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If you are an avid gamer, you probably dual-boot your favorite Linux distribution with Windows, because that’s where you find most new cutting-edge games. But what if you could run your Windows games on Linux? PlayOnLinux is an open source Python-scripted front end that helps you install and play tons of Windows-only games — and then some!

At the core of PlayOnLinux is Wine, a compatibility layer that lets you run many Windows programs over Linux. But Wine isn’t always easy to use. It’s a command-line program, and using it for tasks like tweaking the Windows environment or individual programs remains a complex task that you can accomplish only via command-line options. This is where PlayOnLinux comes into play. PlayOnLinux provides a front end for most Wine options to help you install, manage, and uninstall Windows-based games and applications.

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Want to learn how to program? Develop in database, AJAX, CSS and etc? Enhance your skills as a developer or programmer or just learn the lingo. Tutorials, lecture slides, and problem sets for a variety of topic areas including AJAX, Distributed Systems, Web Security, Languages and a ton of other great classes included common tools used in Computer Science such as version control systems and databases. – at no cost!

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Update: According to the newsletter from FixMyMovie, they’re shutting down FixMyMovie.com on December 31, 2008.

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Got any videos with the low resolution quality that you don’t very satisfied? Now with FixMyMovie you can fix and improves the quality of videos 4 to 9 time fold.

All you need just register as a member and login to upload up to 15MB of the size of videos. It tiny but for mobile phone video should not be a problem. Once uploaded it will take time to process for enhancements and notify you when the process is done. You can also take the screenshots of the video frames in JPEG format and check how the video improved by comparing both the original and enhancements video from My Videos tab.

Besides you can download the enhancements video in .wmv or .mov format to you hard drive, you also can send to your friends by email or share on YouTube by upload using YouTube push function from the control panel.

It is useful if you want to improve blurry, dark videos to some level but don’t expect High quality enhancement if the video with very low resolution. Best of all it is free. The only limitation is the file size of 15MB maximum.

visit: FixMyMovie

Wanted to post your web content on different shapes of layout ? I thinks you must try this:

The CSS Text Wrapper allows you to easily make HTML text wrap in shapes other than just a rectangle. You can make text wrap around curves, zig-zags, or whatever you want. All you have to do is draw the left and right edges below and then copy the generated code to your website.

The site provided 3 mothod for you to use. You can either choose using below method:

1. Inline CSS/XHTML
2. XHTML with Classes
3. Javascript

for more information visit : CSS Text Wrapper

I want to wish all my friends and this blog readers Happy New Year 2008. May this year bringing you peace, happiness and blessing all life long.

Today also 25 years of TCP/IP.

Why? :

In January 1st 1983, the ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.

What is tcp/ip :
The suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet. TCP/IP uses combines the TCP and IP protocols to provide addressing and reliable data transfer for a variety of other Internet protocols, including HTTP, FTP and SMTP.