Hi Everyone,

I’ve posted my Visual Studio solution for PTAM after several requests for them under the software section!

Enjoy,

Christian

Hi,

Recently I have started work with a indie game creation company named Moya Games – we’ve been working on a few exciting games, but my focus has been on Omuni Online.

Omuni Online is a new MMORPG, which mixes RPG and FPS elements, and is featured in a SINGLE WORLD server. This means that there are no separate realms or servers, you just log in, choose your character, and are in the world of Omuni, hassle free.

This also means you can meet up with your friends in the world by, well, meeting up with them at any place you like. No more worry about finding the correct realm, etc.

I’m the Networking Programmer for the team, and am also a general programmer as well. I built the server for the game, which I call One World. This software is a advanced cloud computing MMORPG system, which allows for easily scalable hosting for these types of games.

I recommend you check out our YouTube channel and follow us for updates

http://youtube.com/omunionline

~Christian

Hey!

A couple people have brought up Windows and Linux support for LegoNXTRemote. I’m considering converting the project to Java so that it would be platform-independant, however it would require a complete rewrite of the code. I’ve been exploring other control methods for the NXT, however, everything I have found requires a custom firmware to be installed on the drone.

I’ll keep my blog updated.

Until then,

Christian Stewart

I just received my drone back from the Parrot Warranty Repair center. They swapped out one of the motors which was broken/somewhat faulty, and now it works PERFECTLY. The flight is stable, and the drone is very responsive to control commands from the iPhone. The camera quality is great, and first person control is actually easier for me than flying while looking at it in third person.

I had a good flight in a astroturf field. I definately recommend using a ground with texture so the bottom camera can recognize objects and figure out its speed. A nice REAL grass field has worked better for me in the past.

One other tip – when flying outdoors at high speeds, especially over a untextured/self repeating ground, I wouldn’t recommend relying on the autopilot to slow down and stop the drone (once again while flying at high speeds). I would recommend simply tilting the phone back to manually correct it, then releasing the controls for the drone to do the more subtle braking. However, none of this applies if you are flying over a high contrast ground – the drone will immediately be able to get a lock on its linear speed and correct it. Same applies to wind – if the ground is not very contrastive, it will not be able to correct fast enough to avoid drifting into a tree.

Rough cement, NATURAL longer grass, or most artificial ground surfaces (cobblestone, gravel, etc) should be fine for the drone to track. I am simply sharing my experience with Astroturf, which I am not a big fan of anyway.

I will be uploading more videos on the drone now that it is fixed on my youtube, http://youtube.com/kidovate – be sure to check there!

Christian Stewart

Kidovate

Hi everyone,

I had this problem last night. I upgraded the firmware on my new ARDrone, eager to start flying it. Much to my alarm and dismay, though, when I launched the drone, it immediately started flying rapidly backwards!!! It crashed into a wall, a table, and I punched the emergency stop button, trembling. Luckily nothing on the drone was really hurt, but I was stricken, thinking that I had broken the drone at some point.

I checked the ARDrone forum, and one other person had got this error. Exactly the same thing. Two hours later, I checked again, to see at least 5 responses from people with the same problem. Someone at the end posted that it was the FIRMware’s fault. Made sense since this update had just come out and everyone was effected.

Hey everyone,

With creating software becoming more and more of a hobby of mine, I have redesigned the software page and included a Creative Commons license with all the software now!! I have several new programs coming out soon, and have released an iPhone app recently.

If you like my software, please donate using the button on the right.

Hey folks,

Sorry I haven’t posted much for quite a while. I’ve been busy with other things… Anyway here are 2 different freeware softwares to speed up your games and your PC in general. Both softwares will be coming from IOBit – an awesome freeware company. The first one I will be covering will generally defragment and speed up your computer. This one is called Advanced System Care Free. You can find it here. Installation and usage is simple – install the software and click the big Care button. This will run a quick operation that checks all aspects of your computer looking for problems, and then automaticaly repairs them.

Moving on to the game-specific software. The next one I will be sharing with you is called GameBooster. The idea is that it will automatically stop over 25 system CPU-heavy services on your computer which use up quite a bit of RAM and CPU/GPU power, which should be used for your games. When you exit “gaming mode”, it will restart these services. It will also implement a custom power plan which will make your computer much much faster and give it higher performance. It disables windows aero and some other useless-for-gaming software on your computer, as well as turning your computer’s power usage to the highest, giving your CPU, graphics card(s), and ram the power they need to give you a good gaming experience. It will also defrag and free up your ram, and install the latest graphics drivers, all with one click. You can get the version 2 beta (which includes all these features) here

Usage of this software is also simple. Slide to enter gaming mode, however I recommend you follow these steps first.

1. Go to “System Tweeks” (left tab) and choose High Performance. This will tweek your system preferences to turboboost your computer.

2. Use the game drivers tab to download any essential graphics drivers for your computer.

3. Slide to enter gaming mode. It might ask you some questions. It will be quick – just go through and choose all the highest settings.

4. You are now in gaming mode!!! Next, I recommend opening Advanced System Care back up and clicking Turbo Boost. This will turbo boost your computer by closing a few more services (print spooler, etc) that will make your computer even faster.

You should be good to go. Launch your game and have fun with fast graphics!!

One last suggestion. One your game has started, alt+tab to the desktop. Then open task manager with ctrl+alt+delete. Click on show processes from all users so that you get admin privilages. Right click on your game and set the priority to High. Then choose set affinity. Deselect one of the cpus (CPU 1 for example) and press OK. Then set affinity again and renable the CPU.

I hope these tips help you!!

Christian Stewart

Hey everyone,

I’m announcing the new partnership with brianadler1.com – he will be doing more of the windows/microsoft/pc stuff, and I will be covering more apple kind of things. Of course I too will be posting windows related things occasionally as well.

Check out the site in the sidebar –>

Christian Stewart

I just released Gifts for Friends 1.1. Gifts for friends lets you create wishlists so your friends can get you what you want. This new update integrates facebook and fixes a few other bugs.

Another update is coming out soon with additional facebook features and some bug fixes. Look for it :)

Christian Stewart

Hello,

A while back I created a video showing how to use adblock plus to block CPAlead. That has been outdated when cpealead realized what was going on and made people disable adblock plus before seeing the content – effectively breaking the block.

Here’s the new irreversible way to block CPALead – the one click solution.

1. Open up terminal – it can be found at /Applications/Utilities/

2. BE SURE to do EXACTLY what I say here. If you do anything different you may end up deleting all of your files or changing the wrong things. This is because Terminal is a direct command line for your system – with the proper commands you could wipe your whole hard drive. However what I will be showing you to do will only edit one file that tells your computer where to find certain web sites. However, I am not responsible for any damage you may inflict on your computer due to not following the instructions.

3. Type nano /etc/hosts

4. Scroll down using the arrow keys to the end of the document and paste the following text.

98.142.209.5 cpalead.com cpalock.com www.cpalead.com www.cpalock.com

5. Press (at the same time) control+x and enter Y for yes to save the information and hit enter.

6. Quit terminal and attempt to view a CPALead enabled web site. You will find a message at the top of the page (small) saying that CPALead was here but was blocked.

If step 6 worked, you have successfully blocked CPALead. Congrats!

Christian Stewart