Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms ... its FREE

Amazingly enough, it exists and its free.

I did not look for it before as I remember them not having it when I started using 64 bit OS. Yesterday, totally randomly I found out at some point Adobe released this, so as there is possibility of this post pointing it out to somebody who, like me, assumed they still did not have it, here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

Fallout 3: Fix for freeze/crash on Quadcore

I just installed Fallout 3 GOTY on my newly built power rig running Windows 7 64 bit (I actually got Windows 8.1 free but uninstalled it same day I tried it. I'll wait for Windows 9 to move on up from 7) and it froze dozen times before I could even get to B-Day Party.

Here is solution that worked for me:

In My Documents/My Games/Fallout3 folder there is fallout.ini file that needs to be slightly modified

CTRL+F bUseThreadedAI=0 and change that to bUseThreadedAI=1
then hit Enter, and on next line place
iNumHWThreads=1

Save and you're done.

How to Completely Backup Blogger Blog and Template

On Wordpress I have automated plugins that do it for me, as all my actual money making blogs are still strictly Wordpress. I've tried several small CMS's and Joomla and Drupal, but Wordpress just suits my usage best.

Since I am currently trying out Blogger for fun, it was inevitable that I'd need to look up into backup/restore option as well. I'll spare you boring details and experiments, here is how to do it properly:

Kickstarter Hacked

Yeah, it happens to everybody sooner or later.

Quite frankly I am surprised that it has not happened sooner.

Image of email sent to me, and probably everybody else that gave money through Kickstarter below:

Royalty Free Music Can Get Your Videos Removed From YouTube

I do not buy, nor use intentionally, any royalty free music. Unfortunately, some of the gaming companies whose videos I wanted to promote do. What that resulted in is waste of time, bandwidth, and by extension money. However a valuable lesson was learned.

Google/YouTube and copyright infringement clowns and trolls only care about copyrights when it means they can abuse you, the consumer. They on the other hand have no qualms about breaking laws to make money.

Youtube Monetization and Copyright Ownership

When you are waiting in line at the grocery store you probably see those trash magazines that claim various celebrities did some outrageous things. Most of those claims would prove to be untrue, yet virtually no celebrity ever sues those magazines. Why? Because whatever they say about you is better than when they stop talking about you if what you want is to be in the spotlight and remain relevant.

Same applies to games and gaming companies. Sure, there is such thing as too much negative publicity, and sometimes that happens no matter how much money you try to shut up honesty with, like in case of Star Wars MMO and Warhammer MMO, but overall gaming companies do want you to talk about their games, especially if you have something nice to say.

Hearthstone: Opening 146 Expert Packs and odds of what you will receive

Its split into 2 videos, first one was supposed to be 40, but due to unforeseen circumstances recording starts with 26 packs remaining:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-MsoCcVElU

And second video is opening 3x40 packs (I was looking for specific Legendaries, not getting them I simply acquired more packs until I was able to disenchant for dust to get what I was after):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbwRFmOhDgw

If you are curious, odds are about 1 Legendary per 40 packs. I got 5 in 120 but I did open about 100 other packs earlier from gold rewards, my first purchase which was $3 just to get gold Legendary Beta Promo, etc, and I kept track of #'s of rarities acquired overall.

Now, I also found info where they claim actual odds are: