The Crusaders

Frankly speaking, I ain’t a horror fan. I don’t like horror stories, horror movies or even horror talks. Ghost talks and movies really scare the hell out of me. But there is something about the horror games that just drives me nuts. Doom, Alone in the Dark, House of Death, Resident Evil are in the list of my favorite games and strangely I don’t feel even a bit scared while playing these games. The reason even I don’t know. It must be the enjoyment that I get when I slay those ghosts and zombies.

Well, the next on my list is Resident Evil BIOHAZARD 5. Resident Evil is Capcom’s popular survival horror series (debut in 1996) consisting of comic books, novelizations, Hollywood motion pictures, and a variety of collectibles, including action figures, strategy guides and publications. I have played all its previous series and am so desperately awaiting its fifth series. I just watched the video interview with Resident Evil 5’s Chief producer Jun Takeuchi in Capcom’s Blog and I can’t explain how ecstatic I was. In addition to the interview, the video include a brief introduction into the history of the Resident Evil series, many first-ever shots of actual gameplay, and also includes some behind the scenes development sneak peeks. This game surely will be a smash hit among the gamers. I too can’t wait to get my hands on this Resident Evil series.

written by rajit \\ tags: Biohazard, Capcom, Horror Games, Resident Evil, Resident Evil 5

Nokia N95 is one of the most complete cell phones in the world. Like everyone else ever since I’ve seen it, I have my eye on this Nseries smart phone. The first ever cell phone to receive Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) certification, N95 runs on Symbian OS v9.2, with an S60 3rd Edition platform with Feature Pack 1. With 160MB storage capacity for messages, ring tones, images, video clips, calendar notes, to-do list, and applications, N95 has in fact more RAM than any of its predecessors.

Enough of the details on this gadget; you must be tired of listening about its features…what extra it has got and how it’s better than it’s other ancestors. The important thing is getting your hands on this mobile technology and I have come through just the deal for N95 wanna have folks. At TigerDirect.com, they are giving out Nokia N95 Unlocked GSM Cell Phone for only $489.99. This is a 5.0 Megapixel Camera, 3G, Built-In GPS, Media Player, MicroSD Slot (US Version) N95-3 which at BestBuy.com will cost you $624.99. Cheap isn’t it? Well, you can check out in the net for yourself. This is the cheapest that I’ve found till date. Whatever you can look for in a mobile phone, N95 has it. If you want it hurry up. They might run out of stock soon.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cell Phone, Deals, Mobile, Mobile Phone, N95, Nokia N95, Nseries

Now, just hear this one out. This is something really useful for small and medium business organizations. If you are planning to start an IT Organization on your own or even upgrade your existing company, one thing that is really going to hurt you is the set-up cost for your organization, and the cost for the infrastructure. Even if you already have office and infrastructure, you still have to invest a lot in its expansion as new employees are needed to be hired and more employees means more space.

The better and modern solution to all this is Virtual Office. For those who don’t have any idea about Virtual Office, just know this much that it is a solution for those companies that are seeking business growth, without the huge investment involved in setting up their own office.

So, where do you find employees for your virtual office then and where will they work? I just been through a site Mazibo.com which enables small businesses and consultants to set up virtual offices by hiring dedicated resources who will work on their projects with infrastructure provided by Mazibo. What is Mazibo? It’s just some letters from ‘the aMAZIng Back Office’. Here, you can hire a designer, hire a programmer, hire other resources or outsource your projects. The employees will work only for you but use Mazibo’s infrastructure.

