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Kilogames.com just released!

nospam@example.com (thanassis) — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:25:32 +0000

Just Released! My christmas project - kilogames.com

Kilogames is an arcade site with online games. I used PHPArcadeScript to build kilogames. PHPArcadeScript seems to be one of the best and most popular scripts for making an arcade site. Installing PHPArcadeScript was very easy and did not take more than 20 minutes. Changing the look and feel and customising it with all the features I needed was also very easy -with some basic knowledge of PHP and CSS-. In total the whole project took about 2 to 3 days.

For hosting kilogames.com I followed a friend's advice and used Dreamhost. With Dreamhost I get 240Gig space -which is more than enough for kilogames-, pretty good speed and massive bandwith limits.

As there are many gaming sites out there, to make kilogames competitive, I've decided to give some edge by:

- Ommiting adds of any type

- Releasing 5 new top games every 8 hours

- Using large game icons throughout

- Presenting tooltips with game info to make the game selection easier

- Keeping the layout as clean as I could.

I hope you'll enjoy kilogames.com. Any feedback you care to give about the style or the mechanics of kilogames.com would be greatly appreciated!

27 Of The Most Useful Firefox Extensions

nospam@example.com (thanassis) — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:32:06 +0100

Firefox has already more than 1200 extensions. Which ones are useful? After indulging in installing few hundred of them, I choose the 27 best, based on how much I use them every day. I've been impressed by many, but these 27 are the ones I use daily. The order is alphabetical.
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How to make an icon for your website - favicon.ico

nospam@example.com (thanassis) — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:28:51 +0100

The icon that you see when you make a bookmark or when you drag an address link to your desktop is made by a file called favicon.ico.

The favicon.ico file is of the "ico" type and typically contains two images. The first is a 16x16 pixel image and the second is 32x32.

To make your own favaicon.ico and relate it to your website you just need to go through these three simple steps:

Produce the 16x16 and the 32x32 images/logos of your site, save them as png images
Use the program png2ico to make the favicon.ico file. The command to use is : png2ico favicon.ico weblogo32.png weblogo6.png
Upload the favicon.ico file to your website's root. It will be available to all the pages that are under the root.

NLP and eyes

nospam@example.com (thanassis) — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:07:58 +0100

This is an interesting resource to start nlp, have fun

A wiki Matrix

nospam@example.com (thanassis) — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:17:29 +0100

Really useful (and new) site that has a great comparison of the most popular wikis

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