The catalogues for 2009’s Collector range of miniatures and Bitz (extra parts for customizing your miniatures) from Games Workshop’s trio of tabletop miniatures games - Warhammer, Warhammer 40,000 and The Lord of The Ring Strategy Battle Game are now available as PDFs with reasonably high-resolution photos for your viewing (and purchasing) pleasure. Much thanks to [...]
Rather evident what you can expect to see over at the aptly-titled BigLorryBlog. For readers like me who are awed by big trucks and other heavy vehicles, it’s gonna take you hours poring through the archives of BigLorryBlog and savouring each jaw-dropping photo like the one below.
Sights like these four Ultra Pacfic heavy haulers [...]
A satirical boardgame from TerrorBull Games on the War on Terror. The colourful box art and card artwork by Tom Morgan-Jones initially attracted my attention as the artistic style reminded me of Quentin Blake’s pieces for Roald Dahl’s series of books. However, the Empire and Terrorist cards with their illustrations and witty little captions are [...]
A slick game requiring a rarely seen combination of fast reflexes and wait … mad maths skillz?
Waxy is a sushi chef - a seriously overworked one. Not only do you have to to help Waxy serve up orders by press the correct buttons when the coloured dots enter the zones with the same colours [...]
Finally found the standalone player for the latest version of Adobe Flash which allows you to run Flash applications and games written in Flash 10 offline.
Frankly speaking, the only application written in Flash 10 that I’ve seen is Hobnox’s Audiotool recommended by Andy over at Geeknews (more about this impressive online audio production tool in [...]
Nope, it’s got nothing to do with this site, but more for me and thoo2. It’s our first wedding anniversary this week and I’m taking the next few days off to celebrate it (an excellent excuse to skive off on writing stuff for The Download Munkey this week hehe )
It was supposed to look [...]
A series of historical gems from Jacob Abbott (1803 - 1879) at the massive Project Gutenberg e-library, who tells compelling stories of famous personages from the pages of history from Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, King Xerxes of Persia of antiquity to medieval greats like William the Conqueror to modern rulers like the Russian Czar Peter The [...]
So, I finished the English reading. I almost finished the history. I still have a few pages left but I was able to gather a few rational thoughts to post for discussion. Just a few.My day, even though it was a typical Monday filled with lots to do, started off on an awesome note.Do ya'll remember this post about the Raising Girls book?Well.....somehow the authors found my blog and read my article
I have been using the below-mentioned tools to handle the ISO files (CD images) made for the installation CDs for clients at work recently so hopefully they’ll prove to be useful to you as they were for me.
There are several advantages in duplicating CDs via an ISO image over repeatedly burning a collection of files [...]
I was fiddling with Kryloff Technologies’s GetText last week to export the first 100 issues of Computer Gaming World to TXT format to read on my mobile phone using TequilaCat Book Reader, when I realized that repeatedly typing and then cutting and pasting commands at the Command Prompt 100 times isn’t a good idea to [...]
My apartment is a mess and I have a ton of paper to shred, like Enron-style, so I'm keeping this one short tonight with a nice list of random bullets and bloggy "house cleaning."I'm making guest appearances again: I'm guest blogging over at I'm a Mom in Real Life today and making a partial guest appearance over at Random Ramblings About My Crazy Life. Seriously, my stomach almost needed to be pum
I’m been searching for an application to convert some of my Opera bookmarks to a Link/URL table format as a spreadsheet in Excel or CSV format for several months now and I think have finally found one fits the bill (otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this )
I basically wanted to transfer my [...]
I came across three excellent works by the late poet and novelist Padraic Colum (1881 – 1972) on Greek and Norse mythology recently - The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles, The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy and The Children of Odin respectively. These books are very readable and [...]
Now The Download Munkey isn’t always all about fun and games, and here’s a good example why While almost everyone has used Wikipedia before, but I’m pretty sure not everyone knows about Wikibooks.
Now, Wikibooks, as you can guess from the title is another community project initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Quoted from the Wikibooks [...]
A project by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group of MIT Media Labs with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Intel Foundation and the MIT Media Lab, Scratch is a educational interactive content creation tool aimed primarily at kids to create their animations, stories and games in a very easy to learn scripting language. Just think [...]
