Posted 1 day, 4 hours ago at 6:18 pm. 0 comments
Every new Sonic game follows the same pattern.
- Highly anticipated!
- Great Visuals!
- Sega’s Last Chance!
- Product is Released!
- Low Review Scores!
- Angry Fans
- “True” Fans vs Angry Fans.
- Next year, a New Sonic Game Announced.
- Rinse Lather and Repeat.
Once it reaches the point where “True” Fans:
- Whom, quite frankly, can’t spell.
- Can’t ever see any flaws in any Sonic game.
- Thinks their ideas are the best.
- Hates IGN and Gamespot reviewers with a passion.
- Wants every character in the game because they are soo cool!
- Will have a temper tantrum on anyone who criticizes the game.
- Will bow down before God aka Ryan Drummond.
- Will write fanfiction with their own “original” character with supapowerzzz!!11
- Will post tl;dr topics about why everyone hates their favorite character.
Again once it reaches the point where “True” Fans argue with Angry Fans, the whole internet universe explodes with trolling, angry letters, petitions, you suck, we all suck, nobody cares, just a plain ol’ mess thats only cured once a new sonic game is announced.
So a new Sonic Game has been announced! Will Sega make a critically acclaimed game that will calm everyone down, or will it end up being a failure like Sonic 06. Only time will tell.
Continue Reading…
Posted 4 days, 1 hour ago at 10:11 pm. 0 comments
Well it seems the Translate plugin has struck yet again. First it was “orbidden” and now every message you receive in AIM says translate. For Example:
Me: Hello
You: Translate
You: Translate
So again with the same steps as before you will need to disable or uninstall the Translator plugin.
How to Stop AIM from repeating the word “Translate” with every IM
- Click on Edit
- Click On Settings
- Click on Plugins
- Uncheck Translator
- Click Save
Posted 4 days, 10 hours ago at 12:57 pm. 0 comments
School is over and whether I pass or fail will depend on a mere decimal point. So without further ado, lets bring back life to this site!
May Updates & Planning
- Write Articles for Stylinprofile.com
- Patapon Creature Project
- Aim Top Coder Editorial?
- Yet another Sonic Game
- A post outlining Sonic Fanbase
- More Aim, more Sims 3, more Cities Unlimited
- Grand Theft Auto 4 Radio Stations?
- Deleting Front Page Blog Until Further Notice
June Updates & Planning
- Stylinprofile.com Launches
- Stylin Profile launches Facebook & Myspace fan Pages
Since I have not been working so much here, I’ve been posting on PSU Blog which you should just check out how small RPG games have blogs too.
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago at 2:44 pm. 2 comments
About every few days, someone experiences a few problems with installing Aim 4.7 for Mac. This isn’t entirely your fault but its time to put Aim 4.7 into perspective as to why this happens and what you can do about it. The Error message they receive is:
Unable to unarchive “aim.bin” into “…”
(Error 45 - Operation not supported.)
Aim 4.7: Why you should not install it?
Aim 4.7 is currently the last GM release for Macs. Aim 4.7 was released on February 18th, 2004. Now take a moment to think about what year it is today… Great! Now that we got that squared away. Lets now look at the problems most people have with AIm 4.7
- Aim 4.7 for Mac randomly signs off
- Aim 4.7 for Mac randomly quits while Away.
Aim 4.7: How to Install it?
Well if you still don’t want to heed my warning about installing it, and you receive the message that you are unable to unarchive “aim.bin” or AIM opens the Firefox browser when you run the installer, you can fix this problem by downloading Stuffit Expander.
You can download Stuffit Expander and fill out the information on that site so that you may install Aim 4.7 For Mac that was released in 2004.
What are other ways to install Aim for Mac?
Well I’m glad you made it this far. Fortunately for you there are several programs out there that you can obtain for FREE that were updated in 2008. Here are some of them:
- iChat: You can also Video Conference
- Adium: The Best Aim Program for Macs
- Aim.app: The newest Aim For Mac Program AOL is working on.
Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago at 6:47 pm. 0 comments
Electronic Arts has been known for its struggle on garnering trust to its gamers. Economically EA’s potential for profit is huge with their Sports line, Maxis, Boxing, Action, and Mobile gaming department. They continuously flaunt their in-game advertisements and its economic success.
Still this all takes a toll on a consumers by the recent drop in stock shares and quarterly earnings reports. The Sims 3 has many potential spots to solidify game play and do well with gamers. But we worry of EA’s marketing strategy might get the best of it.
A New Gaming Approach
The Sims 3 has an ambitious goal ahead of it. One of the major changes is that it now focuses on ONE household. Your person is placed into a world where everyone’s lives evolves with or without you. It sort of follows the lines of a MMORPG. Everyone existing in the game has their own schedule, love life, and personality. This doesn’t seem to worry fans too much since this concept was used during the Life Stories product line.