Resources provided by Mazibo:

• Visual Designer
  • Web designer
  • Brochure designer
  • Icon and Logo designer
  • Flash Design

• Programmers
  • HTML/CSS developer
  • PHP programmer
  • .NET programmer
  • Flash/ActionScript

• Support staff
  • Email and chat support
  • Voice and phone support
  • Data entry processing
  • SEO/link building resources

• Managers

Some features of Mazibo:

• Dedicated employees.
• Infrastructure and latest software.
• Remote Management of employees.
• Dedicated managers.
• End-to-end outsourcing.
• Social Media Optimization
• Usability Analysis & Reporting

It’s aimed for small and medium scale companies who can’t afford high services to maintain a successful web presence with the least of efforts. In today’s emerging trend of virtual offices, I think Mazibo providing decent service to its customers. Hope my readers find this information useful.

written by rajit \\ tags: Hire Designer, Hire Programmer, Mazibo, Outsource Projects, Prgrammer, Web Designer

“Gosto de criar celular toques para o meu celular” - I love creating ringtones for my mobile (I’ve been trying to learn Portuguese lately). It’s one of my hobbies and passion. During my leisure time, it’s what I do and what entertains me the most (after playing basketball). Well, before I didn’t knew about those cool software that are used make ringtones, I used to record voices and sounds and use them as ringtones in my mobile. Some of my created recordings were really crazy and popular among my friends. So, you can see that you don’t really need any type of expertise to create ringtones. All you need is a little bit of creativity and also you’ve gotta be a little crazy too. After all a ringtone is just the sound made by a telephone to indicate an incoming call, isn’t it? How you create a ringtone, doesn’t matter if it strikes your ear drum.

You can use softwares though if you really want to be a professional ringtone maker. Some of the softwares you can use are Mobile Music Polyphonic, Oxygen Ringtone Workshop, MAGIX Ringtone Maker and the Ringtone Converter. Also there are online tools too which you can use to create ringtones from any of your favorite song. MakeOwnRingtone.com, Mobicious.com, Mobile17.com are some of the such popular online tools. But if you think that you are lazy enough to create your own ringtones then “Você pode baixar toques gratis facilmente”. Opps!!! It means you can easily download ringtones for free. Just a quick search over your favorite search engine and WALLAA…a never ending list of sites will appears from where you can download ringtones without spending a penny out of your pocket or your brain too.

written by rajit \\ tags: Create Ringtones, Free ringtones, Make Ringtones, Ringtone Making Online Tool, Ringtone Making Software, ringtones

There are numerous webhosting companies out there in the wild. Just a quick search over your favorite search engine and millions of results will be displayed. And if you go thoroughly thru each of the web hosting companies’ site, you’ll see that none of them are pointing out any of the drawbacks of their company. Everyone’s boasting about how good their hosting is than others and that people should select it to its competitors.

I had written about WebHostingGeeks.com in one of my previous posts where you could read unbiased reviews of top web hosting companies that you can find over the internet. It’s a big help for those who are seeking for web hosting to suit their needs. At that time I forgot to mention that it has been running another sister website too WebHostingRating.com which has been a trusted name since 2002 and is very much similar to Web Hosting Geeks.

Web Hosting Rating is an unbiased source for web hosting provider selection too where the customers themselves have rated the hosting services that they have tried out. They make sure that the ratings aren’t only positive thus giving out 100% customer based ratings which is a big help for others who are seeking to get the hosting service. To me though, the articles I found here were of much value than the ratings of hosting provider. There are many useful articles and tutorials that give even a novice person a pretty good idea about web hosting (Linux Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting, Managed Hosting) or things that one should consider while getting a hosting and other related stuffs everything about web hosting. If you are looking for a new hosting provider or even planning to switch to another hosting, then I’m sure you’d find this site very handy. You are a customer and who’d better know you or who’d you trust better than another customer, isn’t it? Now, if I have to be impartial and rate WebHostingRating.com it’d be 6 out of 10.

written by rajit \\ tags: Rating of Web Hosting, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Articles, Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting Reviews

There are so many different types and brands of mp3 and media players but there is no doubt that iPod is the most popular & portable media player out there in the wild. With its different and innovative product line-up (iPod classic, iPod touch, the iPod nano and the screen less iPod shuffle), it has been able to attract attention of the customers and rise to the competition. Not only has it got different product line-up but it has got a wide selection of various iPod accessories which make this Apple masterpiece even better.

