I present to you a free download of the game World of Goo. (2)
For a limited time only, you can have a full version of the game. If you really like it, go and buy it at their web site.
The game quality of this fun puzzle/strategy type game is awesome. Even the music soundtrack is put together very well. I guarantee that you’ll be hooked on this one for a very long time. I finished the game and thought the ending was completely awesome! I will just say not to give up on the harder levels, because it will pay off in the end.
The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls of goo, divided into five chapters, each containing several levels. Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving it unique atmosphere, similar in style to Tim Burton’s film designs. There is also a bonus meta-game called World of Goo Corporation, where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.
The main objective of the game is to get a requisite number of goo balls to a pipe representing the exit. In order to do so, the player must use the goo balls to construct bridges, towers, and other structures to overcome gravity and various terrain difficulties such as chasms, hills, spikes, or cliffs. There are several types of goo balls in the game, each of which has unique properties. The player must exploit combos of these goo balls in order to complete each level. Extra goo balls recovered in the pipe are pumped through to the World of Goo Corporation, a sandbox area where the objective is to compete with other players worldwide by building the tallest tower possible. Players can also try to achieve the “Obsessive Completion Distinction (OCD) Flag” for each level by completing the level under more stringent criteria, such as collecting a larger number of Goo balls, finishing under a set amount of time or using as few moves as possible.
Levels and chapters in the game are interspersed with cut scenes.
You just need to download World of Goo. (2). Just remember where you put it because then you’ll have to find that EXE file to install the game.
Enjoy the game and comment on how well you’re doing at it! Seriously! Comment please.
System Requirements: OS: Windows XP/Vista Memory: 512 MB RAM Processor: 1GHz or faster CPU DirectX: 9.0c Disk Space: 100MB graphics card: less than 5 years old
All files have been scanned and are free from viruses. You may scan for yourself if you feel you need to.
Posted by macbros | Under Internet, My Opinion | 19 views
Tuesday Nov 3, 2009
SPAM! I’m pretty sure it is safe to say that everybody HATES this tripe we see filling up our in-boxes all the time. I know I feel like the guy in the above animation a lot of the time.
It’s getting so bad to the point that it is drowning our real e-mail and burying it so much that we are missing them and deleting them by mistake while we select large blocks at a time and sending them off to oblivion.
It’s getting so bad that even the spam boxes are sometime catching legitimate e-mails because these assholes that spam us so much are using common wording or something that the filters have a hard time figuring out who’s real and who isn’t.
Even my main e-mail address, that I use for friends and family only, has started to get bombarded by spam. I can attribute that simply to the fact that not a lot of friends and family know how to send bulk e-mails without adding every single one of their contacts in the TO: Field, but instead use the BCC: to add all the recipients. I’ve mentioned THIS in the PAST before. Seems it went unheard though. Besides when you use the BCC, it appears more personal to the people you send it to because it just shows their e-mail address. But when you put all the contacts in the TO: Field, every – single – e-mail – address shows up in every single e-mail received by the contacts. All it takes is just ONE person to have a Trojan that sniffs out e-mail address when they receive them, resulting in all the e-mail address exposed and added to the SPAM-LIST-OF-DOOM!!! *I actually animated that in my mind. it sounded a lot better*
Anyway. I’ve been noticing a lot of very, VERY important e-mails in my spam folder. E-mails from Jobs that I’ve applied to, bank information pertaining to statements, PayPal payment notifications. Shit that I NEED to know about ASAP!
Lately I’ve been going into my SPAM folder and cutting through the fodder to see if I have any REAL E-mail in there. But even then it would be easy to miss something because there is just so much of it. Kinda defeats the whole purpose of having a spam folder when you have to sort through it all the time anyway.
There are so many companies and services offering their ultimate way to defeat spam for you, but there is so much of this shit that even the best spam filter is no match against it.
Wouldn’t is be nice to just be able to click on a Spam button that would send it to an official legal department that took all the information from the sent e-mail spam and tracked it down to the originating sender and then throw their annoying asses into prison for wasting thousands of hours of peoples lives. Our time is money is it not?
Well, I’ve managed to make time to do another Photoshop image for Halloween in the very last minutes of the day. Just like last year.