The Art Style
The most critical component for potential consumers at this stage is the graphics. The graphics look marginally better than they appeared in The Sims 2. A more realistic approach was expected, unfortunately the only areas so far that seems to be visually improved are the outdoors.
This screenshot depicts of a more detailed and realistic look of how a neighborhood is like. Now that the world is seamless, the gameplay allows you to leave your house and walk to another in real time. You will be able to move around the world with as much freedom as the console games. Hopefully as you move around, there should not be anymore loading splash screens that break up the action, but I do expect a loading screen before you enter another building.
Interior design still has that barren Sims 1-like look, every object is placed on a grid. The only new feature with object placement is diagonal rotation. This is not enough to make this game stand out from its predecessor.
This is the only screenshot so far has the most radiant lighting effect. The sun shines through the windows and the couch gives off its glossy glow, if only every screenshot presented this rise in quality…
User Feedback
Here are some various user comments from different message boards:
What I was most looking forward to in Sims 3 was a major overhaul in the department–a more realistic looking game–after all, it is a life simulation, but apparently that’s not going to happen. This looks like more of same to me, with incremental improvements.
Actually I looked at some of the graphics and they are dramatically improved hardware wise. The problem is that everything is unquestionably UGLY
Lindsay Pearson Interview Response:
However the screenshots give a somewhat distorted image, because when you see the Sims 3 live at work, you immediately notice the high detail in the world and its characters.
We shall see how this will turn out, there isn’t much uproar for this game as Simcity Societies. So far EA, your on a positive note here.
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 12:23 pm. 2 comments
Two quick issues that have been reported this week but I didn’t get time to cover them completely.
[Apr 13 08] We have received word that the Status Button has now been put back
Why were the Status and Unsend buttons Removed
The Status button and Unsend Button are now removed from the AOL Webmail. The AOL Mail blog reported that they had to remove these two features “because of the way these features were implemented, they were preventing us from achieving the best product performance”
Where can I find the Status and Unsend Buttons
They are still located in AOL Desktop and AOL 9.1
The status button has returned in Webmail.
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 2:02 am. 0 comments
Every year Google releases yet another April Fools joke, professionally done to the point where it seems quite useful until you read more into it. Last year’s joke was set on creating broadband internet through toilets coincidentally during the height of the FCC wireless auction.
This year’s theme is sending email back through time. Your only limited to 10 emails per user. Unfortunately they did not add this button on the compose mail page making this joke a mere failure.
Now if only the subject heading said “Happy Wedding Anniversary”
Posted 2 months ago at 6:53 pm. 2 comments
Additional Plugins
Aim 6.8 Beta 2, has launched with some reorganized features moved into different locations. Most notably, AOL Music, AIM Call Out, AOL Hot Searches, and AIM Mobile has been moved into a new My Plugins button. The My Plugins feature will allow developers and users to pick and choose what extra features they want with AIM. You are no longer tied to the four buttons at the bottom of the buddy list since now you can disable them and pick only the ones you like.
Two additional plugins were added called Notes and Stock Quotes. Notes allows you to write notes within your buddy list. Stock quotes just show Stocks within a small window. This is not a full featured Stock Ticker like many have been requesting but its a start.
Skinning Additions
If you’ve been skinning Aim, there has been some new functions added
<linearGradientBrush id=”gradient.uiPluginPopup”>
<rotateTransform center=”50% 50%” angle=”-90″/>
<gradientStops>
<gradientStop offset=”0%” color=”#FFFFFF”/>
<gradientStop offset=”100%” color=”#EFFAFF”/>
</gradientStops>
</linearGradientBrush>
<pen id=”pen.uiPluginPopup.border” color=”#000000″ WIDTH=”1″ />
gradient.uiPluginPopup, which was a pain to find, controls the box that shows up when you hover over “My Plugins”
pen.uiPluginPopup.border, controls the border around said box.
Look at how Things don’t work! :3
Posted 2 months ago at 3:34 pm. 1 comment
Time Warner is now deciding what it should do with its AOL venture. Now its time for the fun part. Who should buy AOL? Well lets take a look at each and every company suggested by various users around the internet. This will be split into 3 parts, adding new companies as we go along.
Time Warner has decided that AOL should be split into two. One part deals mainly with advertising aspects, and the other dealing with community.
Goal: To keep the AOL + AIM community together as it once was.
The Obvious
AOL + Google
Well personally, I like this idea only because of how Google treats its members. They take a very minimalist approach resulting in less flashy ads and faster loading times. AOL members have been pleading for less ads, but their wishes were never granted.
