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Best 47 Linux Games

Chris — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:52:09 +0000

Since a few years back, tons of new Linux games have been made. Many from other OS’s were ported over to Linux and vice versa, which is good in the sense that it benefits the games that are built around online mulitplayers. Some are free and some are paid but the Linux games listed below are DEFINITELY worth every minute of your time. As the saying goes, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. So you will find all kinds of the top linux games listed below like RPG, FPS, RTS, MOBA, MMO, platformers, etc.

Enjoy reading and watching!

Capsized

This wonderful little platformer is very enjoyable. I really dig the atmosphere, sound, and feel of the game. It’s very straight forward and the gameplay has a generous mix of activities. You don’t merely shoot up aliens as you solve puzzles too. The story is pretty simple. A crew of astronauts find themselves in a world of trouble and are forced to evacuate their ship. Each one boards their own space pod and launch themselves onto a nearby planet. Scattered from your crew, you explore this strange place in search of survivors and a way to get off the hostile planet. The game art is really spot on and very consistent. Capsized’s style has a lot of flavor while keeping things simple and easy to read. The controls are fun and easy to manage, even on a keyboard. The environments and creatures are weird and sometimes creepy, but always entertaining.

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SuperTuxKart

While it may be frustrating a few times during option changes, once you’re set up this game is extremely fun! There are several tracks that are very different to maneuver and many options that can completely change the way this game looks and plays. The tires leave skid-marks, so you can tell where cars are braking or spinning out. Depending upon settings, this game can be anything from a horrible to fantastic racing experience. But it’s not a bad game, just highly variable. Keep playing with it until you find the settings you like. Totally fun and very addicting!

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CodeRED : Alien Arena

In many ways I believe it can be called the best free FPS out there as Alien Arena is becoming the standard by which others are judged. It is already including features not yet implemented like ragdolls for example. The CRX engine is amazing. For those of you that have been playing games a long time, this will remind you of the old Quake Arena days. Also Alien Arena is “Doom” inspired, and it’s definitely got that “Unreal” feeling about it. It can be very addictive but in a good way. The IRC is fantastic as you get to meet some really great people there who are always willing to help. The Alien Arena forum is amazing. The response time to a question is really fast. Alien Arena seems to have what you people are looking for in a game, consistent fun!

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Frets On Fire X aka FoFiX

Frets On Fire X is a fork, or a standalone modification of the original Frets on Fire. It’s built off of the python based Frets on Fire engine. Frets On Fire X has many great themes that can transform your game to look exactly like Guitar Hero or Rock Band. The themes it comes with are pretty stripped down. Two player multiplayer support has been added as well. If the song supports it, you can play drums too!

Multiplayer has co-operative and face-off modes. In co-op mode each player gets their own note streak counter and star power/overdrive meter, but they share a single rock meter, and score. Face-Off mode completely duplicates the first player game window for the second player, with separate rock meters and scores. Whoever does better in the end, wins. Lastly, there’s a Pro-Face-Off mode where each note player 1 hits decreases player 2′s rock meter, and vice versa; the goal is to cause the other player to fail.

Customizing Frets on Fire X is pretty easy to do. You can find tons of themes online and all you need to do is drop them into the themes folder and select it from the options menu in the game. I’ve seen BioShock, SpongeBob, Star Wars, and of course Rock Band and Guitar Hero themes. Themes are highly recommended as it makes the game look A LOT better. Unlike the console games, you can remove songs that you do not wish to play, inappropriate stages and even fret designs!

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Flight Of The Amazon Queen

Flight of the Amazon Queen is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions originally released in 1995 for Amiga and DOS and re-released as free software in 2004 for use with ScummVM. It is very similar in style in many ways to LucasArts’ many popular point-and-click adventures of the 1990s, and was inspired by Monkey Island and Indiana Jones. The character has in fact several comments about a few LucasArts and Sierra games, which will give you quite a few laughs!

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0AD

0 A.D. is a free, open-source, cross-platform real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. In short, it is a historically-based war/economy game that allows players to relive or rewrite the history of Western civilizations, focusing on the years between 500 B.C. and 500 A.D. The project is highly ambitious, involving state-of-the-art 3D graphics, detailed artwork, sound, and a flexible and powerful custom-built game engine.

The game is still in alpha stage as of writing and is nowhere near being fully complete yet, but do try the game, be amazed and help out the game’s developers!

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Minecraft

The game is truly a wonder of game design. It features simple, intuitive, and interesting mechanics easily learned on the fly, yet it also features an emergent depth of gameplay. The graphics are lo-res, yet charming, and reminiscent of old style 8-bit games, with a 3d touch. For the price, this is one of those games that you will not regret ever getting as before you realize it, you’ll have spent hours and hours digging “just one more tunnel. ”

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Penumbra : Black Plague

Black Plague did everything Overture had accomplished and made it better, tweaking all the flaws from the first like the incredibly awkward combat. It also more then triples the scare factor of the game, replacing simple animals that were already dreadful with a horrifying new breed of danger. Coupled with an atmosphere that is so dark, chilling and gripping that the game demands to be played fully emersed in dark, at night, with the lights off.

The graphics aren’t amazing, but as the name of the series hints (penumbra simply means a small area of light surrounded by darkness), this is not so much about graphics as the lighting. The shadows easily hide the sins of the outdated graphics and while the lighting is amazing, it is rarely reassuring in the gritty, claustrophobic environment that is “The Shelter”. Coupled with some underrated script and voice acting, not to mention immersive sound that leaves you jumping at every little noise that goes “bump”, the game becomes a very frightening world for your character to explore, run and hide in.

If you’re a fan of horror, do not miss this game. It excels at what it sets out to do and creates not so much a game as more an experience, if not an utterly terrifying one. It’s simply an amazing hidden gem in a sea of games. Not everyone will find it or even appreciate it, but that makes it all the more savoring for people like you, who have just discovered it.

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Heroes Of Newerth

Heroes of Newerth is the best MOBA (Multiplayer Online Batte Arena) title on the market right now. It stays very close to the original game DotA, with slight gameplay and major interface enhancements. For example, matchmaking gives you an easy way to enter a game with people who are about the same level as you. No more server browsing, no more host leaving the game, etc. The only critique you’ll have with this game is the incredibly steep learning curve. To actually be a valuable asset to your team you have to play numerous hours, about a day’s worth, and in the beginning you’re going to feed very very much. Anyhow, you’ll be hooked by the first minute.

