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Wine-Reviews and Bordeaux T-shirts now available at freewear.org

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 21:14:29 -0600

Aren't your T-shirts too dull? All my StarWars tees have a lot of colours and shades...

We think different, and give preference to quality over amount of colours. Those princess Leia in bikini T-shirts are printed with a technique called transfer, which more or less is like putting your T-shirt inside a printer.

We use screen printing, a technique that limits us to 6 colours per T-shirt (besides the T-shirt base color), but in return print quality is better, and your T-shirts will survive washmachines, pets and some small tsunami. Furthermore, we individually iron each T-shirt after printing, so that the design finish is smooth, firm and able to stand more tempests.

And what the hell, good things in this life have less than 6 colours: black chocolate (#000), a terminal (#000 and #fff, or #000 and #0f0 if you are that kind of geek), ...

Google Map Saver on Linux with Wine

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:48:37 -0600

About Google Map Saver

Google Map Saver is a portable software program that feels more responsive and less complicated to use. The user can enter a location or point of interest and the program will download the available data from Google Maps. Then just click on the Go! button and the map of the location will be displayed, this process takes only a few seconds on a fast Internet connection. The usual Google Maps controls are available including zooming in and out, moving around with the mouse or switching between map, satellite and terrain view. The ability to save loaded maps as images, so that you can use them offline or take them anywhere with you is really nice.

Has Transgaming Abandoned Cedega?

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:47:32 -0600

Pretty much anyone who has used Linux for at least a short while is aware of Wine technology and what it does. For many Linux users, largely Linux gamers, having properly working Wine technology is essential to their everyday computer user. The topic of commercial Wine software has been known to cause many heated discussions over the years on various Linux message boards. It appears at long last that perhaps this seemingly eternal argument may finally be coming to an end. Transgaming, the company behind Cedega, appears to be finally putting down its (some would say much controversial) Linux software.

Wine 1.1.35 Released

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:17:31 -0600

The Wine development release 1.1.35 is now available.

What's new in this release:

Support for OLE transacted storage.
Better certificate checking on secure connections.
More progress on the 16-bit separation.
Left 4 Dead 2 DRM really supported now.
MSI performance improvements.
64-bit fixes in debugger support.
Various bug fixes.

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.

Stuck with Windows Because of PC Games? Make the Switch to Mac and Bring Your Games with You

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:02:55 -0600

There are a lot of people who would like to give Mac a try, but for those that identify themselves as PC gamers going to Mac really isn’t an option because the majority of popular games these days are made for Windows and don’t have any Mac ports. Luckily, through the magic of software, it is possible to play some of the most popular PC games on your Mac.

Enter Crossover Games for Mac by Codeweavers. Based on a free program called Wine, which allows Windows applications to be executed on Unix operating systems like Mac or Linux, Crossover Games for Mac is a $40 application which will let you play the following PC games right on your Intel-based Mac (click on the image of each game to see Codeweavers’ compatibility report on the game):

Install MS office2007 on ubuntu using PlayOnLinux

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:03:37 -0600

PlayOnLinux is a piece of sofware which allows you to easily install and use numerous games and softwares designed to run with Microsoft®'s Windows®. In this tutorial i will show you how to install MS office 2007 student using Playonlinux on ubuntu jaunty jackalope, the installation has been tested also on a ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala, the install process is easy and no command lines are used.

For ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, PlayOnLinux is actually available in the universe repositories, you can install it by typing the simple command :

sudo apt-get install playonlinux

Now after playonlinux is installed ,lets start

Now the installation is easy just follow the steps as described on the screenshots bellow :

winetricks directx testers needed

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:34:25 -0600

Howdy all,

I e-mailed wine-users a few days ago, but had no volunteers. I know most of you here aren't the target audience for using winetricks directx9, but since neither Dan or I game much, we need a guinea pig ;-).

Long story short, someone complained that winetricks directx9 crashes on OS X, but works if the windows version is set to xp instead of 2k. Ive played around with it a bit, and it seems that using xp gives a different set of installed files. Which one works better for games, however, I dont know.

Games for MS Windows run in Linux with Crossover for Games

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:06:27 -0600

Tutorial Screencast on how to use Codeweavers Crossover for Games to be able to run almost all Games which where designed for MS Windows on Ubuntu Linux 9.10.

winetricks 20091213 released

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:42:41 -0600

Dan Kegel announced the release of winetricks 20091213 here is the email he sent to the wine-devel mailing list.

Austin and Andrew have been hard at work keeping winetricks working smoothly.
In particular, the ie6 and gecko verbs should work again.
Thanks guys!

Changes since 20091125:

Austin English:

Workaround wine bug for IE6
Update shockwave sha1sum
Add python-comtypes verb
Explain windows licensing a bit better
Gdiplus no longer comes from powerpoint viewer, update description accordingly
Update DivX to latest version, remove obsolete /silent option
Make append_path work if called more than once
When installing gecko, regsvr32 mshtml afterward, so it actually works
Update KDE to 0.9.6-5
When using native mdac, also override oledb32
Bump artk2min to 2007 Access runtime (freely redistributable, wooo!)

Source Games and Wine

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:40:56 -0600

From Collin Dahl Blog :

Many a day on the Ubuntu Forums, I stumble upon posts like: “Program X doesn’t work under ubuntu, I’m leaving”. As it turns out, some of these posts are for the Source games, mainly the multiplayer ones (Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Deathmatch, Team Fortress 2). For that purpose I’m gonna make a short guide, just to show how I had luck getting the Source games to work.

First, get WINE (obviously). For best results, add the WINE PPAs. This allows you to use the latest WINE release:

Go to System>Administration>Software Sources. You will be prompted for a password.
Click on the “Third Party Software” tab
Add the appropriate PPA to this list by clicking on “Add”. The PPAs are according to your Ubuntu Version. If you are not sure which version you are using, go to System>About Ubuntu, and look at the second paragraph. It should say something like “Thank you for your interest in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron”. Anyway, here are the PPAs: