![]() Draconic Resistance –You gain resistance to your dragon breath type equal to 5 + one half your level.This choice doesn’t override any other benefit your weapon may provide. Draconic Blade – Your weapon gains the damage type of your dragon breath.The benefits of this paragon path are four-fold. The Honourable Blade paragon path is only available to dragonborn who have selected a martial class. The reason for gaining access to the martial role is the paragon path that you will select. If you do select a Warden multi-class into whatever martial class fits best with your idea of the character as soon as possible. However, there is a definite advantage to creating a Warden or Barbarian and starting with the primal power source I will explain more about this choice when I discuss feat selection. The simplest thing to do is select any of the Fighter, Ranger, Rogue or Warlord as your class. A Class ChoiceĪs I’ve mentioned the key to maximizing your dragon breath ability is to gaining access to the martial power source. Whether this is through your initial class choice or multi-classing is up to you. The key to gaining the greatest use out of your dragon breath racial power is to select lightning as the damage type and in some way gain access to the martial role. The build and the various side options explained below are powerful at heroic, devastating at paragon and are simply… well, epic at epic. What we want to do with dragon breath is find a way to maximize its effects and gain the ability to use it multiple times each encounter. I don’t find that to be an efficient use of my resources. One thing I dislike doing is selecting feats and items that are only going to have a one per encounter or less use. The trick is to take that power and exploit it into a game changer. ![]() The attack is a close blast 3 and deals 1d6 + Con damage. Once this decision is made it is permanent, as is the elemental damage type selected. Right out of the gate the dragon breath racial power allows a dragonborn to select either Strength, Constitution or Dexterity as the primary stat used to modify attack rolls. The best part is it can turn a martial character into a strong secondary controller. However, if we take a deeper look at the dragon breath racial ability we realize that it can be taken from an extra action that deals damage and transformed into one of the deadliest attacks available. It gives these characters an extra option during combat and if we’re honest the idea of breathing fire or acid is pretty cool. At first glance it’s a useful and intriguing encounter power that only requires a minor action to use. The Dragonborn’s dragon breath is an interesting power.
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![]() ![]() In the same way that a desktop VPN app protects all of your internet traffic versus a VPN browser extension only securing your web surfing, there are apps available to block ads across your entire device. Adblockers designed for your computerīrowser extension ad blockers aren’t for everyone, especially if you want to block ads across several apps on your PC or Mac that are outside of the scope of browser adblocking. AdLock – the best adblocking app for iOS devices.Ĭheck out our Adblock articlefor a complete list of the best adblocking extensions.AdGuard – A desktop adblocker that prevents ads on multiple browsers, eliminating the need for an extension.UBlock origin – A lightweight adblocking extension for Firefox and Chrome that’s easy on computing resources.Standsfair Adblocker – An excellent adblocker for users taking switching between multiple browsers, unblocking YouTube ads with ease.Total AdBlock – An excellent adblocking extension with many whitelisting options to choose what gets blocked.AdBlocker Ultimate – Our top choice blocks almost everything you throw at it and is supported by donations.The top adblocking extensions for browsers If you refuse, some even ask you to leave the site! How rude?įor the most part, you won’t encounter any issues, and if you do, there are plenty of alternative browser extension ad-blockers out there up to the task of blocking ads on YouTube. Many websites try to counter ad-blockers with their own ad-blocker detection software, and if you’re detected as using an ad-blocker, you might be presented with a pop-up asking you to disable your ad-blocker. When it detects a site filled with ads, it blocks the ad from showing to you, the end-user. Sit back, hit play, and enjoy ad-free streaming on YouTube!Īdblock Plus and other browser ad-blocking extensions work in the background to constantly scan and identify websites you visit that display ads. Adblock Plus configures your settings automatically to block YouTube ads, so you don’t need to do anything.Visit YouTube using the same browser as you have the extension installed with.The extension will now be installed and ready to use.Search for Adblock Plus and click “Add to Chrome.” ![]() Head to the browser extension store (this will differ depending on the browser you’re using): Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge.For this example, we’ve used the Chrome browser. If you’re sick and tired of seeing ads appearing (especially those without an option to skip) for products and services you aren’t even interested in, we’d advise investing in an adblocker. Luckily, there are several tried and tested methods to help you watch YouTube without having to view a single ad. It was great for those raking in cash from ad revenue, but it became a time of frustration for us users who just wanted to get on and watch videos without being interrupted by ads.