![]() ![]() Set up training sessions Choose past performances to race against as you run. See your activities on a map You can replay your activity on the map and analyze specific route segments. Para conectar la TomTom Touch al ordenador, presione con fuerza la parte superior del módulo hasta que salga de la correa. ![]() Review your progress Easily review your progress over time thanks to the graphical activity dashboard. It really comes down to whether you want to strap on that armband and drain the phone battery.īut if you are a serious runner with your heart set on buying a watch to track performance, the TomTom Runner is a great option. Use the TomTom MySports website to manage your activities. TomTom's watch is purely about the fitness focus there are none of the extra whizzes and bangs you'll be finding in the array of smartwatches looming on the horizon. There is an argument that you could simply download a running app like Endomondo or Runkeeper and use the GPS on your smartphone. It's more fiddly than it needs to be, and when using a Mac you're forced to upload iTunes Playlists. ![]() It’s made specifically for runners so if you want something packing an altimeter to track cycling or sensors to count laps in the pool, you’ll need to spend more than £150 to get a suitable device. You add MP3s via TomTom's software TomTom MySports Connect, which is available for Mac and PC. All three watches feature a light, comfortable design, a nice big screen and a plenty of features to help you stay motivated.Ĭrucially though, the Runner has a better battery life in GPS mode than the Nike and Garmin watches, some really useful Training modes and the QuickGPSFix technology that really improves the speed the watch locks onto a GPS signal even in built up areas. Best switch I have ever made Much easier to use, more accurate, has a. At £149.99, the TomTom Runner is thearound same price as the Nike SportWatch but more expensive than the similarly sleek Garmin Forerunner 10 (£99). Decided to try the TomTom after my Garmin battery would not last more than an hour. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They’re often found in large bags for Halloween treats. I think in the United States, smarties are those flat, pressed-powder like candy that comes in cellophane-wrapped roll. Here in Canada, we have something called Smarties. I know I use M&Ms quite often in many of my cookie and no-bake treats, but there are other candy coated chocolates out there that you can use. Just use a measuring spoon and you’ll be fine. ![]() If you add extra extract, even if it’s not on purpose, you will need to add more confectioner’s sugar to get the mixture to the right consistency. Since confectioner’s sugar is basically sugar dust, it will thin out quite easily with just the slightest bit of liquid. You will want to use two teaspoons exactly. Speaking of peppermint extract, be really careful when measuring it. When beating it with the mixer into the cream cheese and peppermint extract mixture, the clumps will break down easily if there are any to begin with. There’s really no need to sift the confectioner’s sugar first. Otherwise, you might need to add another cup or two of the confectioner’s sugar. No it isn’t! And, secondly, the regular cream cheese is almost always slightly thicker, which you will need to make this recipe work well. ![]() First of all, Christmas is not the time to think about calories and fat content. It is sometimes called pearl sugar or coarse baking sugar.Ĭlick on your most used social media icon below and follow me!įor this particular recipe, you most certainly should use regular cream cheese – not light or fat free.
![]() Although your racer doesn't ever die, when you bash into a wall you will go flying (and I do mean flying) off of your bike screaming bloody murder. Redline Racer also does a good job of simulating crashes. While riding you can choose from 4 different views, 3 of them are from directly behind the bike (a far-away, kinda-far-away, and right-up-on-my-man's-helmet view) with the fourth being a first-person view. Under both chipsets, the terrain looked beautiful, but the bike and rider were a bit blocky even with a 3DFX card. Although the game controls were just as smooth under both, the 3DFX landscape graphics were much more realistic and detailed. After playing Redline Racer on both a VooDoo II video card and a card with the Riva 128 chipset, I can tell you that there is a major difference in graphics quality between the two. Where Redline Racer really shines is in it's graphics and gameplay. Each race consists of 3 laps with a series of checkpoints that you must pass in a certain time or forfeit the race. Even though road tracks dominate Redline Racer, the tracks encompass 6 different environments, including mountain, desert, and urban settings. Most of the tracks are hardtop road tracks, but there is also a beach track where you race along the coast on the sand. You must master the manual transmission to truly master Redline Racer. ![]() You can also choose different difficulty levels and, let me tell you, there is a big difference between easy and medium, and hard is impossible to win with an automatic transmission. As this isn't the tips and clues section, I'll let you figure out how to access these high-powered puppies. These range from strange to just plain bizarre. There are also 5 secret bonus vehicles you can ride. However, as you increase in skill you will be able to race up to 10 tracks on one of 8 bikes. Thanks for stopping by The FarmhouseAttic.Initially you can choose from 8 different racing teams, 3 tracks, 3 bikes, and, surprisingly, you can also choose to play as either a male or female rider. By purchasing this item, you acknowledge that you have read the description and shipping information and reviewed the pictures to your own satisfaction. Please have a look at the scans and feel free to ask any questions you might have. Thank you in advance for your understanding. I mail things quickly but then it is up to the post office to deliver. Parcels between Canada and the US regularly take 7-10, sometimes 16 business days or longer to arrive, so be patient as delays still continue as items enter and clear US Customs. Any shipping overage of $2 or more will be automatically refunded to you. I charge actual Canada Post rates, nothing extra is added. All taxes, tariffs and duties are the responsibility of the purchaser.Įtsy requires all items be shipped with tracking, this is reflected in the shipping cost. ![]() I pack all items as safely and responsibly as possible. I am a Canadian seller, and all items are mailed from Canada. ![]() Each package holds one 3-Dimensional Die-Cut racing card featuring Stock Car Racing’s Top Drivers (of the day). What racing fan wouldn't love to have these! Here are 6 sealed packs from the 1992 Redline Racing Collector card series of 3-D StandUp cards. 6 SEALED SETS 1992 REDLINE RACING 3-D STANDUPS ![]() ![]() “I will say that I worked hard with the park and the county to get them open. “It delivers significant tourism and economic development in the form of the Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) to the City’s general fund and the Vallejo Tourism Business Improvement District (VTBID) assessment by the lodging community.”ĭew said Six Flags has been an important outlet for Vallejoans as much as tourists during COVID-19.Īfter a March pandemic shutdown, Six Flags re-invented itself, reverting to its animal showcase days in offering “The Marine World Experience” and adding a drive-up Holiday in the Park. 2 employer in Vallejo during non-pandemic summer seasons “and a welcome member of this community,” Browne said. ![]() “It is our understanding that they are happy here in Vallejo and look forward to making Vallejo their home for many years to come. Neither does Visit Vallejo, the city’s tourist arm, but “I can clarify that Visit Vallejo has not heard anything about Six Flags Discovery Kingdom moving to Fresno,” said Visit Valljo president and CEO Michael Browne. Six Flags spokesman Marc-Angelo Merino said it’s the park’s policy “that we don’t comment on rumors.” With Six Flags owning the 135 acres its on - with an agreement to split parking revenue - “I wouldn’t imagine they’d be going anywhere. The park manager informed them that she had spoken directly to the corporate office inquiring about the rumor, and they verified that there was absolutely no truth to this story.” “Councilmember (Pippin) Dew and Mayor (Robert) McConnell both spoke with the park manager about this rumor. ![]() ![]() “I have heard this baseless rumor about the park leaving Vallejo, and according to park officials, it sounds as if there is absolutely no truth to this report, and the source reporting this is incorrect,” Nyhoff said. Vallejo City Manager Greg Nyhoff put his thumb down on any Vallejo-to-Fresno move. The Times-Herald received an email late Thursday from a citizen claiming that Six Flags is “eventually going to move out of its present location to Fresno” presumably because the park was dissatisfied with the alleged slow progress of Mare Island and the Solano County Fairgrounds’ 360 Project. Six Flags Discovery Kingdom has anchored itself in Vallejo since relocating from Redwood City in 1987 and rumors of the theme park sniffing around Fresno are unfounded, according to Vallejo city officials. ![]() ![]() Quick Disconnect: Out of the box this is the name of the cord that’s on the end of your wired headset that connects to a direct connect cable. Is your desk phone brand not here? Contact us today and we can verify compatibility for you. Based on the desk phone brand you're using, click either of the links below. ![]() With all the different desk phone brands available, it can be challenging knowing which office headset is compatible. It makes your work life easier.If you're on phone calls throughout the day, one of the most useful tools you can use in your office is a business grade headset. This allows you to continue working without having to turn up the volume or change your environment. This is possible through a variety of microphone technologies and software algorithms that cancel noise. If you work in a busy office and have to take calls at your desk, this feature could be a real lifesaver.