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Space Settlers: Fun Sci-Fi action game for iOS devices

Rupesh Sinha
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Space Settlers: Fun Sci-Fi action game for iOS devices

We all know that the iOS ecosystem has the most number of quality games and the number is ever increasing. Space Settler is a new game for iOS devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is a great new online multi-player sci-fi game with mecha combat and real time strategy. It should surely be loved by those who love playing adventurous combat games on their iOS devices. The game has been developed by the Digiarty folks.

Space Settlers

Now let us go into the details of this game. Anyone who loves playing mecha combat, war or sci-fi games, this game will surely grab your attention and make you fall in love with it.

Graphics and Music

Space Settlers

Space Settlers delivers a very awesome gaming experience. The graphics are sharp and exquisite and folks with iOS devices with Retina Displays will love the sharpness and details. Defiantly has done a commendable job with the graphics of the game keeping in mind the complexity of the Space Settlers concept.

The music is superb for a Sci-Fi game and it will truly soak you into it. Thankfully Space Settlers is a unique otherwise in the plethora of games available at Apple’s App Store, its tough to get noticed.

Space Settlers Story

Space Settlers begins with the story the gaming has been laid. Although I didn’t like the story but the gameplay and action makes up for it.

“People in the whole world have been fascinated with God Particle since its first appearance in 2012. Scientist Hawking, by linking his brain with the most powerful computer in the world, made a great contribution to theoretical physics, proving that the God Particle captured can be dated back to 13 billion years.

Time Gate was held open for human beings!”

Gameplay

Space Settlers

To be true to our readers, Space Settlers is not a very easy game to play when you begin playing it, but once you get the hold of controls nicely then its very much fun. The game has been designed very simply. Its intuitive and of course fun.

Basically Space Settlers is a mixture of two gaming genres, action and castle building. Space Settlers can be compared to other “build and defend” games but there is more to it which truly sets it apart such as users will be playing over planets rather than castles.

A tutorial guide walks you through every detail in the game so your time will not be really wasted. When it comes to action, attacking is done through building chariots which come with special attack powers and different capabilities. All the chariots are very much customizable in every way if you were thinking and come with their own specific capabilities which you can change by customizing different designs.

A great thing about Space Settlers is its multi-player online gaming. Players can add their friends to play together and they can even strategize together via chat.

Features

Space Settlers


Space Settlers has a long list of features which means anyone getting this game won’t really be bored of it for a long time. So let’s take a look at the important ones:

  • You can basically create your own world with Space Settlers with all the stuff you want in it. You can customize your world heavily with all the robots and accessories you want.
  • The users can have up to four user accounts which is great since a number of people can play on the same device and not disturbing the gameplay of another person.
  • There are powerful planets with a hub of powerful weapons consisting of 25 mechas and over hundreds of accessories.
  • The multi-player gaming is truly the highlight and you can own any planet you want just send your best robots and hig tech accessories to become the owner of any planet.
  • The users fight on chariots and you can build them more powerful and larger form to defeat enemies.
  • You can easily enhance the attack speed, attack range, HP, energy and propulsion of your robots, chariots, accessories etc..
  • You will get a personal assistant who will help you in your game and alert you when you are going to take wrong step.
  • There are awards and honors for players who strategize the best.

Conclusion

Space Settlers is great game for people who love hardcore action games. Since the game is available for free its a steal. Although getting boosts require you to shed some money but without them also the game is fun to play. Visit the official site, and download the app from the App store.

ArcSoft ShowBiz- An Ultimate App to Produce High Quality Videos

Shrinivas
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ArcSoft ShowBiz- An Ultimate App to Produce High Quality Videos

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Arcsoft for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

Want to turn a boring video into a sparking one? Here is a cool movie maker software by ArcSoft that brings advanced options and effects to spice up your video. ArcSoft ShowBiz is the video editor software which I am talking over here that allows you to create stunning HD movies and edit videos in just few clicks. So now forget boring videos or slideshows and bring life to your memories.

