian 4.1 is in beta so you might expect some bugs while using the client.

Mozilla’s SeaMonkey 2.0 now available for download

Kyle — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:06:18 +0000

Mozilla just released SeaMonkey 2.0 and is now available for downloads to interesting individuals who wants to be free with their old mail clients. Version 2.0 now uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 in terms of add-ons and functionality of user interface. For newbies around who’ll be using SeaMonkey 2.0 you’ll be having no trouble learning how to use the system, it would take some time to get used of some settings but since it now uses the same internal platform as Firefox it’s much easier now. The tabbed viewing in Firefox is also applicable to SeaMonkey 2.0 and with built in crash recovery you don’t need to worry about the long data inputs in web forms being lost.

Here’s some of the notable changes in the new release of SeaMonkey 2.0

Toolbars in the browser, main MailNews and message compose windows are now fully customizable, including icon size and whether to display icons and/or text for every major toolbar, all available via their context menus.
New IMAP accounts will now keep local offline copies by default, as a part of a number of speed improvements when working with IMAP. Synchronization can be disabled per account or for individual folders, and limited to the most recent messages in the Synchronization & Storage settings.
Password Manager was switched to an improved version, allowing easier searching, and notification bars replacing modal dialogs for remembering logins.
Download Manager has been completely reworked, including support for cross-session resumable downloads.
Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many improvements since the version used in the last stable release. Changes range from a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes) to improved support for fonts, CSS, DOM and JavaScript. SeaMonkey 2.0 passes the Acid2 test and most of Acid3 and includes all the HTML5 and other new web-facing features also included in Firefox 3.5, such as audio/video elements, downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript.
For extension developers, SMILE is introduced, making interfaces known from FUEL and STEEL also available in SeaMonkey.