Īctive noise cancellation (ANC) reduces ambient sounds around you-like fans and air conditioning-so you can hear your calls and focus without distraction. This is possible through microphone technology as well as software, some of which can even improve the quality of your voice while eliminating any pops or hisses. A noise-cancelling mic works to reduce background noise, so you come through loud and clear. The microphone is an important part of the headset experience-it’s how people on calls or in meetings hear you. Working hands-free opens up the ability to make coffee, let the cat out, and perform any number of home or work-related tasks while staying on the line. The added freedom is helpful not just for people who work in a busy office setting. Simple on-ear controls make this possible. Even without the cord, you can still adjust volume, mute calls, and make music selections. Use your wireless headset to take phone calls, join and initiate video meetings, and listen to music. Wireless headsets from Logitech offer all the features of their wired counterparts along with the freedom to get up, stretch, and move around while still using your headset. Wireless headsets connect via Bluetooth ® or a USB-A receiver. ![]() You can also adjust sound settings with the on-screen volume controls accessible via your computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. With some models, simple in-line controls located on the cord or ear cup let you easily adjust volume, mute calls, and more without disruption. Wired headsets are compatible with most operating systems, providing easy plug-and-play solutions for calls, video meetings, webinars, online training, or even gaming. Wired headsets can feature multiple ways to connect, via a USB-A cable, USB-C connector or a 3.5 mm jack. Choose between a wide selection of wired and wireless headsets that connect to your computer, laptop, smartphones or tablet. They free up your hands so you can compute while you talk voice filters make you sound sharper and clearer in calls and video meetings. Our headsets are multitaskers that block noise and allow you to perform any number of tasks, even in a busy environment. Logitech features a wide range of office and home headsets for any number of uses, from taking calls, telecommuting, watching movies, interactive learning, or even listening to music. Find the Logitech headset that’s right for you. ![]() ![]() It can verify single e-mails or huge lists. Email Verifier is a very effective piece of software that can verify over 10 e-mails per second. It does not send the message though - eMail Verifier disconnects as soon as the mail server informs the program whether the address exists or not. Addresses for e-mail are extracted from a Domain Naming Server (DNS) and eMail Verifier tries to connect with SMTP-servers and simulates the sending of a message. eMail Verifier can save time and money for businesses who send newsletters to their clients, nonprofit organizations who send bulletins to their members, or any person or business that needs to maintain a clean e-mail contact list.ĮMail Verifier is your powerful solution for the standard "message delivery error." Email Verifier verifies every e-mail address from a given mailing list, allowing you to determine 80-90% of "dead" email addresses.ĮMail Verifier works on the same algorithm as ISP mail systems do. Maintain clean mailing lists checking the validity of recipient's e-mails addresses. ![]() How does eMail Verifier compares to online services?īad e-mail addresses are sometimes marked as valid Keeping output original Excel and CSV file formatĮrror with every email-adress (even my own, working one) How can I validate Hotmail and Gmail email addresses?ĭoes eMail Verifier need port 25 or an SMTP relay to work?ĮMail Verifier stops at 30% of the email file to be analyzedĮrror #22 when trying to verify a list of email addresses Why do I get timeouts when testing given addresses Recent questions from our eMail Verifier users Once you a re ready to verify your addresses, press the Run Test button. Use the radio button to select the right option depending on your needs. The document lets you select between two testing options, Single email and Email list file. It is just here in case you care about it. You don't actually need to understand the connection log to use the software. Each line starts with the threaded connection number '', then the date and time followed by the command sent by eMail Verifier preceded with '>' or the server answer starting with a 3-digits response code. It allows you to see the exact communication between eMail Verifier and the server. Just use the corresponding radio button to get the information displayed. The second panel enables you to get more information about what happened during the DNS lookup and the SMTP connection. ![]() The tab panel at the bottom gives access to the overall results and statistics (picture above), the detailed SMTP server response and the DNS lookup details of each address in the list and the connection log. Preferences: To set how testings have to be performed. Save Results: To save the verifying results to a file. Reset: To remove all results in order to re-test a list from scratch. Run Test: To start testing an individual address or a list. Those buttons make the access to the most used functions easier. The documents also includes a toolbar with 8 buttons on the top. As with any application, It is fully resizable, it can be saved and opened back, it can be printed and transfered between Mac OS and Windows. This document is made of two parts, the list on the top and a tab panel with 3 panes at the bottom. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fixed visual effects remain on screen during End of Round.Implemented Focus restoration for screens so the focused button is remembered when re-entering a screen.Fixed instances where the scroll function didn’t work in the Options screens.The in-game scoreboard now properly scales to match screen safe-zone settings.Improved Report a Player flows, specifically around toxicity and cheating reports.Improved screen transitions when entering and returning to the Main Menu.Added new markers to make your newly unlocked items easier to find.Enhancements to our Player Card screen and End of Round (EOR) to provide additional polish.Improved the ways in which you’re able to manage your attachments via the Collection screen to reduce the number of interactions you need to have when building your loadouts.Improved the Collection screens, making them easier to use and clear as to what you’re interacting with.Correct field of view is applied immediately following insertion sequences.Exiting an open seat early in the enter animation no longer causes your aim pitch to lock up.Player no longer gets stuck in a zipline/rope after exiting a vehicle after entering it too close to a zipline or rope.Improvements to streaming assets in deploy screen presentation.Improvements to address an issue where players killed in vehicles would fall beneath level geometry.Improved helicopter animation in level fly-bys during insertion.Resolved an issue related to the velocity / trajectory while spawning in jets.Resolved Kaleidoscope server room lighting issue.Made improvements to the “Interaction” system by switching the default "INTERACT" text on multiple interactions to reflect the action you are about to do, i.e.The Recent Players screen now include everyone from previous matches to allow for easier user reporting.Another small update is coming later in December, so maybe a performance boost can be expected when that releases. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to include any improvements to the performance issues in Battlefield 2042, which includes framerate drops. It's an incredibly long list of improvements across the board and beyond fixing bugs, it adds new quality of life improvements to the plus system, UI, maps, and more. In a new blog post, DICE outlined the contents of the Battlefield 2042 0.30 patch, which releases on December 2. Related: Battlefield 2042: How to Fix “Unable to Connect” Error Players have been posting videos rather frequently since the game launched to showcase the ludicrous lack of hit registration, but it seems like DICE may iron it out once and for all in the new update. ![]() Although the last patch made things better, it's still leaving players frustrated. Bullets often don't deal damage to their targets as they should, leading to a lot of unceremonious gun fights and otherwise easily preventable deaths. One of the most prominent issues in Battlefield 2042 is hit registration. ![]() ![]() Though we know that Call of Duty: Vanguard is half the size of Warzone, it'll still be a fairly hefty download. ![]() What is the Call of Duty: Vanguard download size? These allied soldiers have put together Task Force One, a special unit that must face down SS and Gestapo leader, Heinrich Freisinger, who's attempting to keep Nazi rule intact during the twilight of the war. Arthur Kingsley, British paratrooper and leader of Task Force One The characters are special forces agents who are loosely, but not one hundred per cent, based on real soldiers who fought during WWII. Throughout the campaign, you'll be tasked with taking multiple different characters with unique points of view through the action of tide-turning battles in the war. That's Western, Eastern, the Pacific, and North Africa. The Call of Duty: Vanguard campaign is set in World War II and features battles from all four fronts. What are the Vanguard campaign story and setting like? This offers a random upgrade every time you return from an objective, from familiar favourites like Brain Rot to Ammo Gremlin, who reloads holstered weapons over time. There'll even be new loot items known as the Altar of Covenants. You'll be travelling to other Zombies maps like Shi No Numa and Multiplayer map, Hotel Royal, completing objectives, and gaining upgrades in your base at Stalingrad. Der Anfang will now offer us the opportunity to get right into the action, transporting you through portals right into the thick of it. ![]() The gameplay of Vanguard Zombies is slightly different than what we're used to. He has access to all the undead baddies you're used to, as well as new additions like the Sturmkrieger, who has a machine gun (seems unfair) and the Boom Schreiers, who'll blow up in your face. The mass graves of Stalingrad seem like a decent option for a fascist looking to raise an army of zombies, I guess. This just keeps happening.