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1000+ FREE High Resolution GIMP Brushes
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Last week we published our first GIMP post "30+ Exceptional GIMP Tutorials and Resources" and saw a great appreciation from our readers. So this week, i would like to share with you 1000+ high-Resolution GIMP brushes that will be perfect for any project you may happen to be working on. Also you will find some useful tutorial to teach you how to create your first GIMP brush-set and how to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes and more.
Please note that Photoshop Brushes are now Fully Compatible with Gimp 2.4 and up. So you can now use any PS brush in your GIMP software. For another huge collection of Photoshop brushes, you might find some really stunning brushes over here.
Important: Licenses of every brush set varies, so be sure to check that information before using them.
1. Grunge Brush set
1.1 GIMP Grunge Brush Pack 2
10 grunge GIMP brushes.
1.2 GIMP Scratchies
Containing all six brushes in this set for the GIMP
1.3 Grunge brush set 3
Includes an imagepack and brushes for Gimp.
1.4 More grunge brushes
13 grunge brushes; includes .gbrs for Gimp and an imagepack.
2. Floral and Plant Brushes
2.1 Floral I
There are 9 big brushes – at lest 1300 px each, so you can use them also in printed stuff.
2.2 Floral Part 2
There are 6 big brushes of flower brushes.
2.3 Floral Brushes
10 greyscale floral .gbr brushes for GIMP. They are about 400x400px and have blended edges.
2.4 Pine – MEGA PACK
There are 16 full branches and 33 smaller parts, so you can design you own branches yourself.
2.5 Vector Foliage-Plants
3. Nature GIMP Brushes
3.1 Cloudy Brushes
Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
3.2 GIMP Brushes: Moon
There are 9 big brushes in this set.
3.2 Lightning Brushes
A nice set of lightning brushes.
4. Glitter, Splatter and Snowflakes
4.1 GIMP Glitter Brushes
Realistic cloudy brushes for your skyscaping needs.
4.2 Splatter Brushes
These brushes were originally created for Photoshop then converted to GIMP brushes.
4.3 Snowflakes
There are 20 snowflakes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
5. Water and Bubbles Brush sets
4.4 GIMP Water Brushes
This set contains 36 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.6
4.5 Bubbles
This set contains 9 brushes created in Photoshop 7.0 and converted with GIMP 2.2.
5. Miscilnea GIMP Brushes
5.1 Mask Brushes
5 mask brushes. GBRs for Gimp and an imagepack.
5.2 Butterflies Part I
There are 9 brushes in this pack. They were created in CorelDraw 11 and then converted with GIMP 2.2.
5.3 1100 Gimp Brushes
This set contains 1100 brushes for GIMP
5.4 Doodles Part 2
This set contains 41 ! brushes created for GIMP
5.5 Blood Brushes
Looking for splattery blood brushes, here you go.
5.6 Inner Universe Brushes
5.7 GIMP Odysee Brushes
5.8 GIMP Galactic Brushes
5.9 GIMP Rise Brushes
5.10 GIMP Edge Brushes
5.11 15 Vector Brushes
15 vector .gbr brushes for GIMP.
GIMP Brush Tutorials
1. Creating Spikey Brushes
Learn how to create spike-looking brushes.
2. Make a .GBR Brush
Learn how to create .GBR brushes from pre-existing files
- 3. How to install Gimp brushes
- 4. How to convert Photoshop brushes into GIMP brushes
- 5. Let's create some brushes!
- 6. Creating a brush with variable size
- 7. PS Filter Workaround in GIMP
- Jani, 26 October 2008
Wow! This many! And for free, thanks! Screw Photoshop! :D
- Raine, 19 January 2010
I agree! I love GIMP and these brushes! :D
- gorgiette, 13 October 2010
i love gimp!! <3
- lexi, 03 March 2010
i agree these r amazing!! ^^
- dan r, 16 April 2011
lol seriously. was thinking the same thing.
- Simon from Otooo, 26 October 2008
Sweet, although I'm still a photoshop guy :)
- Danno, 26 October 2008
Impressive list as usual. I'll spend hours just working the header image on my site and although I love the GIMP project — and think it's a fantastic alternative to Photoshop — I personally found it quite unintuitive to use as a beginner. Maybe it's because my brain space already well populated with the way Adobe does things.
- Mariah|NC|, 30 January 2010
Why don't you go back to using Photoshop then?
- FBrushes, 26 October 2008
I think GIMP will rock in the near future! :D
- chollenbeck, 14 January 2010
what do you mean in the future? Gimp rocks now…..
- nomnomnomnom, 17 December 2010
I know and with this many brushes ittl be better like love this site now
- Freddywang, 26 October 2008
Wow, nice collection. Some are available in Photoshop as well. The nice thing of GIMP is that it reads Photoshop Brushes as well, but not the other way around ;-)
- Raul, 26 October 2008
- insicdesigns, 26 October 2008
wow i like the this collection of gimp brushes.
- phipphin, 26 October 2008
Great Collection. Thanks
- liam, 27 October 2008
Sweet. I don't use Gimp, but didn't know there was such great stuff available for gimp.
- Naldz Graphics, 27 October 2008
these are really cool list of brushes.downloading some of them:)thanks a lot
- ericb, 27 October 2008
thanks for sharing this one! great collection!
- John thomas, 27 October 2008
Wow, you truly delivered! very nice indeed.
- Gimper, 27 October 2008
GIMP 2.4 and above fully support PS .abr brushes so there the days of GIMP specific are over.
- stelt, 27 October 2008
I see "vector", but not "SVG" ?!
What's this other format? - Ouipas, 27 October 2008
Great collection. Can't wait to try them out.
cheers !
- Mr. Little, 27 October 2008
Wow, nice list. This is definitely bookmark worthy, thanks.
- Mitternacht, 27 October 2008
Very useful resource, thank you very much. Gimp has some usability problems as compared to Photoshop, but can do a great job once you get used to it.
Please note that Photoshop brushes (*.abr) work perfectly with Gimp, though. I use tons of them. - fav8r, 28 October 2008
thanks,its helpful.
- Shea, 28 October 2008
Thanks for these! Can't wait to play with them.
- Rishi Luchun, 28 October 2008
Nice collection
Thanks! - Ken, 28 October 2008
This is awesome. Don't use GIMP, but will give it a try to check out these brushes. Thanks for the post!
- ^^paupau^^, 04 November 2008
>>gawd! I so love this collection… will use 'em.. Thanks much!
