Thursday 28 June 2012

The PayPal Prepaid MasterCard now available.

Paypal is rolling out their PayPal Prepaid MasterCard to participating 7-Eleven franchises and company-operated stores across the nation. 


– Don Kingsborough, Vice President of Retail and Prepaid, PayPal


"Today I’m excited to tell you that we’re rolling out our very popularPayPal Prepaid MasterCard to participating 7-Eleven franchises and company-operated stores nationwide. The PayPal prepaid card is a great way for our 110 million customers to access their PayPal accounts offline and unlock more benefits – like online rewards, an optional savings account, real-time account alerts via text message and online budgeting tools. Offline, the card can be used to withdraw cash from ATMs while money can be loaded onto the card through direct deposit from your PayPal account or at more than 130,000 reload locations throughout the U.S. including Safeway and Walgreens.

Our customers tell us that they want more convenience, flexibility and choice when it comes to their money and we’re uniquely positioned to give them just that. Offering the PayPal Prepaid MasterCard in more convenient locations, like 7-Eleven’s 5,500 stores, brings our members more flexibility by making it easier to access their money both online and offline."
"Stay tuned as we roll out the PayPal prepaid card in even more retail locations later this year…but in the meantime, stop by to check it out for yourself and tell us what you think!"
Source: Paypal
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Saturday 23 June 2012

SmartGlass SDK Released To Developers By Microsoft



Pumped to use Microsoft's upcoming Surface and Windows Phone 8 devices to help you bolster your gamerscore? Sit tight -- SmartGlass development starts now. Microsoft is now making the Xbox SmartGlass Software Development Kit available to partners with agreements to develop content for the Xbox 360. Approved developers can download the SDK from the Microsoft Game Developer Network, replete with a SmartGlass JavaScript library, the Xbox SmartGlass Studio and a sample application. Redmond hopes the SDK will give developers a head start on building applications for the technology before it launches later this year. Of course, if you can't wait to see what developers are cooking up, you can always just check out our hands-on again.

Source: Microsoft Game Developer Network

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Wednesday 20 June 2012

Google Partners With Flipboard To Integrating Google+ Streams In Apps



At the recent Le Web ’12 in London, Google’s Vice President of Product Management Bradley Horowitz has revealed that Google is going to partner with the makers of the awesome Flipboard application.
Enabling Flipboard to now include Google+ streams within their application. The new Flipboard feature will allow Google+ users to access posts, photos, video and other data without the need to visit the Google+ social network directly.

The new features have been added using the new Google+ APIs, that have been developed by Google to extend the available content to other applications. More information on the new APIs is explicated to be revealed at the upcoming Google I/O just days away. Robert Scoble provides more insight on the new Google APIs:
“This is the beginning of a real API. One that can write and read. Why isn’t this API open to all developers? Because Google doesn’t yet have good noise controls and is wanting to make sure they build their social garden stage-by-stage and not be forced later to piss off developers because they need to change their API to protect the user experience here.
He also announced that Google+ will never include advertising. Never is a long time, but it’s clear that they want to provide the industry-leading user experience.”
Source: TNW

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Saturday 16 June 2012

Your EON Unionbank Card and Paypal




Why use PayPal?
  • It is a safer , easier way to Pay for the things you love
  • Pay without exposing your credit card number or bank account number
  • Speed through checkout while shopping online
Be one of the first to experience the convenience of shopping without borders!


Here are the steps to follow if you want to get your own EON Debit Card which can be used to shop online, to verify your Paypal account and to withdraw your funds .
2. Complete the necessary fields (make sure the mobile number you provide is active and you choose carefully the pickup branch for your card)
3. Wait for the reference number that will be sent by Unionbank to your mobile number
4. Prepare two valid identification cards (for list of accepted cards, refer here)
5. Visit the pickup branch you have indicated in your application
(bring the two valid ids with one photocopy each and  P 350 annual fee)
6. Submit the requirements to the bank (approach the person in the information table)

You can complete all these steps in less than an hour. After getting the EON debit card, you must wait for 24-48 hours before your account will be activated by the bank. Within that time duration, you can already enroll your card for online banking. This is very important because you will not be able to access your cyber account if you fail to do this step.

After two days, visit again Unionbank's E-banking System. If you successfully logged in and checked your account, that means the bank has already activated your card. If you haven't verified your Paypal account yet, you might consider doing these things.

