![]() Again, for most people this doesn’t matter because AMPPS scripts handle database creation for you (if the application needs one). There does not seem to be a simple way to enable it.įor most people, this is not likely to be an issue.Īs well, AMPPS does not grant you MySQL root access. Regular URLs, which begin with http, connect to your browser using port 80. Secure URLs, which begin with https, connect to your browser using port 443. Why wouldn’t I want to install it?ĪMPPS does not enable port 443. Since I am more interested in testing out applications than developing them, I like the convenience of having so many to choose from. If an application you want to try out does not have an auto-install script, you can still install it manually (as you would under XAMPP). ![]() ![]() This allows you to easily try out various web applications without having to (1) find them yourself, and (2) handle the low level install details (not that it is hard). I use it to test out changes to my website before uploading and committing changes to the real site.Ĭompared to XAMPP, AMPPS is easier and friendlier to use because of its auto-installation scripts. To allow development and testing on your local machine instead of on a remote (and probably live) server. Some images may be clicked for full sized versions.ĪMPPS is an extremely easy to install and use Apache Server which comes bundled with MySQL (a database), PHP (server side scripting language), Perl (another server side scripting language), Python (yet another scripting language) and auto-installation scripts for 225 different web applications.
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![]() There are loads of levels to play through which are, once again, unlocked as you progress. Luckily there is none of that nonsense here but as a result the multiple currencies just confuse matters and get in the way. There are also multiple currencies to keep a track of and each one is used for specific things and on phones I’m sure this game would be riddled with in app purchases. The whole upgrading path reeks of the mobile origins of the game as pretty much everything can be upgraded, either during a round for that game only, or after a round for overall stat increases. You earn gold for every balloon destroyed and this can in turn be used to place more monkeys or to upgrade your existing monkeys. Initially there is a small pool of monkeys to choose from but, as with everything else in this game, more will unlock as you progress. On the easiest setting there are 50 waves to survive, doing so will earn a bronze medal, harder difficulties have more waves to survive. This happens after each of the waves, so you’ve always plenty of time to plan your defence before committing. Things start and you’ve got a cash budget to buy a tower monkey and chose where you place this, no waves of balloons will come at you until you press triangle. Make no mistake though this isn’t in anyway challenging the PlayStation 4.Īlthough every tower defence game could be described in the same way, its worth pointing out how Bloons TD 5 works. Things are bright enough and there is a range of environments and colour on display which shows a creativeness lacking from many other titles nowadays. There are many aspects here which show the game’s mobile roots, and the first thing you’ll notice is the flash style graphics which are simple but clear. Thats pretty much the be all and end all of any story element, but, that isn’t necessarily a bad thing as it allows the game to get straight into the action. ![]() I presume that before Bloons TD 5 there has been TD 1 to 4, but I doubt you need to play these first. One of the great strengths of tower defence games is that they can literally be about anything and Bloons TD 5 has you placing monkeys down in order to pop balloons. ![]() We’ve had a few other tower defence games on the PlayStation 4 but nothing which you’d highly recommend so there is still a gap in the market for a decent version. In PS4 tagged Balloons / Bloons / mobile / Monkeys / tower defence by Stevenīloons TD 5 is a tower defense style strategy game from developers Ninja Kiwi who have released a shed load of tower defence games on mobile and PC platforms but Bloons TD 5 is the first outing on the PlayStation 4. ^ "Sonic CD Release Information for PC".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Game Gear) for 3DS".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System) for Wii".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for GameGear".Archived from the original on July 17, 2015. ^ "Reviewed: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Master System & Game Gear)".Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. ^ "Master System Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2".^ "3D Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Nintendo 3DS".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Release Information for Android".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Release Information for iPhone/iPod".^ a b "Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Genesis". ![]() ![]() ^ "Sonic the Hedgehog (Game Gear) for 3DS".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog (Master System) for Wii".^ a b "Sonic the Hedgehog for GameGear".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog spin dashes onto Android with a remastered soundtrack and new playable characters".^ "Sonic the Hedgehog Release Information for iPhone/iPod".^ a b "Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis for Game Boy Advance".