- greg, 05 November 2008
I like new GIMP verion! Great program.
- jaider, 07 November 2008
Por fin te encontre: Brushes GIMPs.
Que gran coleccion. Tiene todos y mas de lo que habia imaginado encontrar.gracias, muchas gracias.
Bendiciones. - web design, 11 November 2008
Get PS and you won't need any of these brushes anymore. Now bury me :)
- Esmeralda Kerr, 12 November 2008
- Jon Williams, 29 November 2008
Great roundup, thankyou.
- Asmaa, 05 December 2008
Amazing Effort.. can't comment .. just a very big THANX :)
- itsuts, 29 October 2009
Pweety nice
- anonymous, 03 May 2010
i totally agree!
thanks for these brushes!!!!
- quaza12, 14 November 2009
i want to know how to use this broches
- anonymous, 03 May 2010
there are some links that tell us how to use the brushes, i think.
- pati, 16 November 2009
Greate! :D thanks :*
- theo, 04 December 2009
I dled them but i cant make any of them look cool like that because there always 1 solid color HELP PLS!
- emo-crazy, 18 January 2010
where it says normal click the down arrow and click soft light and then go on brushes and click a size of the faded brush and then it wont be a solid colour
- sam, 06 December 2009
nice thank u !!
- kenisha, 07 December 2009
how do i change the colour of the brus and take out white background/ or how do i include it in my set of brushes
- foshoelpy, 08 December 2009
awesome lol haha im so high (on weed) =)
- J., 11 December 2009
I like it because opens the opportunity for me to make stuff where ever I am @ good job thanks man.
- ruth, 14 December 2009
i have a question… i.e: GIMP Edge Brushes or the galactic one.. it seems to be a glow effect.. how can i obtain that effect…using gimp??
- Beni, 13 January 2010
hey, wie kann man die benutzen?
- pheerry, 27 January 2010
nice post, thanx for share..
- hammygirl, 02 February 2010
Thank you so much! I just started on GIMP so this helps cover up bad earasing! lol! Thanks!
- Serkan, 07 February 2010
Thanks for the brush sets, great collection. Gimp Rocks :)
- Storme', 14 February 2010
i have no idea how to download brushes
- Andrew, 16 February 2010
Thanks for the collection.
Very nice brushes!!! - baz, 20 February 2010
hi – love the grundge brushes, really excellent. however there is no licence file in any of the zips, would be nice to know terms of use.
- Spring Sulouff, 01 March 2010
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- Shoshooo, 07 March 2010
Hey could someone help me by explaining how to put them on GIMP so that I can use them, would have been really nice:D
- löniboy, 06 June 2010
great!! love it.
hope gimp will cope with the loong loading time when starting it with all the brushes someday ._.and it's fine that you didnt just upload the brushes but wrote the links, because a giant lot of deviantart members are hating it to find their brushes in another one's brush pack ;)
so @ all: please consult the wishes of all the uploaders ;) they all deserve a thank you ^o^
- Crispin, 14 June 2010
I just downloaded the Gimp brushes and have extracted the file but how do you install the new brushes ? If i open the file it lanches the Gimp Graphic program and displays an image (Ex: a picture of a lightning bolt) is this all there is to it ? Just photostocked images of paints ?I must be doing something wrong ? Can you please let me know how to install the brushes and how to select which brush for it's use .Thank you
- Josh, 09 July 2010
In Windows XP
Install GIMP brushesGIMP Brushes and gradients are installed similarly – extract and drop the brushes into C:\Document and Settings\\.gimp-\brushes\ and gradients into C:\Document and Settings\\.gimp-\gradients\
In Mac OS X
Brushes can be installed by dropping them (.gbr files) into the brush search path that is specified in GIMP's preferences. If you have not tweaked anything, this is usually
where 2.x denotes the version number of GIMP you are using (version number is visible in the GIMP startup splash page). Note that you should replace 'username' with your short username (not the full name).
Install GIMP brushes in Linux
Go to your Home folder. You have to make hidden files/folders visible, so hit Ctrl+H. Go to the directory named .gimp-2.x (where 2.x is version number of GIMP you are using). Within that folder, there are subfolders, one of which is brushes. Drop your brushes to that folder
Source: http://www.techzilo.com/how-to-install-gimp-plugins-scripts-brushes-and-gradients/
- iMadalin, 07 July 2010
Thank you for such a great resource to us developers and designers, lovers of open source community.
I have been using Linux since 1998 and had been running sometimes Windows for Photoshop, only small things done, but with this :D Windows and PS is long gone from my computer.
Only GIMP and Inkscape on my Ubuntu 64bit laptop with my beloved Eclipse (PDT, JDT and CDT) :P, focusing only on programming.
- Hanna, 24 July 2010
How to use them?
- Bye bye photoshop, 11 August 2010
Woah these brushes are sooooo amazing!
- Amambe, 19 August 2010
it's pretty easy in windows vista, just open the file location for gimp, find the brushes file, and drag and drop them from where they are to the brushes file. when you open gimp, the brushes are there.
- celebzluvergarl, 07 September 2010
I love these brushes! Photoshop is so expensive but the functions are almost the same as GIMP but i think GIMP ROCKS TO THE MAXX!!!
i'd rather use up my comp space to download this software and not waste any money or time on photoshop…..thanks for sharing these brushes!! ?
- Fears, 09 September 2010
I am new to this and am trying to create a watermark for photos. This all seems "greek" to me. The links to help me understand how it all works are not working. Can someone help me and put this all into "dummy terms"? Ive dled gimp and some brushes. So..now what?
- AlleyJack, 23 September 2010
The 1100 Gimp Brushes package appears to be a corrupted archive! I can't extract anything from it. (Using Windows XP.)
Hey Fears, see if this article helps you at all.
- 1antares1, 28 September 2010
Thanks! I love gimp and you :P
- sav, 07 October 2010
Thank you very much! this is so cool!
- Arkam, 14 October 2010
i like this,,,
- Manisha, 02 November 2010
Thanks…these are superb!
- Lakeesha Besemer, 06 November 2010
Wow! Image browsing yahoo and google all day for this and that i eventually found it right here!
- $aRa, 20 November 2010
i really love the blood one! thx alot :D
- Westminstere, 22 November 2010
Is there any way to download these files so they aren't "read only"? Because of the read only I am unable to change the brush size and many come through larger than my original image. I'm pretty new to Gimp, so maybe I'm just being dumb.
- JSDK, 12 December 2010
Its Fantastic my Friend Very Good Brushes
- silvia, 12 December 2010
i may not be professional yet but sure i m able to recognize goooood stuff!!!
in this over populated e-world, i can't help thinking there are some people who like good things..
and there is no need to translate the word "good"in the right wayit sounds like that for me:
when i feel a line,a perfect straight line with its points all inside aligned..aligned so well ..and that's all for watching your web-site..
aahahahhaha!!!!! - Suzie Dokuchitz, 23 December 2010
Excellent publish. Very refreshing provided all the duplicate material available. Thanks for performing some thing original.
- Connor, 27 December 2010
I have a little problem. The 1100 brush set link is broken.
- dian, 28 December 2010
I am just learning GIMP and found that there are just few brushes available in GIMP and I think I need some more…I found this collection and WOW…thank for the brushes.
- adia, 26 January 2011
thanks a lot
- Shoaib, 04 February 2011
it is very use full blog . i take benefits here in my designs.
- me, duh!, 22 March 2011
i downloaded a lot of these, but they haven't shown up in my gimp program, i have closed it down and brought it up several times, what is wrong. some work and some don't – i have done this before, so i know what i'm doing, what it wrong?
- Hamid, 26 March 2011
Great! Thank you for sharing
- Haley, 12 April 2011
Thank you so much! I totally needed new brushes for my artwork and these are just perfect! THANK YOU! :D
- Cutey0ugha, 16 April 2011
Very Nice!thx 4 sharing i neEd these…thax u very much!G0D BleEs U <3 hugz
- amar, 21 April 2011
very nice noupe this may helps me lot
- ICY, 27 May 2011
- Kaede, 30 May 2011
Thanks for the brushes, their good for backgrounds and the likes! :)
- muheet, 24 June 2011
collection is simly da best!!!!!
- Jetilond, 25 July 2011
- tori, 29 July 2011
Thank you so much! These are awesome and I look forward to using them. Very appreciated. :)
- Adry, 21 August 2011
Thank you for your brushes!
These are really free? - gmbelART, 05 September 2011
thanks for sharing .. :)
- Mckenzie, 20 September 2011
I <3 gimp! Can't wait to use my new brushes! :DDD
- Josh, 10 October 2011
5.3 needs to be removed…i stumbled accross this trying to enhance my gimp install with some better brushes….pretty nice just i think some of them don't work in the way of downloading them o.O
- matchima, 25 October 2011
- Nisa, 22 December 2011
hi thanks for the information that you share :) it's really useful :) btw could you share to us how to edit photo by GIMP? thank you so much :)
- Biscuit, 22 January 2012
These all look so amazing, but when I tried downloading them they wouldn't save to my computer and what not. How do I download these (if I'm not doing so right)? Thanks.
- mochazina, 03 February 2012
WOW!! Just downloaded every last one of them! :-) Even went over to hawksmont's site and got all of those! My gimp is very happy right now! :-D
^^Download by opening the zip files, then extracting the .gbr files to your gimp brushes folder. Mine is C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\brushes\
- SangatIngin, 07 February 2012
thank's for usefull more brush for free
- Dali, 17 February 2012
GIMP default download does not have all that much. After you modify then extend it, you would be surprised how powerful an editor it can be. Some psd plugins can be used with it too. The UI can be changed. All the brushes used in photoshop that I am aware of work in GIMP. Steep learning curve for those new to it, but once you get passed that it is all golden.
- Dali, 17 February 2012
Thank you sir for putting this on your blog! : )
- dexterities, 22 February 2012
i really love gimp its very easy to use and it has easy tutorials…thanks a lot gimp..
- Christelle, 03 March 2012
I got both, PS and GIMP, I like GIMP better xD
- Miguel, 08 April 2012
Super Cool.
Thanks for sharing so complete collection of brushes for Gimp. - ladaysha, 03 May 2012
whoever spends 600 dollars on photoshop is an idiot…gimp is awesome!
- Kundan Singh, 08 May 2012
I am Designer and Developer, i want to tell you one thing about your Blog nobody can beat you, in Design and the Best Postings, Thank you for the Great Post looking for More.
- Countjoe, 20 June 2012
The GIMP Odysee brush set just put over 200 Hentai pictures on my computer
- samia, 12 July 2012
thanks a bunch<3
- Roxxie, 23 August 2012
- Xemem, 24 August 2012
They work perfectly for me. a couple broken/dead links on the site (including the one that shows someone who does not know; how to install them, lol. Bummer for some). They are nice brushes though, ty.
…@Roxxie: In case you don't know how to install them here is the way (for a Windows OS):
Go to your downloads folder (in Documents/My Documents) and find the zip file. Extract it (it should extract to Documents/My Documents by default, as a single folder containing the brushes). Your going to want to find the folder for the brushes in your Documents folder and leave it open as you do the next step.
Then go to Computer/My Computer, (C:) Drive, Program Files, Find gimp and open it's folder. Under the newest version, you'll see a folder called share. open that and go into the one inside there that says gimp (yes, this again). their is a 2.0 folder in that one…and finally inside of that folder named 2.0 is one that says brushes.
you either right click and cut the whole folders (not the individual brushes) and paste them into that brush folder, or drag them over and drop them in (try not to drop them into an existing folder…there should be some empty space at the bottom).
Keep in mind gimp was not originally made for windows which uses a lot of automated installers and wizards usually. adding new brushes, fonts and plugins is often a manual process. don't over load your gimp with things you never use either or it will take 5-10 minutes to start up.
You might want to make a desktop folder to extract gimp add-ons to that will make it simpler to put things in gimp and pull it out. Another thing to know is gimp won't change it's layout due to these actions while the program itself is open. so make sure it is closed or that your restart your gimp after you affect changes like this.
The good news is most PS stuff can be dropped into gimp in a similar fashion (it's all about finding the right folder to drag the thing you need over to). So gimp is like a PS you can build to your needs rather then have a ton of stuff on it you don't understand or never use.
- Galdr, 01 September 2012
Oh wow, these are really cool! I'm personally going to use the Lightning, Water, and Cloud brushes for my signatures, banners, avatars and whatnot for BGs. Thanks for posting them. I really wanted the Moon brushes, but I got a 404 error. Sucks. Anyway, great brushes! Thanks! Kudos to those that made these wonderful brushes!
