Entertainment,Shows 25 July 2010

Nickelodeon has announced a new series from the creators of cartoon epic “Avatar: The Last Airbender.”
The new show from Michael DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko has the working title of “The Legend of Korra” and will premiere on Nickelodeon in 2011. It was posted earlier that there was a new Avatar series that is currently under development and the job/career search from “MTV Networks Careers” and “The Animation Guild” search for Storyboard Artists, Storyboard Revisionists, Storyboard Supervisors, Prop Designer and Character Designer proves its existence.

The live action move “The Last Airbender” *rewritten and directed by M. Night Shyamalan released June 30 earned a lot of bad publicity and controversy and a huge uproar from fans around. Paramount, the studio behind the film is watching the movie’s international gross before making firm plans about any follow-ups. The director, M. Night Shyamalan, expressed outmost interest to create the sequel and was happy that he previously got the exclusive contract to direct the 2 other books. The movie in question was a $150 million film shoot mostly at the backyard area in Philadelphia at the directors town and have spent $130 million on advertisements and trailers (which almost none of it appeared on the movie).

*I used the term rewritten since the director really rewritten the whole story and presented his new totally new version of the series that angered a very huge portion of the fans.

 Author's Choice,Entertainment,Gaming 23 July 2010

On July 28, 2010 at 1:00AM, East Asia and Ocenia will be able to purchase the new game Star Craft II: Wings of Liberty via an online digital download.

The official release was July 27, 2010 at approximately 10:00AM (GMT+8) where the CD/DVD will start to fill up your favorite computer games stores.  On july 28, 2010 at 1:00AM (GMT+8) will be  Battle.net’s  official SEA opening and online purchase activation.

Those that wants to get a little ahead with the others can download the game starting today by visiting this link http://sea.battle.net/account/management/sc2/pre-download-page.html, you need a valid Battle.net account to download the game.

StarCraft II continues the epic saga of the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. These three distinct and powerful races will clash once again in the fast-paced real-time strategy sequel to the legendary original, StarCraft. Legions of veteran, upgraded, and brand-new unit types will do battle across the galaxy, as each faction struggles for survival.

Featuring a unique single-player campaign that picks up where StarCraft: Brood War left off, StarCraft II will present a cast of new heroes and familiar faces in an edgy sci-fi story filled with adventure and intrigue. In addition, Blizzard will again offer unparalleled online play through Battle.net, the company’s world-renowned gaming service, with several enhancements and new features to make StarCraft II the ultimate competitive real-time strategy game.

 Author's Choice,Exposure,Publishing,Update 22 July 2010

Facebook chain connection and shared login was now implemented on vhortex.com “Will of the MetalBender”. There are some bugs to iron out and scheduled to be fix.

Currently the link supports sync login to both facebook.com and vhortex.com, the blogger on the other hand also have the special access to post directly to facebook without any outside manual reposting of links.

 Exposure,Publishing,Savings 22 July 2010

Godaddy have released a discount of 20% for all purchases that have at least $75.00 value. This is a great opportunity to get your hosting fee, domain registration, private domain account, SSL certificates and other stuffs that you may fancy with a nice 20% cut off price. To avail for the discount just key in the code fbfhome20 on the “offers/coupon code” spot on your order. Get them now!

Longtail video have release another batch of 50% discount on all its services. This company was the one responsible for JWPlayer that most websites use to stream videos. For a limited time till July 31, all purchases that use the code juldisc5010 in the reseller slot will get 50% purchase price slashed off. The player license comes with the 1 pack, 2 packs, 10packs and 50 packs.

The 10/50 packs are the ones that are cost effective. What makes this offer nice is the built in support for HD videos. The license is forever and you don’t need to use all licenses at once. You only send a request to activate additional licenses as you need them. Get them now!

 Author's Choice,Exposure,Publishing 19 July 2010

After checking the list at “Getting your Google account” and securing a Google account we can continue on creating our first webmaster tool account. Google webmaster offers more services at no cost other than providing a proof of claim for ownership for the website we are adding.

If you are using http://blogspot.com, this step may be optional but I cannot guarantee that this is the case since I abandoned blogspot after I got my own hosting.  This step may vary from website to website and some free blogging system may not provide any methods to complete this.

The main reason we are getting webmaster tools was to mark the site as our own and this gives a good point boost before application. On some states or country, this step is required.  First step to be done was to click “Add a site” which will open the site adding dialog box,

 Exposure,Publishing 19 July 2010

It has been a busy and hectic week and the storm and power drains from my place did not help well to finish what I am writing. It looks that this blog site was getting attention as more and more spam starts to come.

