World of Warcraft "free" (F2P)

Ladies and gentlemen, we can say without doubt that it wasinevitable. More and more online games that take a free profile, using microtransactions to finance it. We recently mentioned thatTeam Fortress 2 took the path of F2P, but now would be the turn of the most popular MMORPG on the Web, World of Warcraft. Still, we want to draw attention to the quotes in the word free, as there are some details to consider. The last measurement made during the March to World of Warcraftstood with a base of 11.4 million players. That number has been higher in the past, but still remains the most popular online game inthe world. World of Warcraft was originally released in November2004 but came into the EU in February next year. World of Warcrafthas had three expansions, and was announced fourth, with name,release date and plot to be determined. With this new wave of online games that adopt a business model based on microtransactions, it has been speculating in recent months after nearly seven years in operation, would be a good time for World of Warcraft is free again, with in order to dramatically expand its number of users.

According to a recent announcement, it appears that day hasarrived, but the truth is you have to take the news with a smallclamp. World of Warcraft will have a F2P mode, albeit with certainlimitations. First, players may reach a maximum free level 20characters for all who believe. Then, they will have the opportunity to join a guild, and can carry ten gold coins as a stopper. On the other hand, no time limits, and a player can make all the charactersyou want. The sense of the word "free" this far and anyone whowishes to go beyond these restrictions, you must buy the game.

This news comes before the changes made by other games such as Team Fortress 2. According to some reports that have circulated the web, play Valve tripled its user base in less than 48hours, something spectacular where you look. The more users, the more likely to tempt them to invest their money in the game. If themove by Blizzard to bring World of Warcraft to a F2P model seemsa bit cold in comparison, because the truth indicates no need so much. With more than eleven million customers in its ranks faithfullypaying their monthly fee, the idea of ​​fighting for selling arms and equipment in the game does not seem so attractive, but any number may drop over time.

SleepWell: Double the battery life of your mobile

One of the basic conditions that must have a modern mobile phone is to have WiFi connectivity. This technical feature can access a web connection, with the benefit that means saving our spending (if limited) for Internet downloads. Music, movies, series, videos from YouTube, Tweets, updating our profile on Facebook and thousands of applications that we serve. However, all good things it can offer, does not leave out a serious problem: the length of our battery is reduced significantly. SleepWell is a piece of software that will increase the battery life on your phone twice (yes, you read right) without leave to enjoy your favorite applications. If you use WiFi on your phone, this article is what you were expecting.


Although the technicians and engineers set about the task of developing new technologies, make their best efforts on energy management to a near-optimal limit on mobile devices, WiFi connectivity remains a major energy guzzlers. Mobile devices are designed to efficiently act as an access point "only" within a network. However, when the access points increases (other devices requesting data), the system is responsible for organizing and directing data to the different teams can make some spend long periods of time "awake" waiting for their chance to send orreceive data packets. As the density of AP (Access Point) in the neighborhood increases, increases the waiting time, resulting in a proportional decrease in battery life. SleepWell is a system that achieves energy efficiency and avoid permanent dependence on the network. The operating principle of the system is simple to understand and is based on off ("put to sleep") during specific time windows to the devices. That is, organize the network so that all WiFi devices to connect to it are not on a permanent waiting "their turn", but are activated during small time intervals and exchange data when necessary.

'Jersey Shore' fake Fight

I think most of the reality shows are fake and this one might be the biggest one, more likely in my opinnion I think this show is mostly fake and acting just to make money, I want in :)

Can dogs read our mind?

Can dogs read our minds? How do I learn to order food or decide to misbehave when they do not look? According to Monique Udell and her team at the University of Florida (USA), the way dogs respond to the level of attention paid people tells us something about the way they think and learn about human behavior.

Recent research has identified a wide range of social behaviors similar to humans in the domestic dog, including its ability to respond to body language of people around him, to verbal commands, and states of attention. But how? Do you see your behavior in different circumstances and then respond accordingly? Or learn from experience, responding to what happens around them?

To find out, Udell and her colleagues launched two experiments to compare how they act domestic dogs, sheepdogs and wolves giving them the opportunity to order food, whether a person or a person to alert the animal can not see. So for the first time found that wolves are able to claim humans approaching food alert. This shows that both kinds - domestic and non domestic - have the ability to behave according to the state of attention of a human being. In addition, both wolves and dogs were able to quickly improve performance with practice.

Also reached the conclusion that dogs living in a home environment are more sensitive to predictable stimuli in humans attentive than pastoralists. Dog behavior, they conclude, "is due to the willingness of animals to accept humans as social peers, combined with an ability to track the movements and actions of individuals to receive confirmation. "

A first look at iOS 5 for the iPad

After testing the device iOS 5 star, ie the iPhone 4. now comes the turn to do the same with his older brother, ie, the iPad.

