Looking for invite code to playblink.com? Here You go:

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Today I have for you a key to weekend tests of new MMO RPG game named Tera. I have only one key so first come, first served.

Official game page: http://community.tera-europe.com/home.html 

Link to create account: https://account.tera-europe.com/

Key:

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After short break, I have another portion of useful links for you.

1. Wasted on Steam – if you are curious how much did your steam games cost per hour played this site comes with help. Simply type your SteamID there and after while you will see chart for each game on your account which shows game cost, played time, and game cost/hour. If you are steam games collector you will definitely enjoy this site.
2. Next-Episode – great site for TV shows fans. Site, like all dedicated to tv shows gives you a short description for every show, search for simillar shows and news about renewed/cancelled programs. Nothing special you may say, but this site reveal it’s true power after creating an account. This gives you an option to add you favourite shows to watchlist and here are the features which comes with it:
• countdown till next episode goes live
• ‘stuff to watch’ menu where you can read short description of each episode and mark it as 'watched' which will help you track epusodes not yet watched
• signature generation for forums containing all shows you watch
3. flash photography techniques by Neil van Niekerk – this itn’t exactly a site, but an article which I found very useful if you are begining your adventure with photography. There are many tips for amateurs how to set camera/flash options to get best results and they really works. If you want to make your photos with flash look naturally you should read it.

If you are experiencing automatic wake ups of your computer and you are using Media Center it can be the one to blame. It turns out WMC put some triggers to Windows Scheduler which are responsible for updating program timeline, EPG, etc. and they can wake up computer without user knowledge. Solution is really simple – you can delete or modify those triggers so they fit your conditions like ‘update when system starts’ or even manually set time of update. To do so you need to right click My computer and chose Management, then follow the branches: System tools -> Task scheduler -> Task scheduler library -> Microsoft -> Windows -> click MediaCenter -> right-click mcupdate_scheduled on the list and select properties. Responsible trigger can be found under the Triggers tab. You can delete or edit it – it depends on what do you want to achieve.

I’m not using English version of Windows so option names can be little different, I translated them on my own.

Hello there. Today I’m giving you three starter packs to redeem at World of Tanks Official Site. Keys work only for a new account so if you already have one these are not for you. They allow you to create account with one day of premium, 300 gold pieces and an exclusive tank. To get code simply write a comment with valid email adress under this post.

if you miss some snow for Christmas you can cheer yourself up by visiting google.com and typing Let it snow. Even though it’s noting special, there is a chance it will put some smile on your face You can even scratch it from screen by clicking your mouse, or simply press defrost button. It’s nice to know that google socializes with users on many different ways (for example anniversary logos, etc.). Here is a preview what it looks like:

Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, Super Meat Boy, Shank, NightSky HD. Those are the titles contained in new Humble Indie Bundle 4. You can visit their site to buy your own copy, or… simply write a comment under this post containing your valid email adress and get a chance to win one copy of HIB4! Good luck.

First there was Humble Bundle, then IndieRoyale and now we have The Indie Gala – another independent games bundle seller. Games from their first offer are quite interesting and if we add that all of them are reedemable on Steam and you can support Charity with each buy it gives us a great begining proposal. Having those 3 big sellers which organize their actions quite often makes buying independent games individually a bit pointless.

In first Indie Gala offer you can find Zombie Shooter 2, inMomentum, Hacker Evolution: Duality, Saira and Your Doodles Are Bugged! Buy your bundle withing two first days and you will also get Zombie Shooter 1 and Hacker Evolution: Untold.

Installing Windows 7 from pendrive have never been so easy! Thank to official Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool you can now do it with few clicks. Just download, install and run this tool – this is what you will see:

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In step two you need to choose between DVD and USB. Click USB device.

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USB device selecting time. Select correct one and click Begin copying.
*Make sure your antivir software doesn’t automaticly block and delete autorun files on flash drives (like Avira do) otherwise it will prevent copying files. If you use avira I suggest to turn that option off for while – Options -> General -> Security -> uncheck Block autostart function.
**Also make sure that you have copied all important files from pendrive, because if it isn’t empty you will be asked to format it.

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Now just wait few minutes until formatting and copying is done.

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That’s all.
Your flash drive now acts the same as DVD. You can plug it in, set in BIOS to boot from usb and install Windows 7 like you always did.

Recently I had to do some chart drawing in WinAPI and I found that painting dots in specific chart points isn’t so easy as it could be. There are brushes and rectangles which you can use to paint some points, but I didn’t want to use them cause of my laziness, so I figured fast and simple solution which can be used when source code doesn’t need to be well optimized (well, it always should be but you know… ).

Here is a picture showing what I achieved:

I assume you know how PolyLine works, how it’s using table of points to draw a line, so I’ll cut straight to the point. If you want to mark specific points on chart you need to use two dimensional table which will be filled with same points as used to break polyline and when you have it all the magic is done by this loop:

for(int i=0; i<how_many_points_to_draw; i++)
{
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]-1, tabTemp[i][1]-1, RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0], tabTemp[i][1]-1, RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]+1, tabTemp[i][1]-1, RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]-1, tabTemp[i][1], RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0], tabTemp[i][1], RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]+1, tabTemp[i][1], RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]-1, tabTemp[i][1]+1, RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0], tabTemp[i][1]+1, RGB(255,0,0));
	SetPixel(hdc, tabTemp[i][0]+1, tabTemp[i][1]+1, RGB(255,0,0));
}

It simply draws 9 pixels square on each polyline breakdown. I know it’s a bit lame, but when I was searching internet how to draw bigger points only thing I found was brushes and rectangles which need some more variables to set up properly.