1. Log in to your Paypal
2. Click the "Get Verified" link below your name
3. Add your EON Debit Card (take note: Paypal will get P 100 from your card to check if you really own the card number; but it will be credited back to your account after 24 hours)
4. Log in to your EON Cyber Account
5. Check the transaction details and look for the one sent by Paypal
6. In the transaction details you will see "VISA-PP*aaaaCODE", copy the 4-digit code (aaaa)
7. Log back in to your Paypal and click "Get Verified"
8. You will be directed to a page where you have to type the 4-digit code

That's it! You are now a verified Paypal member.

Here's the Walk through Video from Ecommerce Specialist  Eireen Diokno Bernardo 




Should you want to withdraw your Paypal funds to EON, all you need to do is to click "Withdraw" link on the top of your Paypal page and choose "Withdraw Funds to your card." There is a P 250 charge for this transaction. However if you have an existing bank account and withdraw your funds to the said account, the transaction fee will be free for withdrawal of P 7,000 or more. P 50 will be charged for withdrawal of P 6,999.99 or less. As you can see, choosing "Withdraw Funds to your bank account" is more convenient. Because of this, I always prefer withdrawing my funds to my LBP account.



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Thursday 14 June 2012

Facebook To Debut Real-Time Bidding On Advertising Prices



Facebook Inc. (FB) plans to introduce real-time bidding for advertising on its site, a technology used by Google Inc. (GOOG) and other Web companies to more effectively target ads to consumers.
The service, Facebook Exchange, will let advertisers reach specific types of users on the social network based on their browsing history, Annie Ta, a company spokeswoman, said in an interview yesterday. Prices will be based on the cost per thousand viewers and spots will be sold via third-party technology partners. It will debut within weeks, she said.
Facebook, operator of the world’s largest social network, has tumbled 28 percent since its stock market debut last month, a decline caused in part by concern that ad revenue growth isn’t keeping pace with surging membership. The Menlo Park, California-based company, with more than 900 million users worldwide, brought in $3.15 billion from advertising last year and has introduced mobile ads and other services to boost sales.
“Facebook’s been having challenges coming up with effective advertising,” said Debra Aho Williamson, an analyst at New York-based EMarketer Inc. The company “is hoping to use that inventory on the right side of the page to deliver advertising that is more targeted,” she said.
With Facebook Exchange, marketers will be able to target people who have perused certain kinds of websites in the past based on cookies, or small pieces of code, that can track activities on the Web. For example, users who have visited travel sites to research trips to Hawaii may later see a promotion on Facebook about hotels in Hawaii.

Display Sales

An increasing portion of display ad sales are driven by this type of technology. Real-time bidding will account for about $5.08 billion, or 27 percent, of the projected $18.9 billion to be spent on U.S. online display ads in the U.S. in 2015, according to researcher IDC. Last year, real-time bids generated $1.07 billion, or 9.8 percent, of display ad sales.
Facebook’s shares rose 0.9 percent to $27.51 at 9:47 a.m. in New York. The stock began trading at $38 on May 18.
The company’s technology partners for selling ads based on user browsing patterns include TellApart Inc., Turn Inc., Triggit, DataXu Inc., MediaMath Inc., AppNexus Inc., The Trade Desk Inc. and AdRoll.com, Ta said.
Facebook has started placing cookies on the Internet browsers of its members, which will be used by its partners to identify members of the social network, Ta said. While there isn’t a way to opt out of this tracking on Facebook’s site, the outside vendors will give users an opportunity to block cookies.

Reaching Fans

The new bidding process is designed to help advertisers deliver more time-sensitive messages. For example, if a sports- apparel company wanted to reach fans on Facebook in the moments after the last game of the NBA Finals, they could prepare ads that highlight the Miami Heat and the Oklahoma City Thunder and choose which one to run depending on the outcome of the game.
Advertisers now target users on Facebook based on the interests they list in their profiles and the pages they “like” on the site. The company will continue to offer these ads, and such interests won’t be used as part of the real-time bidding exchange, Ta said.
As its stock declines amid concerns about sales growth, Facebook has been working to show advertisers that its website is an effective way to reach customers.
Earlier this week, the company and researcher ComScore Inc. (SCOR) said in a joint report that ads on the social network encourage users to buy products in stores and online. Users who saw unpaid marketing messages on the social network about Starbucks Corp. (SBUX) bought an item at the coffee chain within four weeks 38 percent more often than those who didn’t, saidAndrew Lipsman, vice president of industry analysis at ComScore.
In a separate study last week, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed a minority of users being influenced by ads. Just 1 in 5 people on Facebook have bought products because of advertising or comments they saw on the site, that poll found.
To contact the reporters on this story: Douglas MacMillan in San Francisco atdmacmillan3@bloomberg.net; Jonathan Erlichman in New York at jerlichman1@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Tom Giles at tgiles5@bloomberg.net

