Well, it’s been about three days since my last post and to be honest i feel terrible about not brightening up your days with either a boring or half interesting post!
So i’ve stumbled across a website dedicated for the sharing and indexing of peoples treasured photos & artworks. The twist on the site is the fact that the community can actually vote and comment on certain pictures allowing certain pictures to raise up above the others.
It’s very similar to news aggregation sites which allow it’s content to be manipulated and handled by the user, instead of having some sort of moderation or middle man policy. Below i’ll include some pictures and some information provided in the about us section on the website.
Runes of Magic, a free-to-play medieval fantasy MMO, wears its inspiration on its sleeve: its developers are obvious fans of World of WarCraft. Then, as you cautiously tinker with its all-toofamiliar systems and settings, little improvements and tweaks start to win your approval.
A Mage with an axe is a Mage perfected.
Starting as a Human or an Elf (more races are promised), and picking one of eight classes such as Mage, Knight, Priest and Rogue, you’ll receive a ‘gift bag’. Inside it are a bunch of potions, a mount and another bag that you can’t open until level two. Inside that is more of the same, as well as a third gift bag. New spells and abilities just seem to pop into your head as you meet the level requirement. Runes of Magic keeps up a lively torrent of items and cash, and quests and abilities.
When you’re ready for a break, you should visit the House Fairy – she’ll set you up with your own house and sell you some furniture, which you can position freely inside (no feng shui here). My room just has a bed, a stool and a functional chest, but I’m saving up for a nice rug that’ll really tie the place together. And that’s all fine, but for any really useful furniture, you need to get out your credit card and buy some diamonds.
Kobolds just don’t have much luck in these games.
Potions R Us
The Cash Shop also stocks potions that boost your experience gain, resurrect you and increase the chances of rare items dropping. It’s easy to see how those things would give you an advantage over free users. That Phoenix potion you bought might let you best a more skilled opponent in an otherwise fair fight – returning you to full health when you’re about to die, finish them off or let you snag a random selection of their gear and inventory.
There’s something a little too streamlined about Runes of Magic. There are innovations here, but they’re meek little things that make grinding easier. The dual-class system is just an alternative to the extensive talent builds you’ll find in other such games, as individual classes come pre-specialised. It’s as if Runewaker are scared to make their game too unique just in case they lose that inevitable section of players who look upon it as a free World of Warcraft.
Killed enemies leave behind attribute cards.
It’s just not good enough. If Runewaker had focused on their unique ideas, such as the planned guild versus guild ‘castle siege’ mode, maybe I’d be buying some diamonds. They could have been radical, chopped off the first 30 levels and let you get into the good stuff right away. As it is, it just feels like an insulting exercise in pandering to demographics; female characters are crudely over-sexualised – spilling out of their blouses, wearing metal thongs and garter belts.
The whole enterprise is a little too eager. Play! Spend! If it brings anything new, it’s hidden it under a banquet of familiar favourites, and it’ll spoil your appetite.
Runes of Magic Event. by: Eres. Get them before they’re gone! …. “Runes of Magic” published by Frogster Interactive Pictures AG. All rights reserved. …
www.runesofmagic.com/
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You’ve already seen it of course. Both before and while Steve decided to show it off. You’ve seen the box (although Apple.com had that up there since they launched the iPhone 4 on their site – who knows why that’s so exciting, ha). You’ve had iOS4 in your hands for days or weeks. And I’m going to show it all to you again. Because now it’s in our hands.
The Packaging
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The box is smaller than the previous iPhones. It comes much the same as the other iPhones have – cardboard box, wrapped in clearwrap. Also, the box is white, even though the iPhone is black.
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Once opened, the iPhone 4 is immediately viewable on top of the box, with the same protective clearwrap as previous models. Also the same is the USB cable, earphones, and USB to AC adapter as well. The USB to AC adapter is considerably smaller than the past iPhone models were. Two Apple decals are in the box as well.
Need for Speed: World (previously known as Need for Speed: World Online) is an upcoming installment in the long-running racing video game Need for Speed franchise published by Electronic Arts. This iteration is being co-developed by EA Black Box and EA Singapore , the first MMORG in the Need for Speed series since Motor City Online, exclusively for Windows-based PCs. World is scheduled for release worldwide on July 20, 2010.
Do you know what driving online is like? Driving online is like taking your awesome, putting it on a counter, tapping the buddy on your left and telling him, “Did you see my awesome? Take a look at it.” Then, once he looks at your awesome, you turn your awesome into a hammer and beat the crap out of him with it.
Or, at least, that’s what we were told driving online is like. Your actual online experience may vary, but we can guarantee you one thing: you’ll be driving fast.
But you can’t drive without a beta key! It’s really hard to play Need For Speed World without one of those things. Lucky for you that our good friends at Electronic Arts hooked us up with 15,000 Need for Speed World keys, so we don’t think you’ll be missing out on this event!
Looking for a key, or want to see the awesome trailer for Need for Speed World? Look no further than after the break.
What’s this online racing thing all about?
Need For Speed World, for those of you who didn’t see our E3 coverage, is an MMO racing game where you get to drive through the best of the Need For Speed franchise. From Hot Pursuit to classic racing, you’ll be in a giant city with thousands of other racers.
As you race, you’ll rise through the driving ranks, earning access to more vehicles, tracks, and game types. You’ll also earn yourself more driver skills at higher levels and more customization options for your car, so you’ll look sweet while leaving everyone in the dust.
If this sounds like something you want to do, then grab a key below and visit the key redemption page over at Need For Speed World. The beta doesn’t start until the 28th, so you’ll have some time to get your racing skills prepared. Vroom vroom!