- Julie, 19 September 2012
The blood one and the streaks one worked perfectly for me. They both came with readme files, and they said to open your gimp folder, then your brushes folder, and drop the files into that folder. Of course, you've got to extract the files first.
- SR, 12 October 2012
omg, so many brushes… i didn't know so many existed. i'm feeling cheated now. hahaha!!! thanks for the info!!!
- GimpGraphicGuy, 21 December 2012
Pretty nice… the only thing is
A. You can only do solid colors
B. The brush stays the same as you drag it
This ma ysound a bit picky, but it would be nice if you could choose a couple different colors for each section of the brush. For instance, having the inside section of the lightning brushes white, then the outer part a different color (say, purple). And if there could be a script put in some brushes "Like the vine brush on Gimp" where it changes the brush as you stroke it so it looks more realistic, that would be awesome.Otherwise, AWESOME BRUSHES.
- Jigas, 01 April 2013
Thanks for this, nice finds!
- Nathan, 21 December 2013
I love you for these… not in a gay way though :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!


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PE: How to Fix Animation 'Trailing' in GimpHow to Fix Animation "Trailing" in GimpSo, you just made an animation in gimp on a transparent background. You go to save it, check the animation for last minute fixes, and BAM! The animation looks like this!You are probably wondering, "What did I do wrong?" or how do I fix this?". Well if this has ever happened to you and you're still wondering how to fix it, than please read the rest of this tutorial.Note that this tutorial is only guaranteed to work in Gimp (You can get a free copy at gimp.org). This method may work in other programs, but Gimp is the only program I have that officially supports animation.Let's begin!So after you have made your animation, just save it like you would normally. If you normally just press the save button, make sure to press "Save As" instead.If you use gimp 2.8. or newer, press "Export" instead of "Save as".<
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Hello there and welcome here. My name is Peter and I live in Denmark. This is, of course, my first post on dotTech.
I learned of Ashraf via Giveaway of the Day and have followed his blog, dotTech.org, for a long time. I work with computers doing maintenance and/or troubleshooting on a daily basis and figured I could pass on some personal knowledge to my fellow dotTechies.
Today, I will discuss 3 portable programs I use to clean computers:
- CCleaner
- Glary Utilities
- Wise Registry Cleaner
It was difficult at first when I first started to use registry cleaners. I did not know anything about the registry but I did know if you make any false moves in there (i.e. delete the wrong things), you may have to reinstall the software (or even your whole OS) that was damaged in the registry. However, everyday my computer was getting slower and slower so I was forced to think in new ways and learn about the registry, because I need my computer – without it I am lost.
So, after trying several different things to try to speed up my computer, I decided to learn about the registry and how to clean it.
First I started with CCleaner…
…because many sites I surfed mentioned CCleaner as a safe and reliable cleaner. At the beginning I would delete only the TEMP files (temporary files). However, after a while, when I had the time to look at every entry in the registry CCleaner was asking me to delete, I gained the courage to clean more than just TEMP files. From my experience, I learned a lot about the significant entries; I could trace them all, or nearly all, to what they do and what program program they belong to.
In my time experimenting with many different registry cleaners, I discovered many registry cleaners come with an explanation on why you can delete the entry, and they categorize them in temporary files, missing references, unused extensions etc.:
After I played around with many registry cleaners, commercial ones and free ones, I could see that the trials of the commercial registry cleaners you only can delete 10-20 entries at a time even though they find about 2-900 deletable entries. The problem was, I was helping other with their computers around the same time I was experimenting with registry cleaners, so my need dictated something less restrictive. There I went searching for something safe and reliable, yet simple and free to use everywhere. In the end, I found the 3 free (portable) registry cleaners that fit my needs and can work well for you too.
As I already mentioned, CCleaner was the first program I used for registry cleaning, and I have stuck with it, because it is free, and safe.
CCleaner is so reliable, with CCleaner I usually just delete the suggestions it makes without giving it a thought.
However, I would like to say something for the TEMP files cleaning: it can help a program to run again by fixing, for example, error messages. However, at the same time, think twice about delete TEMP files because deleting TEMP files for a program that needs the TEMP files may cause issues because sometimes TEMP files store user data and such (think browser cookies and cache as an example).
Glary Utilities
At first I thought Glary Utilities is the same as Ccleaner, but after studying the suggestions of Glary Utilities, in terms of cleaning the registry, I could see that Glary Utilities finds different errors than CCleaner but is also safe to use. Because Glary Utilties is portable it was easy to test it on other machines without leaving any trace on the computer that the program has been there, and that is a thing I like very much. Remember, you do not want to spend time to install and then uninstall a registry cleaner.
Wise Registry Cleaner
Initially I used the installer version, not portable verison, of Wise Registry Cleaner, because at the time I did not know there is a portable version of Wise Registry Cleaner. However I am glad I used Wise Registry Cleaner, even though I had to install it, because it found around 400 entries to delete (safely) the first time I ran it, and it had a good explanation for what each entry is, what it is for, and what category it belongs to. If you do not know many things about registry try to scan your computer with this software, highlight individual entries, and see on the bottom of the window what it is for a file and why you can delete it; this way you can learn a lot about registry and registry cleaners. Of course if you scanned your computer for learning purposes only, you can always choose to not delete anything, closing the program after you read all the info. With Wise Registry Cleaner, only the registry entries which are "safe" to delete are checked for deleting by default; however you can always manually check the other entries there are a lot of possibilities here if you want to go further.
I use all three programs I just mentioned to clean my computer and others. One of the biggest reasons I find them all so useful is all three have portable versions so you can have them on a USB stick and clean computer after computer without having to install anything. The other main reason I have used these three is because I have had any problems after cleaning computers with them if I use the safe/default mode of course.
You can use them separately or together. Together they clean better, because in one way or another they each find different errors on the computer as they search in different ways.
Personally, I categorize them in the following 3 steps:
- Surface cleaning – CCleaner (TEMPORARY files (choose the files you want to delete) and registry files)
- Middle phase cleaning – Glary Utilities (at default settings)
- Deep cleaning – Wise Registry Cleaner (delete the safe ones (they are marked safe) registry files)
Steps 2 and 3 I only do once a month maximum, but CCleaner I use several times during the week.
Note: I did hear that some people have problems using Ccleaner to clean Office 2003 temporary files. However, other people tell me that CCleaner helped them fix a damaged Office 2003 by deleting those temporary files, so unless you have a damaged Office 2003, you can choose to not delete those temporary files with Ccleaner.
