Month: July 2006

Old multiplayer games

Do you know this, too? You you have got an older game and are happy it supports multiplayer over the internet but when you try it nobody else except you is on the server?

This blog entry is to indicate which older games I recently got and want players for a multiplayer session for 🙂

Game Homepage Multiplayer
Monster Truck Madness 2 Link GameSpy Aracade
Nascar Racing 2002 Season – Dedicated server within the game

If you have some of these games and would like to arrange a match with me, please contact me and let me know your time zone, country, contact details and the best time and way to get in touch with you! 🙂

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Skype Support for the ass….

Who of you also noticed that Skype’s Support is for the ass?

Case 1: I noticed and reported a bug to them. It’s about the problem, that sometimes when you have a text chat conversation in Skype with a contact of yours, Skype will invalid automatically your authorization, so you see a “This user has not shared his/her details with you”, suddenly.

Skype support in return explains to me how the callto: contact list in Skype works and that probably she just undid the authorization! Oh! Just the problem that she was having dinner while this happened and _nobody_ was touching the computer!

Case 2: The simple question whether there is a contact list limit and if yes how big is this limit? No reply from them!

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Zooomr hype and my personal opinion

Update: I received an email/commentfrom the founder Kristopher Tate asking me to update my entry telling you that he is now (probably) directly in touch with me checking on those problems. Here a quote: “Your issues are due to a date formatting problem in your photos. I’m going to release an update that will fix your problems.
While I understand errors are frustrating, I am the only developer for Zooomr and certain issues get more priority over others.“.

So long 🙂

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A while ago, a friend sent me an email about Zooomr. (I.e. one of the guys running it) asking me to write a review about it and he added “(Press, media exposure of any sort; lead developer is VERY happy to interview)”.

So far so good, but my motivation to use it flushed down the toilet. Granted, I got a pro account and whatnot for this and so on, but Zooomr has 3 major problems similar services like Flickr didn’t have even when they were in beta still – like Zooomr is now:

1) The inability for the average user to contact support because its email address – zfeedback[at]bbridgetech.com – is mentioned nowhere on the Zooomr homepage.

2) You receive errors that gets fixed and then get broken again a few weeks after permanently and for some errors they will tell you that they won’t let you know when they got fixed. So I got an account that more not works than is working!

3) You receive nice emails like those:

“Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:12:14 +0200
We already told you that we are working on this. Please do not
contact us until we give you an update.”

Today, it’s July, 22nd and still no “update”. Because I am nice and social and I saw that they updated Zooomr to version 2.0 and had DOS attack problems recently I wrote this email:

“From: me
To: “Zooomr Support”
Subject: Fwd: Re: Zooomr Pro Account
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:26:57 +0200

Hello,

I guess you are all busy with the re-launch, I will stand by and wait till that is fixed until you relaunched Zooomr.
I am sorry to read on your blog that you got a DOS attack!

Good luck to you at Zooomr for the relaunch and thanks in advance for fixing this thing mentioned in this ticket here 🙂

All the best!
Bye!
Joerg”

Well, no reply. I lost my hope this thing will ever work right and get fixed.

Thanks for the account friends, but a pity it doesn’t work.

In my eyes those guys are totally overloaded and it’s so much to do and stuff, they are probably even too small (not enough employees?) to get this thing ever running up nicely.

So sorry, no review about Zooomr from my side – at least not for the moment.

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AOL Active Security Monitor is total crap!


The highly praised AOL Active Security Monitor is pretty much one thing in my eyes; crap!

The reasons: As seen on the screnshot it says that I have no firewall (which is wrong, I have a firewall and it is running!), that I have not all security updates installed (which is also wrong, I have them all installed). Furthermore it complains that I have two antivirus prgs running at a time! This is also wrong! – I have only one running!

I wonder how reliable their scanning routine is!

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Need For Speed – Underground 2 & Force Feedback

Customer support can be really “helpful” at times.
My recent experience is about Need For Speed – Underground 2 in combination with the Logitech Formula Force EX & Force Feedback.

Force feedback is a simple function of DirectX. It calls functions of the controller that let it move and vibrate exactly like a normal steering-wheel of your car would do.

Since a lot of reviews suggest to buy a force feedback steering-wheel just because of Need For Speed Underground 2 I really wonder how it works because I found no option where to enable it.

The answer is simple though: There is a patch for this game that will enable Force Feedback automatically (but you cannot disable it within the game).

Here the reply of EA being not helpful at all:

“Need for Speed Underground 2 officially only supports keyboard and gamepads to control your vehicles. It is possible to connect a steering-wheel and to configure this inside the game, however we do not support this. We cannot give any further information with which steering-wheels Need for Speed Underground 2 works without problems.

In case problems arrise with the steering-wheel you use, we can only give you the hint to install the most recent drivers for your steering-wheel and configure this in Windows.

Greetings Alex
EA Customer Support”

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Weirdness regarding the Logitech Quickcam Orbit MP

I have reported earlier about the different naming for this webcam over here now according to this website Logitech announced the quickcam-orbit-mp-webcam as brand new webcam! 😀 So the old naming did confuse infact and they noticed and gave it back its old name! But to announce it as brand new is really very weird! Poor effort! 🙁

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ICQ 5 in Turkish!


I just picked this up on the ICQ downloads site, that there is a new language avaialble; Turkish! 🙂

Of course, I don’t know Turkish, but according to the pictures and InterTran this localized ICQ 5 version version features the following MyNet features as Xtraz:

– MyNet Mobile (Game , Melody Logo and Knowledge Services – translated with InterTran)
– MyNet E-Cards
– MyNet Dating
and – MyNet Email.

By the wayIncase you like its look, the skin can be downloaded seperately! 🙂

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