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Dungeons of Dredmor

Dungeons of Dredmor is a Roguelike (a sub-genre of role-playing video games) that you can proudly show your friends, as it offers graphics and sound instead of ASCII characters. For the unfamiliar, it’s a turn based Dungeon Crawler (a type of scenario in fantasy role-playing games) that has the Hero (you) trying to descend 10 levels of the dungeon to kill the villain and escape. You have a variety of skills, weapons, and magic items to help you on your task, and encounter a staggering array of enemies and traps to hinder you. The game is very difficult and is meant to be played with permadeath (meaning you start over each time you die) so patience is a must.

The graphics are fine, the sounds are good and the soundtrack is sharp, though peculiar at times. The mostly mouse driven interface is intuitive, though navigating some skills and your inventory can be annoying at times. You may have a few minor quibbles and suggestions for updates after playing it a while, but for the time invested, you’re going to get a lot of game with Dungeons of Dredmor.

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Steel Storm : Burning Retribution

The single player is simple: find enemy A to open force field B to reach exit C. This formula is tolerable, as there are usually some great moments of oldschool gunplay, ambushes and the like between A and C. What it doesn’t provide, however, is a compelling reason to do anything except shoot. That doesn’t mean the game isn’t a lot of fun for a bit, but it does mean that it doesn’t leave a strong impression. The production level when it comes to sound feels quite decent, though almost all explosions are the same explosion, etc.

The look of the game is unique, detailed and cartoonish in equal measure. In spots, it feels like the old ‘Desert Strike’ isometric helicopter games of the 16-bit era with shots coming from all directions while you try to find a safe spot to flank from heavier enemies. Level design has some nice variety and clever puzzle-type elements and secret passageways that break up the monotony of “shoot – open door – shoot” that otherwise comprises the gameplay.

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Counter Strike 2D

This is a stand-alone, 2D counter-strike game. You control your character from a top-down perspective and guide them throughout more than 15 included maps to fulfill various objectives. Just as in the original Counter-Strike, you can use a variety of weapons and team tactics online or in bot matches.

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Amnesia : The Dark Descent

This game is amazingly frightening! The game takes advantage of all the little details of human nature not usually included in video games, and by combining heavy breathing with dizziness and eerie creaks, you practically became the person in the game. In fact, sometimes you would hear something to the left, and you would look away from the monitor yourself. And more than just being creepy is the realism of the game, although some things are designed unrealistically on purpose, it just makes you feel like you’re going crazy. You’ll be scared shitless many times, and the subtle revealing of the plot as you advance gives you more understanding of the situation, yet makes you feel even more scared. It doesn’t require much puzzle-solving, but its goal is to scare you stiff, and Frictional Games did an excellent job of that.

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Trine 2

There isn’t a single thing in this game that could possibly detract from its quality. It improves every aspect of Trine 1 by a long shot. I thought it was going to be mostly like the original but there’s just a lot more depth to it, and it looks so much better now. The original looks great too, but it’s incredible how a solid art style can make a game look so beautiful. On top of the visuals, growing plants using a dynamic stream of water never gets old and there’s so much more to the puzzles than that. It’s just so involving and intuitive while being simple. The narrative isn’t overdone and it’s intriguing despite it being almost like a children’s book. The banter amongst the heroes keeps you interested in the actual story while you play, just like in the original Trine.

A game like this doesn’t come around often in my opinion. That’s an amazing price for an amazing game. Lastly, the game runs BEAUTIFULLY smooth. With a relatively outdated computer, you could set everything to the highest setting at 1080p resolution with some anti-aliasing and get super smooth frame rates! This game doesn’t need a lot of anti aliasing to make edges look nice either. It just looks so amazing yet it runs so perfectly. Respect to Frozenbyte, as they’ve outdone themselves yet again.

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M.A.R.S.

A great space ship shooter! It’s very fun even if it’s only in testing stage. Although it could use more weapons, powerups and multiplayer functions (currently a 2 player game), it’s a fun game to get a friend over to your house to play with! This game has great potential. Hopefully bigger maps could be implemented where you get to hide out of view of your opponent and add to the fun!

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MegaGlest

MegaGlest extends Glest’s gameplay by including five new factions which are Egyptians, Indian, Norsemen, Persian & Romans, new scenarios, a much improved multiplayer system, in-game mods download section etc.

There are 4 main resources in game, out of which 3 are common for everyone (gold, stone & wood), the fourth one is dependent on the factions. For Tech, Romans, Egypt, Persians & Norsemen it is food and for Indian & Magic it is housing space (Magic faction calls it energy, but it’s the same thing). Every unit consumes food or housing space, depending on the unit and the faction. The limit can be increased by producing more farming unit (chicken, cow etc.) or building tents/energy sources to increase housing space.

Different factions also have different units. For example, Romans do not have any flying unit, but stronger ground units. Egypt starts with a Priest who can summon mummies (allowing user to build military quicker), but they don’t have any artillery, making it hard to go against guard towers. This allows for different game style and new strategies.

Multiplayer is the most fun part of the game, playing with friends or strangers online. MegaGlest allows you to play with other people, no matter whether they are using Linux, Windows or Mac OSX. As long as everyone has the same version of the game, they can play together!

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Machinarium

A very beautiful game that will take you back to your childhood days playing monkey island and full throttle. The puzzles are not that difficult as you are only allowed to move within small areas so items and objectives are easy to see. I was trying too hard with some puzzles as more information was given than needed to complete them. Also most of the puzzles are very similar, in that you look at a control panel on the wall and have to move lights/beads from A to B in a certain way. The main gripe would be the control system, you’re only allowed to interact with items that are close to you. If you’re used to other game controls you’ll constantly try to click objects with inventory items halfway across the screen and find nothing happening. Walking can be very annoying too. You can extend the robots body and when he is tall he walks very slow. One thing for sure is you will love the game completely. Even with certain control limitations, it was very refreshing to play the adventure genre again. The graphics are just right, comedy is great and the storyline albeit light will keep you wanting to know more about the situation you are in.

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Doom 3

The graphics and sound is amazing. And I mean AMAZING! The shadows and reflections, the textures, the demonic howls and everything else really feels like you are there. The atmosphere is fantastic, and the many dark rooms are really cool at first, but then they do start to get a bit annoying. If you’re just the type of gamer who wants to walk through the game and take in the sights and sounds, too bad. Even on easy, enemies take several bullets to go down. The normal hand to hand zombies are easy but once you start fighting faster, ranged enemies, it will get quite hard if you’re not experienced with shooters, especially since it is usually hard to see. If you’re used to FPS games, Doom 3 is not going to give you too many headaches.