However, even if we take away those crazy ads, AOL (paying) members do not like change. It pretty much boggles my mind of how they want things to stay the same like it did from 10 years ago. If you change one thing they go crazy and start complaining. As long as Google provide some sort of blog that can address community issues, things might work out more smoothlyfor them.
Google’s approach may not fare so well with AIM. AIM’s business relies on teens, glitter, and glam. So we’d hope for Google be consistent with AIM’s visual design and services.
AOL + Microsoft
Microsoft may do well with AIM members but not so much with AOL members. Microsoft is big on advertising so I would expect to see pretty much no changes in any of the websites AOL owns. AOL (paying) members love guidance and tech support, and Microsoft stance on this has been pretty lapse. Microsoft does work very well with troubleshooting on message boards, so hopefully problems can get sorted out there.
This seems to be the most obvious choice to keep everything running the same way. In fact I prefer this over Microsoft + Yahoo. Google’s reaction towards this would be very interesting. Google and AOL have done some minor cooperative efforts this past year, hopefully they won’t totally cut themselves off from each other.
AOL + Yahoo
I can definitely see Yahoo converting AOL members over to its own platform, which pretty much kills everything. So I’m not entirely liking this prospect at all, unless it becomes Microsoft + AOL + Yahoo. I don’t think Yahoo is mature enough at this point in time to handle two conflicting communities concurrently. Maybe this could have worked years ago when Yahoo was all the rage and Google wasn’t even born yet.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 7:23 pm. 0 comments
2 Skins Now Available!
Introducing the new AimXP and AimXPblue skin.
Now you can relive the memories of Windows XP through Aim 6.8.
F.A.Q
Q. How Do you Unzip or Extract a File?
A. This page teaches you how to extact a file.
Q. What version of AIM should I be using and where can I get the right version?
A. This theme currently supports Aim 6.8, you can get this version at Beta.
Download Now!
Download is available Aim XP
Installation: OverWrite
WARNING: These Instructions will remove any custom skins. If you do not want to remove any custom skins please follow the instructions inside the readme file. Please note you should always back up your files incase anything goes wrong.
1. Extract (and select Yes to Replace) themes.box at:
C:\program files\aim6\services\imApp\ver6_8_2_19\theme
2. Extract (and select Yes to Replace) blgadgets.box at:
C:\program files\aim6\services\imApp\ver6_8_2_19\content\bl
3. Extract “aimxp” folder at:
C:\program files\aim6\services\imApp\ver6_8_2_19\theme
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 12:41 pm. 2 comments
Delays Delays and More Delays. Can’t do much when tests count so much for your grade.
Bumped.org Site Planning
March 2008
- Windows XP Blue Skin for Aim 6.8
- Chatroom Trial on /Tek/
- Bumped.org Front Page Converts to Blog
- Stylin Profile Blog replaces WebApps
- Stylin Profile Blog creates Facebook & Myspace Page
- Upcoming Page for /Tek/
- PSU Blog gears for Maximum Attack G
April 2008
- RPG Game Project Starts Planning Mode
- Web Apps Blog comments Disabled
May 2008 - July 2008
- Untitled Purple Aim 6.8 Skin
- Skins will be gloss like (ex. Vista Skin’s Bottom Bar)
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 3:07 pm. 5 comments
As Randy Falco, CEO of AOL, gets closer to his dream of making AOL the most profitable advertising network, users were treated with a brand new ad inside the buddy info. These ads now take up a considerable amount of space at the bottom of the buddy info. The window is now stuck at a much larger width than before
This did not set off well with the AIM userbase, as there have been complaints about this new ad system:
“THANK YOU PEOPLE FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS THIS IS!!! I HATE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO THE BUDDY INFO BOX, I CAN’T STAND IT!! ITS ANNOYING AND POINTLESS AND MAKES THE BUDDY INFO LOOK LIKES ITS NOT ABOUT BUDDY INFO AT ALL” ~DanceStar
“EPIC FAIL FOR AIM.” ~nj
“AIM MANAGEMENT NEEDS TO WAKE UP” ~a concerned mother
” SUCH A SMALL CHANGE AND I WANNA RIP MY EYES OUT >> GET RID OF THE ADS !” ~Robby
“Your actually doing negative advertising for these companies. SCREW VERIZON…the first company to buy the ad. I make a point to never buy any product of people you advertise for. STOP ALREADY.” ~jimmy
As you can see from all those CAPS LOCKS, people are enraged over this! I did notice that there was not much complaints against the text ads AOL placed in the buddy info, maybe they should reconsider implementing that instead.
In other news, AIM has added more integration with AIM profiles by adding a “Profile Buddies” tab in the Buddy Info.
