Today marks the 3 year anniversary of Insane Central! Over 180 arcade games, 30 videos, some blog posts and MILLIONS of visitors. Hope we make it to 5 years! First starting out as Insane PSP 5 years ago then we switched over to Insane Central and it became a popular flash game site. I want to thank everyone for telling their friends about the site and visiting often.
Have Fun,
Andy
Are you a member of Twitter and a fan on Insane Central? Well now we have a twitter that announces new games, videos, and blog posts. Just a good way to stay up to date on new things on the site.
[Insane Central Twitter]
Google has release a search of their site from 2001. This is their oldest index they have, and it is to celebrate their 10th birthday. So check out the search or check out the google blog for information about this.
We had so much fun searching that we wanted to put this old index online for everyone to play with. We thought it’d be even cooler if we could actually see the full versions of the old web pages, so we worked with the Internet Archive to link to their cache of these pages from 2001. Step into the time machine and try a 2001 Google search.
When Google Chrome was first released it caused quite a stir do to the biggest search engine releasing it. But Google Chrome is just seems like a lite version of Mozilla Firefox (or any browser). It doesn’t offer much new to the browser game and doesn’t let you install add-ons (yet). It mainly sports a simple interface that is good for users that are new to computers or don’t want a cluttered browser. But there is no new feature that puts it over the top of the many browser out there. You can’t even integrate your Google account into the browser to check email. One cool feature though is you can import all your passwords and bookmarks from another browser and the recent pages page when you start up the browser is also worth seeing. Download it your self and see what you think.
[Download Google Chrome]
Need a program that has your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace, Email, and all your other messengers in one? Then Digsby is for you! It is available for Windows right now but Mac and Linux in a later date. This Multi-messanger includes support for facebook chat unlike Pidgin which I would also recommend. If you have a good PC and Facebook I would recommend Digsby but if you would like a more light weight program then try pidgin. I’ve used pidgin for years and it is a great program, but I’ve finally switched ot Digsby. Have Fun!
I recently just switched from Comcast cable and internet to Verizon Fios tv/internet. I’m getting about 10-40mb download and 2mb upload (15-25mb dl and 1mb upload on Comcast) on speedtest.net while those speeds are impressive it will seem to hang up for minutes on pages. Even after tweaking firefox, my dns, and many other things it still does it. The tv on the other hand has laggy menus due to a better graphical user interface and the menu seems to have options spread all over the place. Overall I wish I just stuck with Comcast because they have never given me a problem, I hope this helps someone choose a provider.
Find many Youtube (or any video sharing site’s) videos and want to download them? well here is how you do it.
1. Go to Keepvid or clipnabber and paste your link in the the box… we’ll use http://youtube.com/watch?v=oUmsBhFJRBI
2. For Youtube when downloading the link you have to change the file extension like this get_video.flv but other sites you don’t need to. (we get http://ash-v5.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=oUmsBhFJRBI )
3. Play the video with flvplayer (flv is a filetype like .wmv and .mov)
flvplayer_setup.exe (download)
Do you listen to music? well you probably listen to mostly songs you have downloaded, which I think give you no surprise in what you listen to. If you like to listen to new music for free while on your PC internet radio is great. And if you already have Windows Media Player there is no need to download anything extra (although having Winamp doesn’t hurt). Most of these stations have much less ads then local radio stations. There are thousands of net stations to tune into but you will only want to listen to some of these few.
977music Hitz [tune in (hitz)] 977 Music Hitz plays mostly top 40. Their Hitz station is my person favorite because it plays older songs with new music, in my opinion this is the only station you need.
977music 80’s [tune in] If you were a fan of the music in Vice City then you will enjoy this station.
Hot 108 Jamz [tune in] Plays only rap/hip-hop so if you like rap this station is for you.
[Winamp Stations] If you use Winamp (you probably already know) you can easily browse stations for Winamp.
If you notice the extensions on files .pls is for Winamp and .asx is for Windows Media Player.
ScribeFire is a Add-on for Firefox (which everyone should be using) which allows you to post directly to a blog from Firefox. The best part about it is that it just doesn’t publish to only wordpress.com, livejournal.com or blogger.com, you can do a blog on your site that is made from Wordpress, Drupal, Movable Type, and More. It’s useful for reading news from other sources and writing about it. After using it for about 10 minutes it has good impression from me… but one draw back is that you can’t upload images from the add-on.
ScribeFire (previously Performancing for Firefox) is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, and post to your blog.
Edit: Just noticed that it adds a “powered by Scribefire” below posts, which isn’t cool. What ever happen to quite dignity.
Here are some great resources for anyone who makes websites or designs them. Here are some links that I have acquired while making sites. These range from color schemes, tutorials, name inspiration, design inspiration, and more miscellaneous tools.
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