That's it, I am very happy with these programs and find them useful and hope you can find them useful too. I have made many computers run much better, If not as new.
See you in the next article :O).
You can download the programs from the following links:
Glary Utilities homepage [direct download to portable version]
Wise Registry Cleaner homepage [direct download to portable version]
[This article has been contributed to dotTech by Peter with minor edits from Ashraf.]
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I have never used registry cleaner because I heart the software will delete some important files. i hope there would be other ways to clean and speed up my computer.
@Ashraf: Thanks Ashraf.
I thought that's what happened.
Hmmm…Peter, that's strange???
When I went to click on the stenlysimpson link in my post, (for reference) nothing happened, but it works when I clicked on the link to my comment in your post.
Stenly's post #15330 seems? to be missing.
Maybe you should ask Ashraf about it.
Anyway, stenly's provided link had an independent researcher? perform tests on 5 or 6 cleaners, and one always seem to mysteriously rise to the top, or nearly so.
Then at the end of the testing there was a bottom banner asking the viewer to purchase this mysterious front-runner.
Now I don't know about Denmark, but let me give you some insight from America.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, and smells like a duck. Then it is a duck.
Stenly's link was a spam link, and I fell for it, thinking that with the caliber of users here at dotTech, that something like this wouldn't happen, but I was woefully mistaken. :(
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Great article Peter. Simple to understand. I use ccleaner and wise registry cleaner, wise disk cleaner, asc, no problems. at first only default but as got use to programs able to make custom changes.
I use ccleaner daily to clean my browsing ect. the others weekly as i am always trying new utilities.
I love to check out utilities that make life better for my computer. -
Although the subject is covered enough from previous articles (except wise cleaner info), let me also congratulate you for your time to create this presentation in a style similar to Ashraf's "easy reading" !
This is certainly going to be useful to new readers.
I do wonder what will be the subject of
"Insight from Denmark, Part 2″ ?!?P.S. From WiseCleaner.com , there is also Wise Disk Cleaner. Your comments on that or anyone else who have tested it?
Also, many readers above have suggested other registry cleaners which are NOT portable, so its out of subject and not comparable…
@uno: Wait, are you saying portable registry cleaners are bad?
Hi Peter.
Since you are Peter from Denmark, like me, I will call myself PeterB.
I have not tested to see if my best 2 free registry cleaners are portable after installation.I use these free cleaners.
1. AML Free Registry Cleaner
2. Eusing Free Registry CleanerThey seem to find more than Advanced System Care (only tested free edition), CCleaner, Registry Help, EasyCleaner, Wise Registry Cleaner.
So far I have found those 2 safe to use (I use xp pro 32bit). They can create backups of the changes you made also. Check them out.
For Registry backup, I use windows restore, but also I have found regbak from http://www.acelogix.com/freeware.html . Very nice and simpel and it's free.
Great idea! Portable Registry Cleaners… so you can damage any PCs you see! ;)
Hello Peter :D
Greetings from Canada & Welcome to our neck of the woods aka Ash Country :lol:
Congrats on your 1st article. Very useful & pertinent!!
Being bombarded w so much skewed/bad tech information on the Tubes, we are soooooo darn confused its just maddening!!! !!! :twisted:
We need all the help & insight possible, thats why we rely so much on Ash's advice!So, looking forward to Part: 2, 3, 4, … ;)
See you around
BTW I love your blog! -
Mr. Fred
Also,…. instead of Glary Utilities,…. use Iobit's Advanced System Care 3.3.4 … CCleaner is VERY good ! …. & so is A.S.C. 3.3.4
Mr. Fred
I am still a fairly NEW… & .. IGNORANT…. computer user,… but you really need to check out EasyCleaner for registry cleaning (The only caveat is….. do NOT use the "Duplicate Files" tool) all other parts work…. VERY well,…. and in a little over A year,… it has NEVER caused ANY problems in my registry. If you use ERUNT first,… you will have a good copy of your registry to…. VERY EASILY,… Re-install your registry if you should ever have ANY problems.
Hai Peter congratulations for your first Article.
To speed up my windows XP computer, I am using CCleaners, Advance System Care, Ashammpo WinOptimizer 5, Tune up Utilities 2008 dan Eusing Free Registry, Ashampoo PowerUp XP Platinum 2 (all of them are freebis / promotional items).
All of the software (i think especially Ashampoo products) give my computer power to run faster.
I wanna to try Glary Utilities and Wise Registry Cleaner as you mention above.Anyway thanks to you for sharing your info.
Congratulations on your first article, Peter.
But it would be wise to use the international versions for screenshots, so everyone can read what it says, and not just Danes. Not that it's a problem for me, because I'm actually a Dane too.Oh, well, it's your first article, so you will get more experienced as you continue to write and read comments.
Greetings Peter!
Very nice job on the article. I do have a couple of questions.
1) What operating system/computer did you test with?
2) Did you set a system restore point so you could go back to the same conditions every time?With kind regards,
Ron Moore


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RCB Fan Cricket Match - Fans show all the way!!
I have said from long that this Fan Club is made a success by its superb fans. This was proved again in the RCB cricket match played today at MCC Grounds.
RCB is special for many reasons,
a. It brings its fans close even after IPL Season.
b. RCB fans get to wear amazing red and gold gear again.
c. Bring many more fans on board and get them aware of the awesome activities which only this fan club does so well.
Today was another such feather in RCB Fan Club's Cap - First Ever RCB Cricket Match. You heard it right the first of its kind all because of amazing Fans.
Right from Booking Grounds to Inviting Fans, Scheduling to Social Invitations, everything was done by so many fans in Bangalore. Yes Bangalore is the hub of RCB and fans once again proved today that we truly breathe RCB.
Picture this,
By 8:30 am Ground was decorated with Red and Gold - Thanks to the fans wearing the rcb jerseys.
Fans practising hard - Cricket is taken seriously in india and fans were upto it.
Matches starting on time and managed well the whole way - 60+ fans turning up, yes these were fans who came on invitations, united and played hard, same way as the team RCB does.
All the way fans show, cricket matches were a grand success.
Format -
Well the aim was to give a chance to all, so there were qualifiers also for teams that lost.
6 teams - 3 winners qualified to semis - remaining three got a chance and the best team filled the last spot.