įast forward to today, and it feels like we can’t watch YouTube without ads appearing within the first minute of hitting play. We’re referring to when YouTube ramped up its views to surpass one billion per day and introduced YouTube ads available in seven different formats. Do you remember that big event that happened in 2009? No, we’re not talking about Barack Obama becoming president or the Swine Flue pandemic wreaking havoc across the world. ![]() TOUCH ARCADE GAME OF THE WEEK - toucharcade. "…with Crazy Hedgy we present you the new king of the genre on the App Store." "Crazy Hedgy is a must buy for fans of 3D platformers, action games, or fans of console quality experiences on the iOS devices.". "Super Mario was yesterday - here comes the platform hero of the new century" - bzberlin "The new Super Mario from Austria" - derstandard.at Note: If an account on your device has a sign-in. Over Wi-Fi only to update apps only when connected to Wi-Fi. Over any network to update apps using either Wi-Fi or mobile data. Tap Settings Network Preferences Auto-update apps. "You are not going to want to put it down once you have started." - How to update all Android apps automatically. "…Defeating enemies is completely satisfying and the game’s humour can be seen when two enemies bump into each other". ![]() "Just when you think you have the measure of the proceedings, it lobs in a fresh surprise… your eyebrows will be raised as you experience one quirky feature after another." - Gizmodo "Crazy Hedgy is console quality, but uses iOS features to maximum advantage making for a distinct gaming experience". "…well-designed levels, beautiful graphics, and tons of replay value.Crazy Hedgy’s features are endless…". Check out the trailer: Take yourself on a wild journey and experience the world of Crazy Hedgy! Use your bubble gum to cross yawning abysses, solve riddles, find buried treasures, collect diamonds and learn fantastic new abilities…but don’t let the Spankos get you down! Gangsters Squad is an epic multiplayer third-person shooter in which you become a gangster and must compete against other players from around the world. CYBERTIME presents the world's first Beat 'em up 3D Platformer. ![]() With a 36R resistor, this limited the current to 16mA. With a 360R resistor, this limited the current to 10.8mA, and with 3 LEDs, the voltage drop across the LEDs was 9.9v, meaning that 0.6v was being dropped across the resistor (11-6.6). With the original design, with 2 LEDs, the voltage drop across the LEDs was 6.6v, meaning that 3.9v was being dropped across the resistor (11-6.6). The supply that I was using was about 10.5VDC. I have attached the schematic diagram, and the PCB layout.īoth boards are connected together using jumper wires along the edge.ĭO I *REALLY* USE 360R AND 36R RESISTORS?Īs an update, I have been using Blue Flat Top LEDs, with a forward voltage drop of about 3.3v 20mA. Having etched, and drilled the boards, populate them as shown in the two photos. You can use any PCB manufacturing process you like. I printed the PCBs out using my laser printer, and photocopied the layouts onto PressnPeel Blue film. Just download either the 50hz, or 60hz firmware depending on where you live.Īnother update - I have modified the clock to allow Minute LEDs to be used around the edge - Have a look at the last step of this instructable for details.įirst, you will have to dowlload the PCB files - they are attached. ![]() I have realised that people in other countries (USA) may want to construct the clock, so I have modified the firmware to cater for 60Hz countries. ![]() This clock uses mains to ensure that it stays accurate. I am in Australia, where the mains frequency is 50 Hz (50 cycles per second). If you want an arduino version of this project, then have a look here: Please visit my web site for further information. I am now able to sell all sorts of components, ranging from complete clocks, through to kits, through to individual modules and components. The clock module in the center is 150mm x 150mm, and the enclosure surround is 300mm x 300m craftwood, painted with automotive paint. There are two new photos of a completed clock kit, mounted in an enclosure, and hanging in my dining room. I saw a cool clock on the Make Blog the other day ( ), and thought 'Hey - I can make one of those', so here it is! This is a project to tell the time using words. Major updates - A much better enclosure for this clock has been designed, and a better controller using an AtMega controller now exists. ![]() Irfanview - best freeware image viewer, also has some editing features in it XNView – opens many types of images, include some very rare formats Inkscape – open source alternative to Illustrator, highly recommended ![]() MtPaint – pretty good program, I use it often for pixel art, etc.