When I was in middle school, my dad brought home a diskette of Commodore 64 video games from his German friend at Cincinnati Milacron. I should have known that I was a pretty big geek when I spent hours discovering the games, some of which were in German, without any instruction manuals. There were some really fun, interesting, and creative games that I found, including the classic M.U.L.E. Here’s a list of my favorite video games of all time.
10. Burgertime
Burger Time
9. Spy Hunter
8. Pokemon Snap
7. Bust A Move
6. Ms. Pac-Man
5. Circus
3. Sim City
2. M.U.L.E.
I have been trying to use my Treo as an mp3 player now that my iPod’s battery has started to die. I found an open-source program called iTunes Agent lets me synch directly with iTunes so I don’t have to manually move files around every time. It should work with almost any mp3 player. Here’s how I set it up:
- Buy a big SD memory card for your Treo. (I got a 1GB at Sears for around $60).
- Put the memory card in your phone to format it with the default Palm stuff.
- Download and install the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0. (20MB)
- Download and install iTunes Agent.
- Right click on the iTunes Agent system tray icon and go to “Preferences”.
- Click “New” and Fill in Name: “Treo”, Synch. pattern: “Flat”, Music folder: [leave blank], Rec. pattern: “D:PALM”
- Save it, and pop the SD Card into your computer.
- Open iTunes and put songs in the playlist called “Treo”.
- Right click on the iTunes Agent system tray icon and select “Synchronize Device”.
MyHeritage’s Face Recognition web site allows you to upload photos and then it searches a database to find people with similar faces. It presents the results in a cool Flash interface. MyHeritage sells genealogy services, but this demo only searches against celebrities instead of their full genealogy database. I used this photo. It matched me to Pierre Boulez, but Whoopie Goldberg came back as one of the matches for Tony. Regardless, it is fun to play with.
Christine and I walked up to Mulford Hall on UC Berkeley campus on Wednesday night to see Google Earth’s Chief Technology Officer Michael Jones present the keynote for UC’s GIS conference. It was fun and somewhat inspiring. I wrote a full review over at Clear Night Sky.