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Developments
May 15th
Minute but many developments took place when I was NOT blogging in college.
I improved a lot with Photoshop and picked up great techniques in Corel draw. Thanks to my college magazine design buddies Advaith and Mayank. One day after writing an exam I was in a very jolly mood. I couldn’t resist opening Photoshop. I started working from scratch and with my golden iPod nano in front of me. I came out with the following illustration of the iPod Nano
I stopped playing the most loved hostel multiplayer – counterstrike. It was sucking away huge amounts of my time.
I touched the 400 floor in the icytower, could survive till the 422nd floor. This made my worldwide icytower rank to A. I was the first among my icytower playing crazy friends to achieve this. The following screenshot shows the A rank and the floor 422. To go to the next rank you are supposed to go to 500th floor. 500 I think is possible. But the 2nd goal (highlighted) to reach the 400th floor without combos a little too much.
Started playing Farmville and Mafia-wars just to learn some tricks so I could post it for new players.
Well, when I was away I didn’t stop gathering information to blog about. So I could immediately start writing when I get back. Some of great such new things are waiting to get written and posted. Watch out 
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Measure real time PC game frame rates
Jan 12th
Benchmarking games is the best way to analyze how good your PC can perform. You can thus push the graphic settings in the game to optimum level. Usually the minimum playable frame rate on games is around 25 frames per second (FPS).
Fraps is a perfect benchmarking tool for hardcore gamers. It can overlay the real time FPS on any corner of your screen when you are playing a game. After you finish playing the game, Fraps generates a detailed report. You can use the report to discuss or write your own reviews.
Not just the frame rate, Fraps also lets you capture and save instant screen shots from the game. You don’t have to worry to paste it in an image editing program after pressing the set hotkey.
The full version of Fraps (not free) can capture high quality videos without any watermarks. It can also capture screen shots in various formats like jpeg, gif, tga etc. The full version of fraps once bought will let you upgrade to a new version also. Thus a small fee of 37$ is worth the software if you are too much into gaming.
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