Temple Run: The Newest mobile Gaming Craze

The days of Plants vs. Zombie and Angry Birds is coming to an end as the newest mobile game is becoming the talk of country (at least in some of the local celebrity tweets). The game I am talking about is Temple Run.

Temple Run is addicting running game to which the objective of the game is to help an explorer steal an idol from an ancient temple and run away from malignant demonic monkeys. The object of the game is to run as far as possible by avoiding obstacles that require the player to either jump (slide finger forward), duck (slide finger backwards), or turn (slide finger to the right or left) in a precise manner. While all of this is happening, the player will be pursued by the "demonic monkeys". While playing, the player is required to tilt their device either to the left or the right to collect coins. These coins are primarily in the shape of a yellow diamond but according to their point value, they can also be a red diamond or a blue diamond, which is interpreted as a 2-point coin or a 3-point coin, respectively.

Temple Run is now a freemium game and is available in the iOS and soon on the Android devices.

Download Temple Run for iOS

12 Ways To Encourage Your Visitors to Stay

We all want more traffic, more loyal readers, and more sales. I know I do. For most of us our blog is the jewel we chisel our artwork into. We slave over making our website as good as we possibly can and dont want our work to go unnoticed and unappreciated. I know exactly how you feel and thats why Ive put together 12 ways to compel your visitors to stay.

Whether youre looking to increase your readers loyalty, improve your websites accessibility and friendliness, or build a community these tips will help you achieve your goals.

Blogging Tips You Want to Know

If you have not noticed yet, there are lots of haphazardly done blogs online. This is because the writers lack some good blogging tips. These blogging tips can spell the difference between a so so blog and a superiority one.

For starters, you will have to polish your writing skills. When it comes to blogging tips, this is usually the first consideration. If you can not write in a good way, nobody will want to read your stuff. Part of the directory of blogging tips also includes the reason why you should blog. You can blog about anything and everything in the world. However, the second consideration spells out blogging with a purpose. In blogging tips, you must be aware that you need a market. This market will determine your audience.

Determining Audiences and Then Some.

Some blogging tips include finding out your niche. If you like to write about beauty, you could blog about your latest beauty finds. Or you can do reviews about products and services. In blogging tips, you need to remember that you want to please your audience. You want them to listen up and pay attention. You can easily do this by some marketing research about the current trends in whatever you are interested in.

Want to blog about music? Some blogging tips for music writers include being tuned in to the latest sounds. Additionally, and make sure you stay exposed to the many genres of music. This is so you can capture a bigger share of the market. People will want to read your blogs because you have extensive topics to cover. Are you interested in blogging tips to help you earn money? You should know that link exchange in blogging is one of the blogging tips you must utilize. Doing this will definitely bring in the dough.

It will also let your blog be on top of search results. If this happens, your blog will be visited by more thousands of people. If you follow these great blogging tips, you will surely be on your way to blogging success. All it takes is the first step, some dedication and focus, and the rest will follow eventually.

Mousehunt Tips and Strategies now on Blogger

With Squidoo handing me a warning that my Mousehunt Tips and Strategies lens is "too commercial" and might be flagged to be removed, I have decided that it's high time I move the contents from that platform into Blogger. You can not read the Mousehunt Tips and Strategies on its new web address http://mousehunt-strategies.blogspot.com/

New Book Review: Dragons of the Hourglass Mage

For several months now, I have been reading fictional books as part of my daily relaxation and I have been reading one or two books alternately depending on my mood. Today I was able to finish reading the final book of the Dragonlance Lost Chronicles Series entitled "Dragons of the Hourglass Mage" to which the protagonist of the story is the wizard Raistlin Majere one of my favorite characters in Dragonlance series. This book is actually a "supplemental" book which takes place almost at the end of the Dragons of the Spring Dawning (which is the final book of the Chronicles series). 

For those planning to start reading Dragonlance books but don't know where to start, there's a site called Dragonlance Book Guide to which helps the readers to follow the series in chronological order. I also active on a social networking sites for book readers called Goodreads.com where you can share you book collection as well as post your reviews/opinions about a particular book.

Back at playing Mousehunt

To be honest, I never stopped playing Mousehunt, I just toned down since I got busy on both work and being a family man but since then I was able to actively play the game (although not as extremely active as before but I was able to catch up on some of my friends who were also playing this game for the longest time). 

For those of you who don't know what is Mousehunt, it's an online social game on Facebook on which you are task to catch various types of mice that plague the Kingdom of Gnawnia. You will be using various types of traps, base and cheese to catch a variety of mice. You might ask what makes this game different from other games on Facebook, well frankly speaking this game is a passive game to which you need not to actively play the game every now and then. You only need at minimum one (1) click sounding of the horn per day to keep trapping mice every hour. The game also continues to expand as to avoid becoming too redundant. If like to play the game you can visit the official Mousehunt website.   