^ a b "Sonic the Hedgehog for Genesis".In the two-player co-op mode, there are four game types 'Round', 'Normal', 'Doubt' and 'Block'. In the versus mode, players can attack each other like in Puyo Puyo. The game also features multiple modes, those being a competitive two-player mode, a single-player mode against a computer, and a two-player cooperative mode. The game also has two boxes labelled 'Next', which show the shape cluster being deployed after the one currently falling. Inevitably, the grid will become filled with shapes, and when the shapes hit the top row of the grid, the game is over. If the fallen shapes also align with other shapes, it causes a chain reaction, giving the player more points. The erasure of some shapes may cause other shapes on top of it to gravitate directly downwards in their column. When this happens, the shapes disappear, give the player a sum of points to add to their score, and subsequently make empty space on the grid for other shapes. The general aim for all game-modes is to align two or more of identical shapes in any fashion as long as they lie adjacent to each other inside a 13x7 grid. The falling shapes used in gameplay include a red tetrahedron, a pink cross, a green gemstone, an orange octahedron, a white gemstone, a yellow tetrahedron and a blue sphere. Sonic the Hedgehog, controlled by the player, must arrange randomly selected falling clusters of shapes of the same variety to align on a grid in order to erase them. It also features a large cast of other characters such as Doctor Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog, and the Chao creatures.Ī falling block puzzle video game, it became available for download in Japan in 1991 and in Brazil in 1995 on Sega Meganet, a Japan-exclusive Sega Mega Drive add-on released in 1990 and later released in Brazil in 1995 that enabled players to download a select library of games via dial-up internet. Each game focuses on the titular protagonist Sonic the Hedgehog, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog. The most popular games in the franchise are platform games, although the series also includes other genres such as racing video games, fighting games, action-adventure games, role-playing video games, and sports games. ![]() As of March 2011, the series has collectively sold 89 million copies worldwide across both the platform games and spin-offs. However, some of the original games were ported into versions on newer third-party home consoles and developed by various companies. In its earliest history, most Sonic the Hedgehog games had been platform games released for Sega video game consoles and handheld game consoles (handhelds), dating from the Sega Genesis to the Sega Dreamcast. ![]() The series debuted in 1991 with the video game, Sonic the Hedgehog, released for the Mega Drive video game console (named Sega Genesis in North America). It is published by Sega, with entries developed by Sega, Sonic Team, Dimps, SIMS Co., Ltd., BioWare, and Sumo Digital. Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series. ![]() ![]() On the whole, there is less action than in the previous book, but more plot. True to Williams' plot-twisting style, these bring up new questions. Plotwise, the motivations of and divisions within the Grail Brotherhood are explored, and partial explanations of sleeping sickness are given. Light and the Grail project enters its final stages.Īs fits the second book in this series of four, some mysteries are solved and many more are discovered. Reality and Otherland start to feed off of each other as dark secrets come to The real world is packed with intrigue too, as the forces opposing the Brotherhood (both knowingly and unknowingly) plan and plot and move their pieces into position. It's a quest that will take them through a land of giant insects, Venice, Ancient Egypt, a twisted Kansas under invasion from decaying Oz, and other exotic, The intrusion and act to protect their secrets.įrightened and confused, the party's only chance for survival is to follow the quasi-metaphorical river that flows through each simulation, connecting the private domains of each member of the Brotherhood. It would be only a matter of time before the shadowy Grail Brotherhood, masters of Otherland, could discover In this playground for the rich, the reclusive, and the powerful, the small band was shocked to learn that it was trapped. Tad Williams explores global conspiracies surrounding a perfectly realized virtual world in the continuation of his Otherland saga.Īt the end of Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, Tad Williams had dumped most of his protagonists into the convincing virtual reality known as the Otherland. ![]() This book is Otherland: River of Blue Fire, which is the book after Otherland: City of Golden Shadow. Chromatic, already a reviewing fixture and well-known AfterY2k junkie, has sent us a quick review of the latest book in Tad Williams' Otherland series. “I figured what was the hurt in trying to write in some nicer studios, setting up a bunch of cool gear and instead of writing on a computer, writing it on the fucking instruments? I was playing the drums instead of programming them and then playing them later. “I always write songs in a basement in Ohio for every Beartooth album,” says Shomo. Sessions in New York City, LA and Japan did go down, but it was still in the nascent stages of the writing process of the songs. The rationale being that the different environs would inspire the recordings in ways working at home in Columbus or under a high-powered personality like John Feldmann (who co-wrote some tracks on Aggressive ) couldn’t convey. Shomo’s original plan for Beartooth’s third album was to record several tracks in various cities all over the world where his label, Red Bull Records, had studios. I’m just glad I achieved the dynamic I was going for.” Obviously, I don’t hate it, but I feel it lacked the same dynamic the first record had, compared to this one. Aggressive was made in, what, two months? And I think you can