īlender – the best free 3D modeling software, hands down GIMP – steep learning curve, but a great alternative to Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro – excellent alternative to MS Paint, highly recommended for Windows users K-Lite Codec Pack – an essential codec pack for those who work with audio and video frequently, comes with Media Player Classic ModPlug – fan of module music and want to make your own? ModPlug is your friendįoobar2000 – another alternative to Winamp, supports many plugins Winamp – it really whips the llama's ass still a classic today, highly recommendedĪudacity – great for recording from radio/cassette to PC, recording voices, or converting audio between different formats VLC Media Player – one of the most popular ones, and my recommendation for videos SRware Iron - Like Chrome, but don't like the spying tactics? Try SRware Iron instead Qupzilla - basically a WebKit version of Classic Firefox D Internet Explorer – comes with Windows, and is actually partly decent now compared to years ago Mozilla Firefox – the original alternative to IE, and the spiritual successor to Netscape ![]() Opera – another popular alternative to IE or Firefox Google Chrome – world's fastest web browser, for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux well, here we go, a useful freeware thread (please no warez, I don't want to get in trouble) But patience and persistence are required.Surprised I couldn't find one of these threads here. It will run most old Mac OS software just as well as you'd expect, therefore occasional crashes will occur. Be sure to run Disk First Aid fairly frequently in order to maintain your emulation boot drive. I personally recommend running Mac OS 8.6, my favorite version.įrom my testing, it works as well as the previous version 2.4. NOTE: SheepShaver is limited to running Mac OS 7.5.2 thru 9.0.4. More about SheepShaver can be found here: "For more information see the revised setup manual. "For a new setup, also download the SheepShaver folder. "If you have an existing SheepShaver setup, you can simply replace the application with the new application. "For Intel Mac, MacOSX 10.7 (Lion) through macOS 10.14 (Mojave) Notes about version 2.5 are available here: You are heartily invited to join the effort! Please note that I am pretty careless of the Windows version since I am not a Windows developer. The following platforms are currently supported: Linux (i386, ppc, x86_64), MacOS X (i386, ppc), Darwin, NetBSD 2.0, FreeBSD 5.3 and Windows for x86. Performance with the current CPU emulator using basic just-in-time (JIT) translation techniques is roughly 1/8-th of native speeds. On other systems, SheepShaver provides the first PowerPC G4 emulator, though without MMU, to enable the execution of Mac OS Classic. If you are using a PowerPC-based system, applications will run at native speeds (i.e., without any emulation involved).
Tip: Workflow even allows you to add workflows directly to your home screen to launch without even opening the app. Little by little these things definitely add up and become useful, especially since with IFTTT you set it and forget it, but Workflow can still complete more steps at once and is therefore capable of handling more complex tasks. You can set up another recipe to tweet the Instagram photo you took with hashtag #pizza. For instance, you can have it automatically set a reminder to call a restaurant when you add a new Foursquare venue to your to-do list. It’s not capable of finding pizza places and calling them for you, but instead harnesses most of its power from what third-party services can do. ![]() That’s well over a dozen steps in one giant workflow. When you tap your Pizza Assistant in Workflow, it will proceed to search local pizza restaurants, ask you to choose one, dial the place for you, then set a reminder to go pick up the pizza based on how long it will take to travel there and how long they specified the pizza will take before it’s ready. This would never be possible in IFTTT because it has too many different steps – far more than its permissible two. Take the Pizza Assistant workflow available in the gallery. Workflow’s goal is ultimately the same, but does a lot more to get you there. This is useful and allows for a wide variety of automated tasks, but essentially limits it to completing one major task per recipe. IFTTT focuses on just two things with every recipe you make, the “this” and the “that”. Workflow requires your attention to complete, IFTTT does not. It’s not capable of automatically opening lyrics for you when a new song starts playing, as an example. If you want to get the lyrics to a current song that’s playing, you need to open Workflow and choose the Get Lyrics recipe to launch the flow of tasks that