From Day 1 when I got my first Spam (Penisenlargement anyone? Whole 10 inches! I’m serious!) I’ve been looking for methods to avoid it. I have been somewhat successful to some degree. Let’s start with our lovely E-Mail Spam. What say you?

They keyword is Temporary/Disposable Email Service.

Benefits of Disposable and Temporary Email Services

There are a lot of advantages of having disposable and temporary Emails. But here are some of the key benefits:

• No sign-up or/and registration required
• Automatically expire/deleted after a certain period of time passes
• Protect your personal mailbox from exploits, spoofs, hoaxes and spam mails

Top 10 9 Disposable and Temporary Email Services

Over the time I collected a lot of links to Disposable and Temporary Email Services. Here’s my collection of the, in my opinion, Top 10 9 Services which require NO sign-up and NO registration and which are totally spam free.

1. Mailinator , one of the best and top rated disposable/temporary email services that gives you a temporary mailbox on the following address format: anythigyouwant@mailinator.com
2. MyTrashMail , another good disposable/temporary mail service which gives you a mailbox in the format anythigyouwant@trashymail.com. It also gives you a secure temporary mailbox if you choose to sign-up
3. TempEmail , an anonymous and fast yet very secure temporary email inbox
4. TemporaryInbox , gives you an email inbox in different formats and is simple and easy to use
5. MailExpire , is somewhat unique because it gives you the option to have a temporary mail inbox with an expiration duration ranging from 12 hours to as long as 3 month
6. MailEater , yet another free disposable/temporary email inbox in the format: anythigyouwant@MailEater.com
7. SpamBox , another unique disposable/temporary email inbox in the format anythigyouwant@spambox.us. It also allows you to set the expiration duration
8. GuerillaMail , a very short living (15 min.) disposable/temporary email inbox
9. Jetable , allows you to choose the life span of the temporary Email inbox and also allows you to forward the mail from you temporary inbox to you real Email address.
10. Uhmm…I ran out of links.

I hope those links are a tremendous help to you like they are to me.

Enjoy,
Don Salva

just thought I’d share 3 very awesome links with y’all! English isn’t my native language so I’m thankful for people correcting me and for free advices whenever I can get them.

Recently, while surfing the net, I stumbled through del.icio.us onto Daily Writing Tips , 40+ Tips to Improve your Grammar and Punctuation and Grammar Girl !

I love them, pretty useful and basically covers every aspect you should know! Got any other site? Feel free to leave them with your comments!

So long,
Don Salva

Those are I Can Has Cheezburger? (Man, I wish they had more dogs :(, I’m a dog person!), Break.com, Metacafe.com and Cracked.com ! I should warn you though, Cracked.com cusses a lot!

And for the occasional Weirdness Weird Asia News is a good stop!

So every time you feel down, feel free to visit one of these sites, and I guarantee 120% you’ll at least smile!

So long,
Don Salva

Nevertheless one rumor in particular came to be true. Content is being cut from the current Warhammer Online in beta status. And will not be there upon launch of Warhammer Online.

What I’m talking about are 4 classes and 4 cities. The classes (and their capital cities!) being removed are as following:

Choppa (Greenskin)
Hammerer (Dwarf)
Blackguard (Dark Elf)
Knight of the Blazing Sun (Empire)

This means the removal of 2 tank and 2 dps classes.  Regarding this, Jacobs said:

“I wish we didn’t have to do it,” Mark said, “I really do. Unlike the capital cities [which provided a silver lining in the end], I can honestly say that I really wish we didn’t have to cut them out, but it’s better for them to be cut out than to have classes that aren’t great and that we would spend more time trying to make them great post-launch than we should have to.”

Here’s another quote from the interview conducted with Mark Jacobs:

In the end, the team felt that adding careers into the game that weren’t up to their standards would have hurt not only the game and the company, but the players as well.

