Paramount Digital Entertainment released a new game, developed by Freeverse software, called Top Gun for the iPhone and iPod touch. The game is based on the popular movie – Top Gun and is reported to cost around USD 2 in the beginning.
The Plot
The plot of the game is a based at the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, where instructors Maverick and Icemanhelp players compete to become the next Top Gun.
You get to play as a hotshot trainee who becomes an accomplished fighter pilot, over the course of ten missions.
The scenes are rendered in a cartoon style /would remind you of the old Nintendo version).
You fly modern aircrafts like the F-22 Raptor, dodging incoming missiles and shooing down enemy MiGs.
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Rewind
For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief background of the film. The movie Top Gun was released way back in 1986 in association with Paramount Pictures. The film broke records at the box office, becoming a mega hit, accumulating over $350 million worldwide.
Tom Cruise is Maverick, a daring young flyer who’s out to become the best of the best in the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy’s prestigious fighter weapons school.
Features
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Two game modes have been included in the launch package – Story Mode and Instant Action. In all there are 10 missions and varied environments like oceans, deserts, canyons and city centers, in the daytime and at the night. The game features aerial and ground-based obstacles while background music has been picked from the movie.
Requirements
iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update.
The familiar faces, adrenaline-pumping theme song, and the dogfights will remind anyone of the original release. Sounds exciting. Waiting for a “Ride into the Danger Zone!”
If you are a regular reader of Devils Workshop, then you must be aware of the post written by Rahul on how to migrate a blog from Blogger to WordPress without losing Google juice. It was my symposiumz blog that I used for writing the post.
If anyone had asked me what was the best decision that you made in your blogging career, then I would definitely say choosing “WordPress“!
From Blogger to WordPress: Comparing the Stats
Visitors:
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Earlier, when my site was in Blogger, it used to have around 200 visitors per day(max). The page hits were so low that sometimes it would make me think that “Blogging is not for me”. But now, after shifting to WordPress, the graph is just increasing. The minimum visitor count per day I got till now was only 1.5k or so.
Page views:
The same story is with the number of page views. If there are more visitors, then automatically your page views would increase. I remember asking Rahul during the migration process “What do you feel about my site? It gets around 15k page views per month.” He replied back saying, it is quite decent (I knew it was not) and it should increase constantly, which is a healthy factor for any site. But now, I get 15k page views, in 2 days.
Search engine visitors:
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The number of visitors coming from search engines (mainly Google) were only 20-50 when I was in Blogger. But, now I get more than 1k queries per day. For some of the keywords, my site shows on the first page in Google after this migration.
Symposiumz ranking was around 7 lakh when it was in Blogger. Now, it is about to touch 1lakh soon. But the Google page rank doesn’t seem to have changed much. May be it takes some time.
RSS readers:
If I remember correctly, my RSS feed count was close to 200 in Blogger. But now, it is about to cross 3k. I think, that would be a nice figure for any site.
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Site reach:
Earlier, my site got visitors only from Chennai. Now, it has slowly expanded and I can see the patches spreading all over India in my analytics account.
It took nearly 9 months to get my first cheque from Adsense. But now, I get a check every month. You could calculate the minimum amount I could earn from that. 😉
All these things happened within a minimum span of 3 months. It is off season for my site and the visitor count has reduced to some amount. But WordPress bought a big change in my stats in the past few months. Moreover, WordPress is so customizable that you will feel the difference and you wouldnt regret migrating. If you are new to blogging, I would strongly recommend you to start your blogging career with WordPress.
Our life is full of gadgets. We can’t live without them. There are times when your gadgets stop working because of some faults. Ever thought of some ideas that can help you repair these gadgets with the use of simple home remedies? Well, here are some, but, mind you, none of them come with 100% scientific guarantee. But they work! Take a look!
I always try to write my own experience when it comes to Google Adsense. I remember those days when I was new to Adsense and knew nothing about it. I always try to share new things with you all so that new bloggers reach their 100$ as soon as possible. Today’s post of mine only targets upcoming bloggers to hit their 100$. In this post I’ll tell you about some best spaces where you can place your Google Ads to earn more.
If you are a newbie, I recommend you to read this post till last and I guarantee you that you will triple your Adsense earnings by reading this post.
Before starting this post I assume that you are using 2 column or 3 column templates. Below is a basic layout of 3 column template and I’ll discuss about 2 column template at the last, as there is not much difference between the two.
basic layout of 3 column template
Now here are following parts of 3 column template:
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1. Header
The header place is always used to place logo. You can also place search engine here. But remember do not place Google Adsense on the top i.e in header. Want to know why. Read this post on my blog on Triple Your Adsense Earnings With A Simple Trick. I do not want to write the same thing again, its better to read the above post.
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Till now you are known with the fact that placing Google Ads in header is not at all good. Now in the next point I’ll tell you the super best place to put Google Ad.
2. Menu Bar
The second part that make a 3 column template is Menu Bar.(See the image above). It really plays a vital role in your template. This space in your blogger template can boost your earnings. The trick is that :
1st Method : You should place a horizontal link unit ad instead of Menu Bar. The size of the ad should be 728x15_4) that displays up to 4 link.
What will happen : Placing Google Ads here looks same as Menu Bar, and this is the place where you will get a lot of clicks.
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2nd Method : Some of you do not want to remove the menu bar from their template. What you can do is you can place the same link unit ad just below the Menu Bar. This trick will also generate the same amount of clicks.
