Portable World of Warcraft

Before you get too excited, I don’t mean portable like the portable versions of Firefox, Pidgin, etc. I mean for a portable harddrive (at least 7.5GB). Portable harddrives come in different sizes and types. I personally use an old laptop harddrive placed inside of an external drive enclosure and my iPod. You could also, if you’ve got one large enough, use a usb flash drive (thumb drive, pen drive, etc.). Obviously, in addition to a drive, you’ll need a copy of World of Warcraft and a subscription to it (so you can play it).

Use With Portable Harddrive

This is very simple. Either install directly onto the harddrive or go onto your C Drive and copy and paste your World of Warcraft folder onto the drive. It’s that simple. You can now use world of warcraft on any computer you want (assuming it has the required specs).

Use With an iPod

If you’ve already set up your iPod to be used a harddrive, go back to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions. If you haven’t, keep reading. Please note that this is done with iTunes 7 on Windows XP, so if you’re running OS X, it might be slightly different.
Plug your iPod into your computer and open up iTunes (if it doesn’t automatically open). iTunes should display information on your iPod. If it doesn’t, select your iPod under “Devices” on the left side of the program. Under Options, you should see a small list of options. Check Enable Disk Use. Now go back up to Use With Portable Harddrive and follow those instructions (or click here).

Playing the Game

To play the game, all you have to do is open up your harddrive and open up Wow.exe (or whatever the OS X or linux equivelant is). It’s that simple.

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Video Games: The Source Of All Evil?

If you’re a gamer, then you’ve probably heard of Jack Thompson. If you haven’t, well he’s an attorney who is obsessed with getting rid of violent video games and blaming everything that happens on them. His latest push of his anti-video game agenda was a short time after the Virginia Tech massacre. Before they knew that Cho Seung-hui was the shooter, before they knew why, and pretty much before they knew anything specific about the shooting, Jack Thompson was called upon for his expertise (He’s not only a anti-video gaming advocate, he’s also a school shooting expert…). Basically he blamed violent video games for the shootings. Let me state it again…this was before ANY information was known about the killer/motive/etc.. Basically Jack Thompson is so sure that video games are the root of all things evil in the country. Someone with that much of a bias shouldn’t be allowed to present his opinion as a professional one.

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View iPod Videos on Your TV

All you have to do is take a composite video cable and plug it into my iPod and TV. Pretty simple. I’m not exactly sure what kind of video cable it is (other than that its composite), so I can’t really help you out on finding one. I can, however, offer you a picture of it.

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