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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
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| 11:15a |
Coding4Fun: .NET Projects for Wiimote, World of Warcraft, YouTube Ten Creative Projects Using Free Microsoft Software Sebastopol, CA - infoZine - How would you like to build an Xbox game, use your Wiimote to create an electronic whiteboard, or build your own peer-to-peer application? Coding4Fun (O'Reilly, US $39.99) by Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek, helps you tackle some cool software and hardware projects, using a range of free Microsoft software. You can code for fun with C#, VB, Lua, ASP.NET, WPF, XNA Game Studio, and Popfly. If you love to tinker but don't have time to figure it all out, this book gives you clear, step-by-step instructions for building ten creative projects, including: Alien Attack: Create a 2D clone of Space Invaders with XNA for the PC, Xbox 360, and Zune LEGO Soldier: Create an action game using Popfly with a custom-built virtual LEGO character World of Warcraft （ Buy wow gold ） RSS Feed Reader: Use WoW's customizable interface to have feeds pop up while you're gaming InnerTube: Download YouTube videos automatically and convert them to a file format for off-line viewing PeerCast: Stream video files from any PC TwitterVote: Create custom online polls on Twitter WHSMail: Build a website with ASP.NET for Windows Home Server that lets you view the messages stored on a computer with Outlook Wiimote Controlled Car: Steer your remote-controlled car by tilting the Wii Remote controller left and right Wiimote Whiteboard: Create an interactive whiteboard using a Wii Remote Holiday Lights: Synchronize your holiday light display with music to create your own light show Coding4Fun shows you how to use your programming skills in new and fun ways.
Dan Fernandez started the Coding4Fun Web site in 2004 and built it into a powerhouse, with over 1 million page views per month and viral YouTube videos seen by millions. Dan was also the Lead Product Manager for Visual Studio Express and Popfly.
Brian Peek is a Microsoft C# MVP who has been developing in .NET since its beginnings in beta form0. In 2005 he developed the software for The Finalizer, the world's first .NET-driven battlebot, showcased at TechEd 2005. He has developed demos and content for various events Microsoft has participated in including Mix and Maker Faire. His Wiimote library is currently the most viewed and downloaded project on the Coding4Fun site. | | 11:16a |
World Of Warcraft Theme On BlackBerry World of Warcraft is huge in terms of player base and fans, and that bunch is pretty tech savvy as well. It makes perfect sense to see a new World of Warcraft Today theme being made available for the BlackBerry Curve, as fans of the MMORPG will now be able to get in-game graphics and icons on their communications devices, and they certainly don't need a reminder to tell them that it is time for that guild raid right after work. Well, we think this would be more of a distraction than anything else since it will keep the user thinking about what they are going to do in World of Warcraft instead of concentrating on the task at hand. Horde and Alliance themes ought to be concocted as well to satiate the hardcore. | | 11:18a |
World of Warcraft Gold Farming: Farming Gold in Nagrand and SMV Market Prices at the auction house are constantly fluctuating, two of the base products of wow gold grinding in the outlands can almost double in value in the space of a few hours. This can leave you kicking yourself if you sold something only for it to appear at twice the price of what you put it on for in an hours time.
The auction house isn’t the only way though, sometimes you can sell a large amount of something (10+ stacks) for near the auction house value and without it taking its cut. It is always a good idea before selling anything on the auction house press release distribution sites it in the trade channel for the price or maybe even a little more than you where going to put it on the auction house for. You will get a few annoying people offering you ludicrously low amounts, just ignore them and stick to your guns, it will pay when someone wants to buy all you have for more than you were going to sell it for in the first place. Netherweave Cloth.
This drops nearly everywhere in the outlands, its price varies widely, however on most servers it fluctuates between 4g and 10g, a good time to consider selling this on any server is between 7-8g, it might not be the best price you could get for it, but you wont lose precious wow gold in auction house deposits. The best part is that there is always a high demand for Netherweave Cloth, so you can nearly always sell this in annual report press release trade channel. To pick up Netherweave Cloth I suggest killing the Trolls in the Warmaul Compound in North West Nagrand, There are plenty of mobs to kill and you generally get 1-3 pieces of netherweave per kill, plus you get some Warmaul Beads, which are excellent for getting your rep up with both Kurenai and the Consortium.
Sunfury Signets & Arcane Tomes
Both these drop very regularly in Shadowmoon Valley, these both go for large amounts in the auction house especially since scryers is currently an overplayed ffaction, so many more people are buying these over the Aldor. You can pick up a lot of these grinding just west of the Scryer town in Shadowmoon Valley, between the two bridges there is a road heading south, there are two paths, one has a huge amount of the blood elves in groups of three and close together that you need to kill, it may be easier to do this in a group press release boilerplate or three, however if you are soloing take the path a little further on, up towards Eclipse Point, here the blood elves are spread out, and not in groups, Not only will you pick up silver, netherweave and the two Scryer hand ins for these but you will also notice a high drop rate of greens and even the occasional blue, all these can usually be sold on the auction house or even disenchanted.
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Teen Arrested After Making Suicidal Remarks Over World of Warcraft A 17 year-old boy was arrested on Monday for pretending to be suicidal over the video game World of Warcraft. The Middletown, Ohio teen is being charged with a first-degree misdemeanor for “inducing a panic” after patrol officers and paramedics rushed to his home. The boy was speaking to a Blizzard Entertainment representative (the makers behind World of Warcraft) when he make the suicidal remarks. According to the Middletown Journal, he typed that he was “suicidal and that the game is the only thing he has to live for.” The Blizzard representative called 911 after the boy made the remark. Middletown Police reported that the boy said it as a joke to attempt to get free virtual items from the Blizzard representative. Instead, the stunt yielded him no free items, but did land him in a patrol car. | | 11:20a |
It's better than being Chris Nintendogs Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was probably just thinking out loud when he said it, but he made Internet headlines when he said he could make a lot of money if he changed his last name to "World of Warcraft （ Buy wow gold ）," after his favorite video game.
Kluwe hosts a talk show on Minneapolis radio station 93X and recently told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, "Back when Chad Johnson changed his name to Ocho Cinco, I told the guys at 93X that I was going to change my name to Chris World of Warcraft. They said that's too long. So they started calling me Chris Warcraft. I could make a lot of money if I changed my name to that." Kluwe never said he was serious about the name change, only that he was serious about video gaming.
"I think more people like to hear me talk about playing video games than football," Kluwe said.
"I've played video games since I was 4 years old. I play them a lot more than I kick a football. I kick the ball about 45 minutes a day. I play video games about five or six hours a day. But that's OK. I don't watch TV." Trivia time
Who holds the Vikings' franchise record for career gross punting average?
He isn't Mr. Popularity
How much damage did Brett Favre do to his reputation by coming out of retirement to quarterback the New York Jets for the 2008 season? Listen to Jets running back Thomas Jones during an interview with New York radio station WQHT-FM.
"We're a team and we win together . . . but at the same time, you can't turn the ball over and expect to win," Jones said. "The other day [in a season-ending loss to Miami], the three interceptions really hurt us. . . . If I were to sit here and say, 'Oh, man, it's OK,' that's not reality. The reality is, you throw interceptions, I'm [ticked] off, I don't like it. You know what I'm saying? I don't like it, I know everybody else on the team doesn't like it."
Meanwhile, an anonymous Jets player told Newsday, "There was a lot of resentment in the room about him. He never socialized with us, never went to dinner with anyone."
This is what happens when you win one of five games in December. |
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