I have to admit, embarrassingly, that I rushed this one.
I use a few techniques I’ve learned in the past from other Photoshop projects, like the cracked skin. The rest was all improved as I went on.
Well, enough about the bragging stuff and here’s to hoping all you’re parties this weekend go off without a hitch. All the kids get nice big cavities after they eat all that junk food. The bad as kids do some really awesome toilet papering without getting to destructive, while having a great time. And if you are partying, Please, use a designated driver and don’t drink and drive. There are kids out there on the streets.
In the theme of Halloween I present to you a free download of the game Escape Rosecliff Island. (10)
For a limited time only, you can have a full version of the game. If you really like it, go and buy it at their web site.
This game is really fun and is a great time waster. It’s a fun puzzle type game that tests your eye.
An unexpected storm has left you shipwrecked on a mysterious and remote private island. Seek and find helpful objects as you solve puzzles and attempt to Escape Rosecliff Island! Discover Hidden Objects, and play clever mini games as you piece together your getaway. Investigate dark locations and unlock bonus levels as you explore Rosecliff Island. Can you find an escape and make it back to civilization safely?
Fun minigames
Unlock bonus levels
Escape Rosecliff Island!
You just need to download Escape Rosecliff Island. (10) and unpack the files to any folder you want. Just remember where you put it because then you’ll have to find that EXE file to start the game. You can simply add a shortcut to your desktop for easy access. That’s what I did.
Enjoy the game and comment on how well you’re doing at it! Seriously! Comment please.
System Requirements: OS: Windows XP/Vista Memory: 256 MB RAM Processor: 600MHz or faster DirectX: 7.0
All files have been scanned and are free from viruses. You may scan for yourself if you feel you need to.
Posted by macbros | Under My Opinion, Work | 69 views
Monday Oct 26, 2009
If you call into a customer service line for whatever reason and for whatever service, do you think by starting off with an attitude and bitching at the first human voice you hear is going to help your case at all? ANSWER: NO!
Put yourself in the shoes of that person on the other end of that line who sits there all day taking call after call and listening to everybody’s problem and having to endure one asshole after another. After one quarter of the day that customer service rep is already starting to get irritable.
Unfortunately, for those who call in with real issues and aren’t the ones tying up the line with useless comments, complaints, and are just either to damn stupid or impatient to solve their own problems, these people with real issues sometimes get the shitty end of the stick when it comes time for their turn to speak with somebody to get support for their issue, because the agent is in a shitty mood and is very irritable so ANY question just pisses them off.
People are so impatient these days that a simple automated system that only understands basic language and one word answers, they simply refuse to use them and think (for some strange reason) that by simply bashing numbers or belting out gibberish and cursing at the machine, that it will get them to a real live support agent. NO! This – does – not – work! Period!
Believe it or not. That automated machine you always get is so you, the customer, can be more self sufficient. Manage your issues on your own and not tie up the lines for those who really need a human to intervene and help resolve their issues. If people would just LISTEN to the questions the automated voice asks and answer in simple one-word-answers, or press the appropriate button/numbers, they would waste less time fighting with it than trying to get a real person on the line. Plus! Believe it or not, after you’ve bashed your way through the automated menu, that agent is actually going to waste more of your time asking you the same questions and will eventually have to transfer you to the right department that you’re trying to get to, ONLY to have that next agent re-ask all the exact same questions over again. By the time you’re inpatients gets the best of you, you’ll be in a pissy mood and have an attitude that will trigger the agent to match YOUR attitude and the resolution will never get accomplished.
So here are a few tips for you to follow before you call in to ANY customer care center.
Expect to spend at LEAST 10 or more minutes on the phone. Don’t call on your coffee break, or on your way out the door to go to work.
If there is an automated menu, be patient and LISTEN to the questions. Answer the questions with basic answers. Don’t try and have a conversation with it. It’s not your friend. It’s a machine. It only understands basic one or two word answers and phrases. Follow the menu options and chances are you’ll be happy that you resolved your issue on your own without having to talk to a real person because the automated machine whipped your ass and made you look like an idiot because you couldn’t follow basic directions.
