Facebook version of QuizSender.com

I was reading an article on Facebook's strategy in Wired, it talked about the recent changes that allow any 3rd party to make a Facebook application.

I felt like giving it a go and have put together a Facebook version of my website; QuizSender.com. To use it go to http://apps.facebook.com/quizsender/.

Let me know what you think.

TAS game videos

Recently I have been getting slightly addicted to TAS (Tool-Assisted-Superplay) game videos. Basically people with a lot of spare time on their hands play console games within emulators, they use the emulators ability to take snap shots in order to produce a perfect run and complete games in record times. It can be quite fun to watch a game that you spent ages completing many years ago completed in ten minutes!

There are lots of videos available at NESVideos. These have to be downloaded using BitTorrent though. Plenty of videos can also be found on YouTube (search for "TAS ").

Super Mario 64: (the 120 star version at NESVideos is more fun though)

Super Mario World: (again, the full 96 level one at NESVideos is more fun)

Wii

As a birthday present to myself I have brough a Nintendo Wii. It was a choice between a Playstation 3 and a Wii. The Wii had benefits like being much cheaper, having more innovative controls and being able to play classic Nintendo games. The PS3, I thought, was made for more hardcore gamers (not me). Also if you asked me to bet on which format was going to win the current format ware, I would say Blu-Ray; but I wouldn't bet ~£600 on it! So far I am very impressed with the Wii. The controls are fun, it has a very good web browser (based on Opera) and it is great playing the downloadable older games. However Wii Sports is only really good for multiplayer gaming or it soon gets boring. Also the console is the wrong color (something based on Black would look much better next to my existing AV setup) and looks a bit uglier than it seems in pictures.

Paint By Icons

I've made a new website!

You upload a JPEG photo and it returns a mosaic version of your photo made up of a subset of the 'favicons' of a mixture of 1000 currently popular websites, similar to this.

Give it a go at www.paintbyicons.com.