However, some of the accessories are so weird and hilarious that one can’t stop from being amazed. I read this review about Top 10 Strangest iPod accessories on Gadgets-Reviews.com and all I could do was stand opening my mouth wide open. The most hilarious accessory I found was iBox. Well, believe me or not this is nothing but simple boxers with a small pocket for your iPodJ. Now don’t ask me why one should ever need to wear iPod in his pants. May be just for fun. iPod DJ Docking Station is the coolest one though. With it your iPod will become a DJ. It will even scratch the turntable in the rhythm of your tunes. Just plug your iPod Video in it and watch you favorite player to come alive. Well, these were just some of my favs. The actual list is:

1. Wurlitzer’s iPod Jukebox
2. Tunebuckle
3. iPod “ChairMan” Speakers
4. iPod DJ Docking Station
5. iPod Nano Thong Case
6. iPod Nano Wallet
7. iPod Compatible Bed
8. iBox
9. iLounge Toilet Paper Dispenser
10. iBuzz

To read about other you can visit Gadgets-Reviews.com.

written by rajit \\ tags: iBox, iPod Accessories, iPod DJ Docking Station, iPod/iPhone, Strange iPod Accessories

Nearly every house and business offices have printers nowadays. The reason is simple. Almost everyone has some printing job to do now or then and moreover printer have become very cheap. But the same printer that people buy because it was cheap becomes a reason for anxiety when a month later its cartridge’s ink is all used up and you need to replace it. Why? Because believe me or not … the price of a cartridge is almost same as the cost of the printer itself. Well, this is mostly with the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) cartridges. You can get other compatible cartridges in the market or you can even refill the cartridge but on the account of damaging the printer’s head, printing quality or even printer.

I too have an HP inkjet printer and I’ve also been in the similar situation. I almost decided to throw away my printer when I found out the price of its cartridge in shops nearby. I doubt if they were even OEM cartridges. Then I came across this site InkjetDeals.info which was my printer’s life saver. It lists coupon codes for online stores that sell inkjet cartridges and laser toner. They are frequently updating their discount ink list whenever new coupons are available for the stores. You may wonder why they are selling it for so cheap. I can’t tell for exact why they are doing this but it’s probably because they are selling remanufactured cartridges which are compatible with your printer and there’s no harm with it. They have listed out coupons for almost all brands of printers (Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Lexmark) or also you can even search for coupons for some specific cartridge and toner supplier (Carrot Ink, Inkgrabber, 4inkjets, etc). Not only are they just giving out coupon codes for free, they also have a separate section with information on printer like how to troubleshoot your inkjet printers or tips on saving ink and similar other topics. I hope this site will be helpful to my reader as much it was helpful to me.

written by rajit \\ tags: Cheap Cartridge, Cheap Laser Toners, Discounted Ink Cartridge, Discounted Laser Toners, Inkjet Cartridge, Laser Toners, Printer

Time again have I’ve been mentioning about the importance and benefits of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Internet Marketing to my readers. It won’t be wrong if I say that SEO plays one of the vital roles in attracting targeted customers to a website.

Few days ago I wrote about how you can avoid some common SEO mistakes and optimize your website yourself. Today, I’ve come up with a review of a website that is very useful for those who can’t do Search Engine Marketing (SEM) by themselves.

The site provides you with all the professional help you need regarding online marketing services (SEO, PPC advertisement, Link Exchange, etc). Led by the CEO Punniya Kumar, SEO Edge has a team of expert professionals in their respective domain who will give you complete and reliable SEM information online.

Objective: To provide people with a means to get reliable SEO related news, tools, reviews, white papers and resources all at one place free of cost.