Since I’ve been using several of Nir Sofer’s (NirSoft) applications quite regularly both at work and at home, I hope that some of his utilities I list below will prove as useful to you as they are for me.
I recommend NirSoft’s applications for several reasons:
Portable - copy and run directly from USB flashdrives as they [...]
Been encountering some intermittent lockups with my home computer for the past few months. Scanned for viruses and malware with zero infection results until I realized that the source of the problems might be from the hardware instead when the casing became unusually hot to the touch.
While I’m an absolute idiot when it comes to [...]
An oldie but goodie link(s) from the random Gnomes’ random lair (but not as confusingly random as The Download Munkey, heh) featuring some really classic gaming magazines for various platforms. I haven’t got much interest in consoles and early computers since the first computer I got was a 486 clone long after stuff like the [...]
Here’s another edutainment game to ease that irritating, nagging feeling of being totally unproductive at the computer - Alpha Assault, mentioned by Jay Is Games in one of April’s Friday Link Dumps.
In Likwid Game Studio’s Alpha Assault, your task is to spell out words with three or more letters from letters randomly arranged in a [...]
Here’s another edutainment game to ease that irritating, nagging feeling of being totally unproductive at the computer - Alpha Assault, mentioned by Jay Is Games in one of April’s Friday Link Dumps.
In Likwid Game Studio’s Alpha Assault, your task is to spell out words with three or more letters from letters randomly arranged in a [...]
First seen on the Papercraft Paradise, these cool road roller (aka steamroller) scale models are official downloadable papercraft from Sakai Heavy Industries and represent a selection of their many road roller models. The detailed parts for each vehicle are printed clearly in a very high quality PDF - there’s no blurry or jagged lines in [...]
Alex Vdovichenko, developer of TequilaCat Bookreader (TCBR) kindly sent me an email a few weeks back with instructions on reading rotated text with TCBR.
You’ll need to create a new JAR file for your mobile phone (see previous post) with the following additions.
Add Windows Font - only Windows fonts can be rotated
Click on Font Direction button [...]
A new series of articles on some edutainment games that I have recently found from various sources so that we all can feel less guility when we’re supposed to be working on things that are more productive
First up is TypeRacer, discovered on Ian Timothy’s blog via the Ping.sg RSS feed. More games coming [...]
Foxit Reader has been my PDF viewer of choice since version 1.2 - I still remember keeping multiple builds of versions 1.2 and 1.3 of Foxit Reader as some builds could miraclously open PDFs that would crash other builds upon loading. Thankfully, the current version 2.2 of Foxit Reader is much more robust in [...]
Just found this very useful Google Gadget Translate My Page to automatically translate English websites into any of the 13 available languages. Installing this widget on a non-English site usually gives you only one option to translate it into English, but it’s still better than nothing. Now you can attract a larger international audience to [...]
Recently installed the J2ME text file reader, TequilaCat Book Reader, on my mobile phone to kill time during my daily commutes to work. Highly recommended for avid readers except if you’re driving of course
Download TequilaCat Book Reader from Alexey Vdovichenko (aka TequilaCat)’s website, which is essentially a Windows application to create the necessary [...]
For those that still confuse Euro-house with proper techno, this post is really not for you
Check out this 1:40 min video clip edited from video footage taken during Japanese DJ Takuya Kashiwada’s two hour set at the Under Water Bar Praha (Niigata) on 03 Nov 2007. I think it perfectly sums up the [...]
Some random thoughts for all you this Monday morning: 1) Try this math on for size.... + = Damn sometimes HD does not do a body good. 2) Do you know how much it money it takes to make $80...
What do you get when you combine turntables, accordions, pianos and an assortment of drums together ?
Instead of the expected cacophony from the distinctively different sound of each instrument, the end result actually comes off as an infectiously toe-tapping, head-bopping soundtrack - I simply love the cheery carnival sounding clockordian and the machinegun [...]
Drivey by Mark Pursey is a cool application perfect for use as a screensaver or as a relaxation tool.
The graphics in Drivey reminds me of those driving simulation toys I played as a kid back in the 80s. Watching the landscape go by really relaxes me
The screenshots below don’t really do Drivey justice so download and give Drivey a test drive.
Default setting
Going home
Before sunrise
Tunnel vision
My favourite setting
Some useful keys for playing around with Drivey. Check out the other keys by pressing F1.