hear that as well on this new record. “It’s a great depiction of what it’s like to make a record over the course of a year and a half. “There are songs where I was kind of more in a chipper place, where I was feeling more melody-driven or just flat-out heavy metal,” he continues. This is the first record I made with a ton of time, and I think it shows because there’s a kind of spectrum to this record. ![]() I wrote the song ‘Disease,’ about a month or two later? From there, it was really a process of taking all those songs of written over that year and a half and within two months, kind of like really narrowing it down and deciding what would fit best all together. Realistically, I’ve been sitting on the idea of this album for a year and a half. “I came up with the title and the whole concept in December of 2016. “I would say sonic photo album is the best way to describe this record,” he opines. Which should make listeners wonder if Shomo’s flexing his songwriting abilities or if he’s creating a sonic photo album of what he’s been experiencing over the past two years. While there are more melodic detours than previous releases (“You Never Know,” the title track), there are moments where the energy goes peak-red maniacal (“Bad Listener”), as well as intersections where both worlds converge at once. Given the amount of sonic depth on display on Disease, one could only guess at Shomo’s motivations. He told me to be confident in my decisions, not to worry about it and make the best record that you can and stop thinking about anything else. Let’s layer up some guitars.’ Honestly, Nick really fuckin’ brought this thing home. “He’d say things like, ‘This song doesn’t hit hard enough. Shomo says Raskulinecz helped shape the album, being very hands-on regarding what songs would be used and focusing the proceedings for Shomo to launch from. For Disease, Shomo worked with producer du jour Nick Raskulinecz (Deftones, Korn, Foo Fighters) at his Rock Falcon Studio while Shomo tracked at Black Bird studio in Franklin, Tennessee, to craft the album’s 12 songs. It’s the opening salvo from Shomo, who is following up 2016’s Aggressive with heaping doses of both heaviness and melody. There’s lots of paint, blood, I’m dying… it gets pretty dark.” He starts laughing. I don’t know: is not too much about having a plot as much as it is capturing an emotion. “I wouldn’t say it was last-minute, but we were able to put it together in five days or so. The clip was lensed by director Drew Russ, who has worked with the band on previous clips including “Lips,” “In Between” and “The Lines.” Shomo says the project came together quite quickly. Pretty good compared to when we shot ‘Beaten In Lips’ and I didn’t leave the the set until 6:30 in the morning the next day.” “Filming started at noon and ended at 11:30. ![]() “It was a pretty wild process getting this video together,” says Caleb Shomo, founder of furious metalcore monolith Beartooth about the clip for the title track of his band’s anticipated third album, Disease. Infernos acts as the offensive spellcaster of the Elementals. The Cycloid is formed by a combination of the Air and Water Elementals. Unlike the flying units for Order and Chaos, the Cycloid is not a ranged unit. It can stun multiple units at a time using a tornado attack, and put a defensive shield around themselves or another unit, reducing the damage it takes. The Cycloid acts as an aerial mage for taking out flying units and providing ground support for the Elemental army. The Charrog is formed by a combination of the Earth and Fire Elementals. If used well, the Charrog can easily wreak havoc with it's abilities. He can burn multiple enemies using the radiant heat ability, or it can escape or stun with the burrow ability. Charrog is different from other tanks because it comes with abilities without need of research. The Charrog is quite literally the tank of the Elementals, having 9 bars of health (much more than the other basic tanks in game). The new unit's health is the average fraction of the elements' previous health. ![]() If they are told to do something else, than they stop combining. ![]() The elements involved in the combination have a 4-sided color coded star appear over their heads, then run towards each other. All combination units cost 100 mana to produce. The four basic units can all combine to form more powerful units. However, they deal little in terms of actual damage, instead primarily relying on Burn damage to kill enemies. If used properly, the Fire Elemental is a deadly unit that can wreak havoc on any opponent. It can easily blast enemies with its fireballs and Burn them in the process. The long retargeting can be avoided by targeting the enemy unit before the Air starts its attack animation.įire functions the most like an archer. However, due to its long retargeting speed and inability to kite, the Air Elemental can be left vulnerable. It can target any unit, even units behind other unit, allowing for deadly accuracy that can strike down enemies far from where the Elemental itself is. The Water Elemental can also suicidally explode, healing all nearby friendly units and curing them of any DoT.Īir fulfills the role of aerial support, being untouchable by melee units, but still able to cast powerful lightning bolts to strike down enemy units. This unit attacks by rushing at an enemy unit to freeze it solid until either Water or the unit it is freezing dies, or the Water unit is ordered to unfreeze. The Water is the support unit, scout, and healer of the Elemental Empire. After transforming into its other state and becoming a Chompler, Earth is capable of mining and praying, just like an Order or Chaos Miner. In its humanoid state, the Earth Elemental has an attack capable of stunning. These four units can be combined in various combinations to form more powerful units using mana (not gold).