Source: Blomberg
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Wednesday 13 June 2012

Free ebook: Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (First Preview)



To help celebrate the Windows 8 Release Preview and the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate, we’re happy to release a preview edition of Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, by Kraig Brockschmidt (who, some of you might remember, many years ago worked with us on a couple editions of Inside OLE).
Download a PDF of the ebook here (4.34 MB).
Download the ebook’s sample code here (27.5 MB).

This first preview contains the first four chapters of what we think will be an 18-chapter final ebook:
Chapter 1   The Life Story of a Metro Style App: Platform Characteristics of Windows 8
Chapter 2   Quickstart
Chapter 3   App Anatomy and Page Navigation
Chapter 4   Controls, Control Styling, and Basic Data Binding
Chapter 5   Collections and Collection Controls
Chapter 6   Layout
Chapter 7   Metro Style Commanding UI
Chapter 8   State, Settings, Files, and Documents
Chapter 9   Input and Sensors
Chapter 10   Media
Chapter 11   Purposeful Animations
Chapter 12   Contracts
Chapter 13   Tiles, Notifications, the Lock Screen, and Background Tasks
Chapter 14   Networking
Chapter 15   Devices and Printing
Chapter 16   Extensions
Chapter 17   Apps for Everyone: Localization, Accessibility, and the Windows Store
Chapter 18   Services
In the summer we’ll release a Second Preview version, which will contain 8–12 chapters. And then, in the fall, we’ll release the final version. (Watch this blog and follow us on Twitterto learn about these releases.)
Here’s more information about the ebook, from Kraig’s Introduction:

Who This Book Is For

This book is about writing Metro style apps for Windows 8 using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. Our primary focus will be on applying these web technologies within the Windows 8 platform, where there are unique considerations, and not on exploring the details of those web technologies themselves. For the most part, then, I'm assuming that you're already at least somewhat conversant with these standards. We will cover some of the more salient areas like the CSS grid, which is central to app layout, but otherwise I trust that you're capable of finding appropriate references for everything else.
I'm also assuming that your interest in Windows 8 has at least two basic motivations. One, you probably want to come up to speed as quickly as you can, perhaps to carve out a foothold in the Windows Store sooner rather than later. Toward that end, I've front-loaded the early chapters with the most important aspects of app development along with "Quickstart" sections to give you immediate experience with the tools, the API, and core platform features. On the other hand, you probably also want to make the best app you can, one that performs really well and that takes advantage of the full extent of the platform. Toward this end, I've also endeavored to make this book comprehensive, helping you at least be aware of what's possible and where optimizations can be made.
Many insights have come from working directly with real-world developers on their real-world apps. As part of the Windows Ecosystem team, myself and my teammates have been on the front lines bringing those first apps to the Windows Store. This has involved writing bits of code for those apps and investigating bugs, along with conducting design, code, and performance reviews with members of the core Windows engineering teams. As such, one of my goals with this book is to make that deep understanding available to many more developers, including you!

What You'll Need

To work through this book, you should download and install the Windows 8 Release Preview along with the Windows SDK and tools. These, along with a number of other resources, are listed on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/br229516. I also recommend you visit http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-8-Modern-Style-App-Samples and download the entire set of JavaScript samples; we'll be using many of them throughout this book.

Source: MSDN
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Monday 11 June 2012

Google Now Activating 900,000 Android Devices Per Day



Back in February Google announced that they were activating over 850,000 Android Devices per day, and now Google’s Andy Rubin has announced on Twitter that Google are activating more than 900,000 Android devices each day.
There have been a couple of rumors that Andy Rubin may be leaving Google, so he decided to put an end to the rumors with the following tweet, which also included the updated details on Android activations.

