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I decided to drop flickr as I got fed up with it coming up with “this photo is currently unavailable” on every image.
So the first thing that came to mind was picasa (with the recent news of google buying picnik).
I have to say the software is amazing, really reminds me of iphoto.
I then created a Picasa web album account and put up some test albums by setting up sync folders and it’s so seemless.

I had some problems with integration with wordpress at first tho, especially trying to get a widget to work properly.
I have since got the Galleries to integrate perfectly using the picasa API (uses GData token). You can see this on the Gallery page.

I am still working on a widget which uses the RSS feed (similar to my flickr one).

More Info: Picasa Website

This game is starting to look amazing.
9 extra characters aswell as the added game modes.
The best thing is that there are characters from Street Fighter 3.

Dudley’s Rolling Thunder looks amazing, hope he will be as good on this as he was on 3rd strike.

I’ve been messing around with this mod and think it’s ok but really not playable at a competitive level at the moment.

A few bugs and problems I have with it:

1. Crosshair Size: The crosshair size on high resolution is massive and you are unable to change this
2. Radar Size: The Radar is tiny on high resolution and hard to see difference in level players are on map
3. Movement: There is no bunnyhopping, no russainwalking & even duckjump feels wierd
4. Movement is too slow and you feel like a cripple playing it
5. Scaling: The maps seem to be scaled weird with certain parts of maps wide open (eg: window on dust2)
6. Recoil: seems similar to CS but not completely sure it is very controlled as sometimes even the 1st bullet is nowhere near crosshair
7. Restrictions on CVARs: Certain useful CVARs have been completely restricted and marked as cheats (eg: surround sound)

CSPromod 1.04 was released yesterday and already everyone is talking about it.
The previous version wasn’t quite worthy of a open beta release with people spawning inside walls and random bugs within the maps.

I remember trying out previous versions and thinking what a joke this was with all the bugs etc.
On trying 1.04 however I was surprised as it seems a lot more polished with some really nicely adapted maps which actually look pretty and a completely new HUD system.

After playing it for a few hours I was thinking it was pretty nice, after tweaking the cvars and recoding some of my scripts in my config I was away. There do seem to be a few bugs but it is still in BETA.

I haven’t played CS for ages (last time was before steam) but I’m pretty sure there was proper bunnyhopping involved and duckjumps (don’t seem to be on this mod) hopefully they will be adding this tho.

The thing which prompted me to look at this mod again was an email from ESL regarding a gather.

One really cool thing is that there is pop dog on train.

More Info: Server Listing | ESL Gather Page | Official Website