Bebo Kick Ups Cheat

Many of you may use the Bebo social networking site. This site has fairly recently allowed third party applications such as games, and one of the most popular games is kick ups. In this game you have to click on the ball at the right time to make it bounce. This is not as easy as it sounds, and a pretty average score is about 12 or 13 before the ball drops to the ground. If you look on the leaderboards, you often see people with huge scores like 998. This is thanks to a computer program being used by people to train up their kicks. What I am going to explain is not this technique, but a simpler one that doesn’t involve downloading anything, meaning that there’s no risk of getting viruses. With this you can go on as long as you like, but it’s quite time consuming.

What you do, is you click on the ball to start, and then as it is in the air, quickly right click and push P. The ball will stop in mid air, and all you have to do is move your mouse to it and click on it again. You just repeat this process until you have the number you would like, when you just let the ball fall to the ground, which will save your high score. It’s a simple and silly little thing, but it’s good fun when your friends have no idea how you got such a high score.

A Quick Reaction Test!

Hi everybody, sorry I haven’t posted for so long. I’ve had exams, but now I’m back I have been overwhelmed by the number of hits I have been getting! Thanks everybody!

I found this quick reaction test a while ago- be careful- it gets very addictive! Click here to play it.
The best I managed to get was Rocketing Rabbit- but I haven’t managed it again

Tell me what you get in the comments below!

How to draw different facial expressions- 15,000 hits!

While browsing around today, I found a great blog post on how to draw facial expressions. You can find the original article on this site, along with other interesting articles and other tutorials.

Here is a small selection of the drawings on the blog post at DaniDraws.com. You can find the full post with many more diagrams here.

I would also like to thank you all for your presence here on my blog, as without you I would have no audience, and without an audience, I could not have reached the 15,000 hits I have achieved! So thank you!

Lolcats

Lolcats- we internet people all know what they are. Amusing pictures of cats or other animals with funny captions (usually lacking in grammatical correctness) related to what they’re doing in the picture. The top WordPress blog is a lolcat site- ICanHasCheezburger. You can even create your own lolcats with this generator.

Occasionally I’m going to post my favourites on here for you all to enjoy.

An amusing video for you all- Cyriak’s Animation Mix

I found this cool video today whilst browsing for something cool to post up here, at the request of one of my most loyal readers. I’ve seen this video before and I thought I should share it with all of you, I love it. It’s made by Cyriak, and I strongly suggest you have a look at the rest of his work here.

The music in the video was also composed by him, and he has quite a repertoire of previous animations. He has even been hired by larger companies such as Coca Cola to make adverts (in his case a Coke Zero ad).

This animation mix is really most enjoyable for English people in my opinion, although I’m sure you will all enjoy it.

It’s My Birthday!

26th of October- my 15th birthday!

Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to Seb,
Happy birthday to me!

Wahay!!!

Sorry I haven’t been writing recently, but I’ve been really busy with work etc.

I hope you all have a great day and do lots of fun things. Luckily over here in the UK we’re on holiday!!! What better time to have a birthday?

The True Meaning of The Beijing 2008 Olympics Logo

I found this picture using StumbleUpon today and I thought I should share it with you.

The picture was originally from Peking Olympische Spiele 2008 - wie das Logo entstand- a german site.

Here it is:

Edit:
On February 8th Harvard Mossige posted a comment showing an quick animation he made for the Beijing 2008 Olympics Logo- I thought it was great! Thanks for that!

This is his animation that can also be found here.

It is reminiscent of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests- you can learn more about this awful massacre here and here.

Switch on. Switch off.

Hello again.

I found this quick video while browsing on the internet today, and thought I’d show you all. The video is a quick and fun one advertising the importance of turning off devices and not just leaving them in standby mode.

Before I show you the video, I’d just like to share a few facts on standby mode with you.

- Britons waste the equivalent of around two power stations’ worth of electricity each year by leaving TV sets and other gadgets on standby.

- Electrical equipment in sleep mode used roughly 7TWh of energy and emits around 800,000 tonnes of carbon.

- Standby modes on electronic devices account for 8% of all British domestic power consumption.

