Games Games Games !!

I never seem to be done with these strategy games, they just keep you hooked on to ur PC. 2 days back downloaded the trial of Age of Empires 3 and Civilization 4. A03 sucks and somehow didnt like the look and feel, the gameplay hasn't changed much other than the addition of home city concept. I feel AOE2 was much better than this. Anway need to get the full version before delivering the final verdict. I played the civilization for the first time, never had a look at the older versions. Took a little bit of time to understand the turn based approach of the gameplay, the tutorial was pretty decent, however the bad part of the trial was that after 1hr of gameplay, the application automatically closes and the browser pops asking you to buy the full version :-( So I went back to my older favourite games Caesar 3 and Rise of nations. Caesar is an amazing game and it just keeps you hooked on.. rise of nations is also pretty cool and one of the creators of this game is also involved in Civilization !

Photo sharing sites

Finally i decided to upload my digi cam photos to the internet. The motivation for this came from the unlimited broadband access i took from airtel. So I began searching for a good photo sharing portal. First I uploaded all the photos to www.flickr.com. However later I realized that in order to create more than 3 albums I had to pay money :-((27$/year). Also there was a download limit/month in the basic version. So I switched to kodakgallery. However in this kodakgallery sharing of photos is a pain. You need to invite friends while sharing the photos. I liked the flickr way of sharing where you just set a name and you have a dedicated url to view the photos like www.flickr.com/photos/venu_priya Next I need to check up snapfish and yahoo photos (Incidentally flickr has also been bought by yahoo !)