An Introduction to ArcSoft ShowBiz

ShowBiz

 

ArcSoft ShowBiz is an easy to use movie maker app for Windows 8 that comes up with hundreds of cool effects, transitions, titles and credits to produce high quality videos. Not only you can create videos here, but also upload the output on YouTube or Facebook with its built-in uploader transfer to a mobile or burn to a CD/DVD/ Blu-ray.

What File Types Can You Import to Create videos in ShowBiz?

ShowBiz

ArcSoft ShowBiz supports variety of media formats including AVI, DAT, VOB, MPG, MPEG, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MOV, FLV, MP3, WMA, WAV, BMP, JPEG, JPG, PNG and PSD. Here, I have listed only some major file formats which we use regularly. I must say it can handle almost all the popular media formats, so you never need to say “I can’t” to your customer if you are a professional video editor.

Why ArcSoft ShowBiz is Unique?

 

showbiz editing

Let me share some unique features of ArcSoft ShowBiz which we usually won’t get in other movie maker software. ShowBiz has both storyboard and timeline mode to make your work ease, you can work with any mode of your comfort.

One more interesting thing I found in ArcSoft ShowBiz is that it allows you to edit 3D images taken with your 3D camera which can be then exported as a 3D file or uploaded to 3D YouTube channels.

 If you have a touch screen device with Windows 8 installed then you will surely get the new kind of video editing experience as you can create your own HD movies with touch support in almost no time. Get  ShowBiz Windows 8 app

Other useful features include

  • Color adjustment include hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast
  • Anti-Shaking option for blur-free output
  • Basic manipulating options such as rotate, flip, crop & trim

My Experience with ArcSoft ShowBiz

I got an opportunity to try this app, and it was really a great experience to create a video with spectacular effects. I recommend everyone to use this app to make the video creation more fun!.

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GeoEdge- Powerful Tool for SEO Professionals and Publishers

Vishwambhar Kulkarni
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GeoEdge- Powerful Tool for SEO Professionals and Publishers

GeoEdge is an excellent tool which allows users to view and monitor the their geo-targeted ads and campaign from over 115 global locations. GeoEdge comes in form of toolbar or extension for your web browser, VPN or mobile app. Thus GeoEdge removes the geographical barrier for online advertising professionals and provides a smooth gateway for analysing and monitoring advertising campaigns and content on the web.GeoEdge Website Screenshot

What is GeoEdge?

GeoEdge is a powerful tool which helps you view and analyze how your website (web content) is performing in various geographical locations across the globe. It allows its users to see organic search results from a search engine for a particular keyword and also how an Ad looks on a website. Web browsers like Firefox, Internet explorer, Chrome etc. are supported by GeoEdge.

How GeoEdge works?

GeoEdge uses a global network of premium proprietary proxy servers spread over more than 115 global locations. That is to say when you select a location say, Los Angeles, CA, USA you will be logged in from a local proxy server in LA. Thus allowing you to view your web content as though you were in LA, right from your place.

How GeoEdge helps its users?

GeoEdge allows its users to collect data about how well their website is performing in various locations around the world. Also, you can view how geographically targeted Ads look on a website. This feature helps SEO professionals and companies in market research and targeting. Specially helps organizations striving to build a brand name in a specific location to monitor their progress. Publishers can get a full view and gain complete visibility of their Ad spectrum from any geographical location. It helps to filter Ads by network, geographical location, verticals etc. to save time and money on tedious processes and make your staff more efficient. Also the tool ensures a smooth running and reliable Ad profile and thus helps increase revenue.

GeoEdge Toolbar

GeoEdge Extension-Chrome

GeoEdge Toolbar UI is highly user friendly and simple. You will be directed to an appropriate page when you select a location in the list. It has a well arranged location list classified based on continents they belong to. You can also view how your content looks on a smartphone by using the Mobile Emulator.