List of services that it has to offer:

• Complete Ongoing Search engine optimization services
• Keyword research and on-page optimization
• Link buying services
• PPC management services
• Reciprocal and One way Link building services
• Social Media Optimization
• Usability Analysis & Reporting

They are modest in their work. They don’t guarantee that they will rank your site to top positions for certain keywords in certain amount of time as only the search engines can do that. But they sure will try their best to help your site rank better in the search engines. The only drawback that I found with SEO Edge is that currently they only provide optimization solutions to websites with English content. For more details, you can browse through the site SEOEdge.com or you can even call in their toll free number.

written by rajit \\ tags: Internet Marketing, Link Exchange, PPC, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines, SEM, SEO

There is a great demand of customizable software in the market today. As off the shelf software packages are manufactured for in general purpose they can’t fully fulfil the requirements of business houses. So, organisations are more bent towards customized software are as they are customized as per the need of the organisation.

Are you too thinking of computerising your business operations? Does your business need a website that truly reflects itself to your the targeted customers. I’ve got just the name that might be handy for you. World Market Systems help businesses design and create customizable websites that fit your business needs and they don’t take months for it to complete. Just 24 hours and your website will be ready for launch. Cool huh? But because it took such a short period to create doesn’t mean that it’s not of good design or doesn’t meet the firm’s requirements. It will still be up to date and very intuitive.

Founded in 2002, WorldMarketSystems-Program.com has helped over 50,000 small and medium sized businesses from around the world till date with a wide variety of services. Also they have been providing hosting plans to host web site. This has added another dimension in their offerings. And if you want to earn some extra bucks staying at home, World Market Systems provides that opportunity too with its Affiliate Marketing schemes. So, please do check it out in case you’re having thoughts of launching a quick website for your company.

written by rajit \\ tags: Affiliate Marketing, Customized Software, Web Designing, Web Hosting

It’s been an interesting battle of DVD format between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. The result was out and as expected Blu-Ray has knocked out HD-DVD out of the competition. Blu-ray is king now and the next-generation optical disc format.

“Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same dimensions as a standard DVD or CD.” - Wiki

First of all, congrats to Blu-Ray for its achievement. And now moving on to what I was really about to say. As the winner has been declared, I think it’s time to buy blu ray players probably. I mean why still stick to DVDs and HD-DVDs when it’s been made clear that Blu-Ray is far superior and the future of format. There is absolutely no comparison between Blu-Ray and DVDs in anyway. Even its foremost competitor HD-DVDs has lost to its huge storage capacity, speed and more support from movie studios.

HD-DVD Optical disc storage capacity:

• 15 GB (single layer)
• 30 GB (dual layer)
• 51 GB (triple layer)

Blu-Ray Optical disc storage capacity:

• 25 GB (single layer)
• 50 GB (dual layer)

Blu-ray Disc includes support for multiple layers so that it’s later expandable to double or triple capacity. Also Blu-ray is backwards compatible with DVD; means all of the current Blu-ray players and future models will be able to read and upconvert current DVD formats. The only hurdle for now is the price which soon will be reduced comparatively to DVDs and DVD players. After that I don’t there will be any second thought regarding bringing buy blu ray players to our home. For PC users also there is good news. BD-ROM (read-only), BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable) drives are already available in the market. So, those who want to experience the technology with your own eyes, grab your Blu-Player soon before something newer comes in the market to replace it.

written by rajit \\ tags: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Disc, Blu-Ray Player, DVD, HD-DVD, HD-TV

I’ve been telling a lot about how internet is growing in size lately and how millions of websites are being launched everyday. Every business house or a person has or is on its way to publish a website. Also, the common trends nowadays are mobile sites often called as WAP (Wire Access Protocol) sites. Mobile site are similar to websites but as they have to be viewed in mobiles and PDAs, their size is reduced to fit the screen of the cell phones. Of course your mobile has to be WAP enabled and then only you can browse the pages from any corner of the world.

Even for people who are into web-designing, it might be confusing on how to make a WAP site. What special programming skill is needed (WAP sites are written in WML-Wireless Markup Language)? How to make the page appear full screen on every mobile and things like that? Well, programmers might read the syntax and create such site but for novices it might be a little difficult. There is a solution though for all this - Mobilemo which has come up with an innovative, user-friendly platform enabling people to create and manage their very own mobile sites the way they like it.