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Quake 4

Quake 4 is another science fiction FPS that picks up where Quake 3 left off. This game’s graphics is exceptional! The game is somewhat like Doom 3 at times with the dark vents and corners. And yes your flashlight is on your gun. Gamespot said that the story was just deep enough to keep you interested in what will happen next. I found it to be a bit more immersible. Your character doesn’t say anything but all those guys around you will completely distract you from that fact. You really feel like you’re a part of something in this game. The story has been found to be shallow by some people but that part is pretty much up to you. However there is a major twist in the story. I won’t ruin it for you but it is definitely the most shocking story twist you will ever see. The AI, which is really good, helps you along the way as you get even more immersed into the experience. Multiplayer is fun and traditional. Its mainly quake 3 with better graphics and a couple of new maps and one new weapon which is the dark matter gun. IT OWNS!

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Quake Live

Basically the remake of Quake 3 so don’t expect too many new things from it. However, the little tweaks of Quake Live with the game system is marvelous. The game play is generally the same with Quake 3 but with apparent playing style changes because of these tweaks. The good things, like the great fast tempo of Quake 3 and the emphasis on moving and thinking, besides shooting, are preserved. Faster rocket speed, weaker rail gun, new spawn system made the game more favorable to aggressive players and is much more balanced. New visual effects make the graphics of the game acceptable even nowadays, almost 11 years after the release of Quake 3. The new hitbeep and other little things make the game very pleasant for competitive play. The tier system makes players of different level able to enjoy the game. More can be done to make this game even better, but now it is already a brilliant piece and will easily kill your spare time.

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Revenge Of The Titans

The graphics are retro and cute, the gameplay engaging, and the difficulty punishing. Revenge Of The Titans is a nice twist on the ever-more-stale tower defense game, where your defenses are far from invincible and your management strategy necessarily hands-on rather than watch-and-wait. It’s rewarding if at times nailbiting, and you will find yourself switching to a lower difficulty to figure out levels and then replaying them back at normal just because the waves of enemies can be so brutal. Adding to the problem is a tech tree with a zillion options but little guidance as to where to actually go, which will have you more or less brute-forcing everything rather than trying to craft any sort of intricate strategy, which is usually more fun!

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Shadowgrounds Survivor

Very fun little action game. The graphics are a step up from the previous game and look pretty darn good for an indie developer. It has fast-paced action and a serviceable storyline for people not looking for a lot of epic storytelling or tons of depth. It’s pretty standard space opera fare, but that doesn’t mean that it is not truly enjoyable. Voice acting and dialog are cheesy and fun, exactly what you’ll want from a game that lets you play out a cheesy sci-fi action movie. The addition of physics is a nice touch. The RPG-like system of character upgrades is back in full force and incredibly fun. Overall, a great action game for people looking for a nice diversion for a few hours. Don’t pick it up looking for the best game ever made and you won’t be disappointed.

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BEEP

This game involves controlling a robot with the keyboard and mouse in a 2D world. The world contains physics which allow you to move many objects around the environment with a grappling gun that the robot has. The robot also has a gun that can shoot enemies. This gun features auto-lock so once you are in range and hover over an enemy it will lock on and you can jump around without having to re-aim. The autolock works through ledges but you can’t shoot or be shot through the ledges. The controls are spot on. One nice feature is you can move the mouse to the edge of the screen to see ahead which allows you to view enemies that are coming up before they get in range to attack you. The requirements for the game do seem high but as stated by the developer on Steam forums, the physics require some optimization.

This game deserves to succeed and is more complete than a lot of other indie games on Steam. Moving from level to level uses a quirky space ship flying around which you control to the next level by using the mouse and keyboard. This seems a little unnecessary but adds to the quirkiness of the game and does make use of the physics for gravity on the levels as you fly around them. BEEP doesn’t support controllers but the controls are very well implemented for keyboard and mouse so you probably won’t need your game pad.

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Globulation 2

It is a small and fast-paced RTS minus the micromanagement. For example, you tell the game that you want ten workers on the construction-site, rather than telling a worker to get their asses over to the site. There is a custom-game mode, a great tutorial, campaign-mode and LAN/Online gaming-mode. You can also create your own maps, and those who are good at C++ can do their own bots/AIs.

The game is pretty normal, except the nonexistent micromanagement. You gather resources, build a colony, upgrade units and buildings, destroy other civilizations, build empires, etc. There are only a handful of types of units namely workers, warriors, and explorers. They can be upgraded to walk faster, hit harder, work more effectively and even swim by to construct buildings like School, Pool, Racetrack, Barracks and so on. The units are all globules. They look a bit like clay. They are supposedly built by five clay-balls, connected with four clay sticks. One ball is the body, two are the arms and the remaining two are the feet.

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9 Things Everyone Should Consider First Before Buying A Mobile Phone

Chris — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:49:15 +0000

Many people, my Dad included, base their decisions on getting a mobile phone from advertisements, be it from the media or friends. Just because it says $199 for a mobile phone in the newspaper does not mean that’s all you’re paying for. Just because it has an Blackberry, Android or an Apple symbol does not mean you are getting what you’re looking for. Actually, what’s most important are the 9 items below which will help you to decide the phone that best suits you.

Budget

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The single most important deciding factor in purchasing your next mobile phone. Whether if it is a high end, mid range or lower range mobile phone, it all depends on your spending power. I assume that most have the budget for a mid range phone, at least. Now, I’m telling you DON’T. If you have the cash for a mid range phone, you should spend it instead on an older model high end mobile phone. For example, if you can’t afford a Samsung Galaxy S2, get the Samsung Galaxy S instead. It’s half the price and it will stay relevant longer than if you were to spend it on a Samsung Galaxy Ace.

Screen

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One of the most looked at feature when buying a phone. Most people like it big but then they have to realize that the bigger the screen size, the more power it is going to consume. Also, nothing beats LED as they are lowest in power consumption, thinner than LCDs because they do not need to be back lit, really bright screens, truer blacks, wider viewing angle and have better heat dissipation that LEDs. The best screen you can get at the moment is from Samsung called the HD Super AMOLED.

Battery Life

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A very, very important feature to look out for, especially if you are on the road a lot! The lower the battery capacity, the faster it dies out on you. When browsing through specifications of phones on the internet, always look out for talk time. Anything less than 12 hours (half a day) on 2G, forget it. HTC has a really bad reputation when it comes to battery life.

Contract

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It may look good on paper, but in actual fact, it isn’t. The savings for going contract-less is enormous. For example, an AT&T customer with an Apple iPhone on a traditional plan pays at least $130 a month, excluding taxes and fees, for unlimited calls and web use. Compared with the $50 a month, all-inclusive prepaid plans, the iPhone owner pays nearly $1,000 more over the course of a year!