GeoEdge Analytics

GeoEdge Analytics

This tool is a powerful and robust platform that allows its users to analyze, monitor and get a better understanding of how their Ads are displayed on any website at any location. GeoEdge Analytics tool allows you to gather and track delivery paths, cookies and landing pages, perform semantic analyses of Ads and landing pages including broken links, third party cookies, malware detection etc. This tool is backed by the global proxy network and the BI engine to provide its users with high grade service. Another feature Snap-It, builds a consolidated view of pages and Ads from several geographical locations with one click. Also you can share a snapshot of the web content you are viewing using Share Screenshot feature.

How and where to get GeoEdge?

GeoEdge Plans

You can get GeoEdge for free with limited services at GeoEdge.com. Also paid services are available in form of GeoEdge Pro for publishers, Ad networks and media buyers. The free version is suitable for SEO and SEM requirements. Also the software provides service if you are not sure which plan suits you the best.

Final Thoughts

GeoEdge is best suited for organizations providing SEO services in a local or location specific market, as it helps them in various manners. Also SEO professionals conducting rigorous market research are the most benefited. Overall GeoEdge is a good tool for location specific marketing and well suited for SEO professionals.

Checkout the following video

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A Quick Look up on Adsense Site Management and Site Level Blocking and How to Earn More With it

Shrinivas
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A Quick Look up on Adsense Site Management and Site Level Blocking and How to Earn More With it

Google Adsense has announced some new useful features that empower the publishers by providing more tools. The new features announced by Google Adsense are Site management and site-level blocking, by using these features you can block the advertisement of a particular website or sub domain owned by you. So now along with global blocking rules you can apply filters for each of your website or blogs seamlessly. First of all we will have a look at what exactly is site management and then how to block advertisement categories for your website?

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Site Management

adsense site management

Site management feature of AdSense allows you to add your own websites or subdomains so that you can apply filtering rules to each website, blog or forum. It is avid to add proper URL over here, you should not use www prefix while adding your domain to site management.

How to Open Site Management and Add Your Websites?

  1. Click on Allow and Block ads from the navigation
  2. click on “manage” link located beside “Content” option
  3. Now specify your website and click on “Add” button.. That’s it

How to Claim Your Site if not listed in “Owned list”?

  1. Click on “Account settings” from the home page
  2. Scroll to “Access and authorization” section and click on edit link for the “Site management” option
  3. Now click on “Claim” button beside your website under the unclaimed tab. This action will move your website to “Owned” list.

Site Level Blocking

adsense site level blocking

Site level blocking allows you to apply filters to show or block specific ad categories, advertiser URL or by the Ad networks for the websites you add in “My sites” using adsense site management feature.

How to block Adsense Advertisement of Specific Categories?

  1. Click on the “Allow & block ads tab”
  2. Now go to “General” or “Sensitive” category
  3. Switch off the ad categories that you don’t want to display

How to Earn More with Site Level Blocking?

earn more with adsense

On the blocking category page, you can see which category is getting more revenue in “% Earnings (last 30 days)” column, just block the categories which bring less or 0% revenue. This trick makes adsense to display only those ad categories from which you are getting higher revenue and as the result you can earn more with selected ad categories.

 

Why Email Marketing will make your business prosper

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Why Email Marketing will make your business prosper
“Marketing” quite obviously comes from the word “market”. And what is a market? Well, traditionally it’s a place where people come together to buy and sell wares. And marketing is the method of advertising or promoting your wares.
But when it comes to businesses, it carries a bit more clout as a word than simply a communal set of stalls in a village square. Marketing is where the big boys play. It’s where large wads of cash are clutched in the fists of well-educated rich men and thrown into the shapes of magnificent three-dimensional billboards advertising a movie, or into a Stratos space jump to advertise your energy drink. But that imagery is exaggerated. Do not forget where “marketing” comes from.

email marketing

While the internet is almost literally as far away as you can get from people physically coming together at a market – it is undoubtedly a communal medium at its core. While the big boys can frivolously throw their marketing-budget into wood-chippers for publicity, you can use internet-marketing to much more effectively target your marketing towards a more “market”-esque zone. It is something that can really make your business prosper.