The 3rd part of the template is Column1. It is the space in the blog where you write your posts. This space contains all the crucial content of your blog. Lets see this column again. Have a look at the image below :
In the above image you can see the overview of the Column1. It contains Post Title and Post Body. Now the best space to place Google Ad in this column is between the post title and post body. If you have a blog that uses Blogger platform see this post on How To Place Google Ads Between Post Title And Post Body by Rahul.
Number of clicks generated here are much more, compared to any other place on this column.
The column 2 and column 3 are known as Sidebars. In the 1st figure the Column 2 is the left sidebar and Column 3 is the right sidebar. If you are using both these columns you should place a Skyscraper (120×600) image ad in any of the column.
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But if you are using 2 column template its better to place a Large Rectangle (336 x 280) image ad in the sidebar.
Placing ads in the footer is not at all recommend if you own a blog.
Well, this was all about Google Adsense and Blog, and I’ll be writing more and more on Google Adsense, here and on my blog too. So keep visiting and appreciating us by writing your comments.
[Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Gagan. Gagan blogs on internet & technology at CreativeBloggingIdeas.
If the rumors floating around the world of Internet is correct, Nokia, one of the largest manufacturer and seller of mobile devices in the world may soon enter into the computing sector too (specially laptop manufacturing). Actually, recently Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo during an interview to Finnish national broadcaster YLE disclosed about these plans by Nokia.
Though there is no such official information about Nokia entering laptop market, but this news may be treated as correct to some extent because it has been passed over from the mouth of Nokia’s Chief Executive who is among one of the top officials in a company.
Here is exactly what, Nokia’s Chief Executive has to say:
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We are looking very actively also at this opportunity. We don’t have to look even for five years from now to see that what we know as a cell phone and what we know as a PC are in many ways converging. Today we have hundreds of millions of people who are having their first Internet experience on the phone. This is a good indication.
What made Nokia consider jumping into laptop market?
Recently we saw some of the PC manufacturers jumping over to the cell phone bandwagon. Though Acer announced launch of some of its smart phones last week, there is no official information about Dell entering into smart phone business but even Dell is said to be planning to manufacture smart phones. So, this initiative by Nokia (to manufacture laptops) could be a reply by Nokia to those trying to reduce its market share in cell phone industry.
Its just a matter of time that will bring the fact on the screen!!
After reading the title of this post, you must be surely thinking that the author of this post has gone crazy! Though I haven’t yet, but I am sure this offer by Verizon mobile is going to make me crazy for sure. 😉 This hard to believe offer (Buy one get one free) is a reality and has been introduced by the famous wireless network – Verizon.
You will be shocked to know that, this offer is not only for the old out dated models of blackberry, but also for the recently released Blackberry storm that’s creating a lot of hype among mobile phone users across the world. If you are excited to know the exact pricing and other details, including the terms and conditions of this offer, then head over to this page by the Boy Genius reports.
Recently the Wall Street Journal featured that Dell is moving away its concentration in its main stream business of computers and planning to come out with a manufacturing unit for smart phones under its own banner ‘Dell’. According to reports, the move is being considered keeping in mind the struggles Dell has to face in these tuff times of recession.
If we believe to rumors about the Dell smart phone then it is said that, these phones will be based on Google’s Android and Windows OS. Right now, Android has been used only in a T- Mobile based phone. It has also been reported in the Wall Street Journal that among the two phones currently being developed by Dell, one will be a slider and the other one would be a touch screen handheld. So, its just matter of time that will disclose the reality whether Dell is really moving to smart phones business or not!
This is my second post on Devils Workshop (first is here). In this post I am posting about how to can add a “Save as PDF” button to your blog so that your readers can save your article for offline viewing and for sharing with others.
This is very easy to use hack but still backup your template before doing anything. Refer my previous post, for details about backup procedure.
This hack uses FreePDFConverter service, which is free as suggested by its name.
Steps:
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Now go to your blogger dashboard click Edit HTML and then choose expand widget template option.
Then using your browser search feature search for <data:post.body>.
Once you have find it, add the following code after the <data:post.body> tag in your blogger template and hit Save Template button.
Mobile Number Portability AKA MNP (Wiki Entry) is a feature that lets a mobile phone user to port (shift) his existing mobile number to another operator or another area. It means, getting changes either geographically or on the basis of services, retaining your existing mobile number. As now a days, mobile number are like your virtual identity and address, many mobile phone users keep using the services of their existing service provide, despite their poor service, just because they will have to change their existing mobile number if they shift to another service provider.
To ensure increase of competitiveness and better services to customers, TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) have recently come up with regulations to implement Mobile Number Portability in India. According to reports, DoT (Department of Telecommunications) has invited bids for implementing MNP in India. As per sources, it has also been reported that Indian Telecoms will implement MNP by mid 2009 (around June 2009) if everything goes as per the schedule.
So, its just matter of time that will take Indian Telecom Companies and its competitiveness a step further in the world market. Only thing we need to notice is whether Mobile Number Portability is coming sooner or later in India?
Since having a glimpse on the multi touch feature in Apple’s i-phone, every mobile phone user wanted to see this feature on their Nokia or other branded mobiles too. iPhone was hyped in around the world just because the unique multi-touch feature in it. People just went crazy to have a look and feel on this innovative feature in Apple’s iPhone.
Though multi-touch feature is yet to be announced officially by any other mobile handset manufacturers in the world, but the latest Android OS based T-mobile’s G1 has been tweaked by a software developer for multi-touch support atleast while using GPS and other specified apps.
To make multi-touch feature working on G1, the developer has patched the kernels and flashed the firmware. The developer has posted a detailed guide and a tutorial on how to tweak your G1 to enable multi-touch in it.