Finally it was Team 2 led by Vittal Shanbhag who got the Gold. But it was all fans who deserve a pat on the back and huge kudos for making this happen.
On field behaviour of players, way it was conducted by umpires, support from stands for there teams was all amazing. There was no single incident of bad conduct by anybody, so all fans and all teams deserve the Fair Play Award.
RCB Fan,
Sachin Kodagali


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Prevalence of Acute Respiratory Tract Diseases Among Soldiers Deployed for Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
- K. Korzeniewski,
- Aneta Nitsch-Osuch,
- M. Konarski,
- A. Guzek,
- E. Prokop,
- K. Bieniuk
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Respiratory diseases are one of the most common health problems among service personnel assigned to contemporary military operations which are conducted in areas characterized by adverse environmental conditions. This article reviews the results of the studies into the prevalence of acute respiratory tract diseases among soldiers of the Polish Military Contingent deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The article also discusses a number of factors which increase the prevalence of diseases diagnosed in the population of soldiers on a military mission in different climatic and sanitary conditions. Retrospective analysis was based on medical records of Polish troops treated on an outpatient basis in Iraq in 2003–2004 (n = 871) and in Afghanistan in 2003–2005 (n = 400), 2009 (n = 2,300), and 2010 (n = 2,500). The intensity rates were calculated and were then used to calculate the prevalence of diseases per 100 persons in a given population of the military personnel. We found that acute respiratory tract diseases were one of the most common health problems treated in outpatient medical facilities in all four study populations. The incidence rate was 45.6 cases in Iraq in 2003–2004, and in Afghanistan it amounted to 61.8 in 2003–2005, 45.3 in 2009, and 54.8–100 persons in 2010. In conclusion, the prevalence of respiratory diseases was closely related to the environmental factors, such as sand and dust storms, extreme temperature changes, unsatisfactory sanitary conditions, and common disregard of basic principles concerning disease prevention.
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- Title
- Prevalence of Acute Respiratory Tract Diseases Among Soldiers Deployed for Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Book Title
- Neurobiology of Respiration
- Pages
- pp 117-124
- Copyright
- 2013
- 10.1007/978-94-007-6627-3_18
- Print ISBN
- 978-94-007-6626-6
- Online ISBN
- 978-94-007-6627-3
- Series Title
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
- Series Volume
- 788
- Series ISSN
- 0065-2598
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Disease prevention
- Military medical service
- Prevalence
- Respiratory tract diseases
- Soldiers
- Industry Sectors
- eBook Packages
- Editors
- Mieczyslaw Pokorski (188)
- Editor Affiliations
- 188. Medical Research Center, Respiratory Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Authors
- K. Korzeniewski (00181)
- Aneta Nitsch-Osuch (00182) (00183)
- M. Konarski (00184)
- A. Guzek (00185)
- E. Prokop (00186)
- K. Bieniuk (00187)
- Author Affiliations
- 00181. Department of Epidemiology and Tropical Medicine, Military Institute of Medicine, 4 Grudzinskiego St., 81-103, Gdynia, Poland
- 00182. Department of Family Medicine, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland
- 00183. Department of Epidemiology and Hospital Infections, St Family Maternity Hospital, Warsaw, Poland
- 00184. Department of Maritime and Hyperbaric Medicine, Military Institute of Medicine, Gdynia, Poland
- 00185. Department of Medical Diagnostics, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
- 00186. Department of Obstetrics, St Family Maternity Hospital, Warsaw, Poland
- 00187. Department of Pathomorphology, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
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"A Critical History of
By Kayla Allen, Bryant Kauffman, and Mairead Murphy
The Open-Ended Opportunities Presented with
Taking Shakespeare's
and creatively reinterpreting it by:
- onstage performances
Understanding the critical history and background not only of the work itself but also the culture of the author.
Praise and Criticism within the First Folio
-The First Folio was the introduction to the play that included many important writers tributes to Shakespeare.
In the First Folio, Shakespeare:
Used art and genius (Ben Johnson)
Was compared to classical and contemporary dramatists.
- His work rose above culture and historical periods and is still great even for today's audience.
Ben Johnson claims that
was very "natural"
(the nature of humanity, who we are as people, and the characteristics of our personality that defines who we are.)
-Ben Johnson also criticized, saying that Shakespeare never scribbled out his work. Johnson says that crossing out shows "hard work and stylistic revision."
Criticism of
in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Hamlet praised for "heroism" (Betterton)
Hamlet was able to expose ordinary human emotions through intensified circumstance. (Betterton)
Hamlet praised for "variety" (Johnson)
Hamlet lamented for "inconsistency" (Gentleman)
Hamlet was "irresolute" meaning he couldn't make up his mind. (Boswell)
Hamlet wanted "strength of mind" (Boswell)
Hamlet is seen as sensitive; the "Age of Sensibility" (Mackenzie, Goethe)
Shift from the plot to character
Romantics shift from focus of Hamlet as entertainment to thought provoking and discovery of self.
Hamlet's "intellectual power" is emphasized; the old view of the overly contemplative Hamlet is reborn. (Coleridge)
Hamlet delays in his actions because he thinks too much and contemplates what he does. (Coleridge)
Hamlet's intellect and philosophical questions inspired reader's to "ponder the great questions of human existance." (Coleridge-Schlegel)
Hamlet takes his own problems and generalizes it to all of humanity. (Hazlitt)
19th Century Responses to
Hamlet's Romantic persona:
Famous questions asked about the play:
-Why does Hamlet delay?
- Hamlet suffered from a deep "abnormal and morbid melancholy" that prevented him from acting. (Shakespearean Tragedy, Bradley)
Shakespearean Tragedy
is significant because it summed up the views of the 18th century and prepared an arguing ground for the 20th century.-
The Freudian Response
Freud first uses
in his own psychoanalysis and in his book
The Interpretation of Dreams.
"Uses Hamlet as a figure for dreams themselves, the very medium through which he believes he can gain access to the unconscious." (Freud)
Freud says that Hamlet behaved the way we often do in dreams, so by studying Hamlet, we can learn more about dreams. (Freud,
Interpretation of Dreams 480-481)
Freud differentiates between Oedipus the King and Hamlet.
Freud Continued….
Freud differentiates between Oedipus the King and Hamlet:
-Hamlet is more repressed than Oedipus because civilization has become more repressed.
Freud believes that a real event inspired Shakespeare to create the character of Hamlet.
According to Freud, Shakespeare felt an unconscious connection to Hamlet because he experienced similar things.
-Hamlet is not acting and taking revenge for his father's death because he considered taking the same action against his father. Hamlet felt an unconscious sexual affection for his mother. (Freud)
Some people believe that Freud used Hamlet's melancholy as the basis for his diagnosis for melancholy in his own patients.
Freud and Bradley focus on Hamlet's madness was very similar to that of the 16th and 17th centuries.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the madness was represented much more violent than in more recent times.
People wanted to see the play purely to witness the insanity of Hamlet.
Oliver's Film
Oliver' film incorporates the Freud-Jones theory in his 1947 version of the play. Those elements were:
-erotic treatment of the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude.
-attribution of Hamlet's delay to an implicit comparison between himself and Claudius.
-brought out sexual tensions between Gertrude and Hamlet. (casting gertrude to 27, and Hamlet 40)
-Oliver's Hamlet is: romantic, sublime, intellectually brilliant, and courageous but ultimately isolated.
(Susanne L. Wolford, 193)
20th Century Responses to Hamlet
"Much of the twentieth-century
criticism can be understood as an effort to "disengage the play from its Romantic associations and reach an independent assessment" (Hunter 31)
Eliot deems
as an aesthetic failure. (aesthetic means nature, culture, art, beauty)
Eliot does not think that Gertrude was "evil" enough to cause Hamlet such anger and frustration.
He criticized the lack of causes for the emotions of Hamlet.
Eliot believes basically that Hamlet overreacted to everything. If Gertrude had in fact been "so bad" than
would have been a success.
Dover Wilson claims to have found proof of an affair between Gertrude and Claudius before the death of the king, therefore making Gertrude sexually impure, and giving Hamlet reason to be angry. Wilson deems play a success.
Rose believes that "sexual femininity" becomes the scapegoat of the play.
Arguing with Bradley
Play rose out of Elizabethan sources
Insisted on putting Hamlet back into the play, and to study the play again as a whole, not just as Hamlet the character.
Look at symbolism of the play as a whole, not just as the characters separately.
Knights and Knight attributed to these views.
Knights and Knight
L.C. Knights argues against psychological criticism
He claims that critics can't imagine a character from the play to answer questions that the play doesn't answer in order to understand a character better.
G. Wilson Knight argues that we should pay more attention to themes and images in order to put Hamlet back in his own dramatic environment.
Knight emphasized reading Hamlet as reading a long poem.
Mid-20th Century Responses
"By the 1950s, critical interest had shifted toward the poetic and the metaphysical, toward the mysteriousness of life and toward a focus on mortality.
Mack believes that
was made up of riddles.
He believes that Hamlet had an interrogative attitude and was constantly asking questions.
Hamlet always seemed "anguished and alarmed." (Mack)
Shift from emphasis on a Romantic Hamlet to a "philosophical meditation on death itself."
Knight says that mortality is the play's real focus and Hamlet himself is a death bringer.
Believes Hamlet "infected" the kingdom with his "diseased consciousness."
Knight believes Hamlet's sarcasm and negation are his own poison.
Hamlet is the source of his own disease.
Hamlet the Bad Guy
Mallarme said that Hamlet is "a killer who kills without concern, and even if he does not do the killing-people die. The black presence of this doubter causes this poison, of which all the characters die."
Hamlet "scatters death like a universal plague" (Mark Van Doren)
The Play within the Play
also carried criticism about "theatricality" or metatheatrical self-consciousness (theater about theater)
The play put on by the travelers and Hamlet's speech to them are seen as "touchstones for interpretation"
The Traditions
-focuses on Hamlet's disgust toward women, especially as sexual beings.
Historical Criticism:
-"effort to try to discover what the Elizabethan issues in the play were. (Moral, religious questions about revenge, fate, and free will.
Performance criticism:
- "treats the play not as material for interpretation but as a work of art that has its own separate, powerful, and primary existence on the stage."
The End
"Hamlet will continue to puzzle and possess the minds of future generations, who can make the play their own only by in turn taking critical possession of it. 'Remember me!' says the play, and we will not forget.
Susanne L. Wofford
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The View from the Midwest - My Theory Holds
The original plan was to bring you one of my promised interviews, but fate intervened and I found myself in Chicago for the past week. Aside from the odd juxtaposition of celebrating a hockey championship in 93-degree heat and humidity (while I was in a suit, incidentally), Chicago is a thoroughly enjoyable city. Glittering skyscrapers soaring into the stratosphere (one of which—the Carbide and Carbon Building—has a 24-karat gold-leafed Zeppelin docking mast at the top), landscaped boulevards, and a level of cleanliness unusual in any city, much less one of Chicago's size.
Nevertheless, while in Chicago, I did not forget my operating theory that American car culture manifests itself differently in various parts of the country. Admittedly, when you're downtown in any city, street scenes are made up mostly of taxis, busses, and delivery trucks. But I did see a few examples of 1980s Detroit iron riding on gigantic shiny wheels and rubber band tires; the uninitiated might call it a donk, but it's actually a box. (For clarification on donks, boxes, and bubbles, click here) That's something you never see in New England, and is actually something I associate more with the South, although I imagine domestic migration patterns might explain the trend's appearance in Chicago.
More importantly, however, was a conversation I briefly became involved in while sitting at the bar at Lou Malnati's near the corner of Hubbard and Wells. My dear old friend, Nader Ali-Hassan, brought me there as a means of introducing me to Chicago-style pizza, and I have to admit, I'm a convert. Previously, cheese has simply been a texture; in Chicago, it's a discernable and wonderful flavor.
While Nader and I discussed various weighty topics (girls, monster trucks), I couldn't help but overhear the conversation to my left. Loren Weaver of Atlanta was talking about the Nurburgring with Dutchman Arjan Roobol, who had been crisscrossing America, going from racetrack to racetrack, in what I can only imagine was an attempt to break Dan Gurney's Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash all-time record, albeit in a country-of-origin-appropriate Spyker C8 Laviolette as opposed to Gurney's Ferrari Daytona (My other theory is that Arjan is a Hunter S. Thompson fan and, from behind the wheel of a 1971 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado convertible, he drove around the country in search of the Mint 400).
Naturally, I had to insert myself into the conversation.