-Estimated annual CO2 emissions from devices left on standby:
Stereos - 1,600,000 tonnes
Videos - 960,000 tonnes
TVs - 480,000 tonnes
Consoles - 390,000 tonnes
DVD players - 100,000 tonnes
Set-top boxes - 60,000 tonnes

(Source: Energy Saving Trust)

Shocking isn’t it?

Yaharr!!!!!! It be Talk Like A Pirate Day!

Today, Wednesday 19th September be TLAPD 2007! I hope ye all spent your days wearin’ eyepatches, finding parrots, sailing ships, wavin’ flags and swords, singin’, drinkin’ rum, walkin’ people off the good ol’ plank, talkin’ like a pirate and lootin’ people aroun’ you. If ye be interested in a little bit of the history of talk like a pirate day on wikipedia, click here. For the proper website, click here. Arrr!

And now, for some nice ol’ piratey things/sayings.

“Yaharr!!!” “Shiver me timbers!!!” “Arr!” “Bring me one noggin of rum, now, won’t you, matey.” “Avast, there!” “Dead men don’t bite.” “Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” “There! That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”

“We’re going this way, that way, forwards and backwards over the Irish sea, a bottle or run to fill my tum and that’s the life for me!” ARRRRR!!!

Google Earth Secret

A hidden flight simulator!

Google has always done its best to make programs that compare with Microsoft’s dominating software- office programs for example. And to be honest, the software has always been quite stable and perfectly usable. As it happens, Google has also just launched its own Powerpoint rival. But, we never thought Google’s rivalry would extend to gaming.

Now, in the new Google Earth, you will find a secret Flight Simulator with which you can fly around Google Earth’s excellent satellite imagery as if you were really in a plane. At the moment, there is only a choice of two planes, but this will surely be expanded with time. The HUD is simple but easy to work with.

To access the simulator, open Google Earth and hit (in Windows) Ctrl+Alt+A or Command+Option+A in Mac OS. You can start anywhere in the world- from a list of pre-determined airports you can choose from or from the point you are at at the moment you push the command for the flight sim. The F16 Viper is a quick fighter jet, but the SR22 is easier to fly. A list of controls can be found here, but joysticks can also be configured.

The actual game is very simple, but what really makes it interesting is being able to fly over and past real pictures of real locations, and not just CGI. I personally think it’s a great idea, and has lots of potential, especially if Google continue to include nice little additions to their software.

[Source: Techcrunch, Images: Nice Ventures, WebWare, MrBelShaw.com]

Post #50-Well, how was your summer?

Unfortunately, for some of us, summer is over now. School starts again tomorrow, and homework, coursework, work and more work is on its way.

On a more positive note, this blog has now reached 5000 hits, so thanks to everybody who has made that possible. Tell your friends about it please!

Thanks to everybody at the Northbourne Music Course, this year was great as always!

Have you ever wondered what a hard drive is really doing inside, what all that clicking is? Watch this:

Sorry about the short post, but I have had almost no time on my hands, but I’ll be back posting soon.

Compare the World’s Military Power

I found this interesting site while browsing a while ago, and I thought I should spread the link around. With this site you can compare 39 of the most powerful armies in the world. But, you must bear in mind that nuclear weapons, past and current military experience, unit training and equipment quality are not taken into account. The facts and figures used in these comparisons is based only on disclosed public sources. It provides a unique analytical display of national military strength based on sources from all over the globe. It is based on statistics such as yearly military expenditure, weapon inventories, oil reserves and available manpower.

You get quite a few surprises here, for example finding that Turkey and India have more powerful armies than the UK.

Click here to go to the comparison site.

Watch out- here comes the future!

Omni-directional technology made by Airtrax. Multiple cylindrical shaped tyres around a single axis help guide the forklift in all directions.Think of the possibilities! This kind of agility and manoeverability could save so much space in car parks, helping with parking, and roads could be narrower allowing for more land development!

For those of you who cannot see the embedded video player click here.

I’m Back! 3,000 hits!!

Well, I’m back after 3 weeks holiday in France, Die Schweiz, Germany amongst other countries.

I was amazed last night when I found that while I was away, my blog clocked up another 2,387 hits!!!  So, to Jamie who complained at how 1,000 hits wasn’t good enough for him, I hope now he has realised that I am more amazing than he originally thought. Thanks to everyone who helped with this, especially Banana on bodybuilder forums who put a link to one of my posts which alone brought me 200 or so hits in just one day.

