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Sony Online Ent. Launches Facebook Game with PoxNora

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) has launched its popular turn-based strategy video game PoxNora on Facebook. Tapping into its expertise as a preeminent online entertainment company, SOE plans to follow this inaugural Facebook launch of PoxNora with additional games for the Facebook platform based on both existing franchises and new intellectual property. PoxNora is a combination turn-based strategy game and collectable card game set in a fantasy world of creatures, relics, and spells

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In the most recent tutorial called 3D Ball Dispersion , we learned a technique to offset an animation one slice at a time, to create a wave-like effect with 3d balls. After further experimentation, I’m now working on a follow-up tutorial that takes this technique even further using more built-in plug-ins for a shatter-like effect that breaks up your titles.

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Blog>> Filenaming Conventions and Knowledge Sharing

8226; User-friendly means that the filename is easy to read and understand in relation to other filenames in a list, when it is presented in an on-screen window. • Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the high flown theory and rhetoric of knowledge sharing, we forget the mundane, almost mechanical ways in which we can enhance it

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Snippets: The Stock logos on Crowdspring, logo tattoos & Doodle 4 Google flag flap edition

Chicago-based Crowdspring have taken a new ‘ nuke on sight ‘ policy on members who insist on entering stock images into their logo contests. In case you didn’t know, most stock image licenses strictly prohibit the use of their artwork in ANY logo (or trademark) and can cause all sorts of legal hassles if, or when, it happens.

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Snippets: The Stock logos on Crowdspring, logo tattoos & Doodle 4 Google flag flap edition

Dot xxx adult domain to be considered by ICAN

Top level porn domain to be considered by ICANN board The domain extension creation season seem to be upon us again. A few days after Nomine, the UK domain name registration authority started a consultative process to create one and two character domain names along with a host of other domain name extensions withing the .uk domain name space, the sponsors of another domain name extension, the top level extension .xxx were getting ready to push for the creation of their domain extension.

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SubMain acquires Exact Magic’s TestMatrix, CodeSpell and StudioTools

As announced earlier today we just closed the acquisition of the popular unti testing and code coverage product TestMatrix , as well as CodeSpell and StudioTools . We, SubMain, will continue to maintain and enhance these products.

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What is Pathos and Why is it Critical for Speakers?

American psychologist William James wrote: The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. Emotions — whether fear or love, pity or anger — are powerful motivators for your audience. An audience emotionally stimulated in the right way is more likely to accept your claims and act on your requests.

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Small Basic – Now with SilverLight

Some very cool news from the Microsoft Small Basic team: (Quoted from MSDN blog, URL is posted below article) Monday, March 08, 2010 7:42 PM vijayeg Small Basic – Now with SilverLight One Program, Two Platforms! Did you know that with Small Basic v0.8 , you can write a program or a game and have it run identically on both your desktop and the browser? This makes it super easy to share your games with your friends (even those that may be running a Mac)

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NEW TUTORIAL: 3D Ball Dispersion

In this tutorial we will learn a technique to offset the animation of the CC Ball Action effect to create a cool transition. This effect uses only built-in plug-in and offers creative flexibility for a variety of looks. The project file also includes a script for offsetting the layers by 1 frame to make the process easier.

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Fetch as Googlebot Mobile and Claim your Sidewiki comment – added to Webmaster Tools Labs!

Webmaster Level: All Last October, we launched Webmaster Tools Labs and it has been a huge success. Malware Details have helped thousands of users identify pages on their site that may be infected with malicious code, and Fetch as Googlebot has given users more insight into our crawler.

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Announces Academic Scholarship in Tribute to Mark Beaumont

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) has announced a new academic scholarship in honor of Mark Beaumont, former COO of Capcom® North America and Europe who passed away suddenly on February 23, 2010. The endowment was established by the AIAS Foundation to support students in pursuit of careers in the interactive entertainment and animation business. The AIAS will award four yearly $2,500 scholarships to students attending accredited universities

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The 2010 BK NEXT BEST MOVE National Tour Hits Savannah on March 16

Mobile tour searches for local ‘Game-Changers’ on the court and in the community Burger King Corp. brings its first-ever BK® NEXT BEST MOVE national mobile tour to the Savannah area on March 16, 2010, to find “game-changers” both on the basketball court and in the community. Local ballers can show off their best moves for a chance to compete for $10,000 and to be featured in a basketball lifestyle magazine and Web site.

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LUMIX DMC-G2, World’s First Interchangeable Lens System Camera With Touch-Control Movable LCD

Panasonic LUMIX G2 Features a 3-Inch Touch-Screen, Allowing for Quick and Intuitive Setting Changes, such as Focus, with a Single Touch technology Panasonic today announces the LUMIX DMC-G2, the world’s first digital interchangeable lens system camera with a movable LCD that allows for touch-control, and the successor to the award-winning and revolutionary LUMIX G1, which was the world’s first Micro Four Thirds digital camera. The intuitive touch-control shooting elevates the camera’s operability, letting the user adjust auto focus (AF) simply by touching the subject on the large 3.0-inch 460,000-dot high-resolution LCD. The LUMIX G2, also shoots 720p High Definition video using the AVCHD Lite format, and joins the LUMIX G10, also introduced today, as the latest models in the LUMIX G Micro System

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Logorama wins Oscar for best animated short film

Klik hier om het video filmpje te bekijken Logorama , a sixteen minute short film that pokes fun at the culture of commercialism and the impact of corporate logos on, well, everything, won the Oscar last night for best animated short film.

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Capturing and uploading image, video or audio files to server with Flash Lite and APIBridge

Hi, finally I got time to write my first article in to forum nokia wiki.

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SysPathEditor, an utility application for managing environment path varibles(using WPF)

Background I know it’s not a daily task, but there are still chances of manually editing the PATH environment variables from time to time. The built-in UI in Windows for doing this job is so humble, sometimes painful.

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iPad Available in US on April 3

Pre-Order on March 12 Apple® today announced that its magical, revolutionary and interactive iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April

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WCF Contrib v2.1 Mar07

A new release had been published – WCF Contrib v2.1 Mar07 . This release is the final version of v2.1 Beta that was published on February 10th, you can check the entire updates made from v2.0 further in this post . You can distinguish between this release and the v2.1 Beta Feb10 by checking the assembly file version, in this release it was incremented to v2.1.0.1

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DiscountASP.NET Launches SQL Server Profiling as a Service

DiscountASP.NET announces enhancing our SQL Server hosting with the launch of SQL Server Profiling as a service. SQL Profiler is a powerful tool that allows the application and database developer to troubleshoot general SQL locking problems, performance issues, and perform database tuning

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Crowdsourcing hyperbole. Rumors about demise of graphic design industry greatly exaggerated?

Remember how graphic designers were told that spec work is the “ new reality ” and that in order to continue working in the graphic design industry, they’d have to “ evolve or die “? That translated loosely to “ be prepared to work for free, cause other people are “

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