I came across a game called GPokr today. It is a poker game built with the Google Web Toolkit for Java. Nathan Weinberg says, “Very good game, very well designed. You can do everything you’d expect in an online poker game (except bet real world money).”
I have had a quick look at it and it looks very impressive. Well worth a look for anyone who likes Texas Holden poker.
For anyone who is interested, GPoker was written by Ryan Dewsbury.
Making Gmail filters work for you
Like most people, I have a few Gmail accounts. I use these accounts mainly for signing up to mailing lists, and also when I need to enter my email address in an online form.
I logged into the main one I use the other day, and found that the filters were not working properly, there were hundreds of emails from mailing lists in the Inbox, and not in their correct labels.
The reason for this, as I found out later, was because some people send the emails with the mailing list’s email address in the “CC” field, and as you all probably know, Gmail filters do not have a section for CC.
I set out to fix this, and after a bit of messing around with the filters, I found that you could use the “Has the Words” field, and enter a string such as:
cc:(someone@list.com)
The above code, simply searches for someone@list.com in the “CC” field, you can also insert:
to:()
subject:()
from:()
which mimic the already available fields.
There is a few other things you can do in the “Has the Words” field, which make using the to:() from:() and subject:() commands useful.
Instead of using the To/From/Subject fields, you can enter something like this into the “Has the Words” field:
to:(someone@there.com) OR cc:(someone@there.com)
which will, as you have probably already guessed, match any emails that have someone@there.com in either the To or the CC fields, which can be very useful for those mailing lists, where some people have the mailing list email address in the TO field, and some people have the mailing list email address in the CC field.
You can also use other operators, OR, AND, NOT, etc, and create big long filters like:
(to:(someone@there.com) AND cc:(someoneelse@nowhere.com)) OR (to:(someoneelse@nowhere.com) AND cc:(someone@there.com)) AND NOT subject:(That Place)
which will simply match all emails where the To and CC are someone@there.com and someoneelse@nowhere.com in either order, and the subject is not “That Place”.
I am still seeing if there is other things you can filter on, like email headers or other things, so I will post another update when I find more info. If you know of other things that you can filter on, please post a comment, and I will add them to the main post.
I hope this has been helpful to some of you. I know it helped me out and now my Gmail Inbox is a lot cleaner then it has been in a while. (Now to find a way to mark all messages as read, like 10000 at a time…..)
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Was reading the news at Overclockers and they had a cool link to a game of chess.
The thing that made me interested in this game of chess is that, you played against a computer, but when it was the computers turn, you would see all the moves that the computer was calculating while trying to work out the best move to make.
You can check it out Here.
Even if you don’t play chess or cant remember the rules, it is still worth checking out.
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I know, I havent posted anything recently. I have been away so have not had time.
I thought I would make a short post jsut quickly, letting anyone that cares know that www.ausgamers.com was hacked lastnight.
You can check out an image of the hacked site here.
Nothing too exciting, but the site is still down at the moment, so looks like they are trying to recover from a backup.
More posts later, I have started re-building my RC Chopper, so might post some pictures of that too 
Quick update too about my last post (Busy Weekend). The time for the team that we supported was ammended, and now they came 2nd in the mixed teams, and 13th overall, with a final time of 15 hours and 31 min (i think). For some reason though, these have not been updated on the Oxfam website.
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I have been apart of an IRC network for a while now, and just thought that I would let people know about it.
The name of the network is EYErc.net (as the title of this post says ). It has been around since late 2003, and is mainly an Australian IRC network, not that it is only for Australians, as we have a few overseas users as well. There is currently 4 in the network and an average of about 30 channels. You can see some more stats at gogloom.com.
If you would like to come chat with us, fire up your favourite IRC client (I use HydraIRC), and use irc.eyerc.net as the server. You can visit the EYErc.net website at www.eyerc.net.
If you are not sure what IRC is, head over to wikipedia.org and have a quick read of that article.
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