Keyboard

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On slide out fairly big screens, a physical keyboard thickens the mobile phone. Blackberries like the Bold series are slimmer with the keyboard on the surface but the screen is much smaller. The only reason you would want to consider buying a mobile phone with a physical keyboard is if you email a lot. Most mobile phone keyboards are the QWERTY type that resembles the computer keyboard for familiarity and faster typing.

Network

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The most popular network band in the world is GSM, used by 80% of the world’s population. The other 20% belongs to the CDMA network band. Which means that when buying your next phone, check that it accepts both network bands for convenience purposes especially if you travel a lot.

Durability

The only way to find out if the phone survives a fall is to search youtube for “drop tests” of your phone model. For example, the youtube video above is the most popular drop test of 2011.

Camera Quality

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Of course, a real proper camera’s picture quality will always be better than one from a mobile phone but the thing is, the point and shoot or DSLR with isn’t always with you. Whereas, your phone is. So it is an important feature to consider as well. Don’t be too caught up on megapixels. It has little impact in producing a higher quality photo. The easiest is to find and compare photos taken by different mobile phones by users that uploaded them to the internet. A really good site for comparing every detail from colour to shapes to text is GSM Arena’s Photo Compare Tool.

Radioactive Level

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Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a mobile phone’s radio frequency electromagnetic field, defined as the power absorbed per mass of tissue and has units of watts per kilogram (W/kg). SAR levels for mobile phones sold in the US must not exceed 1.6 W/kg while Europe’s must not exceed 2W/kg over 10g of tissue. Motorola has a really bad record for having high SAR levels while Samsung’s record is the best. Check out the complete list of SAR levels of mobile phones here.

What other important thing do you think one should look out for when buying a mobile phone?

7 Things To Look Out For When Writing Articles And Posts

Chris — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:37:39 +0000

How do you do a blog post that is attractive? That is of high quality?

Rangit.com has been around since 2007. From the very first post written till the article you see now, many things have changed. Plenty of blog writing mistakes were made and I’m glad they happened. It’s a long learning process and I would like to share with you what I have learned so far. Below are seven ways I’ve experienced through blogging that has helped this blog be what it is today.

Start with the end in mind.

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This is habit no.2 of Stephen Covey’s Habits of Highly Effective People. It is so important to know how the article is supposed to look like, how the points are arranged, etc. Once it is clear, you will then know what to focus on and everything will fall into place at the end.

Images.

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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. It improves the value of the article by invoking feelings and getting the point across to readers.

Title.

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The single most important thing that draws readers to read the written article. It’s the one line summary that appears in social media, search engines and rss feeds. Including numbers and interesting words like “Top 25 Linux Games” or “140 Faces Of Well Known Bloggers You Won’t Want To Miss” increases the appeal even more. More example titles here.

URL.

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To search engines, the URL is more valuable than the article title. You may construct your title attractively but keep the URL short. Like for example, the title may be “7 Things To Look Out For when Writing A Blog Post” but the URL should be keyword rich like “http://rangit.com/blogs/how-write-title-post-article-attractive”, omitting out irrelevant words like ‘to’, ‘for’, ‘when’, ‘and’.

Spacing.

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Keep paragraphs less than 10 sentences. Or less 5 is possible. Also, include lists. A list simplifies information and readers are able to scan through easily as compared to picking out from a block of text. Readers will know how long the content is especially if it’s a numbered list.

Research.

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The content of what you are going to write may already have been published by many people before you. Read theirs. Find out what they are missing and include it when writing your own article. Get ideas from the comments section of their article.

Originality equals personality.

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It shows honesty and genuineness. Also, humor and mischief is stylish and attractive in its own way. Yep, a pretty good example is thesuperficial.

16 Of The Most Useful Facebook Applications

Chris — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:30:46 +0000

Facebook, the social networking site that has more than 200 million active users nationwide, is as interesting as it is today thanks to its awesome base of applications. As of July 23rd 2008, the total number of applications have exceeded 33,000. What’s more, they’re growing more each passing day as developers identify potentials of having their stuff all over millions of Facebook profiles.

Sounds good but let’s be honest. Facebook is not a tool. It is an escape. Very few people go there or would want to go there to write a document, plan a meeting or collaborate. Out of the tens of thousands of applications, only a handful is truly worth your time. Below are some of the most useful Facebook applications I’ve come across.

Default Applications

Photos.

In my opinion, this is the most popular and useful Facebook application. There is no limit to the number of albums and photos an user can upload, you get to control your own privacy settings and label users in the photo with the ‘tag’ feature. What an interesting, natural interaction generator.

Block Application.

Frustrated by annoying applications? No more. Since the introduction of the ‘Block Application’ feature, you could easily block the application directly from the request. Once blocked, it will not be able to send you any more requests.

Mobile.

Facebook while taking a crap in the toilet or waiting for the bus.

3rd Party Applications

kaChing

Great application that is worth getting addicted to. Relevant to the world and your career. A cross between Google Analytics, Yahoo Questions and Seeking Alpha. Ka-Ching is easy and simple to understand, all stocks and shares ARE REAL, based on real time and experts from all sorts of fields to learn from. The combination of visual risk metrics, statistical tools, and a structure conducive to high-value interactions amongst its community investors makes Ka-Ching the #1 in terms of investing ideas.

SocialVibe

SocialVibe is a great way to give back to the world that we live in. What happens is you get yourself sponsored by your favourite brands and earn donations for the charity of your choice. The idea is to enable everyone to play a great part and network globally.

Selective Twitter Status

Update your Facebook status from Twitter, but ONLY for the tweets you choose. IMO, better than the original Twitter developed Facebook application as it avoids confusion with your Facebook friends and prevents swamping your profile with too many updates.

How well do you know me?

Have fun constructing your own questions and have friends answer them.

Extended Info

Winner of the Facebook F8 Contest. Extended Info allows you to add extra fields to your profile, such as Currently Reading, Favorite Foods, or anything else you can think of. Supports videos, images, music, and HTML.

Similar People

Discover people that share your personal sense of humor, style, politics, art, and more. The best way to connect with people you’d actually want to be connected to in Facebook.

Shopaholic Magazine(For Girls)

You’d love this. Shopaholic Magazine keeps fashionistas ahead of the curve with insider info, exclusive photo shoots, a virtual store and addicting fashion games.

Sexgames

Sex Games is a tongue-in-cheek multiplayer game where you work with an Entourage to prove your skills in the Club. Complete sexual conquests and pick up all the hottest players on Facebook.

Groupcard

An application that allows you to create group birthday cards, group greeting cards, and other group cards for your friends. Start the card and then invite your friends to sign it.

