Playing poker on Nokia N810
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This week I finally got my hands onto Nokia N810. It is really proven to be the device that will replace my laptop for non-business travel.
One of the important tests for the N810 was how suitable is it to play poker on. I am currently mostly playing on PokerRoom, so this is what I used for the test.
I was secretly hoping that PokerRoom’s web client will work on the internet tablet, but unfortunately it does not - the browser does not support Java applets. So the approach I used is remote desktop to my home Vista box, where I ran the poker desktop client.
The PokerRoom client is fixed at 800×600 window size, while the Nokia N810 has a 800×480 display. I knew that I will not fit the entire window, and wanted to check if it was still usable. I was very pleased to find out that the lower 120 pixels of the client are not a problem at all for finding and joining games. The table view is a problem, since the betting buttons are lower than the 480th pixel. If you switch to mini-tables though (ugly!) is fits perfectly well, even leaves room for the table statistics in the background.
Here are some photos of the experience. I could have taken screen shots, but these photos illustrate better how the experience looks on the real device.
Remote desktop to Vista:
Tournaments screen - the big drawback here is that you don’t get to see you bank status - it is in the status bar at the bottom. You just need to know how much money you have :)
Tournament screen
Table view - notice that the part of the tournament window in the background shows the statistics and position. This is very cool for multi-table tournaments.
The conclusion so far is that the Nokia N810 is perfect for playing poker when on vacation somewhere where WiFi is available (and that is almost everywhere nowadays). No more binging a heavy laptop, just so that you can play a tourney or two some evening.
As soon as I make my Full Tilt Poker account I will report on how playable it is from the Nokia N810.
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New version of Magic Price
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Abugames changed their search result layout recently, so I had to update the Magic Price software sync logic. Also, the “specials” feature is gone, since there are no more special offers at abugames.
A few notes for old users:
- Erase your CARDS.DAT file (sorry for all the custom prices you had, but abugames changed the inventory IDs for cards)
- Replace your current “magicprice.ini” with the one in the ZIP file - they changed edition IDs as well
You can grab the new version here.
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English tranlation of Manu Chao lyrics
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Today I accidently came upon something I have been looking for a long time - well translated and annotated Manu Chao lyrics.
I enjoyed reading them, the layout is nice you can easily follow the original while playing with the translation, and there are footnotes for many of the expressions.
Enjoy: http://web.telia.com/~u49903585/en/music/mc/index.htm
I removed the link above, since it was dead. I could not find in anywhere on the net …
I only found a translation of one album here, and it is just a translation, no annotations or explanations of what he means by certain expressions.
Please if someone finds more translations - drop me a line.
While on the subject of lyrics - here is an excellent description of all the events refered to in Bily Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire” - http://www.usgovernetics.com/Wal-to-Wed/we_didnt_start_the_fire.php
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New dotbot version and WoW thoughts
New dotbot version and World of Warcraft thoughts
Released a new version of dotbot two days ago. I had quit playing World of Warcraft for almost six months now, but some people on the Curse Gaming forums that use the addon kept asking me about bugfixes and recent patches support.
To make the release I used a friend of mine’s account, and logging in made me again think of re-activating my account. I strolled around Ironforge and the surrounding area, and this reminded me again how great this game is, how it creates a unique feeling of the world around and how much attention was paid to every small aspect of it.
Still my account will remain frozen, until Blizzard does something to attract back players that don’t have the time to do 40ppl raids and people who want to progress through PVP combat. Sure, there are honor and battleground rewards, but these are not comparable at all with what you can get if you do mindless raids of the same dungeon over and over again, re-doing the same fights over and over until your uber item drops. This is also the reason why battlegrounds are not fun for casual players anymore - it simply is not fun to fight anyone equipped times better then you, who got his equipment not by any skill, but just by investing hundreds of hours re-doing the same dungeon runs over and over.
I cannot blame Blizzard for doing this of course - they are simply trying to please the larger customer base. This however alienates the casual players from the game totally. Many of my colleagues that tried to play casual, since they don’t have the time to play 5-6 hours each day, have also quit.
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