I’ll probably update it from time to time - I’m hoping to make “instant build”, and “instant/infinite protocol weapons” hacks, as well as map hack (which will hopefully be usable in multiplayer).

UPDATE (10 Nov 2008): Added infinite “Super Weapon Protocol” points (doesn’t decrease your number of points after buying)

Download: Hypn’s Red Alert 3 Trainer v1.01.exe (4.50kb)

Red Alert 3 sucks. I’ve only played the soviet campaign so far, but here are some of my thoughts:

* The clothes the soviets wear (in the movies) look really cheap, and not very realistic… at all.

* When using computer-generated backgrounds, they’re supposed to be out of focus when you have characters in the foreground - otherwise it looks really fake

* The soviets have BEARS? And not just bears… bears wearing HELMETS?!?! And not just bears wearing helmets, but you can also shoot them out of a vehicle and they come parachuting in? And not only that, they can swim… REALLY fast.

* It’s great that you can build in the water… I guess… what’s next for Red Alert 4, building in the air?

* The Red Alert games used to be semi-realistic, with infantry and tanks etc, which is why I liked it (as opposed to the Command and Conquer series), but now nearly everything can go on land and water and is more of a “robotic mech” than a machine.

* Why did you change the way money/ore works? Not very consistent with the other games, is it?

* Engineers are able to whip a rubber-duck out of their back pockets, inflate it, to go sailing over water? Where do they keep the boat’s engine, in their front pocket? This is just stupid.

* How come the soviets going back in time to remove Einstein prevent them from having nukes, but yet the allieds still have chronospheres?

* Tanya is a brunette, not a blonde, remember?

* Just how many satellites and space stations do the soviets have floating around, that they can send crashing down to earth?

* The “co-op/solo” play thing between campaign missions is REALLY annoying, so is having a “co-op” computer, why can’t we just solo it SOLO?

* You probably could’ve saved a pile of cash (and saved ME a pile of cash) by not using “celebrities” as actors - after seeing Peter Stormare in Prison break as a mafia boss, he doesn’t make a very believable scientist.

* I changed my “texture quality” from “medium” to “low” and got told that increasing my settings above default might cause performance issues - this is after I applied the 1.03 patch - you might want to look into that.

* Did you really have to resort to such short skirts, and showing off so much cleavage, on the female characters - it just looks tacky, but I guess sex sells (maybe you were worried the gameplay wouldn’t?)

* It annoys me that having two of the same type of building (eg: barracks) gives you two build queues, rather than allowing you to select a primary building and build faster - like you could in the previous games.

That’s just off the top of my head, but I know there are more, so I’ll update this list as I remember and find them.

The problem, however, is that “According to the accepted story of cosmic evolution, there simply hasn’t been enough time since the big bang nearly 14 billion years ago for gravity to build up such large structures” - unlucky.

I decided to do a bit more looking into this theory, and found out that it was presented to the Manchester Astronomical Society way back in in September 2002! There’s an online version of the slide, with more information on this theory, over at http://www.fractaluniverse.org - “The universe consists of a series of spiral bodies of diminishing size, each made in turn by plasma ejection and moulded by a spatial Coriolis effect: a rotating fractal universe“.

Why does the pattern of galaxy super-clusters in space show fractal features?

Why do galaxies occur in clusters and chains?

Why are there spirals in sizes from superclusters, galaxies, through quasars, down to meteors?

Why do they often resemble hurricanes in shape?

Why do these spirals, even down to meteors, spit out jets of plasma?

Why do they radiate wide-spectrum electromagnetic energy?

Why do many spirals e.g NGC 7814 (see pic) resemble high-voltage arcs?

Why are some plasma jets periodic?

Why does the centre of our galaxy resemble a dynamo?

Why are the largest craters on planets and moons at or near the poles?

Apparently Benoit Mandelbrot (the “father of fractal geometry”) said in 1977 that the distribution of galaxies in space shows a fractal pattern, which “images from the best telescopes, equipped with CCD cameras and backed by digital processing, now show enough detail to add support to his observation“.

Personally, I HATE this new functionality - hasn’t anyone ever heard of that say “if it aint broke, don’t fix it”? I’m all for adding new functionality and allowing people to choose if they want to use it, but don’t change how a person interacts with a program (though personally I would’ve preferred it was a separate addon). I use Ctrl+Tab all the time, and the way it works now does not suit me. You can still scroll between tabs the “old way” using “Ctrl+PageUp” and “Ctrl+PageDown” - so now a one-handed action requires two hands… thanks alot. Clearly people are more concerned with things looking pretty than being functional.