Quitclock

Most motivating application for smokers. It keeps track of how long you’ve been off the ciggy and a total running cash you’ve saved. Youc an also read handy health tips and collect support messages on your Quitclock wall.

Myxer

Select from hundreds of thousands of ringtones, wallpapers, videos and games for your mobile phone available at no charge. Also, make your own original mobile content and share it with millions of other Myxer users. You can even make money by selling your own original content as ringtones. Limited to North America.

InstaMapper GPS Tracking

Embed Google Maps with your current location on your profile page. All you need is a compatible GPS-enabled phone like the iPhone 3G and a free InstaMapper account. All maps are updated every few minutes.

On Track

A practical online application that helps you save time and effort by keeping you focused on goal objectives, tasks, and progress. On Track significantly improves the chances that the goal will be achieved on target.

93 Entertaining And Interesting Sites For When You Are Bored

Chris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:39:35 +0000

Arrived at the office early? Got some time to burn during lunch? Sitting comfortably with nothing to do? Look no further. I have compiled a list of 93 sites that I find very interesting. Interesting enough to distract me from finishing this article. Took me 2 weeks when it could have been settled in 2 days. =P Oh well, it just goes to show how entertaining the sites were. Some sites you may have come across before, some not. So far, I’ve only managed to find 93 that make the cut. So if you have one in mind, let me know, yes?

Have fun getting distracted!

Contents

Generally Interesting (11)
Videos (8)
Photos (6)
Games (10)
Celebrities (11)
Travel (10)
Education (9)
Life Improvement (16)
Comedy (6)
Others (6)

Generally Interesting

Digg

Digg is a social news website made for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the Internet, by submitting links and stories, and voting and commenting on submitted links and stories. Voting stories up and down is the site’s cornerstone function, respectively called digging and burying. Many stories get submitted every day, but only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. Web pages are presented when the user clicks the “Stumble!” button on the browser’s toolbar. StumbleUpon chooses which Web page to display based on the user’s ratings of previous pages, ratings by his/her friends, and by the ratings of users with similar interests.

FARK

Fark.com is a community website created by Drew Curtis that allows users to comment on a daily batch of news articles and other items from various websites. It is one of the top 100 English language websites, receiving over 2,500 submissions a day and over 5 million unique visitors per month. It is generally seen as a destination for strange news stories and snarky commentary.

Delicious

Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks that has more than five million users and 150 million bookmarked URLs.

Reddit is a social news website on which users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links down or up, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the Reddit home page.

Yahoo Buzz

Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person’s site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person’s website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.

Technorati

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media.

Mixx

Mixx is a user-driven social media web site that serves to help users submit or find content by peers based on interest and location. It combines social networking and bookmarking with web syndication, blogging and personalization tools.

Kaboodle

Kaboodle is a social shopping community where people discover, recommend and share products. Kaboodle’s powerful shopping tools allow people to organize their shopping through lists, discover new things from people with similar style, get discounts on popular products and find best prices. At the heart of Kaboodle is a fun and engaging community of people who love to shop.

Propeller

Propeller, previously known as Netscape.com, is a social news aggregator operated by AOL-Netscape.
It is similar to Digg; users can vote for which stories are to be included on the front page and may comment on them as well.

I Am Bored

A site containing loads of viral videos, games, memes, lists and social networking for when you’re bored.

Videos

Youtube

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. It uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.

Dailymotion

Dailymotion is a video hosting service website, based in Paris, France. Its domain name was registered one month after YouTube. As of January 2008, the site was getting about 16,000 new videos posted daily, and page views in excess of 26 million per day.

Metacafe

Metacafe is similar to other video viewing websites such as YouTube or Dailymotion, but with several differences that include a different type of Adult content filtering, a community member reviewer panel, VideoRank, and Producer Rewards. Additionally, Metacafe pays video creators for original work that has exceeded a certain threshold of both total views and VideoRank score through its Producer Rewards Program.

MySpace Video

A service similar to the YouTube video sharing website.

Yahoo! Video

Similar to sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, MSN Video and Veoh, Yahoo! Video began as an internet-wide video search engine and added the ability to upload and share video clips in June 2006. A re-designed site was launched in February 2008 that changed the focus to Yahoo-hosted video only. The site now consolidates all premium video from across Yahoo! properties with user-uploaded video.

Megavideo

A video site for streaming flash videos like the other video sharing sites.

Project Free TV

Project Free TV does not upload any videos nor do they know who and where videos are coming from. Links to the videos are submitted by users and managed by users.

FileCabi.net(NSFW)

Lists of interesting videos divided into 4 categories, mainly New, Top Rated, Most Popular and NSFW.

Photos

Flickr: Explore!

Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository. As of November 2008, it claims to host more than 3 billion images.

Photobucket

Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.

PicasaWeb Explore

Picasa Web Albums is a photo-sharing web application from Google, often compared to programs like Flickr. It allows users with accounts at Google to store and share 1 GB of photos for free. Users can purchase more storage space, which can be shared between Google services.

deviantART

deviantART aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works which are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash, filmmaking, and skins for applications, among others, along with extensive downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.

Behance

Behance is a company that designs products and services that empower the creative world to make ideas happen. The Behance team studies exceptionally productive people and teams working in creative fields. They document the methods and resources that these productive creative professionals use to push their ideas forward.

NASA Images

NASA Images is a service of Internet Archive, a non-profit library, to offer public access to NASA’s images, videos and audio collections. NASA Images is constantly growing with the addition of current media from NASA as well as newly digitized media from the archives of the NASA Centers. The goal of NASA Images is to increase our understanding of the earth, our solar system and the universe beyond in order to benefit humanity.

Games

AddictingGames

AddictingGames is one of the first Flash game portals and helped popularize both the Flash platform and casual games. It is today part of the MTV Online Network, receiving over 10 million visitors a month.

Yahoo! Games

Yahoo! Games is the section of the Yahoo! website in which Yahoo! users can play games either with other users or by themselves. The games on the website are typically Java applets or quick Flash games, but there are others which require a download. Yahoo! Games has a large user base playing various kinds of games, such as card games, board games, fantasy sports, emulated arcade games, and word games.

MiniClip

Miniclip was first launched in 2001 by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie where Small was fresh out of university when he founded the company with futures trader Presbie on a budget of £40,000. 43 million unique users visit the site per month and the company has been valued at over £200 million, having been profitable for six of its seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million in the past two years.

PopCap Games

PopCap Games was founded in 2000 by John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs more than 180 people. Most of Popcap’s games can be played free in a limited form, with the full version available for a fee. PopCap’s games have been downloaded more than 1 billion times, and its flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 10 million units across all major platforms.

