Friday, August 17, 2007

Master Of The Game

I am not much into games. In fact I do not really seem to understand the tips and tricks involved in complicated games. Then, may be I never really tried. But I have a few friends who are really good at games. I watch them play and applaud, thats the best I can do I guess. However I came across a few good articles on games at HubPages. It is there I first came across the term 'game cheats'. Below are some of the articles which contributed considerably to my understanding of the games world. Enjoy!
(All the articles except the last are by Lincoln Armstrong)
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  • Sid Meier's Civilization A Great PC Strategy Game

    In the early days of PC games, just after the Earth cooled, there was a legendary strategy game known as Empire. The object of the game was to capture the opponent's cities, thereby conquering all of the...

  • How to Improve at Sid Meier's Civilization Early Game

    Okay, you've decided on a leader and you've launched your nation. There's a little worker dude and a little settler dude with his backpack and they're raring to take over the planet. But slow down there,...

  • Everquest and The Development of the MMORPG

    Everquest may have been the bridge between the original "multi-user dungeons" and the current MMORPG market.

  • The Return and the Creative Renaissance

    It is very likely we are about to see a re-emergence of creativity and cultural advancement the likes of which civilization has not witnessed since the Renaissance. The Return is one example.

  • The Heroic Saga of Dungeons and Dragons

    What began as a set of medieval combat rules has become a three-decade worldwide gaming phenomenon.

  • How to succeed as a Casual Player in World of Warcraft

    The key to success in World of Warcraft, or any MMORPG for that matter, is to not attempt quests, battles or instances that are beyond the power level of the character.

  • What is the Nintendo Wii?

    The Nintendo Wii is the successor to the Nintendo Gamecube, and it has had rather dramatic initial success.


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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Change Your Photos To Text!

I always used to wonder how people create pictures using only text as a medium. I adored their talent. These pictures arrive in my mails almost everyday. I wanted to make such text pictures and did not have a clue as to how to do it.... till I came upon this funny little utility site. his small program allow you to create text from any small pictures or even videos. Asiiomatic does just that! Below is a sample I made using my profile pictures and links to some of the celebrity articles I published earlier. Enjoy!



HERE Is The Link To The Site Where This Free Utility Is Available

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A Friend's Tribute To Laurie Allen


Bonnie's Tribute

Apart from posting articles here, I am quite active at some forums too. Discussion forums are a fast growing community of friends who participate in all sorts of interests. People from all over the world take part in these discussions and make friends with others. I have one such friend from Australia who is also a very active and goes by the name lilaclady. She is a great music fan and help promote bands like "The Muster", "The Warren Keats Band", etc, etc. and a real good friend too!

She has put together a great site in the memory of Laurie Allen. For those who are not aware of him, Laurie Allen was part of the first wave of Australian rock, starting out in 1959 as lead guitarist with Malcolm Arthur and Knights.

She's made these pages using word and has done a wonderful job creating this Tribute pages for a special friend who passed away even though a web designer offered to do one for her for free. She said that she wanted her pages to be from the bottom of her heart and wanted to put her whole soul into it, which quite evident. You will agree once you visit her pages.

Laurie Allen

Laurie Allen was a veteran of the earliest days of rock & roll in Melbourne. His professional career started as lead guitarist of Malcolm Arthur & The Knights , one of Melbourne's earliest rock & roll bands.

After leaving the Knights in '62 he joined The Blue Jays as singer/organist. Laurie stayed with them until the end of 1963, when they became part of Ivan Dayman's Sunshine organisation. Shortly after that, in 1964, they became the "Fabulous Blue Jays", the backing band for singer Tony Worsley. Laurie then joined The Roulettes , a long-running Melbourne revue band whose roster had included brothers Ron Blackmore and Phil Blackmore, Graham Trottman and Bob Arrowsmith.

You can read more about his early life here.

"I'd like to have him write a song for me" - Roger Miller

Bobby Bright and Laurie Allen have a unique place in Australian music history. When the Beatles and Rolling Stones generation of English popular music changed world music overnight, Bobby and Laurie were amongst the first Australians to ride the new wave and, through a quirk of fate, they themselves changed Australian music overnight with their first single, “I Belong With You”.

Read Laurie's career diary here.

By the time Laurie joined the Roulettes, Ron Blackmore had moved into management and had assembled a stable of singers and groups who worked the booming dance circuit in Melbourne. It was here that Laurie first teamed up with singer Bobby Bright. Bobby had made his start as a solo singer in Adelaide, working for Dayman, and then moved to Melbourne to do some shows for them there. He also released two singles on the W&G label in 1963. When Bobby and Laurie left The Roulettes in 1964, Blackmore became their manager. Each initially struck out on his own, performing separate solo spots in one show backed by Melbourne instrumental band The Hearse men , which included a young Mike Brady in its first lineup. Gradually they merged their acts into one and "Bobby & Laurie" was born. Bobby & Laurie was one of the first Melbourne acts to adopt the new 'longhaired' image pioneered by The Beatles and the Stones, and they rapidly became a popular local attraction.

