Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Strategy Games

Good looking open source strategy games:

  1. FreeCiv is a turn-based game from http://freeciv.wikia.com/

  2. FreeCol a turn-based strategy game from http://www.freecol.org/

  3. Unknown Horizons is a real time strategy (RTS) trading game from http://www.unknown-horizons.org/

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Softwares that I Can't Do Without

I will miss using these softwares very much if they were uninstalled from my laptop. Sometimes, when I use someone else's computer/laptop, I feel very awkward when I press Crtl andSpacebar to launch Launchy (a file launcher from www.launchy.net) on their system. I am so used to it!


Before I play music or watch a movie I make sure I have already installed Windows Essential Codec Pack from http://www.mediacodec.org/ on my system.


I also organize my Start Menu using SMoz from http://smoz.sourceforge.net/ since I'm still using Windows XP.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

9 brain games on my computer that I play

9 brain games on my computer that I play:



  1. CluGrid Logic Puzzle, 999,999 puzzles to play and diffrent levels.

  2. Sudoku Puzzle by the same person who created CluGrid above. This games has 4 difficulty levels. The creator got carried away - this game has 8,589,934,588 puzzles to play. Calculate how long will you take to finish all of them!

  3. Deductoid Logic Puzzle also by the same person who created CluGrid and Sudoku Puzzle. Also has 999,999 puzzles to play and different levels.

  4. Brain Workshop - a Dual N-Back game, "What if a simple mental exercise could improve your memory and intelligence?" Improve your working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence with this game; support by scientific findings.

  5. Kakuro Dream by Sun Bear Games.

  6. Another Kakuro game by Ihsan.biz. Solve and also create new ones. They have a lot more mind games on the website to download. Small sizes - convenient!

  7. Connect also from Ihsan.biz. 20,000 puzzles provided.

  8. BoomeWord. Create a new word from the last two letters of the previous word.

  9. Enigma, simple but not easy. Check out for yourself!


One can generate ones own puzzles for these games. Some also have printing option.


What brain games do you play?


I would like to find a KenKen game to play on my computer/laptop... a link to a download would be appreaciated.




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Inspirational Quotes

Three inspirational quotes:



  1. "The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool." - William McFee

  2. "Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

  3. "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

Bible Verses

Three Bibles verses I like:


  1. "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God." (John 3:15-18 KJV).

  2. "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isaiah 40:31 KJV)

  3. "When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you. And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell. But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice; (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them." (Deuteronomy 4:25-31 KJV)