Also Note AimAdHack now removes these Ads.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 9:55 pm. 0 comments
Google released a little web application called Google Talk Chatback Badge, where can chat with everyone who visits your website. Google hasn’t added any robust new features against its current competition. We might as well call it the Charlie Brown of chat widgets. Unlike MeeboMe, and Aim Wimzi, you have to click on it in order to initiate a chat session, and there are tons of useful features left out to give that could give this Plain Jane a boost. Its only shining quality is how neat and tidy it looks with the rest of your site.
Color Schemes
It could use some colors. white and blue reminds me of the old days of the web. At least the quote bubble is curvy.
Flash Embed Option
It needs a Flash version. iFrames are too exploitable, and I’d even advocate for web browsers to ask whether to load content in an IFrame just to reduce javascript attacks by a considerable amount. Since its iFrame, there is no anyway to put this on your Myspace page, so people please don’t ask about it.
Badge Saving For Later Use
Currently, it just generates a code everytime you visit the page, which defaults to your real first and last name, or whatever name you set up in your Google Account. If you had previously set up a nickname, it will get lost if you need it again for whatever reason. You’ll have to retype the nickname again to generate the code.
Guest Names For Each Person
Guests should be able to set their nickname and each Guest should be assigned a unique number. Currently all Guests respond as Guest, making it confusing at times.
Thats about it. Knowing Google, these suggestions, if they do consider them, will get added quietly.
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago at 6:00 pm. 12 comments
A lot of people ask if its possible to cancel or remove your AIM or AOL screen name and account.
Depending on which category you fall under, its possible, but other times its not. So pick which category you fall under below and what steps you can take.
Aim screen names unfortunately do not have the option to cancel your account.
You can however take steps to ensure that your account is canceled down the road by following the suggestion
Remove Your Screen Name in Aim 6.5
- Open AIM 6.5
- Click on a Screen Name
- Uncheck Remember Me
- Uncheck Remember Password
- Press Delete On your Screen Name
Cancelling your Paid AOL Screen Name
- Head over to Cancel AOL
- Look for “Free AOL / Cancel My AOL Bill”
- Press Continue
Cancelling your Free AOL Screen Name
- Visit Cancel AOL
- Find the Frequently Asked Questions at the Right
- Click “How do I cancel my free member account”
For Aim Users only: It will now be removed from the drop down box, Now you can forget about ever having it! However there are important things you should remember. Screen names will eventually get canceled due to inactivity. This means you should not ever log in to the screen name you wish to delete to check mail. You should never sign on with it at any time either. Each time you sign on you initially reset the clock for it to become inactivated.
Another way to getting your AIM Screen Name deactivated is a bit more nefarious as it requires you to do a Terms of Service violation. Essentially once you have done a Terms of Service violation your account will most likely become suspended and nobody will ever be able to sign on or use it again. This is until AOL dumps the inactivated and suspended screen names, which can take years before its placed back into rotation. Most of the time this never happens for suspended screen names.
Posted 3 months ago at 9:00 am. 10 comments
The Pepsi Stuff contest launched a while ago. The sweepstakes cooperates with Amazonmp3, by allowing you to spend points to download a free mp3. I not really a big deal downloading free mp3s, but its a new frontier for major record labels making up for their mistakes with the RIAA.
Each mp3 costs 5 bottle caps. If you were to buy Five (2 Liter) bottles that would equate to $7.59 per mp3. It may be likely that a 2 Liter Pepsi bottle is on sale, which would typically end up with 1$ per (2 Liter) Bottle equating to $5 per mp3.
Now lets check the price for a (24oz.) 6 pack of Pepsi. The total price equates to less than $5.99. The twelve (12oz) cans costs around $5.49, but they only nets you 2 points.
Pepsi Cola Price Summary
- $7.59 per 1.00 mp3 (2 Liters)
- $5.99 per 1.20 mp3 (24oz 6 pack)
- $5.49 per 0.20 mp3 (12oz 12 pack)
If we decide that $1 should equal 1 point, then the only purchase that makes most sense in this chart would be the 24oz 6 pack, which appears to be the best deal in this situation. Now why is there such a dramatic decrease in points with the 12oz 12pack? Maybe they are secretly promoting their 6 pack bottles?
Points per Product
- 20 oz or 24 oz = 1pt
- 1 lliter or 2 liter = 1pt
- 12oz can 8 or 12 pack = 2pts
- 16.9 oz 12 pack = 4pts
- 24oz 6 pack = 6pts
- 32oz cup = 1pt
Now the question to you is:
Do you think these points are unfair, and will you be participating or boycotting this promotion and why?
There are others who agree with me. Maybe Pepsi should increase the points on some of them.
