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Tiny Diggers – An iPad Construction Truck Game for Kids Age 2-5

February 20, 2012 – 12:39 pm | 3 Comments

Tiny Diggers has just been released on the iPad and soon the Mac computer. Here’s the details on this fun, educational game from TouchTilt Games.
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Windows Vista’s DreamScene

Submitted by Kat on January 9, 2007 – 1:00 pm6 Comments

Bear with me – this could be slightly gaming-related. If you have Windows Vista Ultimate edition, you can download extras from Microsoft’s site, and one of those is DreamScene. You’ll need to enable the Aero theme and have an awesome graphics card (or just one that supports Aero), and DreamScene will let you set any WMV or MPEG video as your animated wallpaper! Imagine having the latest game trailers playing in the background! You just know someone will build a video RSS thingy for this that will switch out your videos, or even a separate app that will support playlists of videos on your own drive. True, some videos as background could be distracting, but you could also get a nice beach scene with waves crashing. A few looping videos are included in the DreamScene package. It will also pause the video if you are on a laptop and switch to battery power to conserve your battery life. I *think* these are intended to be free, and according to the site, if you don’t have Vista Ultimate (or perhaps if you do but don’t have Aero turned on, not sure), DreamScene still has a few extra features, such as new positioning for wallpapers or photos. There’s a video of DreamScene in action at the link below.

Windows Ultimate blog

P.S. Is this entry not gaming-related enough in your humble opinion? Well I still have something for ya – another Vista Ultimate Extra will be this Texas Hold’Em game.

Harry

I don’t think you can get these Extra’s until the end of this month. I have Vista Ultimate now and I can’t see it anywhere.
http://www.quadrent.org/ quadrent

Yeah, I can’t even select my own video right now to use as a background it says it only supports image formats.. what kind of lame shit is that. Then for the windows ultimate extras it says there are none available…
ms

not publicly available until 01/30 on windows extras for download
RaXeT

Well it’s the 30th and there is no Dreamscene under Windows Ultimate extras. I have the release Ultimate installed too.
El Fuego

I have the Ultimate Signature Edition installed (legit purchase from Best Buy) and have not been offered to d/l DreamScene yet.
It’s the 1st of February now… this is a bummer. I’m really looking forward to it too.
Alex

As of 02/12/2007 the DreamScene Beta is available as the download via Windows Update on Vista Ultimate edition…it is optional and the part of Ultimate Extras. Once installed (21+MB) it requires reboot and it comes with one demo video (a la Vista Ultimate Wallpaper)…as of right now it works well and I have not notice any slowdowns of my PC.