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How to Root your Droid

A cool little app called Easy Root recently got polled from the market that made it super easy for you to root your Droids with the click of a button. If you wish to still root your phone you can download Easy Root and then use the following information to login when the application is installed. Just download the APK and transfer it to your phone. You can use a program called Astro to launch the apk and install.

http://www.unstableapps.com/apps/EasyRoot.apk
Email: (hit the space key)
Key: EIAJVVKL

I found this key by using the http://www.unstableapps.com/keylookup.php and not typing in an email address. It generated me an easy root key and let me log in! Feel free to use it until the developer fixes it!

Have fun rooting!

Change Tickrate for Orange box Counter-Strike: Source

As you may know, a recent update has disabled the use of the -tickrate command line option. If you wish to get it working again, just follow this simple tutorial and it will be up and working in under a minute!

To get started, you will need to download TickRate.rar

Extract it to your cs directory and have it overwrite the addons folder.

add -tickrate 100 or w\e you want to set it to on your server command line and vuala!

Hope this helps some people out.

1080p Source Games

Do you have a computer capable of playing games in 1080p resolution? Do you play games like Counter-Strike: Source or Left 4 Dead? A friend of mine recently came across a cvar for Source Engine games that allows you to change the resolution to whatever you want, even if you can’t do it via options\video. First thing you have to do is enable console for the source game you are trying to play. Look through options for enabling developer console, in CSS it is under Options\Keyboard\Advanced. Once you have it enabled, hit the “~” key on your keyboard (Above tab, and to the left of 1 below your esc\exit key).

Depending on the resolution you want to have you will need to change the command.. If you are running a 1080p setup, this command should work fine for you.

Windowed Mode:
mat_setvideomode 1900 980 1

Fullscreen Mode:
mat_setvideomode 1920 1200 0

mat_setvideomode #width #height (1 for window, 0 for full screen) is how the command works.

And there you have it! Now you can make movies and play as 1080p!

Export from 3ds Max into Valve Hammer Editor

It took me some time to figure out how to do this because there really wasn’t any good video tutorials showing how it should be done. This tutorial will show you how to export models from 3ds Max into a format that can be played with Source Engine games.

There are some files and programs you will need before getting started:

• VTFEdit: http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?c=178#p178
• SMD Exporter: http://www.wunderboy.org/3dapps.php#max_smd
• StudioMDL: https://www.wmclan.net/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/StudioMDLandModelnameqc.zip

Creating a “Sick” beat with Reason 4.0

Ever wondered how people make crazy sounding beats? Ever wanted to make some yourself? This is the tutorial for you! Go buy yourself Reason 4.0 if you haven’t already, it’s an amazing program. You will also want to buy a midi controller of some sort. You can find some cheap USB midi controllers at just about any online store these days. If you’ve ever listened to Black Eyed Pees then you have experienced what Reason 4.0 can do.

Importing Midi in Reason 4.0

Ever wanted to work with pre-existing midi files in your Reason project? This tutorial will help you get started! Simple to follow, and the outcome can literally be amazing! Go find yourself a midi file and get started!

Installing and using SVN

This is a quick little tutorial I cooked up showing the basics of TortoiseSVN. It will show you basics like how to download from an svn, and commit to an svn.

For more information on what an SVN is, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)

You can download TortoiseSVN from http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads