Age of Empires Online New Features and Fixes This September

Age if Empires has posted on their forum that they are adding new content! They say most of this content will come out this September. One of the coolest new feature is the legendary gear. This gear is ultimately awesome and better then any gear. They also are adding new missions for level 40's.

More new features and bug fixed are as shown:

-Legendary Mode
    -new level 40 quests
    -new level 40 gear
    -new challenges

-Crete Reward Improvements
    -Fixed some bugs in the way rewards were being calculated for Co-op players who did not already have the associated quest.
    -Added 1 loot chest from the standard quest pool (not the custom Crete Loot Table) to all Crete quests (even “Elite Meet in Crete”)
    -Made sure the weekly quest, "Elite Meet in Crete," yields level-40 rewards
    -The Challenge difficulty setting now yields level 39 and 40 rewards for players of at least level 38 and higher (to get level-40 chests, select 20 or 30 waves in addition to Challenge or Impossible)
    -Increased XP for all standard invasion quests by 20-30%
    -Increased Coin reward for 20 waves by 20-30% on average
    -Increased Coin reward for 30 waves by 30-50% on average
    -Boosted Coin reward for "Elite Meet in Crete," from 300 to 5,000 Coin


-Persians
    -You go straight to the action by starting at level 20
    -By purchasing the Pro Civ, you have immediate access to top leveling gear, Advisors, and quests. People     looking to hit PvP at a higher level sooner will also really like this type of civ
    -This civ acts as a great addition and complement your current Greek and Egyptian civilizations. By owning more than 1 civ, you will also receive an extra unit, the Golden Hippikon.


-Skirmish Hall
    -Huge new maps
    -Configurable AI strategies 
    -Customized starting resources and AI difficulty


-Additional Work
    -Making lots of Co-op and PvP improvements (the feedback has been great).  Some of these will appear in the upcoming patch.  Some are taking longer and will appear in the following patch.  Our team is focused on making both Co-Op and PVP better.
    -Improving trade channel and fixing hotlinks 
    -Improving Co-op rewards—specifically, what rewards people get when helping someone else Co-op.         
    -We’re still working on the right answer to this.
    -We also have fixes in the near future for the following:
        -Exploits in certain quests
        -PVP leaderboard problems
        -PVP matchmaking (we know level 40s are sometimes matching with level 5s)
        -Trade scamming


More info can be found here.


Source: http://forums.ageofempiresonline.com/forums/103027/ShowThread.aspx#103027

Google Chrome's Birthday

I remember when Chrome first came out. I woke up one morning and went to the Google homepage and realized something new. It appeared that Google made their own browser. So I looked into it and I liked what I saw so I downloaded it. I started tinkering with it, after a couple minutes I fell in love with it. Its clean design, speed, and convenience. Everything I wanted for a browser, plus it was Google. Three years later I'm still using Chrome and see no reason to change. Happy birthday Chrome!

Google Chrome on the Rise Still

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Browser Market Share

One month later Chrome has gone up from 22.14% to 23.16%. While other browsers are losing the battle for most popular browser.

Other browsers:

IE - 42.45% to 41.89%
Firefox - 27.95% to 27.49%
Safari - 5.17% to 5.19%
Opera - 1.66% to 1.67%

Chrome is looking to be taking the title as the most popular browser one day.

+1 Anything You Want Thanks to New Chrome Extension

Google recently came out with the +1 Button as an extension for your Chrome browser. This allows you to +1 anything you want. You could even +1 this blog if you wanted too. It enables you to share much more then you usually could. Instead of sharing things that already had the +1 enabled, you can share any webpage with a click of a button. This new extension should increase the +1 popularity dramatically. It lets you +1 things much easier, something people would prefer.

I like the idea of being able to +1 any webpage because you can see if other people have too. It will be nice to know if other people also enjoyed a site. It would intrigue me to wanna stay longer and see why they +1'd it.

Find the extension here.

Age of Empires Online GUI Bug

In Age of Empires Online there is a bug where you can't close the equipment tab. To make this happen there are certain steps.

1. Open inventory
2. Open equipment
3. Click on chat bar as if you were going to type something
4. Try to close the equipment tab

When doing this you should be unable to close the equipment tab. To fix it simply close your inventory and then close the equipment. Hope the developers will get time and fix this bug. Can be a annoying from time to time.

Blogger's New Layout

Blogger has recently changed their layout! Its nice that it happened today because I was going to change the tags of my posts and sort everything but I couldn't do it efficiently with the old layout. With this new layout I can do it efficiently and I have! Every post is neat and tidy and the tags are on the side ------> 

Anyway this new layout reminds me of the Google+ layout. It's clean and easy to use and I feel that I can do things more efficiently. Like I said earlier I am able to change the tags of posts with just a couple clicks. Some noticeable changes are the post editor, and the new overview. 

The post editor is now larger and gives you more work space to work with. Notice the clean interface, on the right is the sidebar with post settings. These settings include labels, schedule, location, and more options.

The new overview makes it easier for you to track your views and stats about your viewers. With the clean layout it gives you all the stats you would need. Including comments awaiting moderation, published comments, page-views today, posts, followers, and more.

To me these are great improvements, it will surely make it easier for me. Leave a comment with your thoughts or share!

Programming languages and web technology cheat sheets

Recently found some handy cheat sheets for programming languages and web technologies at AddedBytes. Here's a link to them.

Here's a list:

Python
Subversion
Regular Expressions
mod_rewrite
PHP
CSS
SQL Server
HTML
Microformats
World of Warcraft
Ruby on Rails
ASP / VBScript
HTML Character Entities
JavaScript
MySQL
RGB Hex Colour Chart

Source: http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/

How to Get 500+ Twitter followers in 3 Days

Today I am going to show you a little trick to get Twitter followers. Getting Twitter followers can be a tedious task unless you know how to do it. Basically you want to follow people in your niche thus giving it a better chance that they will follow back. A great tool to follow people is Tweinds, allows you to select interests that you want and shows you people that share the same interests on Twitter. Remember you can only add apox 1000 people a day. Now you may be thinking to yourself "What do I do with the people who don't follow me?". You may get the idea you will have to slowly unfollow all those people. Luckily there is a tool that does this for you. Managefilter connects with your Twitter and displays stats. These include people who aren't following you, people with no profile image, inactive people, talkative people, and quiet people. The first thing you want to do is unfollow all inactive people. After you have no more inactive people you want to unfollow people that don't follow you. Remember to give them 24-48 hours before unfollowing so they have the chance to follow you. With these tools you can rinse and repeat.

Extra Tips

To increase the chances of people following you you should customize your profile. Fill your bio explaining what you enjoy to do (your interests) and other content. Also you should give yourself a profile picture to make yourself unique and look to be active. Lastly you want to tweet often, you don't want your followers to think your inactive. Make sure to tweet 1-2 days.

Anyway that is all I have to show you, thanks for reading! Feel free to share this and comment!

Hiya!

Hey,

You know when Tristan is always talking about that player that he plays games with? Well, that's me. When I took an interest in blogging, he told me, "Why not use mine?". Being an extremely lazy person, and not wanting to set up my own, I accepted. What I'll mostly be doing here is something I love: Talking about video games. I LOVE Video games, and I'm here to write reviews for them (For the foreseeable future). Got a favourite game that you absolutely LOOOVE? Post it in the comments, and I'll see what I can do. For now, though, I'll be doing games that I already have, such as R.U.S.E., Age Of Empires Online, Crysis 2, H.A.W.X. 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, etc. So, that's all for now, folks!

~As written by

~Jake

Learning what Deception is through Technology and Magic

I recently came across this amazing video! Marco Tempest teaches you what deception is through technology and magic. What amazed me was the way he used technology to create magic and teach the meaning of deception. I found it entertaining and enjoyed learning as well. Check it out for yourself!