To continue on how to earn money on your blog, we will first pick one of the best ad systems that do not interfere with your site with any kind of pop-up or pop-under.

Pop-up is a form of online advertising on the World Wide Web intended to attract web traffic or capture email addresses. Pop-ups are generally new web browser windows to display advertisements. The pop-up window containing an advertisement is usually generated by JavaScript, but can be generated by other means as well.

Pop-under on the other hand is an advertisement which opens a new browser window hidden under the active window.  Pop-unders do not interrupt the user immediately and are not seen until the covering window is closed, making it more difficult to determine which web site opened them.

 Author's Choice,Exposure,Publishing 13 July 2010

Inanis is a nice theme for wordpress that uses javascripts to mimic a computer desktop. Currently a new Inanis was launched on controlled number for testing and evaluation. Vhortex.com is proud to announce that Inanis 7 was being tested and being plugged for wordpress 3.0. The current Inanis was working on wordpress 2.8 and up.

 Coding Tips,Programming,Publishing 13 July 2010

There are times that you want to keep your visitors and yet needs to have some kind of money generating revenue to keep your blog alive. Bloggers and almost all websites overcome this by adding new contents at shorter time span and adding a form of advertisement on the site. This website showcase an advertisement that I am trying to create to be non obtrusive and non-distracting as much as possible while giving effort to give contents that will drive interest.

This site is not yet perfect and as you can see, the ads change position a little bit at a time due to experimentation. I am clearly using adsense as a revenue provider since adsense not only targets the ads they deliver via Geo location, it also targets what the visitor was reading. It was kind of cool to see that I am give additional possible interesting site links appearing on the adsense.

Adsense approach was not perfect base on my point of view and I am writing this because when a visitor clicks your adsense link, they are taken away to another site. In my next article which I am currently writing is a guide on how to stop adsense from opening in the same window hijacking your site visitors. This is a legal method and no violation in any form with the agreement with Google adsense. Please visit again for I will be releasing a guide about managing adsense and rotating your other advertisements with adsense.

Adsense is great but why do we need to drop our other advertisements when we can just make them coexist on the same slice and space of our site.

 Entertainment,Movies 8 July 2010

I just watched this movie and I was surprised on how bad it turned out to be. The first mistake was character focus.  The story starts with Katara doing some water bending and hitting his brother Sokka.  They then found Aang (or “Oong” as I keep on hearing on the movie) frozen under suspended animation in an iceberg below them. Sokka breaks the ice sheet that trap the iceberg below the water and Katara breaks the Ice-Air bubble. This is great but who was that guy on the navy ship? Well that was Zuko, never introduced and I have no idea what he wants. Luckily I watched the whole series so I am guided but I frankly get lost on the movie.  Prince Zuko attack the tribe (gosh, I finally learned who that guy was) and then Aang come out and presented himself to the fire prince Zuko from an igloo.

The director made a pride choice of changing how the name was pronounced into Ahng  from Aang because he wants it to be more racial accurate. He base it on an aspect that Aang was an Asian, true but why Ahng? Well the director was an Indian who speaks Hindi. It may work well if all Asian speaks that same way as Hindi does.

Problem is, if he wants it to be accurate then why do the crown prince Zuko, General Iroh, the firelord and Azula are not japenese? The series portrayed them as a country resembling  Japanese people and culture which can be concluded that the upper fire country members are Japanese.

 Author's Choice,Entertainment,Gaming 2 July 2010

Do you want to experience epic power and earn immeasurable treasure beyond your wildest dreams? Are you ready to see what it means to really be above the fray? Now you can! Join a Guild today, and grab for the glory with DDO’s upcoming release, Update 5! Fight together, and discover new heights of power and glory. The more players are active in your Guild, the more levels, power, and treasure your guild will achieve together.

Best of all, when we say the Guilds are rising, we mean it: your Guild can buy an Airship as your HQ and take to the clouds! The proudest Guilds will be able to deck their ship out with special gear and decorations to match their style. Customize your ship with dozens of amenities to help you and your guild mates. Choose from taverns, rest shrines, auctioneers and more. Glory is in the skies!

Glory to the Guild! Build up your Guild Renown to earn Guild Levels and grow in power!

Go for the Gold! Special Guild Trophies from monsters and treasure chests add to your Guild Renown

Rise Above! Style that befits your station awaits in the sky. Get your guild an Airship and customize it to fit your guild’s needs.

The Best! Customize your Airship to match your guild’s style.