Thursday, February 21, 2008

XNA Launcher: New Arrivals in the Marketplace

First you have to download the XNA Launcher, which is under New Arrivals in the Marketplace blade -- but you don't need a membership, so skip that, and the XNA ad that displays points you to the wrong thing, so ignore that as well. Then head over to the Games blade and select Games Library, but don't open the Launcher, cause it'll just kick you out.

Of course, Alter-G also seems to be quite confident that the rig is entirely safe but, given some of the predicaments we've seen other, seemingly pinoy money talk innocuous treadmills get in, we'd still be a little cautious about strapping ourselves into the thing.

There's no denying the coolness of the Novint Falcon haptic gaming controller, but it looks like realness factor is getting upped a notch -- the company just announced the separate availability of that pistol grip it's been demoing for a while, as well as a black version, pictured above. The pistol grip is a $20 add-on for any Falcon, while the black version will list for $199 -- still pricey, but if you're a gamer, totally worth it. Check out a video of the pistol grip in action after the break.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

SEOCONTEST2008: $1000 World SEO Contest

The world SEO contest by the UK Webmaster Forums has finally started!

As you might be previously informed on the 1th of February the UK Webmaster World Community will launch an international seo contest and the winner will receive $1000 and each 3 runners up will get $100.

Today is the day! Right now the targeted search term has been released and UK Webmaster Forum Seo Contest is now official.

What is the targetted keyphrase ? Though it’s not obvious on my domain name and my blog title, the keyword is seocontest2008 .

How can I enter ?

In order to help us identify you as a participant during the contest you need to do two things:

  • Take the rules seriously
  • Insert this html code into your competitive design page
    UK Webmaster World SEO Contest

    We are going to design a result table page for the contest and the value of the user tag will be displayed next to your result so this will identify you during the contest.

Rules

  • You may use a domain, folder, or sub domain as your optimised page with one criterion. The page must be brand new, no backlins no cached version
  • Every optimisation techniques are allowed except cloaking, and hiding text. We will periodically compare the optimised pages with their cached version in order to discover the cloackers, hence we kindly ask you to avoid using any kind of noarchive meta tag

How will we determine the winner?
We won’t, but the Google.com. On the 1st of April at 1pm (UK time) the result table will be updated last time requesting the http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&q=tagetted-keyphrase&btnG=Search string and the 1st result will be the winner of the contest.

Notes:

  • In order to provide the same chance for everybody, the result table will ignore the differnces might be caused by the different geographic locations hence the above specified searching string will be requested every time when the reult page will be updated
  • Prices will be received via PayPal transfer.

Good luck to everyone!

SEOCONTEST2008

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