Shockwave

They have been giving their large loyal audience its daily dose of online interactive fun since 1998, and Shockwave became a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks in 2006. They’ve got more than 450 games, with new ones added each week.

Pogo Games

Pogo.com is a gaming website that offers a variety of free casual games, from card and board games to puzzle, sports, and word games. Since 2006, Pogo.com has consistently been a top-10 Internet site for U.S. visitors when measured by time spent online.

Some of Pogo.com’s competitors for casual and social gamers include Yahoo! Games, Viacom’s Neopets, Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, and IWon.com.

Guild Wars

Guild Wars is an episodic series of multiplayer online role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. ArenaNet hosts official Guild Wars tournaments where the most successful players and guilds may compete for the chance to play live at gaming conventions and win prizes up to 100,000 USD. The games in the Guild Wars series were critically well received and won many editor’s choice awards, as well as awards such as best value, best massively multiplayer online role-playing game and best game. Guild Wars was noted for being one of the few commercially developed games in the MMORPG genre to offer online play without subscription fees, its instanced approach to MMORPG play, and the quality of the graphics and play for computers with low specifications. The sequel, Guild Wars 2, was announced in March 2007. It will have updated graphics and gameplay mechanics, and will continue the original Guild Wars tradition of no subscription fees.

Neopets

Neopets is based around the virtual pets that inhabit the virtual world of Neopia. Visitors can create an account and take care of up to four virtual pets, buying them food, toys, clothes, and other accessories using a virtual currency called Neopoints. Neopoints can be earned through playing games, investing in the game’s stock market, trading, and winning contests. On 20 June 2005, Viacom bought Neopets, Inc. for US$160 million.

Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates

Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online game where a player takes the role of a pirate, having adventures on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships. The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles. As of December 2008, there are 4 million pirates registered to the game.

IWon.com

IWon.com is a free casual game site and web portal that offers the chance to win cash and prizes through activities such as clicking through links or playing online games. Iwon began as an internet search engine, offering daily prizes in exchange for points earned using their engine. Activities on the website earn entries into daily, weekly, monthly and the annual cash sweepstakes and other giveaways. For example, performing an internet search earns 30 coins; you can win coins by playing games. Entries cost 100 coins each. The site is most known for awarding an annual cash prize ranging from US$100,000 to US$1 million annually.

Celebrities

People

Website of a weekly American magazine of celebrity and human-interest stories which focuses exclusively on celebrity news. In February 2007, the website drew 39.6 million page views ‘within a day’ of the Golden Globes. However ‘the mother ship of Oscar coverage’ broke a site record with 51.7 million page views on the day after the Oscars, beating the previous record set just a month before from the Golden Globes.

TMZ

TMZ.com is a celebrity gossip and news website, the result of a collaboration between AOL and Telepictures Productions, a division of Warner Bros. TMZ stands for ‘Thirty Mile Zone’, a term that represents the center of Hollywood.

USmagazine.com

USmagazine.com is the website for Us Weekly, a celebrity magazine that covers topics ranging from celebrity news and style, to the latest trends in fashion, beauty, and entertainment. It currently gets approximately two million visitors per month. In addition to features from the magazine, the site has a breaking celebrity news blog, exclusive photos, red carpet galleries from premieres and events, plus games, videos, quizzes and polls.

omg!

omg! is a celebrity news and gossip website, run by Yahoo! News’s entertainment division. Due to heavy publicity on Yahoo’s front page and with its partnerships, readership took off, with four million readers logging on to omg! in the first 19 days alone. As of autumn 2007, omg! registered over eight million readers a month, and is the second most-read gossip website in the United States, ahead of People and behind TMZ.com.

Starpulse.com

Founded in 1999, Starpulse.com began as a link directory evolving from just 12 original pages. The website is independently owned and operated, consisting of approximately 5 million pages of deep content on entertainment news, movies, TV shows, music, red carpet events, movie premieres, and an average of 40 million page views per month.

E! Online

E! Online is the online arm of E!, an American cable television and direct broadcast satellite network, providing the latest daily news and celebrity inside information in a fun, irreverent tone. E! Online attracts approximately 2.5 million unique U.S. users per month.

Perezhilton

Perezhilton.com is the website of Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr, an American blogger and television personality who posts gossip items about musicians, actors and celebrities. He also posts tabloid photographs over which he has added his own captions or ‘doodles’.

PopSugar

PopSugar.com is Sugar Publishing’s celebrity news and gossip site that differentiates itself from other gossip blogs by refraining from posting ‘snarky’ commentary about the celebrities it follows. PopSugar publishes between 25-28 posts daily on weekdays. The site’s content features up-to-the minute news, candid photos and magazine photoshoots, major event recaps, celebrity interviews, “Pop on the Street,” video comments, daily features (polls, celebrity “Guess Who?,” etc.) and highlights of the best of other gossip blogs/sites.

The Superficial

The Superficial is a website devoted to celebrity gossip. It was named one of the five best celebrity news websites by a Chicago Tribune writer. The Superficial is known for its sharply negative and biting wit. Unlike other celebrity news sites such as E! Online and TMZ.com, The Superficial lampoons the behavior of celebrities, to a degree even greater than Perez Hilton.

Dlisted

Dlisted is a celebrity gossip blog written by Michael K that garners more than a million hits a day. His distinctive style and humor have been described as ‘snarky’ and ‘unforgiving’ which fit the blog’s tagline: ‘Be Very Afraid’.

What Would Tyler Durden Do?

What Would Tyler Durden Do? is a gossip blog named after the Fight Club character Tyler Durden. The blog, which is occasionally not safe for work, is notable for publishing rumours, criticism and revealing photographs of celebrities. In a 2006 Youth Trends survey, What Would Tyler Durden Do? was one of two blogs top 10 most popular websites with females aged 17–25, a popularity the researcher attributed to ‘Gen Y females’ current adoration with content surrounding celebrities and their ‘uh oh’ moments.

Travel

TripAdvisor

TripAdvisor.com is a free travel guide and research website that hosts reviews from users and other information designed to help plan a vacation. TripAdvisor reviews cover more than 212,000 hotels and 74,000 attractions in over 30,000 destinations worldwide. With more than 15 million reviews and opinions and nearly 30 million unique visitors a month, TripAdvisor claims to be the largest travel community on the web.

Wikitravel

Wikitravel is a Web-based project “to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide.” Wikitravel received a Webby Award for Best Travel Website in 2007. That same year, Wikitravel’s founders began Wikitravel Press, which publishes printed travel guides based on the Web site’s content. The first print guides were released on February 1, 2008.