The site is very interactive, easy to use, with each step briefly discussed and with lots of possibilities towards design and innovatong making it effortless for even a newbie to create a mini-website that actually reflects your interest and personality for your mobile phones. But though the site is simple, its end products are not. Your mobile site doesn’t have to plain text WAP site. The customizable color schemes, background templates, image insertion and other tools available here make sure that your mini-site is as attractive and flashy as web pages that one sees over the PC.

Mobile sites are the new ways to express you intentions, advertisement, promotions and marketing. So, its better you go with the flow before you’re behind everyone else. Start with something really small for now, think big for future.

written by rajit \\ tags: Internet, Make Mobile Site, Mobile, Mobile Site, Mobile Websites, WAP Site

There’s really need for someone who speaks out truth loudly in today’s world where forgery and biasness has taken over every bit of good that is left. There are very less number of people who are bold enough to speak the truth whether it’s sweet or sour.

Nowadays, there are millions of websites launching day by day. Finding the web hosting solutions for publishing those sites is a very complicated task. There are endless results to your search for the best hosting provider and all those boast to be better than the rest. Price is one of the most important factors that everyone looks at but many think that with low price comes poor quality and service. The best way I think to differentiate between them is through reviews from those who have really used the service. Most of the time we see that sites keep only positive (biased) reviews which don’t help much; instead they confuse the customers even more.

Luckily, WebHostingGeeks.com doesn’t do so. This site is fully dedicated to providing real and unbiased customer reviews of major web hosting companies. Not only do they collect web hosting reviews, they also make sure that the reviews are unbiased and customers point out the negative aspects of the hosting services as well. You can check out for yourself that they are not all positive reviews. It’s really easier now to decide which actually the best option for you is (different people have different criteria though). They also have web hosting articles which might be handy for you while getting to know more about web hosting and also while making your final selection. Just feel free to browse through the pages and gain as much information as possible before making the final decision. Sincerely, hope that this information was helpful.

written by rajit \\ tags: Reviews on Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Articles, Web Hosting Companies, Web Hosting Reviews

Chatting has been very popular means of entertainment, making friends and communication ever since the advent of internet. Not only for these purposes but some people have hobbies or even habit to chat; some use internet just for chatting and nothing else though there are numerous other things that you can do over the net.

Let’s leave it all there and move on to video chatting which is in hype nowadays as people are more into it than regular just text chatting. I remember one time I went on a blind date with a chat friend and I had to run away because she looked so awfulJ. With video chatting there is much less chances of such horrible experiences and it’s more interesting. But if you are bored of even video chatting then there’s this software that might make it a little more interesting for you and your friends who are chatting with you. VideoSkin.net is freeware webcam effect software for skinning you webcam video. It adds flash animated backgrounds and foregrounds onto your webcam video in real time means while you are having video chatting. Doing this it enhances your webcam experiences. The new version 1.4 had been released with many bugs fixed.

Features:

• Replaces background with Flash animation or image
• Applies animation over image as a foreground
• Make frames or semi-transparent effects
• VideoSkin.Net enables the user to launch all of the visual effects in other software (Skype, Paltalk Scene, CAMFROG® and etc. MSN though is in there TODO list.)
• Replaces your figure with an image or an animation
• Compatible with most webcams and Windows XP and 2000

System Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® IV or equivalent processor (1.8 GHz and higher)
• Microsoft ® Windows XP or 2000
• 256MB of RAM
• Adobe® Flash® Player 9

Does your PC meet those requirements? Start using these webcam video effects:

1. Download and install VideoSkin.Net
2. Choose the skin you like (You can download many cool skins from the site VideoSkin.Net)
3. Launch the video chatting application (e.g. Skype, Yahoo®, Paltalk Scene, ICQ® or other)
4. Select VideoSkin.Net camera as the source

So, next time you want to spook the hell out of your friends while chatting … just try out the Ghost in the Castle skin. It’s real spooky.

written by rajit \\ tags: Freeware Webcam Effect Software, Video Skin, VideoSkin.Net, Webcam Video Effects