Source Android Police

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Sunday 10 June 2012

Visual Studio Dark Theme


As we’re closing in on the final designs for Visual Studio 11 I want to thank you again for your feedback. I want to pass along that we are still internalizing your feedback and actively working on the next Visual Studio 11 milestones.
The purpose of this post is to follow up on a common request relating to the earlier RC preview post. The request was for more information on the Visual Studio 11 dark theme.
Leading up to our being engineering complete for RC we focused most of our design attention on optimizing the light theme experience, because that’s what our telemetry indicates the majority of you are currently using. Once that was complete, we turned our attention to the dark theme, focusing on the top dark theme feedback we heard from Visual Studio 11 beta. Many of you will see significant improvements to the dark theme in the RC release, but several of the key changes I’m sharing with you now didn’t make the timeline for RC. In this post, I’d like to share what you will see in RTM and call out some of the dark theme improvements we’ve made from beta to RC and subsequently to RTM.
Beta Dark Theme
RC Dark Theme
RTM Dark Theme

Themed Icons

As a part of giving you a preview of the dark theme I want to call your attention to several important characteristics of the Visual Studio 11 iconography. The first is that the icons are generally much simpler or more symbolic in their form. Secondly the color palette we employ within the icons has been simplified and made much more consistent.
In Visual Studio 11, we generate our icons from a common library of glyphs. This approach improves consistency as we produce the approximately 6000 icons of various sizes and formats that are used in approximately 28,000 different locations throughout the product. This presents an interesting challenge in terms of how to most effectively host these icons in different themes, and on different shaded backgrounds (tool windows, editors, drop-downs).
We considered the pros and cons of outputting separate complete sets of swappable icons for each theme. As we looked into this approach we found it still didn’t allow us to optimize across the various backgrounds on which the icons would be hosted in each theme.
In Beta and RC we used a ghost outline around the icons to make them visible on both lighter and darker backgrounds. The disadvantage of this approach is that it makes the icons appear fuzzy on both themes and too bright in the dark theme.
In the RTM version, we dynamically adjust the icons according to the theme, resulting in icons that are cleaner and better matched to the theme and background color. At runtime, we modify the luminosity of the raster images to match the outline of the icon with the background on which it is drawn and to make the fill and accent colors stand out effectively.  For the dark theme, this essentially inverts the brightness of the icon, making dark areas of the original icon light and light areas of the original icon dark.  The same happens on the light theme, as icons are displayed on differently shaded backgrounds. The luminosity match makes the background and outline of icons disappear as it matches the surface color they are displayed on.
The difference between the traditional outline based approach we used for beta and RC, and the approach we employee for RTM, is readily apparent in the following screenshots.
Dark Theme
In addition to being simpler in form, and being better suited to dynamic theming, glyph style icons also lend themselves to much cleaner resizing or scaling. All of our Visual Studio 11 icons are maintained in an icon repository as vector graphic files which we output in various file formats and sizes as needed within our products. For example the same glyph can easily be rendered in a size and format appropriate for use in different Visual Studio 11 contexts such as the Solution Explorer or the New Project Dialog.
Dark Theme
As a part of the Visual Studio 11 overall release plan we will be making all of the icons for this release available to you in multiple file formats including vector. You are free to take full advantage of the easy theme-ability and resize-ability of these assets within your own applications.

Themed Scrollbars

One of the most common requests for dark theme enhancements has been for us to theme scrollbars. As I hinted at previously we were close to sharing with you in our last post that scrollbars will be custom themed within both the light and dark themes. We’ve since completed sufficient testing to feel confident in sharing our RTM designs with you.
Dark Theme
Visual Studio's UI is a mix of WPF, Windows Forms, Win32, HTML, and other UI technologies which made scrollbar theming a challenging project. Because there is no single technology solution to theming all scrollbars in VS, we applied scrollbar theming on a technology-by-technology basis. We created a style targeting ScrollBar and ScrollViewer in the root of VS document and tool windows. In some cases, where it’s not appropriate to show a themed scroll bar, the UI can opt-out. An example is a pop-up dialog that will continue to show light even in the dark theme should not show dark scroll bars.
Individual pieces of UI can opt-out of themed scrollbars by setting a special property on the HWND. UI may decide to opt-out if it is not optimized for the dark theme or if it presents a very specific user content.
The themed scrollbars are designed to work together with the RC changes we shared with you previously, such as drawing our own custom window chrome, to improve the overall sense of coherent styling within Visual Studio 11. As I mentioned above we would like to hear more regarding your impressions of the cumulative updates we’ve shared with you.