Target the right group.

Internet marketing – can take many forms. Some of these are things like advertising on websites. Another popular and effective method of e-marketing is email newsletter. One of the great things in particular about an email marketing campaign is that the aim is to get a subscriber list to a landing page on the internet. And email is on the internet already. You need one for the other. Unlike, say, a big three-dimensional billboard on fifth avenue, you know that everyone that looks at your email to be able to act on it immediately and with minimal effort on their end. Email is a very consumer friendly method of promotion, which is
very beneficial to the business you’re trying to promote because you have a higher chance of getting something out of it.

Still works way better than other forms of marketing

Of course, email is not only one method of e-marketing. But most e-marketing shares the same benefits, and it’s all based in that old-school “market” communal atmosphere. While impersonal on some level, the internet can also provide a very intimate and personalised experience. There are methods with which you can target certain groups of people and make sure you’re advertising to the right people online who are actually interested, rather than just taking a shotgun approach to the public at large.

email marketing for business

Its easy and efficient

E-marketing is a very modern, new thing that allows you to reach millions of people – but also allows you to reach the correct people for you as a business, too. It is easy and efficient for you – the marketer – but also for the people you’re marketing towards. While it’s not exactly the same as the traditional “market” meaning – it’s definitely far closer to the traditional and true meaning of the word than some of the “larger” methods of marketing – and that can only be a beneficial thing. It is definitely something that should
be looked into, as it can really help a business prosper with its unique and effective marketing opportunities.

Checklist to Ensure Great Marketing Content to Consumers

Isabel Clark
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Checklist to Ensure Great Marketing Content to Consumers

The consumer is an inseparable part of your business; without which success and profitability makes no sense. However there is an important task that you have is preparing content about your company and its range of products or services to acquaint and create awareness amongst consumers.

Marketing

  • Engage Users

The content should be able to captivate and grasp the attention of its onlooker who may or may not even be a potential customer or buyer. The effect needs to be intense enough to evoke questions about the company and its products even from the most disinterested consumers.

Engage Users
  • Content Relevancy

As a producer, manufacturer or marketer you have to understand the core group among consumers who has interest in the information within your content. Once this has been identified you can also ascertain with certain degree of assurance about their age groups and possible interest areas. The content thus can be developed to a level that will be more understandable and appreciable for that age group of consumers. Beyond catering to the core group you can also experiment with content which will appeal to similar or close range age groups and like-mindedness among people.

Content Relevancy
  • Mediums and Strategies

Understanding the medium of exposure is very important part of creating great marketing content for consumers; you have to understand or list the specific mediums through which your content will get published or find exposure. Common among these will be television, radio, internet, posters, hoardings and billboards among others. So the content creation will differ greatly for each of these mediums; while you will have considerable time on television or radio with detailing aspects of the content the same will be presented in a succinct manner on posters and billboards. Here you can only reach out to the viewer with a punch line or a concept idea.

Mediums and Strategies

Grabbing a place in the online world, widening reach among audience is very much important audience. For accomplishing this task you can avail a wide range of advertisement and publicity options, SEO techniques and internet marketing ideas so that you can have a great online presence.

  • Planning and Delivery

The most important aspect is the in-depth detailing about the product or service in an effective manner. Sometimes it may happen that the ingenuity and innovativeness of a concept for creating content may divert from the main theme needed for the consumer. Considering the fact that an average consumer has less time you have to clearly deliver as early as possible with the content; this will create greater appreciation and awareness for a brand and its range of offers.

Planning and Delivery
  • Conclusion

Given the importance of content marketing in today’s competitive scenario, companies need to ensure that proper marketing strategies are implemented at every stage to ensure that campaigns have a successful launch.

