Classic strategy gaming with Transport Tycoon

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One of my favourite all time games transport tycoon is now available for free on the Internet! Transport tycoon is a classic game that I used to love playing as a kid. Its a strategy game where you play as the owner of a transport company. You have to develop transport routes between towns and ship cargo and passengers. As a player you can transport raw materials to factories and power stations. You can also transport finished goods to developed towns. You can build airports, train stations, docks and bus stations and transport goods and people by land, air or sea. And as with every business you’ll have to deal with competitors who try to take over your market share. Its is indeed real time strategy gaming at its finest!

Update 25 March 2012: TTD is no longer being offered for download by its creators. Fans are advised to try open transport tycoon deluxe instead.

Direct Download link to windows version 4.28MB

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Alhamdulillah! This site now has Page Rank

Amazing how much things can change in just a few weeks. When I checked my site’s page rank a few weeks ago it showed 0 PR but after the recent google page rank update its jumped to 5! I remember reading an article some time back that suggested that google denies page rank to new websites. It gave the example of a site that went from 0 PR to 7 after 4 months! Now I know that this effect is known as the sandbox effect. And so it is with my site. Roughly three and a half months from the time I registered this domain it has finally got a page rank! And straight to 5 at that. I just have the biggest grin I could possibly have *g*.

Need code examples

Every budding programmer needs a few code examples now and then just to see how things are done. Perhaps thats why google has gone and implemented google code search. Just type in the function you’re interested in and google happily fetches code snippets from open source projects worldwide. You can even restrict results to particular languages like php. Hmm… does this make help files and manuals obsolete? Ah the wonders of modern technology.

Crack Attack!

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This is an addictive free and open source game. The idea behind crack attack is that you have a mass of blocks of different colours. More blocks are added to this mass from the bottom of the screen. The aim of the game is align three or more blocks of the same colour to eliminate them. To do this you can only switch two adjacent blocks at a time using the spacebar. Sometimes more blocks fall from the top of the screen and you have to eliminate those too. The game ends if the mass of blocks exceeds the height of the playing screen.

The game features eye pleasing graphics, simple controls and multiplayer options.

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File size is ~5mb for windows version and ~670KB for linux source code

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The art of spam free email addresses

Recently I have been buying a lot of domain names for resale and I have had to provide contact information that is publicly accessible in the whois database. This database is widely used by spammers to harvest email addresses. But I figured out a way to make my email address public whilst limiting the number of spammers that harvest it. The key is to create an email address with the words "nospam" in it.
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