Dark Editor Theme

Many of you have expressed a preference for coding within a dark editor. For example, dark editor themes dominate the list of all-time favorites at web sites such as http://studiostyl.es/ which serve as a repository for different Visual Studio styles.
Chief among the reasons many of you have expressed for preferring dark backgrounds is the reduced strain placed on the eyes when staring at the screen for many hours. Many developers state that light text on a dark background is easier to read over longer periods of time than dark text on a light background.
Downloading styles from web sites such as Studio Styles provides a great starting point to begin customizations. With that in mind, we themed every single customizable item and category in the Fonts and Colors list to be consistent with the overall dark theme design. This way, further customizations can be made and new features introduced in Visual Studio 11 will benefit from the defined default dark fonts and colors. We made several dark editor theme updates in RC in keeping with beta and early RC user feedback, including:
  • Improving the contrast of the whites and grays in the editor fonts and colors to “pop” over the similar text colors used in the IDE/Shell
  • Increasing saturation for several default dark colors to improve their visibility
  • Enhancing “Use Defaults” to work as expected for all categories in the Fonts and Colors dialog when in the dark theme
Dark Theme

Common Dialogs

In RTM you’ll also find that we have themed a core set of the commonly used dialogs. The New Project, New Web Site, Add New Item, Extension Manager, and Reference Manager dialogs now have dark theme versions of their UI.
For those of you who choose to work within the dark theme you will undoubtedly want us to continue to push our theming efforts deeper and more broadly across Visual Studio. We too are eager to continue our work in this area through the remainder of this release cycle and beyond.
Dark Theme

Bringing it All Together

I’ve included a screenshot that helps bring into focus how the various dark theme updates such as the shell, editor, design surfaces, etc. all fit together. The screenshot below shows a dark themed Visual Studio 11 with the Windows 8 simulator running in the foreground.
Dark Theme
As was the case with the changes we announced as part of the previous RC preview post the RTM changes reflected in this post are designed to both address core feedback areas and to maintain alignment with our primary design objectives for the release. I’m hoping you will take the time to share your feedback on these newly announced RTM changes.

Source: MSDN
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Saturday 9 June 2012

Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop



With Visual Studio 2012, we strive to provide the best development experience across all Microsoft platforms. This includes enabling developers to bring to life the richness of Windows desktop applications - whether you are learning to build your first app or whether you’ve been developing on Microsoft platforms for many years.
A few weeks ago, we shared our plans for the Express editions of Visual Studio 2012. As we've worked to deliver the best experience with Visual Studio for our platforms with Windows 8, Windows Phone, and for Web and Windows Azure, we heard from our community that developers want to have for Windows desktop development the same great experience and access to the latest Visual Studio 2012 features at the Express level.
Today, I’m happy to announce that we will add Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop to the Visual Studio 2012 family. This will bring to the Visual Studio Express family significant new capabilities that we’ve made available in Visual Studio 2012 for building great desktop applications.
Adhering to the core principles we’ve set for our Express products, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop will provide a simple, end-to-end development experience for developing Windows desktop applications targeted to run on all versions of Windows supported by Visual Studio 2012. With this new Express edition, developers will be able to use C++, C#, or Visual Basic to create Windows desktop and console applications.  Developers will also get access to new advances available across the Express family in Visual Studio 2012, such as the latest compilers and programming language tools, integrated unit testing, and the ability for small development teams to collaborate via Team Explorer and TFS Express.
Planned for release in the fall, Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop will provide a great learning environment for students and other new developers getting started.  It will enable a friction-free solution for existing developers to bring their desktop apps forward with the latest toolsets.  And it will enable developers working on open source applications to target existing and previous versions of Windows.
Desktop development has always been a core part of Windows. With Visual Studio 2012, we continue to extend those desktop development capabilities and provide a great development experience for developers building desktop applications.

Source: MSDN
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Friday 8 June 2012

Google Trusted Stores Verification Program Launches For Online Stores



Google has this week launched a new Google Trusted Stores Verification Program for online retailers, to help shoppers identify online stores that deliver a great experience. The new Google Trusted Stores service has been in testing for the last nine months, and monitors online stores and awards retailers that provide great service and shipping with a “trusted” badge.



Which when moused over reveals a retailers Trusted Store data, revealing the percent of on-time shipping, average number of days for shipping to name just a few. The Google Trusted Stores Verification Program also provides customers with a free purchase protection from Google, that customers can choose to take out when they make a purchase.
For more information on the free purchase protection jump over to the Google Trusted Stores website.
Source: Google
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Facebook Launches App Center



Facebook has launched its App Center for the web and mobile, and it will be available in the US initially and then Facebook will roll it out to the rest of the world at a later date.
Facebook’s Apps Center will offer a range of apps including popular favourites like Draw Something, Pinterest and more, and there will be around 600 apps available at launch.