Girl with a Dragon Tattoo

A Sensational #1 Bestseller – Now a Major Motion Picture starring with Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist.

A magical amalgam of homicide secret, loved ones tale, really like tale, and economical interest.

It’s about the disappearance 40 decades ago of Harriet Vanger, a youthful scion of one of the richest family members in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian dad, identified to know the reality of the matter about what he considers was her homicide.

It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading writer lately at the incorrect end of a libel situation, used to get to the end of Harriet’s disappearance . . . and about Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old pierced and inked professional cyberpunk had of the hard-earned information of someone twice her age—and a horrific potential for ruthlessness to go with it—who helps Blomkvist with the research. This unlikely group understands a problematic vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity managing through the Vanger loved ones, surprising data corruption in the best echelons of Remedial industrialism—and an unanticipated network between themselves.

It’s a contagiously interesting, incredibly wise novel about community at its most concealed, and about the personal life of a superbly recognized toss of people, all of them required to deal with the dark factors of their community and of their own life.

Good thing the new movie is not yet in theaters as I'm still reading the book series. 

Changes

It been a very long time since a posted an updated here because a lot has change since the second half of the year. I have moved on from the company that I have worked for over 4 years into a new "family" and although on this new "family" I am in, there are some of my old friends from the old company that are also working in this new "family" of mine. Although my work here is basically not the same as my last work, I still do teaching on weekends since teaching Web Designing and SEO is now part of my professional endeavors. 

Although changes are cumbersome yet these will benefit me in the long run as my life has became routinary and boring and change is very much a welcome event.  

Teaching the foundation of the internet: HTML and CSS

For over five years, the internet has become a part of our daily lives technology moves in to the world of the information technology. With businesses going to the internet to market their products or to render service online, more and more people are more likely to learn the very foundation of the Internet Web pages which the languages called HTML and CSS.  

For the past several years, I had been teaching these very foundations to new applicants of my previous employer and now as a part of a more open teaching environment as part of one of the best graphic design studios here in Davao City. HTML and CSS is no longer exclusive to those who are into computer science or Information Technologies (IT) people, it is for everyone WHO wants to learn about the said technology.

Happy Halloween to Everyone

It's another year of celebrating the Halloween festivities as people where their most ghoulish and scariest costumes and/or makeup just to keep up with the festivities. Halloween is the preceeded with All Saint's Day on the the very first day of November to pay tribute to our dearly departed love ones. As always I visited my grandparent's grave to pay tribute and will visit them again to commemorate my grandfather's death anniversary on November 3. 

My Daughter First Birthday Celebration at School

Last Thursday, My daughter turn 4 and it was decided to celebrate her birthday at school together with a McDonald's kiddie party with her nursery classmates. The kids had fun as we had some parlor games and some prizes to the delight of the kids.

Aside from games and prizes, the her classmates also did a special dance number as a tribute to her birthday.

Collecting (e)books is now my addiction

Ever since I got into reading, my thirst to read more books has made me download more fictional books in e-book format for future reading. As of this writing my "to read" list of books has now reached 278 books which composed of mostly fantasy, science fiction, Young-adult/paranormal and some mystery/horror titles. 

Frankly speaking, I partly blame Goodread for this addiction as this site is a social network of book readers and each member share their favorite book titles or genres and they also give you ratings and review on each particular book. I also get to discover some of the books that I didn't know that existed (Dragonlance: the Lost Chronicles in particular) and some of the top sci-fi titles from renown authors like William Gibson and Peter Watts 

Do You Like Carrots?

Other than the obvious benfits to eyesight, carrots have many other exciting health benefits, such as lowering cholesterol and preventing heart attacks and cancer.

All our lives we've been told to eat our carrots, they help improve your eyesight. Maybe you've wondered, what exactly is it about the carrot that is good for my eyes? That would be the beta-carotene. In addition to giving the carrot its name and orange color, it also converts to vitamin A in the body which helps improve vision. The vitamin A forms a purple pigment called rhodopsin the eye needs to see in dim light. Rhodopsin production is spurred by vitamin A, raising the effectiveness of the light-sensitive area of the retina. Not getting enough vitamin A can actually lead to night blindness. Wow, mom was right!

But that's not all that carrots can do for you. The beta-carotene in carrots is an anti-oxident combating the free radicals that contribute to conditions like cancer, heart disease, and macular degeneration. Medical studies conducted in Texas and Chicago indicate that men with the high levels of beta-carotene and vitamin C had a 37% lower risk of cancer than the men with lower levels. Carrots also contain another anti-oxident called alpha-carotene. A study conducted in Bethesda, MD concluded that men who consume high amounts of alpha carotene have a lower incidence of lung cancer.