Lonelyplanet

Lonely Planet’s online community used by over half a million travellers for trade tips and advice. The Lonely Planet website was upgraded in 2008; new features include the ability to rate and review sites and restaurants, save them to a favourites list as well as a Trip Planner tool.

Fodors

Fodor’s is the world’s largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information, and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks. In 1996, Fodor’s launched a travel-related website fodors.com, which was nominated for a Webby Award in 2004. Today, Fodor’s has published more than 440 guides (in 14 series) on over 300 destinations, and has more than 700 permanently placed researchers all over the world.

World Travel Guide

Website of The Columbus World Travel Guide, the company that publishes travel guides to every country in the world as well as detailed city, ski, beach, cruise and airport guides. Their World City Guide, providing information on over 200 culturally important cities, adds to the portfolio of comprehensive travel information. One the other hand, the World Events Guide features over 4,000 events across five continents in some 80 countries, ranging from small-scale local events to major international festivals where new events are added to the site weekly.

Travel Guides – Travel Channel

The Travel Channel is a cable television network that features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels, and visits to significant cities and towns, with recent programming putting an emphasis on how the rich travel and on “haunted” destinations, like Most Haunted and Ghost Adventures.

10Best

10Best is one of the the trusted sources for online travel advice. One could find unbiased, top-rated recommendations for a city’s best sights, restaurants, clubs, and shops. No business can pay to be listed.

TimesOnline: Travel

Tourism and travel arm of The Times newspaper of UK.

Destination360

A producer of online travel guides throughout the world.

Yahoo! Travel

Yahoo!’s travel service offering travel guides, booking and reservation services.

Education

Wikipedia

Wikipedia’s 12 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone who can access the Wikipedia website. Launched in January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet. Wikipedia is not only important as an encyclopedic reference but also as a frequently-updated news resource.

HowStuffWorks

HowStuffWorks is a website that was founded by Marshall Brain and is dedicated to explaining the way many things work. The site uses photos, diagrams, video and animation to explain complex terminology and mechanisms in easy-to-understand language.

eHow

eHow is an online knowledge resource of articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on “how to do just about everything”. eHow content is created by both professional experts and amateur members and covers a wide variety of topics organized into a hierarchy of categories.

National Geographic

The website of one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history.

Discovery Channel

The website of the American satellite and cable TV channel that provides documentary programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history which reaches 431 million homes in 170 countries. In the U.S., the programming for the main Discovery network is primarily focused on “reality-based” television themes, such as speculative investigation (with shows such as Mythbusters, Unsolved History, and Best Evidence), automobiles, and occupations (Dirty Jobs and Deadliest Catch).

Internet Public Library

IPL is a non-profit, largely student-run website at Drexel University. Visitors can ask a reference question and the volunteer librarians and graduate students in library and information science form collections and answer questions.

NASA

Website of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States government responsible for the nation’s public space program. NASA’s self-described mission statement is to “pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research.”

Innerbody

Innerbody’s vision is to provide high quality educational content about human anatomy through low bandwidth Internet access to children, parents and schools worldwide. At the time of writing this, Innerbody is serving approximately 500,000 people with about 12,000,000 page impressions per month. The Inner Sites have become part of the curriculum at many schools around the world.

Britannica

Website of Encyclopedia Britannica, a general English language encyclopaedia that publishes articles in aimed at educated adult readers. The size of the Britannica has remained roughly constant over the past 70 years, with about 40 million words on half a million topics. It won the 2005 Codie award for “Best Online Consumer Information Service”.

Life Improvement

Lifehacker

Lifehacker is a blog about life hacks and software that covers Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux programs as well as time-saving tips and tricks. The staff updates the site about 18 times each weekday, with reduced updates on weekends. Time magazine named Lifehacker one of the “50 Coolest Web Sites” in 2005, one of the “25 Sites We Can’t Live Without” in 2006 and one of the “25 Best Blogs 2009″.

Dumb Little Man

Jay White started Dumb Little Man after realizing that his time had literally disappeared with the birth of his second child. As the site’s audience grew so did the site. People began sharing their experiences and today, most of the articles are from people who started out as readers. Dumb Little Man covers all sorts of ideas from budgeting at home to starting a business or trying to lose weight.

Zen Habits

One of the top blogs on the internet covering goal achieving, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits. Leo Babauta, Zen Habits’ creator, produced his first print book, The Power of Less, that reached Amazon’s best-seller list on its first day and remains one of the top business motivation books on Amazon.

Steve Pavlina

Steve Pavlina’s blog covers topics such as personal development and success; consciousness and courage; productivity, motivation and goal setting; career, wealth and business; and spirituality. Some of his most popular writing is around lifestyle and lifestyle experimentation, where he will try a different style of living and transparently blog about the day-to-day experience. Examples include raw veganism and polyamory. His most famous experiment in this regard is with polyphasic sleep, the practice of taking multiple naps in a 24 hour period.

Stepcase Lifehack

Leon Ho founded Stepcase Lifehack in 2005, a blog on tips and tricks that get things done quickly by automating, increasing productivity and organizing.

PickTheBrain

A website dedicated to self improvement with a focus on personal productivity, motivation, positive psychology, and self education.

Brian Kim

Brian Kim inspires, provides and shares what he learned and successfully applied from his analysis of several hundred self improvement books he has read for over a decade that have helped him achieve all his goals in life.

43 Folders

Merlin Mann started 43 Folders in 2004 focused on an arc about how to improve the quality of your career and life by managing your attention in a way that allows you to work your ass off on the creative projects that matter most to you.

Self Growth

Self Growth’s mission is to provide informative, quality self improvement and natural health information to help people improve their lives. The site provides information ranging from goal setting and stress management to natural health.

Stevenn Aitchisen’s Blog

This contains lots of different links, articles, blogs, thoughts anything and everything that will help you make yourself a better person.

The Positivity Blog

The Positivity Blog is focused on positivity and opening up new possibilities through motivating and practical articles on how to improve your life.

I Will Teach You To Be Rich

I Will Teach You To Be Rich is a community focused on personal finance and entrepreneurship. It’s been featured in Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, ABC News, and CNBC.

Wise Bread

Wise Bread is a community of bloggers who pitch in ideas to live large on a small budget. The goal is to maintain financial independence while enjoying life at the same time.

