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While I played with it here and there, the Twitter widget we’d been using simply wasn’t working, and so I took it down for the time being. Dean J. Robinson, the creator of Redoable (the theme currently powering mendax.org) recently stated that a new version of the theme would be out by year’s end to [...]

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When mendax.wow adopted DamageMeters in lieu of our old favorite, Recap, it was because the latter was supposedly outdated and inaccurate. However, as an Ace addon that’s now constantly being updated, we’re reverting back to Recap, particularly because it’s easier to use and has more at-a-glance information without needing to change output settings.
This version of [...]

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Added Advanced Control Panel to enable/disable addons from within the game, added Quartz (a casting bar addon with latency “protection”), and replaced MetaMap with Cartographer, which is a map mod built on the Ace library.
I’ve also changed the versioning method for mendax.wow, since my old method was aberrant at best. Now, versions will increment by [...]

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I don’t know why it bothers me to so much when I read a blog post that ends in a bunch of questions to the readership. Maybe it’s because I’ll comment when I damn well want to comment, and not because a blog entry asked me a bunch of silly questions. Maybe it’s because the [...]

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Some years ago, I took a couple months of Pekiti Tirsia (PT), which is a system of Escrima generally ignored by even hardcore martial arts enthusiasts. In part, this is because PT, like Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, has a closely regulated advancement system. Unlike Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, however, it lacks a large instructor pool, and is practically non-existent [...]

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Having played World of Warcraft (WoW) since its beta days, I’ve witnessed my fair share of changes to the game, which is why a recent article at WoW Insider prompted a couple flashbacks. One change mentioned in this article is the predecessor to the current rest XP system, which I only vaguely recollect:
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It sure seems like Blizzard times their patches to correspond with my vacations. Despite their valiant efforts, the latest InsomniMax WoW UI Suite is available for download. There are no known issues, but I will update if I find any over the next few days of testing. Happy WoWing to all!
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Another addon we’ve used for quite some time is Advanced Tradeskill Window, but I was recently informed that there is an Ace-library equivalent, called Skillet, which we’re adopting in lieu of its predecesor.
For those of you who are Hunters, note that the Venantes addon has some minor bugs, though its’ still a useful addon to [...]

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News is abound that Steve Jobs announced a non-widget based SDK for native third-party applications coming to fruition in February, 2008. Unfortunately, details are scarce, and it’s not worth people getting their hopes up just yet, because a major facet of Jobs’ philosophy towards third party applications is the “security” of the applications in lieu [...]

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During the early days of World of Warcraft (WoW), healers were hard to come by. Back then, Priests were the only class assumed capable of main-healing an instance, but even thereafter, finding a competent healer at all was difficult. Nowadays, with Holy Paladins considered the best single-target healers in the game, Restoration Shamans making a [...]

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While mendax.wow has included the Scrolling Combat Text (SCT) add-on for quite some time, I’ve finally decided to exchange it (and its damage display extension) with Parrot, an Ace-library equivalent. Out-of-box, Parrot has a nicer default display than SCT, and looks to be just as customizable (if not more so).
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This number, 10%, is not unrealistic, despite what others are claiming. In fact, this “analysis” by Apple Insider is consistent with claims by third-party iPhone software developers, who claim that they’ve had over 100,000 downloads of their respective software packages. This was back when Apple was purporting sales of just over 1,000,000 iPhones, which my [...]

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When I first heard about it some weeks ago, I was a bit confused as to why Blizzard would buff spell damage for healing classes. That’s not to say that I didn’t understand the benefit of allowing healing-specced characters to perform better in solo content, but isn’t such a change an unfair advantage that non-healing [...]

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