ĭer Anfang is based in Stalingrad, the site of one of the bloodiest battles in history with an estimated 2 million casualties. It's all very arcane, but what's happened is that Von List has managed to gain the power to raise the dead. Story-wise, we know that Nazi Oberführer Wolfram Von List was able to plunder alien artefacts with the power to bond humans with Dark Aether entities. It's a classic Zombies map with brutal gameplay and undoubtedly a hilariously esoteric Easter egg storyline to uncover. Following the recent Zombies announcement, we know more about the mode and name of the map you'll be playing on: Der Anfang. Zombies are back in Call of Duty: Vanguard, led by the studio responsible for it all: Treyarch. What can we expect from Call of Duty: Vanguard's Zombies mode? Sledgehammer has also added a destruction system in Vanguard, allowing players to tactically break bits of scenery and create their own hidey-holes around the map, while sliding your mounted weapon along edges. Hopefully, that'll be good for the meta and lead to some fun and unique gun builds. The Gunsmith loadout system is back, but with the option of up to ten attachments slots for some weapons. There are three types of lobbies you're able to queue up for in the 'Combat Pacing' system, allowing you to choose between smaller and larger lobbies depending on how you feel like playing. There's also Patrol, which plays like Hardpoint, but the capture point moves through the map and forces encounters with the enemy team, along with the potential for some sly tactics.Īccording to the Call of Duty blog, there are going even more options for customising your Multiplayer experience. The other four are unique maps for the brand new Champion Hill game mode, which combines the limited lives of Search and Destroy with the frantic action of Team Deathmatch. ![]() With 20 maps available to play, there's plenty of stuff to get stuck into at launch, and 16 of them are traditional Multiplayer maps. ![]() Everything we know about Call of Duty Vanguard's multiplayerĬall of Duty: Vanguard works on the Modern Warfare/Warzone game engine, so it'll feel like reuniting with an old friend if you've experience with those. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We’re in the age of blockbuster board games, where value is measured in kilos and cubic metres, rather than hours, memorable turns and calls of “Let’s play that again.” Too many board games have ended up overinflated by Kickstarter success, bursting at the seams with needless stretch goals, trays of miniatures and a desperate argument that more stuff is better value. Often the idea of playing the next blockbuster or looking at the picture-perfect detail of its miniatures is enough to sink a hundred quid into the latest runaway crowdfunder.įrostpunk isn’t alone in this. Entire evenings spent memorising chunky board game rulebooks to help friends cut to the chase when we break out Twilight Imperium or Civilization over the weekend. I remember endless childhood hours spent reading video game manuals in cars. I question whether I’m still cut out for this. One errant elbow and multiple minutes of setup risk being undone in seconds. Frostpunk’s enormous footprint pushes my table space to its max cardboard dangles precariously off the edge like diving boards. My poor table is already heaving under the number of components laid out. It’s 18 pages before you actually start learning how to play. Population board, step five… of fourteen?! I flick ahead. I wonder how much more setup there is to go. It’s been at least an hour since I opened Frostpunk’s box. ![]() Watch on YouTube Some beginner-friendly board games to start with if you're new to the hobby I diligently sort through the decks, separating things out for the first scenario. Use these in certain scenarios, leave these out in others. Each with their own multi-step preparation. Then came instructions on placing map tiles around it. The generator - a towering monolith of grey plastic - was erected in the middle of a hexagonal frame that would become my city’s borders. We’re in the age of blockbuster board games, where value is measured in kilos and cubic metres.įirst, I need to put everything in its right place. I’m sure it’ll all seem straightforward once I know how to play. Quantifying resources, the vital heat provided by the generator at the heart of the city, its ebbing population - how many of my people would be healthy, sick or starving - the level of hope and contentment among society, weather, buildings, laws, social disputes, rounds, expeditions… Christ, there are quite a lot of bits in this box, aren’t there? Well, Frostpunk is a complex game on screen - replicating that properly in cardboard clearly takes a lot of moving parts. I glanced at the many boards that would soon hold my victory - or failure - in sway. We might live, but what life?