In the last week, I created WortopiaBot which is a hack or cheat for all kind of multiplayer boggle games like Wortopia or WEBoggle. You can just start the program and wait a few seconds, then it will have solved the game and submit all possible words to the respective game server. Using the right word database, the accuracy can be up to 100%.

Download WortopiaBot 1.0 Perfect Edition

Download WortopiaBot 1.0 Perfect Edition source code

There are 2 versions of this bot, one is called “Perfect Edition” because it always reaches 100% if the program can access the right database. Before I found out that the original Wortopia database is available under open-source license, I used other databases that reached only around 80%. Thus I also created a “Learning Edition” that checks the words from last round and adds them to the database, in addition to the removal of wrong words. If the Learning Edition plays enough games, it should optimize its database  to the same accuracy of the Perfect Edition.

The Learning Edition will be available for download from SourceForge soon.

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Are you annoyed of refreshing your game slots all the time when hosting a game in Warcraft 3? Then  you can use one of these awesome Auto Refresh tools who do the stuff for you! I know there are many tools like that out there in the Internet , but I had problems finding a good one, so I will upload it here.

Download Warcraft III Auto Refresh

Download Warcraft III Auto Refresh sourcecode for Visual Studio 2005

Download Warcraft III Auto Refresh sourcecode for Visual Studio 2008

How to use

Host a game in Battle.Net and start Autorefresh. Make sure you set it to the right port, usually 6112, but when you changed it ingame (like I did), you will also have to change it in the application. Inside the game, all slots will be filled by a player called “Autorefresh” every 15 seconds and thus refreshing the ports.

Thanks to Jason Ureta for creating this awesome application and even sharing the source code with us!

Do you have many Instant Messengers like MSN, ICQ, Google Talk, Skype, Xfire and so on and are annoyed of starting each one manually? Then I show you a trick to start them all with just one click. This will of course work for every bunch of programs you like!

Follow the instructions to create a small batch script that starts all your programs automatically:

• Go to any folder you don’t access that often like “C:\” or “C:\Documents and Settings”, right-click and select New -> Text Document.
• Make sure your Explorer doesn’t hide file extensions and rename the text file you created to “messengerstart.cmd” or something with “.cmd” in the end.
• Right-click the file and select “Edit”. This will open the file in Notepad.
• For each program you want to start, add this line to the document:
  start “” “<path to your program executable>”
  and replace the <path…> stuff with the actual path. You can get this path either by right-clicking the shortcut of the application, selecting “Properties” and copying the text in the “Target” field or by searching the application. Usually it is in “C:\Program Files\<Application name>\<Application name>.exe”
  
• When all the applications are there, save the file. Now it is working already, but we want to have it in our quicklaunch bar.
• Right-click  the file and select “Create Shortcut”. Rename this shortcut to something like “Start all messengers” and drag it to your quicklaunch bar.
• If you don’t like the ugly logo, right-click the shortcut, select “Properties” and click the “Change Icon…” button at the bottom. In the window popping up you can either select one of the default Windows icons or browse to an application and use this icon.
• Now you may delete all the shortcuts you replaced with the new one in your quicklaunch bar.

If nothing went wrong, you will have a  shortcut like this now that starts all your applications with one click:

In the last tutorial, I explained how to find out your Warcraft 3 CD key. Now I show you how to change the CD key of an installed version of Warcraft 3.

PLEASE BACK UP YOUR WARCRAFT 3 REGISTRY BEFORE CONTINUING!!

You will need this Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne CD Key Changer package.

Extract the files from the archive and launch “cdkey.exe” for Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and “FTkey.exe” for Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne. In the Window, click “Change CD Key” and enter your new CD key. If you don’t see this button, please scroll down…

What can I do when the “Change CD-Key” button doesn’t show up?

The Warcraft 3 CD key is not stored in the Windows Registry as many other games do, it’s encrypted and saved somewhere in your “war3.mpq” file. In order to change the key, the application needs to know where your installation of Warcraft 3 actually is. When the button isn’t there, you don’t have the right registry entries.
In order to create the registry entries, please download Lescos Warcraft Toolkit. Open “LWT.exe”, go to the “Registry” tab and browse for your “Warcraft III.exe” file. Then click “Make entries”.
Restart the CD key changer tools, the link should be there now.