http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog Gaming, Dragons, and what else but FreeWare! Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:09:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I mentioned in my last post, I was getting a bluetooth dongle and a gamepad. Well, here are the reviews. The Bluetooth dongle I purchased is a Rocketfish Bluetooth Dongle (link) from Bestbuy. It is about $50.00 CAN, though I got it for free because they told me the laptop ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/06/bluetooth-dongle-logitech-gamepad-and-nyko-wii-charger-reviews/ Well, I just tried connecting a Wii controller to use in Cortex Command and lo and behold, no bluetooth adapter is in my computer! Turns out the Best Buy employee who sold it to me wasn't quite accurate about the details. They've offered 50% off on a bluetooth adapter in ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/06/bluetooth-dongles-not-again/ Hey, I've been testing several games now. Such as Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, America's Army 8.2, Supreme Commander, Battlefield 2142, Day of Defeat, Cellfactor Revolution, Black Shades, Ichor, KartRider, Toblo, and Tremulous. Overall, a mix of commercial and freeware games. First up, Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. This game is, in my ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/06/game-testing-continues/ Hey, I recently did another search for interesting pieces on a popular art site, DeviantART. This site allows people to keep journals, submit pictures, favourite other pictures, message each other, and even sell prints of their larger pictures. My account there is "Metroid48". If you want to see all of my ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/06/deviantart/ Just watched a movie on Rogers Pay Per View (channel 100 on Rogers Cable, reasonably good service). It's Man of the Year which features Robin Williams as the protagonist, Tom Dobbs. Dobbs runs a news show where he pokes fun at political institutions, the government, and strange decisions by those ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/05/man-of-the-year/ Since the site is still not working satisfactorily, I will post links to some games you have to try. But first, an update for what's going on behind the scenes of FWC: The first major change will be how games are added and managed. Until now, this was the game page. ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/05/games-to-try/ There was an RTS named Total Annihilation. It was released prior to the well-known Starcraft by a company named Cavedog. Though those who found it (including me) found it to be superior to Starcraft, it died out as Cavedog went bankrupt. Now there is Supreme Commander, a game which is considered ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/05/spring-the-game/ I've been browsing and just saw the Mythbusters web-cast of Ninja questions, in which they had the person from AskANinja.Com on. Here's the youtube video: Anyway, that reminded me to check out AskANinja.com again. Checked it out, funny new material. For those who don't know, people send in questions to Ask ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/05/ask-a-ninja-also-simple-intro-to-lucid-dreaming/ Well, I've been using Vista for a little while now. The first thing you'd notice while using it would definitely be Aero glass, the interface change. Basically, it makes window borders transparent and has other little effects that make everything look better. If your computer cannot run Aero, however, the ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/05/opinion-on-vista-gmod-9-and-battlefield-2142/  The Pursuit of Happyness. Yes, that is happiness with a y, and this movie is something to be seen. So, just tonight, I watched this movie. I was expecting something that was pretty joyful, upbeat, and altogether a happy movie. Though this movie definitely shows the pursuit of happiness,  it does ... http://www.thefreewarecentral.com/blog/2007/04/the-pursuit-of-happyness/