The Simple Dollar

Trent Hamm went through a complete financial meltdown in April 2006. He threw himself head first into trying to figure out every nuance of fixing his financial situation, and after a few months, he began to get the picture. Within eight months, he paid off all of his credit card debt, paid off his vehicle and also established an emergency fund. Since he had a passion for writing and had learned so much about how personal finance really works, The Simple Dollar was established near the end of 2006 to tell the world about what he had learned and help people who were struggling with the same things.

Get Rich Slowly

Get Rich Slowly, named most inspiring money blog by Money magazine, is devoted to sensible personal finance. JD, the author, publishes stories about debt elimination, saving money, and practical investing. He started out when he found himself deep in debt and when it finally became too overwhelming, he began reading personal finance books, hoping to find answers.

Litemind

Website of Luciano Passuello who realized that his deep fascination for the mind was his greatest underlying passion and, in some way, intersects with many other interests of his.

Comedy

I Can Has Cheezburger?

I Can Has Cheezburger? is the name of a blog featuring lolcats (a cat with humorous caption in broken English). Created by Eric Nakagawa (Cheezburger), a blogger from Hawaii and his partner, Kari Unebasami (Tofuburger), the website has become one of the most popular lolcat sites on the internet, receiving as many as 1.5 million hits per day.

I Has A Hot Dog

Similar to I Can Has Cheezburger? but dogs instead of cats.

FAIL Blog

Contains pictures and videos of blatant stupidity or incompetence with captions involving the words “[Epic] Fail” prominently.

CollegeHumor

CollegeHumor is a comedy website that features a collection of original and user-submitted videos, as well as pictures, articles, and links. As the name implies, CollegeHumor is directed towards and features content that would appeal to the university and college-aged demographic.

funny or DIE

A comedy video website founded by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s production company, Gary Sanchez Productions with original and user generated content. Funny or Die is also unique in that it contains a good deal of exclusive material from a number of famous contributors like Judd Apatow and James Franco.

Stupid Videos

A viral video website dedicated to humorous, off-the-wall videos, including wild stunts, wacky animals, sports bloopers, funny commercials, song and dance parodies. and more.

Others

Quizilla

Quizilla is a user generated online quiz website.

Jalopnik

A weblog covering cars, car culture, and the automotive industry. The blog began publishing in 2004 and is known for its mix of automotive news with an ‘irreverent’ style and tone. The site gained prominence relatively quickly upon its founding. Its contributors have been included in media events and press conferences hosted by major automotive manufacturers.

Autoblog

A web site that offers daily weblogs and podcast news and commentary about automobiles and the automotive industry. The blog began publishing in 2003.

Mashable

An internet news blog about MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter and startups, but it also reports on less high-profile social networking sites. It garners 5+ million pageviews per month.

Yahoo! LAUNCHcast

LAUNCHcast allowed users to create personal radio stations or playlists of songs tailored to their musical tastes. Music videos could also be rated, allowing users to create personal music video channels as well.

Last.fm

Last.fm is a UK-based Internet radio and music community website, founded in 2002. It claims over 30 million active users based in more than 200 countries. Users can create custom radio stations and playlists from any of the audio tracks in Last.fm’s music library, and are able to listen to some individual tracks on demand, or download tracks if the rights holder has previously authorized it.

Top 10 Coolest Mobile Phones of 2008

Chris — Wed, 14 May 2008 09:28:51 +0000

A mobile phone, a.k.a mobile, wireless, cellular phone, cell phone or hand phone, has been evolving rapidly since its conception by Martin Cooper who made the first call on a handheld mobile phone on April 3, 1973. Every year mobile phone manufacturers will compete against each other to bring out the best in features and looks to capture the ever growing market of consumers. Anyways, below are 10 of the coolest mobile phones, in my opinion, available in 2008 that are worth your attention and maybe, your money too. They are arranged in no particular order.

Samsung Instinct

Screen Resolution:	240 x 432 pixels
Weight:	125 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS
Talk Time:	5.75 hours
Phonebook:	600
Camera / Video:	2 MP

Samsung Glyde

Screen Resolution:	240 x 440 pixels
Weight:	139 g
Connectivity:	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / WCDMA 850 / 1900
Talk Time:	3.5 hours
Phonebook:	500
Camera / Video:	2 MP / Flash / Auto-Focus

LG enV2

Screen Resolution:	320 x 240 pixels (main)
Weight:	120 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS
Talk Time:	5.33
Phonebook:	1000
Camera / Video:	2 MP / Flash / Image Editor

LG Glimmer

Screen Resolution:	240 x 400 pixels
Weight:	127 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS
Talk Time:	3.5 hours
Phonebook:	500
Camera / Video:	2 MP / Flash

LG Secret

Screen Resolution:	240 x 320 pixels
Weight:	139 g
Connectivity:	3G
Talk Time:	3.81 hours
Phonebook:	1000
Camera / Video:	5 MP / Flash / 120 fps video

RIM BlackBerry Bold 9000

Screen Resolution:	480 x 320 pixels
Weight:	133 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS, Wi-Fi
Talk Time:	5 hours
Phonebook:	Depends on available memory
Camera / Video:	2 MP / Flash

HTC Touch Diamond

Screen Resolution:	480 x 640 pixels
Weight:	110 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS, Wi-Fi
Talk Time:	5.5 hours
Phonebook:	Depends on available memory
Camera / Video:	3.2 MP / Auto-Focus

Nokia N96

Screen Resolution:	240 x 320 pixels
Weight:	125 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS, Wi-Fi
Standby Time:	3.67 hours
Phonebook:	Depends on available memory
Camera / Video:	5.0 MP / Flash / Auto-Focus

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

Screen Resolution:	480 x 800 pixels
Weight:	145 g
Connectivity:	3G, GPS, Wi-Fi
Talk Time:	8.5 hours
Phonebook:	Depends on available memory
Camera / Video:	3.2 MP / Flash / Auto-Focus

Sony Ericsson W980i

Screen Resolution:	240 x 320 pixels (main)
Weight:	100 g
Connectivity:	3G
Talk Time:	9 hours
Phonebook:	1000
Camera / Video:	3.2 MP

The Funny Side Of Google Suggest

Chris — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:19:32 +0000

Google Suggest, the auto-completion search tool that ‘suggests’ popular search results to you while typing is very useful. That is if you would want to know more about what the universe is searching for. Here are just an example list of 30 of the funniest Google Suggest search terms I came across.

140 Faces Of Well Known Bloggers You Won’t Want To Miss

Chris — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:56:24 +0000

As of February 2008, Technorati was tracking over 112.8 million blogs worldwide. Blogs, a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order, are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them. Anyway, did you know how the editor or owner of your famous blogs look like? Look no further. Below are a list of influential bloggers you may not have seen before.

Aaron Wall of SEObook