As for the capital cities. The original plan was that each faction would have it own capital city, with the removal of 4 capital city there will only be 2 namely Altdorf (Empire) and Inevitable City (Chaos).

Oh yea, I forgot to mention Mystic will be working close together with Punkbuster. Yep, you read it right, PUNKBUSTER, the anti-cheat tool.

Read the whole interview with Mark Jabobs on MMORPG.com!

I knew something like that (not exactly THIS, but at least to some degree content would be cut!) would happen.

Now how did I knew it? If you followed the development of Warhammer Online, you’d get the feeling the developers of Warhammer Online are way, way too anal. The last 2 postponement were argued with needing more time to polish the game, make it better, make it greater.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a perfect game at launch! But the sad part about it is all those delays, all those postponements, all those promises to make a great game, in the end they HAD to cut content they promised and delayed 2 times upon.

Still, I personally will keep an eye on Warhammer Online. Just because they cut content doesn’t make it bad!

So long,
Don Salva

Well, big surprise… here’s the confirmation of Warhammer Online being delayed again until fall 2008.

Addendum from Warhammer Online Newsletter-Subscription:

On the day we signed the agreement to license Warhammer from Games Workshop, I promised them that we would create a great and glorious game, a truly next-generation MMORPG. Today, I have news to report; we are going to delay the release of WAR until Fall 2008. While we do not expect this announcement to be met with fanfare and cheering crowds; the additional time will be spent hammering WAR into an even better game that it is today.

During the most recent phase of beta testing, two things have become clear. One was that our key innovations - Public Quests, Tome of Knowledge and Realm vs. Realm combat - were all coming along extremely well, as was the first stage of our innovative crafting system. The second, that the game would benefit from additional iteration time as well as adding a layer of polish or two. Fortunately, as part of Electronic Arts, we are able to do just that.

While I have no doubt that the community will experience a wide range of emotions over this decision, I urge you to remember one thing (and to keep the tar cold and the feathers on the birds), that our goal has never been to release a game by a certain date but to release a great Warhammer MMORPG. We have not wavered from this goal and with the full support of Games Workshop, GOA and Electronic Arts we intend to release a glorious next-generation MMORPG.

As always, I thank the community for its support, patronage and its patience.

Mark Jacobs

VP, GM EA Mythic

Let’s see that leaves… Age of Conan to be delayed again, World of Arenacraft (Sorry, I meant Warcraft, my mistake): The Wrath of the Lichking to be announced. Anything big or at least highly anticipated MMOS I’m missing for this year?

Now is the time to say this, I TOLD YOU SO!

Be seeing you all,
Don Salva

So I went to google and found 5 easy-to-do tweak with remarkable results! Remarkable, because you truly can see the difference between a standard and a tweaked Firefox. One might wonder why such tweaks are not standard options..

Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Look for the following entries:

1. “network.http.pipelining” and set value to true
2. “network.http.proxy.pipelining” and set value to true
3. “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” and set value to 30-40
4. “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set value to 0
5. “config.trim_on_minimize” and set value to true

If you don’t have them, create them:

1. Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “network.http.pipelining” -> set value to true
2. Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “network.http.proxy.pipelining” -> set value to true
3. Right click -> new -> boolean -> type in “config.trim_on_minimize” -> set value to true
4. Right click -> new -> integer -> type in “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” -> set value to 30 (default is 1)
5. Right click -> new -> integer -> type in “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” -> set value to 0

Now the explanation as to what does what:

network.http.pipelining and network.http.proxy.pipelining:

It enables pipe-lining, which means the browser normally sends 1 request at a time, with pipeline enabled it will send the amount of request you set in “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests”!

network.http.pipelining.maxrequests:

Like I said Firefox usually sends 1 request at any time. By setting a different value than 1, you force Firefox to send more requests thus enabling it to load faster, because he gets more responses at any time.

config.trim_on_minimize:

Each time you minimize your Firefox it will clear the RAM. Firefox is infamous of wasting RAM for Pages you don’t need so you can go “back” to them.

nglayout.initialpaint.delay:

If this value doesn’t exist or isn’t set Firefox waits 250 milliseconds, or 0.25 of a second then starts rendering the requested page(s). People report that setting it to 0, ergo forcing Firefox to begin rendering immediately causes almost all pages to show up faster.