F3 - Toggle dashboardEsc - Quit1 - Change environment to very sparse road2 - Change environment to tunnel3 - Change environment to city4 - Change environment to industrialH - Change coloursK - Toggle colour cyclingC - Toggle between 0,8,16 and 24 carsCtrl - Speed upShift - Slow down
Download Drivey 0.15 (298k).
MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:Russ Schwenkler’s Vexel Car Art & Photorealistic 3D Car RendersBMW Art Cars
Nissan 2009 GT-R Wallpapers
Forza Motorsport 2 Wallp
Been busy fixing www.downloadmunkey.net and thoo2.net last week. Somehow I exceeded Photobucket’s 25GB bandwidth limit last month, resulting in most images on my previous site to randomly disappear for the last few days.
As a result, I switched to a Wordpress site at Dreamhost.com. You can get your own at 22.40 USD/~33SGD for 1 domain registration + hosting for 1 year with promocode DOWNLOADMUNKEY
While fiddling with the Wordpress configuration, I downloaded quite a few plugins and I’ve compiled a list of useful ones that I’m using. I believe that Akismet should be compulsory for any Wordpress site and so doesn’t count in this list
Subscribe To Comments - IMHO the most important plugin to install. Allowing readers to subscribe to your comments makes it much easier to follow conversations. To place the “Subscribe to comments via email” checkbox above the Submit button, check out Derek Punsalan’s post at 5ThirtyOne.
FeedBurner FeedSmith - Fo
While there are many ways to learn your A.B.Cs, this must be one of the more unconventional and possibly the bloodiest method of learning the English alphabet.Clearly inspired by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, Emperor of ancient Rome and allegedly an insane tyrant. His supposedly depraved character was the subject of the shocking 1979 film and now in this (literally) bloody Flash game from adult swim.Over in Viva Caligula, you control the mad tyrant himself as he cooks up some half-baked excuse that his fellow Romans have rebelled against his rule and then goes on a massacre of both defenseless civilians and heavily armed legionnaires alike, simply because he can.Armed initially with a lowly dagger, Caligula sets forth to collect 25 other weapons hidden in 7 different districts split into 97 zones (yes, I counted). The name of each weapon starts with a different letter of the alphabet which means that this cunningly-disguised educational tool actuall
While there are many ways to learn your A.B.Cs, this must be one of the more unconventional and possibly the bloodiest method of learning the English alphabet.
Clearly inspired by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, Emperor of ancient Rome and allegedly an insane tyrant. His supposedly depraved character was the subject of the shocking 1979 film and now in this (literally) bloody Flash game from adult swim.
Over in Viva Caligula, you control the mad tyrant himself as he cooks up some half-baked excuse that his fellow Romans have rebelled against his rule and then goes on a massacre of both defenseless civilians and heavily armed legionnaires alike, simply because he can.
Armed initially with a lowly dagger, Caligula sets forth to collect 25 other weapons hidden in 7 different districts split into 97 zones (yes, I counted). The name of each weapon starts with a different letter of the alphabet which means that this cunningly-disguised educational tool act
While there are many ways to learn your A.B.Cs, this must be one of the more unconventional and possibly the bloodiest method of learning the English alphabet.
Clearly inspired by Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula, Emperor of ancient Rome and allegedly an insane tyrant. His supposedly depraved character was the subject of the shocking 1979 film and now in this (literally) bloody Flash game from adult swim.
Over in Viva Caligula, you control the mad tyrant himself as he cooks up some half-baked excuse that his fellow Romans have rebelled against his rule and then goes on a massacre of both defenseless civilians and heavily armed legionnaires alike, simply because he can.