įrostpunk: The Board Game will quickly eat up your table space. The gripping tension of balancing my citizens’ happiness with the ruthless fight to survive. I thought of the life-or-death decisions and moral dilemmas that would be at my fingertips in a few minutes. It’s presumably an aperitif to whet your appetite before you embark on the fairly mundane process of actually constructing your lonely city and its surroundings on the tabletop. Excited from the teases of what I’d be doing gleaned from tiles and tokens, I snuggled into a comfy spot on the sofa and cracked open the rulebook like the latest must-read novel.Ī bit of flavour text at the start of the book sets up Frostpunk’s brutally frozen world, the last scraps of humanity trying to eke out an existence in an unforgiving landscape of ice, metal and coal. Pieces extracted and arranged in neat piles, it was time to learn how to play. Watch on YouTube The trailer for Frostpunk: The Board Game ![]() ![]() ![]() You can collect gems to buy extra weapons and dinosaur rides, but money is vanishingly scarce in this game the whole shopping feature seems like an afterthought. This means you’ll likely skip most of the secrets in favor of just forging ahead. Your stamina runs out so rapidly that you’ll be forced to sprint through almost every level, and getting hit by one of the irritating enemies puts you that much closer to death/starvation. This would be an intriguing defining mechanic if it wasn’t so frustrating. Whatever he has must be catching because any dinosaur your jump onto acquires the same chronic need to gobble down fruits, veggies and the occasional ham, basically giving you a second life bar until the dinosaur succumbs to hunger and leaves you mount-less again. Your caveman must have some kind of terrible wasting illness because he must constantly devour the food pickups placed strategically throughout the levels or literally die of hunger. Of course the dinosaurs also give you another safeguard against the game’s main feature: your caveman’s ravenous appetite.Īs you explore the world your health bar, which also doubles as your stamina, constantly depletes. As I mentioned dying while riding one of these guys means you lose it, which can make finishing a level more of a chore, or makes it impossible to reach secret areas. ![]() The T-rex can wade through lava and breathe fire the plesiosaur makes swimming a lot easier and blows bubbles the velociraptor runs quickly and can deliver a painful kick to enemies and obstacles. Your cave dude can collect dinosaurs from eggs and ride them around, and each one has a special ability or powerup. This also goes for the game’s other major powerup. You have infinite lives but every time you die the equipped weapon is lost keep selecting and dying and eventually you’ll run out of that weapon in your inventory. This is useful because dying makes you lose whatever weapon you’re carrying. If you finish a level with one of these weapons in hand you add it to your inventory you can then select any weapon for the next level, and picking up another gives you multiples of that item. ![]() All of these items are projectiles (think Gauntlet) and he can hurl two or three before a quick cooldown is needed. Your nameless Early Modern Human is only armed with rocks to begin with, but he can quickly acquire tomahawks, arrows and even a boomerang. The plot is as basic as it gets: you’re a caveman cuddling with your cave girlfriend when a giant dinosaur steals her, prompting the obligatory rescue. None of this is a deal-breaker though Dinocide is easy to pick up and play once you get past the generic premise and rather stark mechanics. This means fairly flat-looking environments and sprites with minimal animation, and the bad kind of rudimentary chiptunes-the kind that cycle too often and get on your nerves. The visuals and sound feel like they’ve been ripped right out of a late-era NES game, or maybe a middling Genesis side-scroller. Dinocide’s heart is in the right place but the execution leaves something to be desired.įrom the get-go this is clearly an homage to those early 90s platformers. Dinocide has some decent ideas but it feels like an early beta or even alpha build for something that never quite got finished. This game feels like a cocktail napkin idea sketched out during a heavy buzz-good enough to be interesting but without a meaningful or memorable follow-through. So it is with Dinocide, a prehistoric platformer from Atomic Torch Studios. ![]() So it goes today some are great, some are awful and a lot are just floating in the middle somewhere. Unfortunately like the 90s, this surge of software runs the gamut for every Mario World and Earthworm Jim there were a dozen Bubsy the cat and mediocre X-Men spinoffs. From mind-bending puzzlers like The Swapper and Typoman to clever ideas like Adventures of Pip, this genre is seeing a full-blown renaissance. A Clinton is vying for the Democratic nomination, gas is under two dollars a gallon and 2D platformers are all the rage-it’s feeling awfully 90s in here. ![]() |