Get help, advice and information on all your Computers and Technology issues. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/games.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:49:05 GMT en It is true that some Registry cleaners are truly is more aggressive than others, digging deeper and looking in more places for more kinds of errors. You may have tried to run a few different registry cleaners and one tool might report 18 errors while another might report 800 errors. The question is, do registry software vendors develop software that is fudges numbers and over-reporting errors to make financial gain. I decided to investigate further. I ran a test using the Top Ten most popular rated registry cleaners on the market.The top ten registry cleaners chosen for the test were PcOptimizerPro, Xp Repair Pro, Error Doctor, Registry Fix, Error Nuker, Registry tool kit, Registry Medic, Bug Doctor and Ace Utilities. I installed a fresh copy of windows XP Pro on a computer system. The system was fully up to date with all patches and updates for XP. No Registry-cleaner software had been used on the system, and so no errors or debris should have accumulated in the Registry since the original installation of XP was still there. I installed and ran one cleaner at a time, with a reboot between each run. I made a note of the number of Registry errors the software found. I was shocked at the results. Each registry cleaner found ridiculous amounts of errors, some cleaners in excess of 500 errors. You might wonder what was going on: Why should registry-cleaning softwares find errors on a brand new computer syst http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/85077_Registry_Software_Vendors_Play_Numbers_Games.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:36:30 GMT PSP games are very popular these days. PSP game device ensures portability so you can carry your PSP games in a small UMD disc or a memory stick. The beauty of PSP device is not restricted to games alone. You can even download music, movies, view photos etc and take them where you want and play them when you want. PSP is a very versatile kit that gives you all entertainment in a single device. If you purchase a 1GB PSP memory stick then it will be sufficient for all your entertainment needs. If you dont have the money to afford, then you have to go for 256MB memory stick. Your PSP kit will be of no use when you dont have games or music stored in it. So the next step is to spend money on purchasing the entertainment stuff. One common option is to purchase the PSP game from the stores. Once you have got the game in your PS you can start playing. When you are bored, you go for buying another game and play that one. You need to spend money on every game and these games at stores are expensive. But wait! After spending a good sum of money in your kit, are you really going to spend more bucks for your entertainment? A shocking news is that people spend 400 to 500 pre year for their entertainment with PSP. Dont you think this is a large sum of money just for your PSP entertainment? http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/83250_How_To_Download_Free_Psp_Games_From_Internet.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:37:30 GMT There are so many things which we have as children and then when we reencounter them as adults they have somehow been re-branded, or changed just that bit to irritate us. There has been a whole generation who have grown up with computers and the simple games which were developed for these first computers. These uncomplicated games, which were the best thing we had ever seen at the time, progressively got more complex as development moved on, unfortunately work began to get in the way and we started to get less time to play the newest games when they came out. Before we knew it, we had lost touch with the gaming world as other demands were put on our time. The beauty of the first games was in their simplicity. They did not come with a thousand page manual in twenty different languages, they were games where you could just start playing and only stop when you were either so frustrated that you had to stop (otherwise you would have thrown the thing out the window) or if another member of the family came and demanded a turn. These games were simpler and had innocence about then. Unfortunately the next generation of games strove to impress with greater complexity and in doing so destroyed the part that was most attractive, the simplicity. After some time the beauty of the early games shone through and suddenly they were all available again, and the upgrades have kept the concept in tack. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/80719_Rekindle_An_Old_Love_For_Computer_Games.html Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:52:43 GMT Computers and gaming have almost become synonymous terms. For most of us, who use computers for different purposes at present, would admit that playing games was the first reason of attraction towards computers. Almost everyone would admit that his or her first interaction with computers was through playing a game on it. Even now among millions of individuals who sit in front of a computer, a vast majority would acknowledge that they are still addicted to gaming experiences on computers for long hours at a stretch. Since the earliest invention of games in computers there has been advancements in leaps and bounds in terms of the technology and programming softwares used to develop games. Macromedia Flash player is the latest tool used by game developers to create amazing games. Flash games require a better configuration of the hardware to play uninterruptedly. But at present almost every computer is capable enough to handle flash games and also the flash player can be downloaded free from the Internet for immediate use. There is a huge list of online flash games that are very popular. Tetris, Nimian Hunter, 3D Field Goal Games, Light Out, Blam! Blam! Plops, Snowball Fight, The big Game and Maganic Wars are among the most favorite games played on the computer. New games on flash are daily being added to already existing long list of gaming options. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/73821_Everything_You_Need_To_Know_About_Games.html Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:59:40 GMT We see thousands of people playing online games such as tetris, ping pong, mario bros, super mario etc for free but despite its history dating back to 1970s, for most people online gaming began with the explosion of Internet in 1993 and with the advent of Doom and Warcraft sometime in 1994 or 1995. This got further boost with publishers starting to add Internet connectivity to computer games in 1994-95. The media, in fact, have themselves been ignorant about online games history. As far as they are concerned, online gaming just coincidentally happened when their advertisers started producing Internet-capable games. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/71877_Why_Online_Games_Are_Shifting_To_High_Gear.html Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:54:24 GMT There are several age-appropriate video games that provide hours of fun while at the same time providing practice in logic and strategizing as well as problem solving. However the growth and rising popularity of video games has been riddled with controversy as younger and younger children get exposed to the subset of video games that feature antisocial behavior, violence and gore. There is rising concern on the effects of violent video games on children. The increasingly realistic nature of these games makes them extremely popular among children of all ages, but it is this very same realistic nature that is the cause of great anxiety. Apprehension about violent video games is based on the assumption that they promote violence and aggression amongst young players. Extensive research has proven beyond a doubt that television violence increases aggression and violence among the children who watch it. Concern regarding violent games was originally based on these studies. However later studies show that violent video games may be more damaging than violent television primarily because of the interactive nature of video games. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/68404_Do_Violent_Video_Games_Increase_Aggression.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:30:55 GMT You might wonder what an emulator is. Emulators allow your computer to act like a console system such as the Apple IIe or the Atari 2600, which are used to emulate the hardware of a variety of classic arcade games. Are all classic arcade games emulated? No, but those games made before 1992 are. Not all systems are easy to emulate. http://advice-and.info/Computers-and-Technology/65365_Classic_Arcade_Games_Emulation_On_New_Technology.html Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:21:38 GMT