I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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by Brad Linder Jun 29th 2008
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brad said 12:34AM on 6-30-2008
at least with vista, you can drag and drop the stuff in the places bar (now called favorite links). That's progress(ish) heh
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pandaslist said 6:32AM on 6-30-2008
can't even start me on vista...hate the new windows and cannot think that the most powerful company on earth has made the mistake to release such a horrific product...
Thanks to:
http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com
to let Google kill Microsoft in the race of the most powerful company
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Mysterius said 6:02PM on 6-30-2008
Your attempt to spam every blog, whether Gawker or AOL owned, is epic fail.
Pandering to prejudice will only hasten your decline.
Lee Mathews said 6:33AM on 6-30-2008
It's a nice app...Though gpedit.msc does a pretty decent job of it as well! The truly hardcore can also do it in the registry - my writeup here!
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Lee Mathews said 11:42PM on 6-29-2008
oh wow. http://www.unsightful.com/2008/06/21/tweak-windows-xp-winxp-places-bar/
It's late, I'm tired.
alienvenom said 6:34AM on 6-30-2008
Uh, you can do this with TweakUI (for XP) on Vista!
Make sure you run TweakUI in Windows XP compatibility mode though... (Right Click -> Properties)
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Mysterius said 6:02PM on 6-30-2008
This is built in on Vista... ?
Don't need any other apps. ;)
Mysterius said 6:10PM on 6-30-2008
Ah, unless it's like Melloware describes below... in which case, good find!
Though I actually don't see any "places" at all when I try saving in Notepad++.
I wish Microsoft would update its Powertoys for Vista already. :(
Rocketboy said 7:10AM on 6-30-2008
Not a very drastic change, is it? Either way, a thumbs-down to software that the 'default' is everything is the desktop, and not microsoft's defaults, and a HUGE thumbs-down to sofware that tries to take you to a donation page every time you run it.
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Melloware said 9:03AM on 6-30-2008
thanks for the post here. I am the author of PlacesBar editor and just wanted to say a few things.
1. Yes you can edit the registry with regedit or any other app but you have to admit a lot of users out there wouldn't know the registry from the Recycle Bin.
2. I work at a company that GASP still uses Windows 2000 and Office XP. So for those of you that say "Oh Vista does this already" you have to admit a TON of users out there on Windows 2000 and XP still.
3. The new Vista features only work for applications that know to use the new Open/Save As. So while Notepad does, Photoshop CS3 and Notepad ++ still use the old dialog that PlacesBar Editor allows you to customize. You would be surprised how many older applications do not display the new Vista style open/Save As especially awesome applications like Notepad++ and UltraEdit. I find it very convenient to have my often used places there.
4. For the user complaining about the defaults, the reason they are defaulted to Desktop is because there ARE NO defaults. In windows you get the defaults if there are no registry entries present, so when you click revert to defaults I essentially erase your registry entries and leave it blank so it goes to the Windows defaults which are code in Windows. Give a try and see it for yourself.
Thanks for everyone's time and compliments!
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Rocketboy said 10:07AM on 6-30-2008
(My comment never showed up, so forgive me if it's a double-post)
What happened is that after I installed it, made some changes, I realized that it wasn't what I was looking for. So I set it back to defaults, and which made all of the shortcuts revert to my Desktop.
I can even send you pictures if you do not believe me.
boardtc said 10:56AM on 6-30-2008
I used to use http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ to access favourite folders from the open/save but of late have found http://www.codesector.com/directfolders.php a cleaner solution.
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Robert said 1:34PM on 6-30-2008
Me too. directfolders is a lovely app
boardtc said 10:56AM on 6-30-2008
I used to use http://dm2.sourceforge.net/ to access favourite folders from the open/save but of late have found http://www.codesector.com/directfolders.php a cleaner solution.
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