Cooking carrots actually raises the nutritional benefits. The fiber in carrots can trap the beta carotene, making it difficult for your body to extract. By cooking them slightly, you free the beta-carotene, from the fiber, which allows your body to absorb it better. Eating only a half-cup serving per day will give you more than the recommended dosage of beta-carotene. Also when you buy carrots raw at the store, you must cut off the leafy tops before storing, or they will suck out all the vitamins. the best way to consume your daily dose is to add carrot to your favorite juice blends. This actually breaks apart the fibers allowing the beta-carotene direct acess to absorption. So be sure to eat your carrots every day!

New blogging project: Fictional Books blog

I admit that I have been neglecting my blogging since I got busy at work but recently I got some free time and has revisited one of my old passion which was reading some fictional books. The first book I read was "City of Glass" the first of three of the book series entitled "Mortal Instruments" by renowned author Cassandra Clare. The story of the book series revolves around the supernatural (demons, werewolves, vampires and the Nephilims aka half human-half angels).  

With the renewed passion of reading fictional books (technically I am reading these books in e-book formats using my portable devices for convenience). I decided to create a blog called Fictional Books Blog to which I will blogging my opinions and reviews about each books that I read. I already posted my first book review about City of Bones. Aside from the Mortal Instrument Series, I already have lineup the books that I will be reading soon, which includes Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games Series and George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice series and other great titles. 

Kadayawan 2011

It's now August and as usual our beloved city will celebrate the annual Kadayawan Festival which started on August 15th and will end on the 21st. As usually there the festival will include the annual "Indak-Indak sa Kadalanan" and other festivities. For a complete listing of events you can check out the Kadayawan 2011 Events Schedule Guide

5 Tips On Finding The Best Topics For Your Blog

Blog topics are an important part of a successful blog. Some bloggers simply write about whatever is on their mind, creating an online journal of sorts. Successful bloggers know however that to have a great blog, you cannot always write about what you want to write about. You must also keep the interests of your readers in mind when writing. After all, if you want a successful blog, you have to depend on the readers to show up often. To keep your blog as fresh as possible, consider using these five ways to find winning ideas for your blog topics.

Back to Reading Books (E-books that it)

During my college days (to which the internet was just on it's dawning stages), I liked to read books, specifically fictional books. At the time my genre of choice where either "medieval and fantasy" (Dragonlance series of books), futuristic or science-fiction themes (Star Wars series, etc.), and Gothic (Vampires, Demons and Angels). The last set of books that I read was the Dragonlance trilogy entitled "The Legend trilogy" which was a sequel to the the "Chronicles trilogy", I was about to start reading the next book entitled "Dragons of the Summer Flame" when weeks after I lost interest on reading. There where a lot of books at the the time that where great (and some of it where turned into movies like The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien, Harry Potter series of J.K. Rowling and even the favorite gothic hit the Twighlight series by Stephenie Meyer).

With the advent of digital book e-readers like Kindle and now the various type of tablet computers like the iPad and the Galaxy Tab, my interest on reading books (now on it more accessable and enviromentally friendly digital form) has come back. As of this writing, my list books that are currently loaded on my e-reader are: The Mortal Intruments series by Cassandra Clare; The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins; and all five books of George R.R. Martin's "Song of Fire and Ice" series (actually my reason of reading the book version of this series was due to the fact that I cannot no longer wait for the second season of the TV version of Game of Thrones). Aside from these books I am planning to finish reading the "Dragons of the Summer Flame" the final book of the Dragonlance Chronicles series after which I will proceed on reading the rest of the sequels of the Dragonlance.

Another factor that lead me to reading these book is because I am an avid listener of the Sword and Laser, a 

science fiction and fantasy-themed book podcast which is hosted by Tom Merritt and Veronica Belmont

Joining Google Plus

It's been rumored for quick some time now that internet search engine giant Google will create their own social networking service that might rival Facebook and Twitter and finally they launched Google+.  It basically turns all of Google into one giant social network, thanks to a core group of social products (Gmail, Picasa, Buzz and Blogger) and a new navigation bar that integrates sharing into every single Google product.

One of the great features on Google+ is adding your friends in the "circles". The friend "circles" are basically categorizing or "grouping" your set of friend depending on how you label them (friends, family, co-workers, etc.) to which you can later on filter you news feeds by "circles".

So if you have not join Google+ yet, you login to the Google Plus site and sign-in using your Google account or register and finally you can add me on your circle of friends via http://gplus.to/cesarnoel