January 2006

I never seem to be done with these strategy games, they just keep you hooked on to ur PC. 2 days back downloaded the trial of Age of Empires 3 and Civilization 4. A03 sucks and somehow didnt like the look and feel, the gameplay hasn't changed much other than the addition of home city concept. I feel AOE2 was much better than this. Anway need to get the full version before delivering the final verdict. I played the civilization for the first time, never had a look at the older versions. Took a little bit of time to understand the turn based approach of the gameplay, the tutorial was pretty decent, however the bad part of the trial was

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Finally i decided to upload my digital camera photos to the internet. The motivation for this came from the unlimited broadband access I took from airtel. So I began searching for a good photo sharing portal. First I uploaded all the photos to www.flickr.com. However later I realized that in order to create more than 3 albums I had to pay money (27$/year). Also there was a download limit/month in the basic version. So I switched to kodakgallery. However in this kodakgallery sharing of photos is a pain. You need to invite friends while sharing the photos. I liked the flickr way of sharing where you just set a name and you have a dedicated url to view ...