can do this for you. Workflow, however, requires that you choose your “recipe” and launch it on demand. You never have to go back into the app again for this to happen. or automatically upload your Dropbox photos to Facebook and it’ll do those for you from now on. You can tell IFTTT to fetch you the weather every day at 8 a.m. With IFTTT, you set up your “recipes” to run automatically without even thinking about checking them or launching them. It’s true that IFTTT and Workflow help you automate your life, but really only one app honors the true definition of automation, meaning that no action is required on your part. IFTTT and Workflow Have Different Definitions of ‘Automation’ To get a better idea of the differences between the two and which one better suits your needs, let’s compare the good and the bad in each. ![]() Looking more closely at the list of font URLs in the PageSpeed Insights window shows a list that contains URL that look like: Īs you can see from the URLs these are all links to Google’s Roboto font. So, it was obvious that a third party system on my site was using web fonts and, as with so many other things, if you include something on your site from a third party, Google Analytics blames you for its bad behaviour. So few in fact, that until recently the “ correspondence” style text on my site was shown as Comic Sans, but let’s not talk about that! The articles that Google links to say that the best way to fix this problem is to set the font-display attribute of the rule in your CSS file, something like: Sans Īll of this came as something of a surprise as my site doesn’t use any web fonts at all it only uses the built-in browser fonts and, at the time I got this warning, I actually used very few of those. This allows the viewer to start reading the text immediately, and will minimize the amount of reformatting that the browser has to do. ![]() A better behaviour is to display the text immediately using a system font, download the web font, and then reformat the text using the downloaded web font. Once the font has downloaded, the text will appear, but until then any text using that font is invisible. Google will give you this advice when you rely on a web font by default when a web font is downloading, the browser will display nothing. > I've had good experiences with MovieCaptioner - but I'm a sighted user. > CaptionMaker (Windows) and Mac Caption: > MAGpie (Runs on Java - so mostly Windows): (MAGpie is made by WGBH, so you'd think it would be accessible): > I don't know which programs you have tried or how accessible these programs are for screen readers, but here are some options to check out. YouTube does very well at matching text to speech, but not so well (yet) at You can decide how perfect the sync needs to be. I don't do a LOT of captioning, but I find the technique described in theįeed it to YouTube, which will attempt to sync it. The caveat is that while I hear that this works, I've not tried it myself, but it is worth a shot. Then, I'd export the caption file and make minor tweaks in a text editor. Then I'd upload the video and transcript to youTube (keeping the URL private), upload the transcript to youtube, and get youTube to sync the captions with the video content. full carriage return after end-sentence punctuation, line break to form a second line of a caption, full carriage return to start a new caption within a sentence when necessary). If I was going to try this task, I'd write the transcript in paragraph form, then break up the text with line breaks to form captions (i.e. I know that Jeff Pledger used MAGpie with JAWS many years ago, back when I worked on MAGpie (if list members remember me with a WGBH email address, you're getting old!), but I'm not sure if NVDA works with it or not, nor do I remember whether Jeff had to write custom scripts or do any sort of heroics to make it work. I've had good experiences with MovieCaptioner - but I'm a sighted user. MAGpie (Runs on Java - so mostly Windows): I don't know which programs you have tried or how accessible these programs are for screen readers, but here are some options to check out. Subject: Re: Tools to preparing captions (subtitles) Learn about MovieCaptioner review with all services, pros and cons. official MovieCaptioner how to install ExtraTorrent MacOS how to install. software zipshare MovieCaptioner (5.39) turbobit english. last drive MovieCaptioner get 10.12.1 philippine. Standalone, installed on my computer, not web applications. In this MovieCaptioner review you’ll find out if this software is suitable for captioning video from the screen as well as for creating subtitles on Mac and Windows computers. Captioning Recorded Adobe Connect Meetings - blogspot Review: for Mac creates all type of. ![]() Subject: Tools to preparing captions (subtitles)ĭoes anybody know software to prepare and edit subtitles for video filesĪccessible for screen reader? I want do transcribe some videotutorials,īut most of subtitle editors are inaccessible for NVDA. Number of posts in this thread: 5 (In chronological order) |