Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box

Recently I finished playing Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box on Nintendo DS. I had another post about the previous game of this sequel (Professor Layton and the Curious Village), you can access the post by clicking here. This is the second game of this series in English, there exist other versions in Japanese.

I had fun playing this one too and I think that this one was more successful in some aspects: First of all, some puzzles were better integrated in the game, so that you had to solve some puzzles in order to move on and find answers to some key questions. There was a variety of places: 2 villages and the train. Some characters from the previous game were included. And some extra tasks were added, which you can reach through the menu. The story was also satisfactory. Although at the beginning, I feared that the whole story would play out in the train, later there were changes and surprises.

After the game finishes, you can reach the Bonuses section, where you can try to solve some puzzles that are more difficult. 

The game is rated 8.5 on gamespot.com, whereas The Curious Village is rated 9.0.

Make a Book of Your Blog!

If you're a blogger and want to see your posts some day as a book, there is a simple tool you can use. First you choose some options such as the order of your posts in the book, which posts (you choose a date range) will be printed, your cover picture etc.

Of course this tool is not for free. Its name is Blog2Print and right now these are the prices: Soft Cover for 15.65 and hard cover for 25.65$. There is also a pdf format if you want, which costs 7.95$.

Here are two pages from my blog:

PageRank in Safari

In Mozilla Firefox, it is easy to view page ranks with an add-on. Well, there is also a simple way for Safari. Just drag this link Check PR to the Bookmarks bar in your Safari browser. Whenever you want to check page rank value of a page, just click that link to view the page rank.

(Source: http://www.refreshinglyblue.com/2008/10/28/google-pagerank-in-safari/)

Removing locked files from Trash in Mac OS

To be able to remove locked files in Trash, you don't have to unlock each file by right clicking. There is an easier way to perform the deleting:

Press Shift and Option Keys(Alt key) together and then right click the Trash icon to choose Empty Trash. 

Watch Star Wars in Your Command Window

You can watch Star Wars on your command prompt window. You just open your command window/terminal and then type telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl.

I really liked the beginning when the "movie" starts with "20th Century Text" instead of "20th Century Fox".

Overall, it is very nice and creative. And I think, it must have caused the developers much effort.

(I guess it's also OK omitting the telnet part in the command.)

Youtube video in Microsoft Powerpoint Presentation

To insert Youtube videos into Microsoft Office Powerpoint, you should use an add-in, which you can download from this address.
The rest is an easy procedure, that is explained in the download site.
There are two versions of the add-in: One version for Office 2007 and one for the earlier versions.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

I discovered a fun game for Nintendo DS: Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It's the only game in DS that I was having fun while playing except the fabulous Castlevania.

There are two main characters: Professor Layton and his apprentice Luke. While moving through the town named St. Mystere, they meet villagers and try to solve some mysteries. The game contains many puzzles as mental exercises. While playing, the touch screen property of Nintendo DS is used.

Reception of the game was very positive. 
To take a look at the demo please click here .
To see the awards of this game, you can click here.