I’m exhausted (got back really late) so after some quick browsing, I found this which I thought was pretty cool. It’s an Xbox 360 system with lots of money spent on it to make it into an amazingly impressively uber console. Myself, I don’t like Playstations, Xboxes etc (apart from the Wii which is amazing), I am more of a PC person, but I have to admit this is pretty cool. Click here to go to the site.

1000 Hits!!!!!

After 19 days of this blog being online, I am very pleased to be able to say that my blog has now reached the 1000 hit mark!

Thank you to everyone who made this possible- whether it be by signing up to my RSS Feed, being referred to this site and returning, or just passing by or Stumbling.

A HUGE thank you to all of you!

Seb

Oops! £44,000 mistakenly sent to a teenager

A British teenager who bought a Sony PlayStation 2 on eBay for £95 ($194) got more than he bargained for when he opened the package. Instead of a shiny PS2 gaming console, there was a whole heap of euros - €65,400 ($90,000, £44,000) to be precise - stacked neatly inside. A spokesman for eBay said that the parcel’s contents were “somewhat unusual”, and that they would help the police in any way they could. When the parcel arrived, on March 20, the boy’s parents contacted the Norfolk Constabulary, who are now holding the money under the Proceeds of Crime Act. If the owner does not come forward by September 22, then the family can apply to have the cash returned to them - unless the police apply to hold onto the money for a longer period.

[Source: Gizmodo]

ff0000 Red Universe- Secret character codes

Red Interactive is a fun interactive site in which you can chat, punch people and fly around amongst other things. Although at first the idea sounds quite boring and uninteresting, but it proves to be really quite fun. Now, we all want to be different, and the guys at Red Interactive have let you be just that. There are secret characters enabled by codes you type into the chat box. As soon as you push enter, your character will change. If your character disappears, it will return within a few seconds as the new character. Have fun.

Had an enormous response from this post- thanks everybody! Keep your comments coming!

nay nay give me some hay = Ed (Horse)

dead men tell no tales = Nub (Pirate)

jiminy cricket! = Hopper (Cricket)

the last straw = Camel Joe (Camel Man)

surley you jest = Jester (Jester)

rumpelstiltskin is my name = Uncle Sam (Uncle sam on stilts, he wont speak a word)

may i please have some blueberry pie? = Gordon (Overweight man)

i shot a man in reno = Jailbird (Bring back the convict, man with ball and chain)

i dreamt i was a butterfly = Sun (Woman character that was removed, carries two fans)

happy halloween = Skeleton

smell my feet = Skeleton in miltary uniform and with a gun

trick or treat = Ghost (very cool) [Edit: it now seems that this one no longer works ]

nay nay I never got any hay = Horse skeleton

the funk of forty thousand years = Skeleton in a suit

baby got back = Man giving a fat man with a sword a piggy back

yee haw! = Old cowboy with dual- wielded pistols. You can shoot at range with these!

the cat’s pajamas = Smartly dressed woman- hit people with your necklace!

long live the king = King- poke people with your sceptre!

in my knickers = Elk in clothes!

when the cat is away mice will play = Lionheaded man with a tail!

just a spoonful of sugar = Creepy lady with no head (this just scrolls through the standard characters for me- does it work for you?)

when pigs fly = Man riding a fat pig- jump up in the air with “home”!

Remember you can punch people with CTRL + SHIFT, do a special move only the character you have can do by pushing “Home” (e.g. the “trick or treat” ghost disappears) or move closer or further away from the screen with “Page Up” and “Page Down”. Obviously you move around with the arrow keys.

Thanks to all these people for submitting new ones as they come out: Jay, Sammy, Zigy, Lulzer, Nikki, TheNH, John and CraZynaHaS.

Funny picture

I was just browsing around when I found this picture, which I found made no sense as well as being pretty funny. It seems to be a guy dressed in a Darth Vader costume refilling a bottle by filtering it. Ok, he’s there, refilling a container with seawater. But why? What can that guy possibly be doing to make him get his water from the sea? Why did he have that filter with him? Why is he wearing a Darth Vader costume? What is going on here?