If you are looking for some free first person shooter games check out the 3 summarized in this post. With all three games available for Windows and Linux, these deathmatch open source alternatives offer a lot of characters and weapons with a healthy on-line community playing on numerous Internet servers. If you do not want to battle other players on the Internet, 2 of the 3 games have the option to also play locally against bots. These games also offer mods such as Capture the Flag and Team Deathmatch. (more…)

British Snap Up Nintendo’s Wii Fit Video Game from news.yahoo.com by Frederick Lane

“For a nation perhaps better known for a fitness regimen of darts and a pint, the news from Elspa Ltd.’s Chart-Track was particularly startling. The data-compilation service, which among other things tallies the sale of software titles, announced that last week Nintendo’s Wii Fit was the top-selling title in the United Kingdom. The company’s Mario Kart Wii dropped to the number-two position.”

“Chart-Track said Wii Fit had the sixth-fastest-selling launch of any software title, recording more than $32 million in sales in its first seven days. Approximately one in 10 Wii owners in the United Kingdom purchased Wii Fit, the company said. Only games from the industry’s major franchises — Gran Turismo, Grand Theft Auto and Halo — did better than Wii Fit in their opening weeks.”

Read the entire article at the link above.

More about the game from Nintendo.com: (more…)

I’ll admit it. I just jumped on the Atlanta Hawks bandwagon. Even if they can’t win another game against the Celtics I was impressed enough with the way they played in games 3 and 4 to jump aboard. Part of the reason is that my team, the Dallas Mavericks, is already disappointingly finished again.

Grit, determination, resolve. Maybe the best way to describe the Hawks attitude was seeing Zaza Pachulia get in Kevin Garnett’s face after an elbow from the NBA Allstar. The Celtics may be the best team in the East, but not this week. Definitely not the best team in the A-T-L! (when was the last time you could say that with confidence?)

I’ll be realistic. Joe Johnson needs to continue to be superhuman. Just like Dwayne Wade was vs Dallas in the 2007 finals, just like Baron Davis was vs Dallas in last year’s first round series, and just like Chris Paul was vs Dallas in this year’s first round. (hmmm, is there a pattern here?) Too bad the Hawks couldn’t play the Mavericks in the first round.

Some good home town reading from the AJC.com to get pumped for tonight’s game: (more…)

Winamp Remote, powered by Orb, is a new beta service that allows you to stream your music and videos to any device that has an Internet connection. Specifically, if you connect your Wii to your home wireless network, spend $5 and buy the Internet channel and the Opera Browser, and install Winamp Remote on any Windows computer running Winamp you can stream any files in the Winamp library to your Wii.

From Winamp.com:

“Access and Share Your Music and Videos On the Go

Winamp Remote turns your home computer into a streaming server and play your music and videos on the go from any PC web browser, compatible cell phones, and TVs with a connected Wii, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3. Also, share and discover (more…)

Quotes from the 2 first round picks taken from First-round picks embrace Atlanta:

From Matt Ryan:

“I’m really excited about being here in Atlanta,” Ryan said less than 12 hours after the Falcons plucked him off the draft board and transported him from New York to a downtown hotel. “I’d like to thank Mr. Blank and his family, Thomas Dimitroff, Coach Smith and everyone associated with the Falcons for giving me this opportunity. I look forward to becoming part of the Atlanta community, getting involved and getting to know everyone here. Yesterday was a whirlwind and I couldn’t be happier with where I ended up.”

From Sam Baker:

“I wasn’t too worried about where I was going to go,” said the massive tackle, who started 49 of 52 career games at USC. “As long as I got my shot, that’s what I wanted. I really anticipated going to Atlanta second round, and that’s what I was hoping for. But to go first round, and to be in Atlanta, is great.”

Read the whole article at the link above.

Notable quotes from General Manager Thomas Dimitroff on the other picks copied from Quotable: Falcons Draft Wrap Up : (more…)

If you have connected your Wii to your home wireless network you can play against friends in various games marked for Nintendo Wi Fi, share Miis, and send messages to your friends. To do this you need to know your Wii code and the Wii code of your online buddies. Wiibadge.com helps you easily display your Wii code on your website or blog.

the following was copied from wiibadge.com:

What is a Wii Badge?

A Wii badge makes it easy to share your Wii Code with your friends. You can use a Wii badge to publish your Wii Code on your blog, your MySpace page, or in your message board signature file.

Click here to create your Wii badge. It’s easy and free!

What is a Wii Code?

A Wii Code is the way you can connect with other Wii users through your Wii. If your have a friend (more…)

If you have a Nintendo Wii then you know all about creating Mii characters to play in the games like Wii Sports, Wii Play, and even other titles like Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.

Miieditor.com is a website that lets you create or edit a Mii and save it to a .jpg. So you could create your own avatar for other applications, for example. With some additional software and a bluetooth connection to a computer, you can even transfer the Mii you made on-line to your WiiRemote.

Try it for yourself here.

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My name is Rich Brambley and I am a Senior Infrastructure Consultant with Optimus Solutions (recently acquired by Softchoice). I live and work in Atlanta, GA. I am a father of 2 sons, Zachary and Cooper, and I am second in charge to my wonderful wife Marilee.

This blog is my personal site. For my professional expertise check out my virtualization blog at http://vmetc.com, but on this site you will find anything and everything about my family, my friends, my sports teams, and a lot of personal opinions about desktop technologies, games, music, video and anything else that catches my attention.

Like most professionals in the IT industry, we can’t visit friends or family without eventually being asked to look at a slow PC, to help configure an email client, or recommend a gadget like a camera or mp3 player. So, since I’m doing that all the time anyways I figured I’d start a blog and maybe even get some collaboration from anyone who can help. Fell free to comment and ask questions!

I can be reached at rbrambley[@]gmail[.]com.

Oh, and there is no deep meaning to why this blog is called “treesum”. It’s an abbreviation for the apartments we were living in when I first used DynDns.com to set up my own “go to my pc” solution. Yeah, I am such a geek, I know.