Their sometimes stormy relationship deteriorated during the later half of 1966. They made their final TV performance together on New Years' Eve, and in February 1967 they officially split, after recording their last album "Exposaic" , which was almost exclusively country in style, except for the psychedelic nugget "Every Second Day". After the split, Laurie put together a soul revue along the lines of the popular Stax and Motown acts; originally called Dice, it was later renamed The Laurie Allen Revue, and its members included ex-Rondells Barry Rogers, Gary Young, Wayne Duncan, guitarist Phil Manning and backing singers Glenys and Colleen Hewett.

In early 1969 there was a reconciliation between the two singers, beginning with Laurie's appearance on Bobby's radio show in February. In September they announced that they would reunite, leaving their pop career behind them and performing straight country & western. They released several singles, including "Carroll County Accident" (RCA, December 1969) and "Through The Eyes Of Love" (Fable, Dec. 1970), but they split again in mid-1971.

Bobby & Laurie have reunited in the 90s and still work together playing rock dances and the rock & roll revival circuit. An album released In 1998 titled "Turning Point" showed the years had not changed the magic of this team's vocal magnificence showcasing the seldom heard but brilliant Laurie Allen arrangement of "Fields Of Athenry.


In 2000 Laurie made yet another one of his many musical discoveries when he uncovered Melb guitarist producer Warren Keats teaming with Rondells guitarist Bernie O'Brien, the trio known as L.B.W recorded 6 Albums, Sadly, Laurie will not see the release of 5 of these albums including the long awaited solo album "One Last Round" which Laurie described as his best solo work. The story ended tragically on June 13, 2002 with Laurie Allen's untimely death from a heart attack.

Australian Country Music reels from this great loss

Rock & Roll in Australia just wont be the same

One of their legends has passed

Lawrence Frank Allen & his groovy guitar are no more

But his music lives forever In their hearts

Kindly visit the site and leave the comments here or at Lilaclady

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Google Did It Again


On April Fool's Day 2006, Google announced the launch of new service Google Romance as an April Fool’s gag. This year too the search engine giant did not disappoint the millions of netizens who waited to see what the company had up its sleeve.

Google came up with two gags this year. The first was the launch of an in-home wireless broadband service code named the “Dark porcelain" project. This claimed to offer self-installed plumbing-based Internet access.

Google even released a rather official press release on the launch of this service called Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP). The release reads, “The Toilet Internet Service Provider project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.”

Commenting on the project, Larry Page, co-founder and president, Google, said, "We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control. What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

Continuing in its serious vein, Google spoke about how data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now, it claimed, to have successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities.


Users who sign up online for the TiSP system would receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router.

Coming to the second prank, the company announced its intention to launch Gmail Paper. With this, a Gmail user could request a physical copy of any message with the click of a button, and the company would send it through snail mail.

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

All About Call Center

A call centre, sometimes spelt call center, is a centralized office used for receiving and sending a large volume of requests by telephone. A call center caters to information inquiries or incoming product or service support from consumers. Outgoing calls for telemarketing, product promotion, customer services, and debt collection are also made. A Call center job is the latest established entity in modern day occupation. Call-Center operations have a dual function of handling a telephone line and a computer system. The operator has to keep answering telephone calls while entering or modifying data in computer.

Call centers are usually operated through open workspaces for the operators, with a computer, a telephone headset connected to a telecom switch, and one or more supervisor stations. It can be independently operated or networked with additional centers, usually connected to a corporate computer network. Increasingly, the voice and data pathways into the center are linked through advanced call center technologies referred to as computer telephony integration (CTI).

These days most major business firms use call centers to provide solutions and support, and sometimes to promote their business by interacting with their customers. These include telephone companies, utility firms, mail order businesses, and customer support for computer hardware and software or any field for that matter. Some businesses even handle their internal functions through call centers.

Click Here For The Call Center Knowledge Base


Mostly these services are outsourced and that has created a lot of job opportunities all over the world. This has paved way for the development of call center softwares and equipments, new call center technologies, and call center applications. To ensure the smooth functioning and maximum productivity from from the operator call centers use a wide variety of technologies that include knowledge management systems, VoIP, Text to speech(TTS), call cenere CRM(customer relations management), workforce management(WFM), automatic call distribution(ACD), interactive voice response(IVR), speech analytics, virtual queing, voice recognition, etc., etc.

From a customer's point of view these call centers are very helpful in finding information and solutions for their problems. There is no doubt that the call centers are here to stay and they will become more advanced as the involved technologies improve, and extend their services to more fields resulting in more job opportunities the world over.

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Although Paul has not published any Hubs under his name, he remains one of my favorites as he is always quick to everyone's rescue with his guidance and solutions. Thats evident in the number of fans he's got. He helps to write the software behind HubPages. And I think that he is very good at his job.

"Paul Deeds is the other half of the engineering pair and the sibling of Sarah. Known to be the fastest typist in the room, he hammers out the object model, and uses his gifted eye to tune the UI of the site. When he's not coding he may listen to the blues, the Kid From Brooklyn or make painfully obvious comments to Sarah about the work on the house." - Paul Edmondson in The Story Of HubPages

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Friday, August 10, 2007

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These are some of my favorite authors and their best articles(not in any particular order!). If anyone feels let out please let me know. I will be updating this blog on a regular basis and will be glad to include them also. The sketches are made from their profile photos. Since some of the profile pictures are of very low resolution, those sketches may look a little pixellated. Scroll down to read how these sketches were created!

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