Įarth fulfills the role of melee unit and resource-gatherer in the Elemental Empire. ![]() The Elementals have four basic units, each of which costing a certain amount of gold (no mana required). If you look closely during the credits roll at the end of Stick Wars II Order Empire, Elemental units can be seen imprisoned in the background.Ĭoncept art for the four basic Elementals. The layout of this Empire is completely different compared to Order and Chaos, as this Empire features four basic elementals which can be then further combined into five other advanced units. Here, the imprisoned Elemental units have been circled in the background of the Stick Wars 2 Credits Roll. Even the V has a population of 10 compared to a typical Giant's 7. The Elemental Empire's units all take up a lot of population space (especially the combinations). For instance, the Treature, Infernos and Cycloid all have powerful AoE spells that can wreak havoc on the battlefield. Many of the Elemental units are spellcasters. The Elemental army appears to be based off of a "Nature's Army" theme, with fully organic structures, as well as elemental-themed units and attacks. This means that you are always being shown the critical path for the work yet to be completed. It is also important to understand that when calculating the critical path, SG only takes into account the part of each task that is not Done. If you want to know more about SG’s critical path calculation feel free to email us and we can discuss. Assuming that all your task links are Finish-To-Start, the critical path chain of tasks will have the longest calendar span of any chain. It also only considers To Start links, most commonly Finish-To-Start (FS) links, but it also considers SS. So avoiding task links to/from parent tasks may result in a more understandable critical path. SG only considers predecessor links between child tasks and not parent tasks. The critical path in SG is the longest chain of tasks and a near-critical path is any chain that is 80% or more of the critical path. My Critical Path looks strange, how is it calculated? This is due to different interpretations of the format standard. There are some limits because SG does not handle all the features of Microsoft Project (and vice versa).Īlso note that SG is typically not able to import XML files from non-Microsoft apps, even though they too support Microsoft Project XML. So from the Save As… dialog in Microsoft Project you select Format = XML, and SG can import the resulting file. But they do import/export in the Microsoft Project XML format. The SG apps don't import/export in Microsoft Project's native "mpp" format. We are certainly happy to answer any questions that might help you understand if an app is right for you.Ĭan the SG apps import Microsoft Project files? ![]() SG Project Unity on the Mac has a free 10-day trial, and we hope to offer more of that in the future, but the generation 5 apps do not have a free trial. We decided to separate the iPad and iPhone apps to let you purchase only what you need, rather than one higher-priced combined app. Apple is starting to provide ways to bundle across platforms but SG does not yet support that.Īre the iPad and iPhone apps separate purchases? Historically there hasn't been any way to bundle apps across those stores, so that is true for most apps. ![]() Yes, the Mac and iPad apps are separate purchases. Are the iPad and Mac apps separate purchases? ![]() The subject can be something simple like "Follow Up: Mackey's Lemonade," because it's short and tells the reader what to expect from the email. Whenever you send a follow-up email, you should lead with a subject that entices the reader to open it. By taking the audience and goal into consideration, you can adjust the tone of your email and language to meet the needs of the reader. Once you know what you are trying to accomplish, you can identify the audience, whether it be a decision-maker, hiring manager or new business contact. This could be closing on a sales proposal, establishing a meeting with a networking connection or following up on a job application or interview. Use these steps to write an effective follow-up email for any purpose:Īdd your signature and contact information.įirst, identify the goal of your follow-up email. Related: What to Do After an Interview: 9 Tips to Help You Succeed How to write a follow-up email Job application follow-up email: If you've submitted a job application to a company and haven't gotten a response, sending a job application follow-up to a potential employer can help you determine if your application is being shortlisted for an interview. This helps you to determine if you are still being considered for the position. Interview follow-up email: It's customary to send an interview follow-up email to a potential employer once the designated interview response period has passed, such as two weeks after the interview. You should send this after a networking event to anyone you met at the event. The goal is to nurture a new connection with someone and sometimes to set up a subsequent meeting. Networking follow-up email: A networking follow-up email confirms your acquaintance with someone you met networking. The goal of this email is to foster continued business and ensure repeat customers. It is designed to rekindle the interest of the person you are selling to.