Put the crying baby down and take care of the baby till it has stopped crying. I’m sure what ever the problem is, it can wait till you take care of you kid first. Nothing is more important than taking care of your kid first.
Check the attitude. Calm down. Take a deep breath, because whatever the problem is, it will be easily resolved in a calm and professional manner. Screaming, yelling, and swearing is just going to waste both your time and the agents time. Problems are solved in a linear manner. One Step At A Time. Plus, swearing is considered a verbal assault and will result in the agent disconnecting your call, and sometimes having your account flagged and eventually being closed.
Lies. Don’t work. Just don’t do it. The questions we ask are to help resolve issues, so lies will just make matters worse. Plus, there is usually enough information collected on you from you calling in all the time to figure you out, and in the case of mobile phones for example, we can tell where you were when you placed or received a call. So saying you weren’t out of town when you really were, will just throw a wrench into your case. So just be honest.
Don’t automatically think we’re going to try and screw you over. There is no personal gain by lying to you. There are procedures and policies we need to follow, and besides, we just want to get you’re problem solved and get your ass off the line and don’t want you ever to call back. So YES we do want to fix your problem, because we DON’T want to be talking to you again. Nothing personal, just that we don’t know you enough to carry on a conversation ever again.
The phrase, “The customer is always right.” is bullshit. They’re NOT always right when they can be wrong. Whoever thinks that that bullshit line is what all companies go by is an idiot. If a customer is wrong, they are wrong. There’s no other way around it. Yes an agent can sometime be wrong too, but that is usually because they were given the wrong info, or the customer is being an asshole that they just want to get them off the line. So that’s where rule numbers 4, 5, and 6 come in to play. If you’re calm, the agent will be too. If both people are communicating and are both happy together, chances are that if that agent isn’t sure about something, they will take the time to get the answer, rather than bullshit you just to get your nasty and rude ass off the line.
Remember that is a person you are talking to. You’re not the only person they have spoken to. Both of your attitudes will be reflected onto each other. Being a call center agent is not usually the most glamorous job to have, and sometime it can be the most stressful things a person can endure. Most people do this job because it’s all that is available, not for the career. It’s definitely not a dream job.
And just one more small thing. Don’t go on and on and on and on about your personal problems. Just get to the point, and keep your questions and answers brief. The shorter the call the better for both you and the agent. Better for you because you’ll be on your way faster, and for the agent because their handle time is kept low on their stats.
Although some call center companies standards of hiring aren’t the highest and unfortunately will have a few bad apples that are there for the extra bucks and really don’t give a shit about the job if they lose it or not, but there are more that actually do need the job and take it seriously. If you think you got one of them bad apples, just hang up. Don’t even bother arguing with them. All that will do is get you in a mood and then you’ll never get any help.
OH, and asking for a supervisor simply because you don’t like the answer you got from the customer service agent really isn’t going to change things for you. Like I mentioned before. We really don’t have anything to gain by lying to you. The supervisors will just tell you the same thing anyway. Now if the agent is an asshole to you, then you might want to speak to their supervisor then, or you can just save yourself the hassle and hang up. Most of the time supervisors don’t really do anything anyway unless its really serious and requires a pull of the recording.
Hopefully this little rant will help make your time on that dreaded customer service line a little better. And there will be a lot more happy service reps out there because you followed some of these simple suggestions. It’s all about communication and patience.
Posted by macbros | Under WordPress | 77 views
Friday Oct 23, 2009
Well, it’s been just over a year since I’ve added the Why Do Work AdSense Plug-in and I have to say that it has been doing just great for me. I initially posted about it last year when I stumbled upon it and was amazed at the results I got so quickly.
Like I said in the older post, I was lucky to get over a dollar a day without the plug-in. It would take an entire year to reach the $100 payout amount from Google’s AdSense service. But now with the plug-in installed I reach the payout limit every two to three months. So far I’ve earned just over $500 since I’ve installed this awesome plug-in.
Since the plug-in allows you to set you’re own preferences on how you would like the placement of the ads, you can avoid having them be to intrusive to the reader of your blog.
If you could use some extra pocket money like I desperately need most of the time, then you should install this WordPress Plug-in on your site. It could help pay you’re hosting bill or buy you that much deserved case of beer, and then some.
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