In our case, we decide to try iOS 5 on a first-generation iPad by simple curiosity to see how far Apple was keeping a good performance in the team.

The surprise is capitalized because the device has not been damaged in almost any way. Still retaining some lag in some areas compared to the new model, but is perfectly usable and except for some detail, the experience is more than satisfactory.

If anything has surprised me in general terms is a post I published a few days ago. It commented that iOS 5 could be the first system to distinguish between iPhone and iPad to integrate some different characteristics depending on the device.

In this analysis we mentioned that the widgets, if integrated into the new system would make much more sense in the iPad (for space and use) than the iPhone.

Well damn if we were wrong, and that things would be fulfilled but surprisingly the opposite.

And now that we have Widgets on the iPhone, it is true that they are only two and also not having much use (so far), goes and removes these Widgets Apple iPad. And is that the notification center of iOS 5 for the iPad not have the ability to display the time and the stock market, as do small household devices.

It is rather strange as the solution and only makes me think again, again, in this issue about the differences between the two systems: Apple is planning a center of "widgets"fuller iPad?

In all other important points about the notifications and new sections are maintained and function identically. It is also interesting to see that Apple has kept the proportions of the iPhone and has not expanded the panels and in other system options.

Thus, the notification center and the home screen that shows them maintain a similar size to the iPhone (slightly larger, but not expanded to fill the size of IPAD).

I also really liked the new iPod feature, a deep facelift brings a new design radically different and very attractive, but still have to polish the odd control, as the songs progress, it is quite difficult to control.

How to make money in times of uncertainty

The challenge for any investor is to find the market trend to make money investing downward or upward.

Then it is easy with the amount of tools and strategies that exist in the market for it and earn big money down to invest in stock.

The truth is that trends are always but there is no way of knowing when to change. If there are indicators used in technical analysis of charts but they are never one hundred percent effective.

What happens if you take the decision to invest in the low and the trend changes and the stock starts to rise?

Exactly the same as if you take the initiative to reverse the rise and the trend is reversed and the stock price drop will not stop ...

Lose and you lose a lot!

But Yes, you can make money investing covering downward if the market reverses trend and begins an upward wave like this:


Buying ETFs that go against the rise of a particular sector or product.

To better understand me, let's take a hypothetical example that you consider the value of property in USA will continue to fall in price. (Watch out!, I do not say that, it's just an example).

Then you can buy an ETF that replicates the decline in property values ​​in a very easy, and in that case if the value of the properties in the USA lowered the 10%, you would win about 10%.

In this way you could use Proven Principles and Exchange FREE Course to earn money by investing MPMG down while having your money protected if there is a change in trend


And that's not all, because there are ETFs that track the index two or three times. That is, if the properties in USA go down 10%, you would earn a 20% or 30%.

There are many ETFs that allow such operations and is extremely easy to do because its operation of buying and selling as well as their coverage is similar to the form of stock trading

In this way you know how to make money investing down in investing in the stock market without being exposed to sudden market swings that will allow you to be calm and make big money with your investment protected.

By Alejandro Tugend
Investment specialist

Animation: Extraordinary facial animation

Over the years, the animation quality in both games and movies has increased dramatically, something which undoubtedly can be attributed to the large increase in processing power and flexibility to both computers as tools offer today. These two factors combined with motion capture can produce truly great results, as is the case with this facial animation created by people Janimation study. If something like this comes to video games, the jump in quality is impressive.

When the Avatar movie made its debut in 2009, everyone was amazed by the visual quality of it, but who have accumulated a high degree of exposure to video games and computer animations, we received a much smaller impact. Cameron needed to wait ten years to make the film. And in ten years, the processing power of computers has increased exponentially, with the blessing of Moore's Law still in force in the middle. One of the most important advances in video game animation could be displayed on the "Prince of Persia" in 1989, when its creator Jordan Mechner used his brother's videos as a reference for animation. It was not what you would call a pure motion capture, but things were very different from there.


And now we find this video posted by the people of Janimation, a study has had involvement in movies like Iron Man, Lilo & Stitch and The Lion King. Facial animation before us is simply fabulous. Motion capture combined with a bit of ZBrush, ICE, and use the rendering engine known as Arnold made this work possible, taking into account of course the work of actors and artists. If you look carefully, you will not even have missed the detail of the flash. While many games strive to achieve perfect lip sync, something as basic as the flicker usually ends ignored, but in this case is not so.

The video was posted on YouTube a few days ago, but for some reason has remained off the radar. Imagine for a moment, the level of animation in games with a lot of scenes in the foreground. Not only would a "Crysis effect" struck again, but we should also run around our computers with similar processing updates that enable animation. Janimation official site still has nothing published about it, which in part increased the silence around the video. However, it is worth every second of it, and hope to see something like this in our systems as soon as possible.