What I discovered was that Arjan had indeed expected a certain sameness to American car culture, and he didn't find it (I also discovered that Loren's Japanese relatives are afraid to come to the US for fear of being shot. I suggested he refuse to go to Japan on account of not wanting to be stepped on by Godzilla). Instead, he found random pockets of Le Mans racing; dirt track midgets with their ridiculous roof-mounted spoilers pilfered from old Boeings; and a disappointing lack of cars from the 1950s, although it was made up for by democratic access to the sturm und drang of big-bore V8s provided via Mustangs and Camaros.
As for me, it was back to Boston a few days later to contemplate once again our particular variation on the theme of American car culture. More on that later.
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The following client links are provided for your convenience. There are many more clients available; this list contains some of the most popular ones. You will need to use a client to connect to Materia Magica, so it is advised you check out several of them for your particular operating system and find which one suits you best. We recommend you start with the Flash Client or the Moongate Java Client as these don't require any download to get going.
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MEDFORD, Ore. — The government shutdown is over, but it is still affecting some businesses a month later.
The Medford Flea Market uses the armory once a month to host their market. However because of the shutdown last month, the Oregon National Guard needed the space for their monthly training, and this left the Medford Flea Market homeless.
This month they are back up and running as usual, but both the vendors and the market owners said the cancellation cost them money.
The flea market has been around for more than 40 years and has only closed two other times before, once due to a flood, and once due to a wild fire.
The owners of the flea market had to call each vendor individually and tell them about the cancelation.
They also spent money on advertisements to inform the public about the cancellation. Overall, they said the closure cost them money.
"I can take a wild shot and say we were out a couple thousand, which not having to pay what we pay a day here for the armory — it helped and hurt at the same time," said Medford Flea Market owner, Dennis Nelson.
The flea market pays the National Guard Armory $1,200 a day to rent out the space so they said they did save that money that way, but by the time they rent out tables to vendors and charge and entry fee they make a profit, a profit they lost out on last month.


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These two lovely black beauties have been naughty together. At Girls Boarding School, that simply means they will also endure a severe teen spanking together.
The are made to stand facing the wall, with their naked buttocks facing the teacher. The teacher is anxious to spank these girls as they have such full, round bottoms. It would be a shame not to spank them!
Both girls are going over the teacher's lap, so he can get a good look at their luscious black bottoms. He spanks them with his bare hand and even as the girls start sobbing, he still continues.
The girls must also get a cane spanking. While one of them is bending over, taking the cane to her butt cheeks, the other one is standing with her back against the wall. She is forced to look at her best girlfriend being spanked, punished and humiliated.
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Dragon Fantasy is a game that both parodies and revels in the tropes of the RPG genre, especially ones from the days of 8-bit gaming. Players control Ogden, a worn out and balding hero who is tasked back into action when the Dark Lord kidnaps the heir to the kingdom's throne, and poisons the queen to boot. Not cool. So he goes after the Dark Lord, fighting enemies that pop up randomly on the overworld in a turn-based RPG that could have been unearthed straight from the 1980's.
What the game doesn't share with the 8-bit era is that the protagonist Ogden isn't just an emotionless mute; he actually has dialogue and a personality! The whole game has a sense of whimsy about it, as seemingly every item description, enemy attack, and every line of dialogue has a humorous bent to it, at least. This is not a game that takes itself very seriously. The experience is very streamlined, as it features only one-on-one battles, and even just tapping on the enemy on the screen will attack it. The game is universal, and its pixel art actually looks great on the iPad screen. There's a chiptune soundtrack as well, because anything else in a game like this would just be heresy.
The problem with games inspired by 8-bit RPGs is that 8-bit RPGs tend to have a lot of annoying elements to them. Dragon Fantasy lacks not for random battles, and grinding. There is a lot of grinding necessary in this game. Is this something that old-school fans of the genre will absolutely love? Oh yes. I come from the school of thinking inflating enemy levels farther than the player is just a sign of poor difficulty curvature and artificial game lengthening. It's something I'd rather see left in the 80's. Also, the forced save points? Another thing that should be left in the 80's, especially when playing on an iOS device. The controls could also use a "tap to move to this spot" mechanic rather than the sliding to move that is currently employed. It would just make more sense, especially on the iPad.
Dragon Fantasy's homage to old-school RPGs is both its greatest strength and weakness; it's at times a fun neo-classical romp, but then the worst classical elements rear their head and it's just a reminder that sometimes there's a reason why games evolve.
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Michael is this what you found?
Speaking of God, if you saw that ball rolling down the line last night in the tenth with three Mets standing there watching it, and with Victorino rounding third and heading home, now that's God.
That was divine intervention, no doubt about it.
I'm going to ask the Sisters of St. Francis to pray for the Phillies. Hey Michael, that's God.
Last night the law firm of Geary, Romero and Myers combined for four and a third innings to shut down the Mets.
Michael, that's God.
Former Temple coach Wayne Hardin has taken it upon himself to fill the Linc for Temple's opening game Friday night. He must be doing okay because I can't get tickets.
Rumor has it that if Hardin does fill the Linc, the University will give him an office in Sullivan...and get this, Peter Liacouras will report to him. If it happens, that is definitely the workings of God.
The Washington Redskins, the Eagles home opponent on September 17, cut Todd Pinkston. Now that's HUGH becaue it means that both Pinkston and Jeremiah Trotter are unemployed. It will be interesting to see if the two former Birds find a team. Did I hear you thinking 'who cares?'
One team to keep an eye on in Pennsylvania high school football this year is Mechanicsburg High School. The Wildcats open play against Carlisle Friday night and I understand there is a lot of excitement about the season. Good luck Wildcats. Go all the way to States.
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Harry Reid and Pelosi are both reported lto like the Dead, don't want to call them dead heads as that would seriously beg the issue, either way rock and roll is an art form that is probably gonna stick around for a while.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/12/bush.ipod/ The music tastes of U.S. President George W. Bush have come under scrutiny after an aide revealed the playlist of his new iPod player. ... Not every track is "on-message." The playlist -- regarded by many as a mirror to the soul -- includes musicians who campaigned against Bush, such as John Fogerty. Also on the iPod is the 1979 song "My Sharona" by the Knack, about a man pursuing a much younger woman. ... The playlist does reveal a rather narrow range of babyboomer tunes. Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."
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Are you serious??! Even my four-year old knows it's that thing the aliens use when they come down to make away with you --- or at least your *BODY* .
You can't lock a thread that ain't yours to lock!! But, of course, you're only joking. No problemo. OK, folks, thread is officially continued!! All aBOARD !! //
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