Anyway, the point of this post is to tell you how to disable this new functionality, so it works like it used to. Go to “about:config” and type “ctrltab” in the filter bar, then set:

1) “browser.ctrlTab.mostRecentlyUsed” to “false”
2) “browser.ctrlTab.recentlyUsedLimit” to “0”
3) “browser.ctrlTab.smoothScroll” to “false”

You might need to restart FireFox for the changes to take effect.

I’m left wondering how much time was spent coding this nice new little “feature”, and how much it increased the filesize and memory usage of FireFox. Bad Mozilla. Maybe one day I’ll have to switch to “Links” (which looks like this). How about you spend more time worrying about standards compliance, CSS3, and passing that Acid test, and less time on making thing looks pretty, huh? Just a thought.

I’ve listed them in alphabetical order, and will provide a brief description of what they do and why I use them, but it’s up to you to read more about them and try them out:

allSnap - enabled “window snapping”, like WinAmp and Steam do… just helps with positioning windows on the screen

DisplayFusion - allows you to set different wallpapers on different monitors and provides hotkeys for moving windows between monitors, when you have more than 1 monitor (yes, I know, you could just use UltraMon, but it’s not free - though it does offer more features)

Hamachi - allows you to “network” computers over the internet, works through all kinds of network setups and firewalls

KatMouse - by default Windows scrolls the “active” part of the “active” window when you use your mouse scroll whell, this program scrolls whatever’s under your mouse

Launchy - basically a “Run” menu on steroids, you tell it the directories and file types to monitor and it makes launching files or apps incredibly quick and easy

PowerMenu - provides extra menu items when right-clicking on items in the taskbar, allowing you to adjust a program’s transparency, minimize it to the system tray, make it “always on top” and adjust it’s priority

ProcessTamer - monitors running programs and lowers the priority of any using too much CPU usage so your PC doesn’t slow down or freeze (only started using this today, but it looks like a keeper)

StrokeIt - gives Windows “mouse gestures” (you hold down your right mouse button and drawing shapes/letters) to execute commands, maximize/minimize windows etc (DEFINITELY can’t live without this one)

Taskbarshuffle - allows you to reposition items on your taskbar or in your system tray by dragging them, and close them by clicking your middle mouse button (like FireFox tabs)

UltraVNC - allows you remotely access/control your computers (I use this with Hamachi to access my home pc from work and visa versa)

Unlocker - when ever you get a “file in use” error (eg: when trying to move or delete a file) this program will tell you what’s using the file and allow you to close that program or unlock the file

I hope you find these tools useful :)

I’ve been trying to get back into playing as Spy, I think I’m in the middle of the graph at the moment ;)

I changed the font and colours (for PHP files anyway), removed the other languages, enabled the auto-complete dropdown, changed the menus, included the PHP binary to check files for syntax errors, and included phpStylist to beautify source code. I also made a new icon, and added the latest “php.api”, and made F1 (help) open the PHP manual (included).

I made this package for my own personal use, and possibly that of friends, and I offer NO (as in ZERO) support for it. I will also not be held responsible for any damages caused - you use this at your own risk. Please do not contact the authors of SciTE regarding bugs or problems as I have made several modifications to the compiled executable that may result in all sorts of bugs - which they aren’t responsible for.

That said, I hope you will find this packge useful. Once you’ve opened a PHP file (with “PHP-SciTE.exe”) press F5 to check for syntax errors, F7 to run the PHP script currently open, and CTRL+F7 to tidy your source code.

Please realize that your code will be changed to how I like my code formatted which might frustrate you… the settings passed to phpStylist are in “php_tidy.bat” if you want to change them.

I really don’t know SciTE that well, and most of what I’ve done has just been lucky guessing, so I probably wont be able to help you with questions but if you want to get hold of me you can e-mail me at: php-scite[at]hypn.za.net

Download: PHP-SciTE 1.7.6.zip (8.85mb)

UPDATE: first bug :( the “Check Syntax” menu item (under “Tools”) says the hotkey is CTRL+F5, but it’s actually just F5.

I’ve tried it, and it seems to work great, so I’d definitely recomment it :) did I mention that it’s freeware? Download it here: http://www.pcwintech.com/node/145