RedBulb is now on CodePlex.

I’ve polished and uploaded the project on http://redbulb.codeplex.com

Documentation and Samples are coming soon. I just have to take some time and learn how to use this CodePlex thing.

Spectrum from Saeed Afshari on Vimeo.

There’s a new channel on vimeo with lots of cool XNA Tutorials. you should check that out: XNA Game Studio Tutorials

I just wanted to share this because I’m super excited about it:

Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is pleased to announce the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City for Games for Windows — LIVE on March 30, 2010. For the first time, Games for Windows — LIVE players will have the opportunity to experience the last two thrilling chapters of the Grand Theft Auto IV saga.
The two action-packed episodes, The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, will also be available for download on Games for Windows — LIVE on March 30, 2010. Each episode takes place in the same detailed and immersive world that made Grand Theft Auto IV one of the most critically acclaimed games of all time. Games for Windows — LIVE players can enjoy 32-player multiplayer matches and an advanced video editor, and all fans will experience new songs on the updated soundtrack as featured across Liberty City’s 13 diverse radio stations, alongside in-game television and Liberty City’s own internet.
"It's been a long time coming, but we are proud to finally deliver Episodes From Liberty City for the PC," said Sam Houser, president of Rockstar Games. "We appreciate the patience of our PC fans worldwide, and we look forward to putting the games in your hands this March."
The Lost and Damned is a dark trip through Liberty City’s seedy underbelly, as outlaw biker Johnny Klebitz fights to keep his gang together as a rift in the gang’s leadership threatens to tear the brotherhood apart. In The Ballad of Gay Tony, players explore Liberty City’s high-end nightlife as Luis Lopez, struggling to balance the temptations of money and vice against loyalties to family and friends. Both episodes feature a slew of new vehicles and weapons, and each episode adds new activities including cage fighting, gang wars and BASE jumping.
The episodes will be available individually on Games for Windows — LIVE as downloadable content for owners of Grand Theft Auto IV, and together as the standalone title Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City at retail outlets.
For more information, visit http://www.rockstargames.com/episodesfromlibertycity.

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/community/newsarticles/pages/gtaivdlccomingsoon.aspx

A week ago I decided to clone Nels Anderson’s SuperFly. It’s playable now but not completely finished, and I’m leaving it at this point because I want to modify it and make a ZZT-like game with it.

You can download the binaries from here. It works with XNA Redist 3.1 so you don’t need to have XNA Game Studio installed. If you want the source code, you can email me and I’ll send it to you.

Try writing “ap house” in the game’s console and see what happens! Below is a list of console commands for this game:

You can find more commands here.

Just noticed that Remedy has re-released Death Rally for Windows. As it’s website says, You can run it on Windows 7, Vista and XP; and It’s Free!

http://www.remedygames.com/games/deathrally

When veoh took off back in 2006, I loved it. No ads, High Quality videos, a Client, no size or length limits and a beautifully designed website made it the best video sharing service IMO. Back then I was wondering how this service was going to last without ads and I was sure that veoh will beat YouTube in no time with it’s features.

As time passed, they started putting Ads on their pages. Then they started converting everything to awful FLV files and removed the Original versions of videos. Right after they did this, I started hating veoh.

I looked for other video sharing sites and I found Stage 6. Like veoh, Stage 6 allowed videos to be in High Quality but in DivX format instead of Flash. Unfortunately, a few days after I registered at Stage 6, they shut it down. :-)

So I went back to using veoh until they started blocking countries.

A few days ago, I stopped by veoh.com (Using proxies of course) and logged into my old account. I could smell shit from the website. I saw the “Cancel my account” button in my profile and thought “Well, what the hell!”

So I’m proud to say that I no longer have a veoh account!

Sea from Saeed Afshari on Vimeo.

It’s now available for download from here.

More info: Vimeo for Windows V1.0

For no reason, About a year ago Yahoo blocked my saeed@ymail.com account which I only used for Instant Messaging. I contacted Yahoo customer support and this is their reply:

Hello,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Mail.
Your Yahoo! account was disabled pursuant to the Yahoo! Terms of Service
(TOS). You agreed to abide by the TOS when you created your account with
Yahoo!. The TOS can be found for your review at:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
and provides in relevant part: "You agree that Yahoo! may, under certain
circumstances and without prior notice, immediately terminate your
Yahoo! account, any associated email address, and access to the Service.
Cause for such termination shall include, but not be limited to, (a)
breaches or violations of the TOS or other incorporated agreements or
guidelines, (b) requests by law enforcement or other government
agencies, (c) a request by you (self-initiated account deletions), (d)
discontinuance or material modification to the Service (or any part
thereof), (e) unexpected technical or security issues or problems, and
(f) extended periods of inactivity. Termination of your Yahoo! account
includes (a) removal of access to all offerings within the Service,
including but not limited to Yahoo! Mail, Groups, Messenger, Chat,
Domains, Personals, Auctions, Message Boards, Greetings, Alerts and
Games, (b) deletion of your password and all related information, files
and content associated with or inside your account (or any part
thereof), and (c) barring further use of the Service. Further, you agree
that all terminations for cause shall be made in Yahoo!'s sole
discretion and that Yahoo! shall not be liable to you or any third-party
for any termination of your account, any associated email address, or
access to the Service."  We take the operation of Yahoo! and the TOS
very seriously. We continue to support Users who abide by the TOS.
If you would like to establish a new Yahoo! account and are concerned
that your intended use of our service may be a violation of the TOS, we
encourage you to review the TOS and to take care to proceed accordingly.
Once again, we encourage you to review our TOS:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
Your patience during this process is greatly appreciated.
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail.
Regards,
Andrew
Yahoo! Customer Care
67002861
For assistance with all Yahoo! services please visit:
http://help.yahoo.com/

I mean why put Andrew at the other end? A machine can copy and paste things faster, right? Oh! I get it! Andrew is a bot! (\\Andrew)

Lets read the last lines again:

If we can be of further assistance, please let us know.
Your patience during this process is greatly appreciated.
Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Mail.

Funny, huh? so basically this response means:

Hello,
Fuck you.
Any Questions?… Thank you.
Regards, Andrew.

So, This is an open letter to Andrew and other guys at Yahoo!:

Fuck you too. go ahead and block all my other accounts. I don’t give a shit about your services.
Regards.

It’s finally done after 4 months of work. I wanted it to be WPF-based instead of normal Windows Forms, but I didn’t have enough experience with WPF, so I decided to convert it to Windows Forms. It still looks good though. It’s the first project I actually finished in the last two years and I’m so proud of myself :-) . I wanted to add more features like Commenting on videos, browsing Albums and Groups and even Forums, more things to do with friends, etc. Also, I wanted to rewrite my Authentication code and convert it to oAuth, but I didn’t have the time to do that. maybe I'll add these features in the next version.

So, here’s a list of key features implemented in Vimeo for Windows V1.0:

• Browsing subscriptions and friends’ videos
• Profiles
• Friends List
• Built-in Uploader (Vimeo for Windows Uploader Lite)
• Different Sort modes (Newest, Oldest, Most Played, Most Commented, Most Liked)
• Search
• Thumbnail caching
• Multi-threading
• Built-in Player with Full screen option and ability to “Like” a video

I used both Simple and Advanced APIs in this application. here’s a list of methods I used from Advanced API:

• vimeo.auth.getFrob
• vimeo.auth.getToken
• vimeo.contacts.getAll
• vimeo.contacts.getOnline
• vimeo.people.addContact
• vimeo.people.addSubscription
• vimeo.people.getInfo
• vimeo.people.getPortraitUrls
• vimeo.test.login
• vimeo.videos.addTags
• vimeo.videos.getAll
• vimeo.videos.getAppearsIn
• vimeo.videos.getContactsLiked
• vimeo.videos.getContactsUploaded
• vimeo.videos.getInfo
• vimeo.videos.getLikes
• vimeo.videos.getSubscriptions
• vimeo.videos.getThumbnailUrls
• vimeo.videos.getUploaded
• vimeo.videos.search
• vimeo.videos.setDescription
• vimeo.videos.setLike
• vimeo.videos.setPrivacy
• vimeo.videos.setTitle
• vimeo.videos.upload.confirm
• vimeo.videos.upload.getQuota
• vimeo.videos.upload.getTicket
• vimeo.videos.upload.verifyManifest

At last, I want to thank Vimeo Devs who made this possible ;-). Here’s a bunch of videos of this project from the early WPF version of this App to now: http://vimeo.com/album/157760

Download: http://cid-a2c1909da87670e9.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Projects/Vimeo%20for%20Windows/VFW^_1^_0^_ClickOnce.zip

My Local Hell Portal Setup. on my home. on Earth. from Saeed Afshari on Vimeo.