The App Center features mobile and web apps, such as Draw Something, Pinterest, and Nike+ GPS, and new apps including Jetpack Joyride, Ghosts of Mistwood, and Ghost Recon Commander.
Discover the best apps for you
The App Center gives you personalized recommendations, and lets you browse the apps your friends use. It only lists high-quality apps, based on feedback from people who use the app.
You can find out more information about Facebook’s new App Center over at Facebook, it will be available in the US from today, there are no details as yet on when it will be rolled out worldwide.

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Thursday 7 June 2012

The Next Dimension of Google Maps



We’ve seen a number of improvements on Google Maps over the years, including the remarkable turn-by-turn navigation that can be found on Android and the addition of the indoor floor plans that allow users to see the entire layout of a mapped building. Then there is also Street View and Google Earth. We can expect another enhancement to Google Maps to be unveiled to us really soon, as Google is getting ready to release “the next dimension” on June 6, 2012. That’s only 2 days away from now and we can only imagine what they have to offer.



Supposedly, it’s expected that 3D maps will finally go live, and is made to help people get where they want to go both physically and virtually. Not much else has been revealed and so we’ll just have to wait until they give the official announcement.
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Games Of Thrones Ascent Game Arriving On Facebook


Today Disruptor Beam the Boston-based game company has announced that the first Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game, based on the HBO TV series Game of Thrones and award-winning novels by George R.R. Martin. Will be arriving on Facebook in the future, with an unspecified release date.

The new Facebook Games Of Thrones Ascent game will allow players to play nobles during the unrest protracted in the books and series. CEO of Disruptor Beam, Jon Radoff, in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat.
“Everyone at Disruptor Beam was a huge fan of Game of Thrones long before we began working on the game, so we recognize that other fans expect character-driven conflict and intrigue to take center stage in our new game,”
“In Game of Thrones Ascent players will lead the life of a noble during the time of upheaval as portrayed in the books and the series thus experiencing a new type of game that unites both story and strategy. Players will claim their birthright by choosing which of the great houses they’ll swear allegiance to, securing their holdings, developing their lands and personal reputation, and assigning sworn swords to quests–while forging alliances with new friends and much more!”
Source: Venture Beat
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.NET Twitter Gadget


REST API The REST API enables developers to access some of the core primitives of Twitter including timelines, status updates, and user information. If you're building application that leverages core Twitter objects, then this is the API for you. Imagine building a profile of a user: their name, their Twitter handle, their profile avatar, and the graph of people that they are following on Twitter - all with a few RESTful API calls. 

In addition to offering programmatic access to the timeline, status, and user objects, this API also enables developers a multitude of integration opportunities to interact with Twitter. Through the REST API, the user can create and post tweets back to Twitter, reply to tweets, favorite certain tweets, retweet other tweets, and more.

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VB.NET GIS Project


-.NET Application demo using Google Places API
-added getdirection API
-Google Map ver. 3 API
-calling/invoking Javascript from .NET Forms

-great for advance GIS developer



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Sample How to capture data from Magnetic Swipe Card reader/Credit Card Reader

This Sample app shows how to use Magnetic card reader or credit card reader from MAGTEK
http://www.hallogram.com/barcodes/scanners/mag/
in your Windows based project in POS-Inventory, Payment using Credit Card Processing ,etc very useful for resto, gas stations, grocery stores,etc.
This time we will be using their SDK/ Active X/ COM components provided by MAGTEK for this model in the link above instead of using MSComm Component or Serial port class (.NET).
Magnetic swipe card Overview
Magnetic swipe card readers for the PC are shipped with your choice of RS232, Keyboard Wedge or USB interface.
Features
Powered by USB, Keyboard Wedge Port or Serial Port (No external power supply required)
Single, Dual and Three track capability
Bi-directional read capability
Reads encoded cards that meet ISO, ANSI, and AAMVA standards
Up to 1,000,000 passes with ISO-conforming cards
Includes USB or KBW interface
Dual color LED Red/Green
KBW version includes Windows® driver available to simplify application programming.
For questions and Full working Credit Card Processing Projects
just Contact me @ the Addresses below:
Download Code: 
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