Addendum:

If you are one of the lazy lot, and don’t want to manually tweak your Firefox, here’s a great Extension with virtually the same effect

Fasterfox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269

Enjoy your new, faster Firefox!

Star Wars Galaxies was one of the most amazing mmorpg’s I’ve played up until today. Mind you, I’m not talking Post-NGE SWG. The immersion of the characters into the world, the awesome sandbox principle…just awesome. (A few more games I’ve played are Everquest 2, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Vanguard, Anarchy Online, Neocron, Lord of the Rings Online).

Today I’m stuck in the canceling, playing, canceling, playing-circle of World of Warcraft. Although Tabula Rasa is a good game in between unfortunately it doesn’t hold me long. Hence the circle.

My hope for this year’s mmorpg to break free from World of Warcraft lies in 2 games: Age of Conan and Warhammer Online!

But sadly, Funcom announced that Age of Conan is being delayed additional 8 weeks, the new release date is listed as 23rd Mai 2008. The lead game director explains in this letter why it’s being pushed back…again!

Now there’s a rumor around, that Warhammer Online might get delayed until fall 2008. A bad scan, but I’ll quote:

“BAD: ‘EA can’t get away from the delay bug. Last month it was Army of Two, this month it’s Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning. The game is expected in the summer or fall*. EA CEO John Riccitiello said, “We’re going to give it a little bit more time, a little bit more work, and we think we’ll have a little bit more of a hit on our hands.”

Although CEO Mark Jabobs denies it it remains to be seen what the actual truth is.

My personal opinion is that Warhammer too will be pushed back until fall on the grounds that the Warhammer Online developers are too anal. The game has already been pushed back once. Back then they argued they need a little more time to iron out the bugs, ensure the quality and deliver a pristine game to the audience.

Now don’t take me wrong I’m all for a close-to-perfect game with as little bugs as possible but one can overdo it. You have to draw a line somewhere, release the game and patch ‘n fix the remaining bugs ASAP after the release. And by ASAP I do mean ASAP. Not months later!

A sad year indeed!

YO HO (A PIRATE’S LIFE FOR ME)
Lyrics by Xavier Atencio and music by George Bruns

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and loot,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot,
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We extort, we pilfer, we filch, and sack,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
Maraud and embezzle, and even high-jack,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We kindle and char, inflame and ignite,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
We burn up the city, we’re really a fright,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.

We’re rascals, scoundrels, villans, and knaves,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
We’re devils and black sheep, really bad eggs,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.

Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We’re beggars and blighters, ne’er-do-well cads,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.
Aye, but we’re loved by our mommies and dads,
Drink up, me ‘earties, yo ho.

I often find myself humming this song or even singing. But when I play Pirates of the Burning Sea this song really ups a notch. I can only suggest it for PotbS.

I got so much time on my hands I don’t even know what to do…so I decided “Heck, let’s do something completely boring and utterly stupid. Let’s frap and youtube the animated emotes of the MMORPG to come “Pirates of the Burning Sea” !

It took me about 6 hours of frapsing, cutting, deleting, swearing, smashing the keyboard, insulting in-game /tell, editing, uploading on YouTube, getting 500 Error while uploading and losing all data for all 171 average 9 seconds clips to be done.

Here’s the emote /yoho which actually fits the mood I was after the 6 hours of torture:

But I gotta tell you it was an interesting experience in all, in fact it was my 1st serious “project” for my YouTube account. I hope to have some more ideas in my so uncreative and apathetic (NO! I mean apathetic not pathetic!) brain for this blog in the future.

Enjoy!

PS: Criticism and suggestions are always welcome, fellas!