treesum.homeip.net » Windows http://treesum.vmetc.com "I'm not saying. I'm just saying." Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Windows Live Writer Unusable With WordPress Theme Dark Background http://treesum.vmetc.com/2009/12/11/windows-live-writer-unusable-with-wordpress-theme-dark-background/ http://treesum.vmetc.com/2009/12/11/windows-live-writer-unusable-with-wordpress-theme-dark-background/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:01:00 +0000 Rich http://treesum.vmetc.com/?p=10347 Several blogger colleagues have raved to me about how they love blogging with Windows Live Writer. Every time I’ve tried (until now) I gave up because my personal blog’s themes use dark backgrounds. When trying to use Live Writer it was impossible to write or edit. Here’s a screen shot of this blog’s default dark background.

techlife dark background in Live Writer

I found the answer in a Windows Live Writer Forum thread titled Theme Not Showing Up Properly. Flora MSFT answered with the following advice:

“One of your screenshots is our plain editing surface, which we fall back on if template detection fails. You can choose to edit in this mode by going to View menu and unchecking "Edit using Theme".”

The change to not edit using my theme changed my post background to the default off white (blue-ish) color and has made blogging from Live Writer much mo’ better! :)

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OpenArena

“OpenArena is a violent, sexy, multiplayer first person shooter based on the ioquake3 fork of the id tech 3 engine. It has many game types beyond deathmatch and a lot of characters. Due to violent and racy content, it may not be suitable for children under 17.”

Go to the The Official OpenArena Web Site to download version 0.76 and the upgrade patch for version 0.77.

Nexuiz

“Nexuiz is based on the Darkplaces engine, built on OpenGL technology. The darkplaces engine is an advanced Quake1 based engine developed mainly by Forest “LordHavoc” Hale, who has been working with the Quake1 engine for many years. A few of Darkplaces main features are Quake3bsp support, realtime lighting and shadowing, new particle effects, advanced menu system, and Md3 model support.”

To download the latest release of Nexuiz, version 2.42, go to the Nexuiz web page.

Tremulous

“Tremulous is a free, open source game that blends a team based FPS with elements of an RTS. Players can choose from 2 unique races, aliens and humans. Players on both teams are able to build working structures in-game like an RTS. These structures provide many functions, the most important being spawning. The designated builders must ensure there are spawn structures or other players will not be able to rejoin the game after death. Other structures provide automated base defense (to some degree), healing functions and much more…”

Get the game files at the Tremulous web site.

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