Īfter-sale follow-up email: If you've concluded a sale, it may be a necessary part of your marketing strategy to send a follow-up email that offers a discount on subsequent purchases or offers thanks to a customer for their purchase. Sales follow-up email: You write this type of email to close on an open proposal to a customer. Here are some examples of common follow-up emails: There are several types of email follow-ups that you might write throughout your career. Whether staying informed about the status of a position you applied to, the status of a sales proposal or some other matter, you can use a properly structured follow-up email to get the answers you need. Email is an effective channel for establishing open communication with someone on the other side of a business interaction. When you show appreciation for someone else's time with a follow-up email, you are building a rapport that could help secure the next steps for a job or other transaction. When you follow up with someone, it demonstrates that you are a professional who shows appropriate interest in pursuing a business relationship, whether it be a new employment opportunity or a chance to gain a potential client.įollowing-up makes others feel appreciated. Here are some benefits to following up via email: Understanding the benefits of a good follow-up email can make this a valuable tool for pursuing employment. ![]() There are a number of scenarios that might prompt someone to send an email follow-up, including:Ĭhecking the status of a job application or interviewįollowing up on a sale or other kind of marketing conversion Related: Follow-Up Email Examples For After the Interview What are email follow-ups?Įmail follow-ups are professional messages sent to check in on the status of a pending transaction, contract or engagement. In this article, we discuss email follow-ups and provide a template and example to help you write your own. Understanding how to use a follow-up email is vital to building strong professional connections and achieving career goals. ![]() It may also be known as a follow-up email or follow-up via email in workplace communication. When someone sends an email to follow up on an important conversation or transaction, it is called an email follow-up. ![]() Apparently, however, you have to associate scenes with events, and the timeline is then TOO detailed: I don't need to see hours, let alone minutes, but rather just an overview so that I can at a glance see where I probably haven't misdated a significant event having cascading effect on future events, or to which preceding events ultimately arrive. ![]() The Timeline feature I thought would be the most useful - dates are something I do sometimes flub - as I expected I'd punch in a scene, give it a date, it would show up on the timeline. If I had to guess, I'd say this - and the similar Scrivener - are for writers who may indeed have the prose chops to get the job done but can't get a handle on how to organize longer manuscripts in their heads, and they also like to keep absolutely everything on their Macs. I can't give this product any kind of fair review as I can't quite figure out what it's for. Price points on both are fairly aggressive for both programs and a mere $5 between the two should not drive a purchase decision since you will be spending many hours in front of the computer and should be choosing the best program for your work, not the cheapest. For those with more flexible needs or who want to be up and running faster, scrivener is probably the best option. While it can be used in a similar fashion to StoryMill for narratives, it is a more flexible program for research and writing of more technical or informational pieces (anything non-narrative in nature). Scrivener on the other hand has a sleek, easy-to-use interface that allows for easy gathering and re-arranging of information. ![]() If you write fiction and non-fiction StoryMill is probably the best fit. By and large, StoryMill has a longer learning curve and is more complicated, but once learned the applications allows writers to create very complex narratives. There are other unique features however these have been the most significant in my use of the two applications. Scrivener: Cork board, outline, scratch pad StoryMill: Timeline, characters, locations, and specific breakdown of chapters and scenes. Rather than repeating a great many other feature comparison reviews I'll summarized with the key features unique to each: Scrivener by far had the most positive, while StoryMill ranged from exceedingly high marks, to very frustrated and disillusioned users. Most challenging however were the range of very mixed reviews. Scrivener and StoryMill were the most obvious choices and both seemed to have a solid set of features. Although StoryMill provides an impressive array of features to help you write and track the details of your story more effectively, none of them are required! StoryMill is incredibly flexible: it can simply be a no-nonsense place to write and revise using its distraction-free fullscreen and powerful annotations, or a complete database of every character, location, and scene that makes up your novel.įrom inception to publication, writing a novel has never been easier.Īs a writer moving away from using multiple tools to create a composition (usually a combination of omnioutliner, MS Word, and a folder full of clippings) I started researching writing tools with some enthusiasm. Built from the ground up for Mac OS X, StoryMill offers an innovative way to channel and fine tune the creative writing process. StoryMill introduces aspiring authors to multi-level writing methods of tracking characters, scenes, and locations, while professional writers will appreciate StoryMill's timesaving ability to oversee and manage the full creative process with Smart Views. Part word processor, part database, StoryMill 4 provides every author with the tools essential to writing a best seller: everything from project-wide annotations to centuries-spanning timelines, an industry first. StoryMill is ideal for the aspiring novelist. ![]() Note: StoryMill is no longer under development, but it is still available for download. |