Every domain registrar will now up their prices. NameCheap, GoDaddy and all the rest have publicly announced they are changing their prices to go hand in hand with Verisigns new change. This doesn’t mean much to people who buy a random domain name every now and then, but this means a whole lot to people who buy in bulk. Below I’ve included the original press release located on the Verisign website.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — (Marketwire) — December 17, 2009 — VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective July 1, 2010, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.
VeriSign announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.
As the economy and society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, it is imperative that investment in the underlying infrastructure, including .com and .net, continue to keep pace with the robust growth of the Internet and ensure its continued security and reliability. Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign’s global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today while maintaining 100 percent operational accuracy and stability for the last eleven years.
Over the next decade, VeriSign will continue investment to build out the .com and .net infrastructures to manage the increasing demands on the infrastructure brought on by the proliferation of Internet-enabled phones and devices and the emergence of DNS-centric technologies and services. VeriSign also continues to scale and fortify the .com and .net infrastructures globally to defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks.
JULIA Gillard is “honoured” to become Australia’s first female prime minister as Kevin Rudd struggles to keep his composure during his last speech as leader.
Ms Gillard is expected to make a full statement shortly and will be sworn in as prime minister by Governor-General Quentin Bryce at 12.30pm (AEST)
Mr Rudd was close to tears and his voice wavered as he listed his achievements in office during a press conference.
He repeatedly said he was “proud” of abolishing WorkChoices and his record on health, education and at shielding Australia from the worst of the global financial crisis.
“I did my best to give Australia a fair go,” he said.
Mr Rudd will be dedicating his efforts towards Labor remaining in power at the coming federal election.
“I will serve the Govenrment in any manner I can, and I will be recontesting the next election in the seat of Griffith,” he said.
In a historic decision, Labor MPs decided to oust Mr Rudd who will go down in history as the first Prime Minister ever to be turfed out by his party within his first term of winning power.
One of the most common problems when using Photoshop is the unexpected arrival of the Photoshop hand tool. I’m not the only one receiving this issue, tons upon tons of people are all having the same issue and are seeking for help via various blogs / forums / other communicative mediums. Today I’m here to set the score straight and to allow you to start growing back all that hair you’ve been pulling out in regards to this whole complicated issue.
Here is one of the first results found when searching the keywords “Photoshop Hand Tool”.
Recently I was working in Adobe Photoshop CS3 for a client’s website project, all of a sudden my Photoshop wouldn’t display anything but the “hand” icon. No matter what tool I selected, I would always have the hand icon and not getting the tool I wanted. No move tool, no type tool, nothing. I did a quick search on the internet and couldn’t find much so i’m bookmarking my solution here.
Well, the fix is annoyingly simple as it only requires you to hit your Space Bar… Instead of hitting it at this point i wouldn’t be half surprised if you slammed it.Please do keep in mind if this does not work you can reset your preferences under the Edit > Preferences . Reset all warning dialogs.
Other than what I’ve explained above there’s nothing really else which will resolve the issue, and if after troubleshooting all of the above and you are still receiving this hand of death. Well.. You’ve got me there.
Best of luck guys!
I’ve been asked to review a website called Classifieds Giant. Although i’m located in Australia i thought this would be of more interest to my American viewers, as it’s really only available in America. In a nutshell it’s very similar to the Australian website GumTree in a sense, as it allows free posting of ads and free buying of products.
It’s good to see auction sites like this popping up everywhere these days, eliminating the middle man and allowing buyer & seller to have one easy non-complicated transaction. The site itself is very easy to navigate and has ridiculously fast loading times, which is important on any auction site because as you’ll find out fighting for the things you want most require speed and speed is loading times.
Overall, I’d say it’s a fantastic Free Classifieds solution and it’s an easy to use website, which over time should become large and filled with content, I’d advise you to go check them out over at Classifieds Giant, whilst you’re there you could you buy something for me perhaps… Just kidding. Hope you’ve all had a great week.
One very cool feature of Windows Vista – especially for machines not natively equipped with the kind of horsepower to fully enjoy the rich visuals of Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) applications is ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost enables you to plug a USB key into your machine and have Windows Vista use it as memory. I hadn’t actually used this myself, but had heard of it long ago. When a reader emailed me asking if this was an urban legend, I decided to check it out for myself and was very impressed with how easy and seamless the process is.
Installing/Configuring the USB Key as Memory
First I took a standard USB 2.0 key (I’ll list the prerequisites shortly) and plugged it into my machine. I’m running Windows Vista Beta 2, Build 5346, but I’m told that this works with the latest CTP made available to beta and TAP members as well as MSDN Subscribers. Upon plugging the USB key into my computer, I was greeted with the standard “AutoPlay” dialog box asking how I wanted to the operating system to treat the USB key. However, with ReadyBoost I get the additional option (circled below in the screen capture) of using the key to “speed up my system”.
AutoPlay dialog box displayed when a valid USB Key is inserted into a machine running Windows Vista
Once I click the “Speed up my system” option, the Properties dialog box for the device is displayed where I can specify to start/stop ReadyBoost usage of the device and how much space I want used as a memory cache. (Actually, according to one of the Product Specialists here, this space is used more as a flash-based page file than true RAM, but the impact is that the more space you choose here, the more benefit you’ll get in terms of overall system performance.)
The device Properties dialog box allows you to turn on/off ReadyBoost for that device and to set the exact size of the cache.
(In order to return to this dialog box, open the Computer window, right-click the drive (F: in this case) and select Properties. From there, click the Memory tab (as shown in the previous screen capture and adjust the settings as needed).
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all having the same issue and are seeking for help via various blogs / forums / other communicative mediums. Today I’m here to set the score straight and to allow you to start growing back all that hair you’ve been pulling out in regards to this whole complicated issue.
