Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7

Repeat slacker and repeat ignorant, huh, IE? It wasn’t like that the last time like I was able to use it but some trolls who have been against technology must have been against me like that even until today. And because of this technical offense, I had completely uninstalled IE from my computers in favor of other web browsers. HOW, HOW could they mean to offend me like this for no technical reasons that caused this reaction from me?

Hoho, why IT manufacturing companies? I’ve been supporting the hell out of you but you let someone who’s anti-technology troll on me like that. In any case, I may want to see and make sure that Internet Explorer 10 is getting good, damn it and especially for the Windows 7 version of the browser that will be in November. Well, this has been it for me. The idiotic trolling will continue until few years or perhaps several years later in which the lesson will be learnt on not to mess with me again. You may be spared for knowing my online profile but if you try to test parts of my profile like that, you may be perhaps a selfish one or something.

Legend Cross for IIDX Tricoro

Remember that the previous Beatmania IIDX games have the boss battles? This one has additional bosses for you to deal with. I think that the first IIDX game to feature such boss battles is DJ Troopers where you can attack the bosses while you tap the corresponding notes to the song. By tapping the corresponding notes, you’re attacking the boss but if you MISS, you get attacked back. In DJ Troopers, you can see the health bar on top of the screen and you may want to destroy the bosses completely at the end of the songs so you may have to do very well because those boss songs are already difficult enough. Do it not well and the bosses may survive and your grading for those songs may be affected.

For Legend Cross Mode, it is the continuation of Lincle Kingdom which is the RPG element mode ever since IIDX Lincle. All the songs there are exclusive to IIDX Tricoro but the references can bring you back to the past through the previous IIDX games. One of the songs was previously used in DDR X2 and there’s also the extended version of the song which is assumed to be extra cool. In Legend Cross Mode, you get to make use of your RPG character you’re playing as to attack the bosses shown on the screen while playing the notes to the song. One of the songs has a serious disadvantage to me that the characters shown on the screen don’t happen to look like the bosses so it’s kind of pointless to call that song a boss song.

Zaxxon Escape for IOS and Android

After 30 years, there comes a new Zaxxon game which takes place at the end of the original game where you escape from the enemy fortress or perhaps the enemy base. The original game is the isometric 2D shooter where you’re flying above the ground surface, shooting at things. In Zaxxon Escape, you escape from the enemy fortress in the style of Temple Run. How is this considered escaping from the enemy base when you’re escaping endlessly? This is more like wandering through the base in the style of Temple Run than escaping completely because escaping from the enemy base requires one emergency exit path or few to do so, not those complicated paths of escaping as seen in Gradius III. Sure, the flares are chasing you from behind but that doesn’t mean you have to take complicated paths to escape because the flares are supposed to spread so quickly around the enemy base to prove that it is already exploding into pieces.

The controls may be fun and the graphical concept makes this game look like a futuristic Temple Run game. You can buy various enhancements to the ship as well as other ships but are those in previous Zaxxon games as well? Eventually, escaping endlessly through complicated paths should not be how you escape from the enemy base after defeating the antagonist because you may end up dying in the middle of the escape that the original game may give you the bad ending. So, it’s an excellent mini game that is the tribute to the original Zaxxon.

Music GunGun Best Hit Tunes

This one, there’s not much to say other than featuring the original tunes taken from the first and second series. Well, I might have recognized some of the original tunes from the series like the theme of the first game but then, there’s also the secondary theme of the first game. Oh man, the major update for the first game doesn’t mean it’s the second season of the game. Sure, the sequel has more songs as well as different concept and it has improved gameplay taken from the updated version of the original game but this is what the soundtrack CD is, it basically features all the original tunes taken from the whole series.

Once again, this is another rhythm game with Vocaloid tracks you may want to play.

Soundtrack starring Donpachi, Dodonpachi and Dodonpachi II

Well, there’s not much to say about this newly released soundtrack compilation but this was Sweeprecord’s latest soundtrack CD. There will be another soundtrack compilation CD to talk about in the next blog post but let’s note on what will this contain. It will contain Donpachi, Dodonpachi and Dodonpachi II music as well as the Sega Saturn exclusive stage BGM. And remember on how terrible Dodonpachi II is? You know, this is not how the next Dodonpachi game should be made, right? We should expect slowdowns, epic danmaku as well as proper gameplay quality.  Why are the normal enemies taking more than 1 hit to be defeated? Why are the larger ones taking even longer to be destroyed and besides, you can’t even destroy as many things part of scenery as you want easily. Lastly, what the hell is up with the intro and ending scenes as well as the character concept and the plot? THESE have nothing to do with the series as if Dodonpachi Daioujou is the true sequel to Dodonpachi. We surely understand that IGS games are in Chinese but the Chinese character concept may be unnecessary for sure because it is out of place.

Alto for Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail and .Mac

Maybe the real musical traitor may be the one who was the artist of the worst western autotuned song of last year that she was given the death threats like nobody’s gonna save her, not even Alto, the new email service from AOL can save her ass. This may be when some corrupt politicians have captured her in the middle of the execution of the bad laws like she’s forced to sing in front of the people working at the government during the internet war of the future. But enough of that, it seems that AOL is planning the new cloud-based email product called, Alto, the successor to AOL Mail we’ve been using. It is designed to be used with existing email accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, .Mac and .Me accounts. This new free email platform reimagines the email experience from the group up with a focus on combatting inbox fatigue and speaking of reimgination, it is going to be a messy reference to Windows 8’s development motto. Alto blends powerful organizational features and an elegant, clear user experience to provide users with visual relief from inboxes overloaded with a constant flow of daily deals, newsletters, social notifications and more. Its ultimate goal is to put the user back in control of their email experience.

The basis is organization by design, using a new tool called “stacks” that automatically pull out and organize important pieces of a user’s inbox for easy access and quick viewing. You can drag and drop individual emails to create your own stacks based on sender, recipients, keywords and so on. Alto doesn’t require new email address and instead, you can use existing email accounts just like importing your existing email accounts to the IOS Mail app.

Alto provides users with a visual story of their email inboxes using a variety of innovative features designed to make it easy to sort through and find what is really important.

• Stacks – Alto automatically creates stacks which give users an easy, intelligent and dynamic way to deal with inbox clutter. These stacks are built around the important pieces of a user’s email, are intuitively designed and simple to use. For example, Alto is pre-loaded with stacks that are built to automatically surface photos, attachments and social notifications, retailers and daily deals.
• Photo Stacks – Photos can also be stacked from social networking sites. You can take a look at the long buried photos or instantly see new ones as they arrive.
• Attachments – Alto is cloud based email service that downloads or additional applications are not needed.
• People – Like other email services, you can import other accounts of yours such as your social networking accounts and you can use this service to see the latest social updates of your contacts and people you have in common similar to your Hotmail and Yahoo accounts and their messenger apps.

Alto is available in limited preview today which accepts new users on a first come, first serve basis. You can sign up at www.altomail.com

Windows 8 Training Sessions

Remember that Microsoft is going to plan out the a bunch of certified courses in the future regarding Windows 8 operating systems and its server variants? Remember that IT Free Training has made such announcements about those future courses? Well, it seems that Microsoft is planning the Windows 8 training sessions at its stores. They are hoping to educate consumers on these new systems with free training sessions. You know, we may rather want the advanced training or some sort in addition to the challenging ones. And of course, since Windows 8 is like a week away, we can still wait until there’s an Asian version of these training sessions so that we can eventually learn things about the new operating system environment.