Review: Samsung Galaxy S II Plus Specs Review

Rupesh Sinha
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Review: Samsung Galaxy S II Plus Specs Review

The Samsung Galaxy S II was a very popular smartphone from the South Koreans, it really made the Galaxy S series a household name and the Galaxy S flagships are the reason why today Samsung is the world’s largest phone manufacturer. CES is going on in Las Vegas and Samsung has announced a new smartphone, to be more specific, a new Galaxy S II aptly named the Galaxy S II Plus. The Galaxy S II Plus is basically pretty much the same as the old Galaxy S II but what it brings the changes are a revamped design, Jelly Bean pre installed and a new chipset.


 Galaxy S II Plus

Galaxy S II Plus Specifications:

The Galaxy S II Plus features the same 4.3-inch Super Amoled plus display as the original S II and it runs the latest Nature UX on top of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which the Galaxy S III runs. It is powered by a dual-core Cortex A9 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, the GPU is by Broadcomm and the device has 1 GB of RAM. Under the hood, there’s a 1650 MAh battery powering the whole thing up.

Other features are pretty much the same with the 8 MP camera with an LED flash with 1080p video recording and Samsung has promised zero shutter lag on this device. A 2 MP secondary camera,3G with 21Mbps HSPA+, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0+HS. The internal storage has been cut down to 8 GB but thankfully it supports micro sd expansion.

Most of the tech specs are pretty much same as the original Galaxy S II. Since, the Galaxy S II is such a popular smartphone since i can still see it in many hands around me, so coming back to the point today we’ll do a specs review as to how it stacks up against today’s world full of midrangers. So here we go:

Design:

Galaxy S II Plus

The exterior has changed from the original Galaxy S II and it uses the same hyperglazed plastic as the Galaxy S III, it will be available in Chic white and Dark blue variants. Otherwise the design is also almost identical but the new finish should give it a more shiny appearance although it is still the same old plastic.

The great thing about the design is its lightweight and attractive waistline at 8.5 mm. It weighs 121 g which is 5 g heavier than the original S II although its still very light weight and comfortable to use.

It features the usual button structure as seen in the other Samsung Androids so nothing new.

Display:

The Galaxy S II Plus features a 4.3″ Super Amoled Plus display which was gorgeous in the Galaxy S II thanks to its deep black, saturated colors and good sunlight legibility.

The Super Amoled Plus display is surely a delight to use. One thing that will surely disappoint today’s users maybe the pixel density of the display since now we live in an era of HD displays and it features the same WVGA resolution which brings a 217 ppi but thanks to the RGB matrix of the display you’ll not be able to see individual pixels. Overall the display should look great.

Interface:

It runs the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean not the 4.2 the latest but 4.1 is great anyway. On top is the Nature UX we first saw in Galaxy S III. Although am a fan of the stock Android but Samsung has managed to add a great deal of utility in its new UI such as the Smart Stay, Direct call, S-Beam and others.

And you get the other Android Jelly Bean goodness like the impressive Google Now, Project Butter and other great features. Even though it features a dual-core processor, the reports say it rarely lags.

Performance:

While both the Galaxy S II and the Galaxy S II Plus have a cortex A9 chipset but original S II features a Mali 400 GPU where as the Galaxy S II Plus employs a Broadcomm GPU.

The device should not have any problem running without any lag and if you are thinking which processor is better then be sure as they will not be having major performance difference. But since the Galaxy S II Plus comes with Jelly bean preloaded and Galaxy S II is yet to be updated to Jelly Bean the performance should be better on the Galaxy S II Plus.

Multimedia and Camera:

Galaxy S II Plus

It should be a great multimedia phone since the Galaxy S II features a great camera for a smartphone and its the same on the Galaxy S II Plus so photo enthusiasts should worry about anything.

The video playback is great as it should pretty much play everything you through it.

Conclusion

Samsung Galaxy S II Plus should be a great smartphone for people looking for a good smartphone at a very reasonable price. The points to add in the smartphone’s weight is the thin and light design, great display although WVGA, good enough dual-core processor, Nature UX on Jelly Bean is truly great and a solid camera.

 

The Samsung Galaxy S II also allows you to scan barcodes on old DVDs and CDs and make some extra cash. By visiting musicMagpie, you will get enough money in order to buy some new gadgets!

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