Armed initially with a lowly dagger, Caligula sets forth to collect 25 other weapons hidden in 7 different districts split into 97 zones (yes, I counted). The name of each weapon starts with a different letter of the alphabet which means that this cunningly-disguised educational tool act
A brand new series of technical tips over here @ The Download Munkey, based on her requests :DShe asked for a favicon for her blog hosted on Blogger so here's the steps if you're interested in doing the same for your site.Although the favicon can be of ICO, GIF or PNG format, Internet Explorer 7.0 seems to occassionally have some issues with formats other than ICO so we'll use ICOs here.Create a 16x16 ICO file from your image by going to FavIcon from Pics or using your favourite image editor.Choose an image from your computer and click Generate Favicon.ico to preview and save your favicon.After previewing, click Download Favicon to get a zip containing your favicon. Extract the zip file and upload your Favicon.ico to somewhere like Google Pages since Blogger doesn't allow uploading of ICO files. Remember to rename your file to something like Favicon1.ico or else you'll end up displaying Google Pages's favicon instead :DNow you'll need to login to Blogger and edit the Blogger XHT
A brand new series of technical tips over here @ The Download Munkey, based on her requests
She asked for a favicon for her blog hosted on Blogger so here’s the steps if you’re interested in doing the same for your site.
Although the favicon can be of ICO, GIF or PNG format, Internet Explorer 7.0 seems to occassionally have some issues with formats other than ICO so we’ll use ICOs here.
Create a 16×16 ICO file from your image by going to FavIcon from Pics or using your favourite image editor.
Choose an image from your computer and click Generate Favicon.ico to preview and save your favicon.
After previewing, click Download Favicon to get a zip containing your favicon.
Extract the zip file and upload your Favicon.ico to somewhere like Google Pages since Blogger doesn’t allow uploading of ICO files. Remember to rename your file to something like Favicon1.ico or else you’ll end up displaying Google Pages’s favicon instead
Now you’ll n
Tired of grinding just to see your character level up in a RPG? Why not try ProgressQuest instead?Everything essential for a best-selling RPG game are available in ProgressQuest : from killing foes, looting and selling of items, completing quests, upgrading of equipment and the all-important levelling-up. Just generate your character, roll virtual dice for the initial stats and you're ready to go. Fortunately, all the boring and time-wasting activities like killing, looting, bartering and completing pointless quests have been abstracted out so you will only need to sit back and watch your character charging into the killling fields to hack up foes, haul the loot back to the marketplace, upgrade his/her stuff and repeats the damn cycle over and over again.So what's the point of ProgressQuest? Frankly, I don't know either although it's quite addictive watching your character grow in power from an absolute wimp into a powerhouse with insane stats.Click here for my stats!I just run it
Saw this video clip of the original 1986 The Transformers : The Movie re-dubbed with the lines from the more recent 300 movie at The Meditation Chamber which reminded me of this 300-related post by gnome as well as the Ladybird Transformers books which I used to have (a long long time ago that is).This is Madness!No, this ... is ... Transformaaaa!!!I've found a site where Derik Smith provides nice scans of these mini Transformers books written by John Grant with illustrations provided by different artists. Each was 40 to 50 pages in hardcover. I used to own Transformers : The Movie and Megatron's Fight for Power although I have absolutely where they are at the moment :( Images scanned by Derik SmithOther books available:Autobots' Lightning StrikeAutobot HostageAutobots Fight BackLaserbeak's FuryGalvatron's Air AttackAutobots Strike OilDecepticon HideoutDeceptions at the PoleDeceptions UndergroundYou may also find something of interest at this other site by Steve-o Stone
A couple of Index Astartes PDFs detailing the history and doctrine of two Space Marines chapters in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, namely the Blood Angels - one of the First Founding Legions and the the Flesh Tearers - one of the successor chapters of the Blood Angels. These two PDFs were (supposedly) released in conjunction with the recent availability of the entire range of Blood Angels miniatures in the UK online store (I always thought the Blood Angels range were available for online purchase but I might be wrong ...)The fluff for the savage Flesh Tearers Chapter is quite interesting - currently there are only 400 (and dwindling) Space Marines (usually a full Chapter has ten companies of 100 men each) left in the Chapter due to losses attributed to the Black Rage inherited from their Founding Chapter, the Blood Angels. Due to the low numbers of active Space Marines, they have no reserves and each Marine is proficient in Assault, Tactical and Devastator duties unlike other more conv
Just a quick random post.
I've just had word that Writers FM has been heavily featured inside Francine Silverman's newest book, "Talk Radio for Authors - Getting Interviews Across the US & Canada."
Even though I'm actually in the UK ;)
Interested? Buy the book by calling 1-877-BUY-BOOK, or visiting Fran's blog online at http://booktalkradio.blogspot.com/
Oh -- and I met Countdown co-host
