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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Download Save As PDF plugin for Microsoft Office 2007




Theres both good news and bad news for Office 2007 users who are waiting to have PDF print features in Office 2007 programs with having to invest in Adobe Acrobat like software.









Download Microsoft Office Save as PDFThe bad news first - Following the tussle with Adobe, Microsoft has removed native PDF printing supportand XPS export capabilities from all Office 2007 programs.

Now the good news - Microsoft today separately released a free add-on for Office 2007 that will allow users to export their Word documents or Excel Spreadsheets as PDF files without requiring a third-party PDF printing driver

The Save as PDF addin lets user export and save to the PDF format in all Microsoft Office programs. It also allows user to send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format.

The plugins are compatible with all Microsoft Office 2007 programs including Access, Excel, Infopath, Word, Visio, Publisher, Powerpoint and OneNote.

Download Microsoft Office 2007 Add-in: Save As PDFSave As XPS

You can get both the PDF and XPS plugins in one installer here.

Licensing Issues: The program website says that the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office programs supplements and is subject to the license terms for the Microsoft 2007 Office system beta software. You may not use this supplement if user do not have a license for the software.

Update: The Microsoft Save as PDF plugin wont work with Outlook 2007 emails.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Samsung Mondi Review

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Whats hot: Large display, capable mobile office.
Whats not: WiMAX service is in its infancy.
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CheckedDecember 21, 2009 by Lisa Gade, Editor in Chief
I get the whole handheld computer and ultramobile device space, from the Samsung Nexio of old to the Nokia N810 to todays Samsung Mondi. I dont believe these devices are the answer to a problem nobody had. There are indeed folks who need lightweight mobile computing in their pocket: in the physical sense and in the OS sense. The Mondi is larger than a smartphone but only an ounce or so heavier. It runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Classic so its instant-on, unlike netbooks. The 4.3" screen is much better suited to web browsing, document viewing and video playback than small-screened phones. The large hardware keyboard makes email and remote access easier. But heres the dilemma: smartphones have gotten larger and more powerful and now they too can handle the jobs done by MIDs (Mobile Internet Device) and make phone calls too (the Mondi doesnt have a cell radio). Samsung knows this too, and so the Mondi has a trump card: WiMAX 4G for faster wide area networking.
Samsung <br /> Mondi

Why WiMAX?
Alas, Samsung makes the device but not the network so theyre counting on the likes of Clear (Clearwire) and soon Time Warner and Sprint to make that network hum. It aint there yet, and were not sure it will ever be compelling now that HSDPA 7.2Mbps is hitting metro areas with HSPA + (21Mbps) coming in 2010 on T-Mobile and LTE looming for Verizon and AT&T. When WiMAX was first touted more than 3 years ago the speeds sounded impressive to a world plodding along on EDGE and EV-DO Rev. 0, but now its nothing special. Clears service is currently available in Portland and Salem Oregon, Boise, Las Vegas, several Texas cities including Dallas, Atlanta, the Seattle metro area, Greensboro, Charlotte, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Honolulu and Maui. Though Clear offers home (indoor) and mobile coverage packages, we havent gotten a decent signal indoors yet in the Dallas and Portland coverage areas. WiMAX requires significant base station density (more dense than cell networks) and at 2.5GHz its high enough in the spectrum to have trouble with building penetration. Outdoors in a car or at a sidewalk cafe we had no problem getting a 50% signal, but in a house we managed maybe 1 bar with service drops if we wandered too far from a window. Forget hanging out in a large corporate building or big box store unless theres a WiMAX repeater. We hope things will improve, but its going to take time and money to build out a strong WiMAX network.
Samsung Mondi
Clear has quite a few service plans (and enough overlapping ones to be confusing) but there is a specific Mondi unlimited plan thats currently $35/month for the first 6 months and $45 for the remaining 1.5 years. Download speeds arent limited as they are on some of Clears other plans (current max download speeds are approximately 6Mbps (which is slower than WiFi 802.11bs 10 Mbps) and 1 Mbps upload speeds. There is no data cap on this plan. The bad news? Theyre doing things cell phone style and Clear requires a 2 year contract to get these rates. Month to month rates are higher. Clearly at this point, youre paying a fairly expensive monthly fee for broadband wireless thats not available in many metro areas, nor is it blisteringly fast.
Samsung Mondi
The iPhone 3GS and Samsung Mondi.

A Closer Look at the Mondi
Enough about WiMAX, lets take a look at the Mondi itself. The device looks and feels well-made though we wouldnt call it chic and stylish. Its solid, the QWERTY slider is robust and the keyboard is quite good. It certainly feels worth the $449 price, which is comparable to a touch screen smartphone price without contract extension. The Mondi reminds us of a larger Motorola Droid, with its black rectangular business looks and slide-out QWERTY. The Mondis keyboard is much better than the Droids: its larger and the keys have more travel and tactile feedback. The devices have similar display resolutions but the Mondis LCD is larger at 4.3", making text easier to read without zooming in. This is a resistive display rather than a capacitive display like that of the Droid and iPhone. That means youll need to press harder and theres no multi-touch pinch zooming. The good news is that you can use a stylus (Windows Mobile 6.1 is easier to use with a stylus since its not touch-optimized) or your fingernail to tap on small links and close boxes.
Samsung <br /> Mondi
The Mondi has stereo speakers on the top edge that sound reasonably good for a mobile device, a mic, a 3.5mm stereo headset jack (handy not just for music but also VoIP calls), a dedicated camera button and an easily accessible microSD card slot under a plastic door. The Samsung has a micro USB port for syncing and charging and like any Windows Mobile device it can sync over USB to Outlook and wirelessly to MS Exchange servers. A pop-out arm functions as a stand so you can watch videos with the Mondi on a desk or tray table (the Mondi supports a wide variety of video formats including Flash 8) and there are volume controls on the right side.
Though the Mondi is larger than todays bigger smartphones, its clearly much smaller than a netbook and is pocketable if you have roomy pockets in loose-fitting garments. At 5.39 ounces, it weighs less than youd expect of a device this size.
The Mondi is not a phone and it doesnt have a cell radio. That means no voice calls unless you use VoIP services like Skype. We tested the Mondi with Skype over both WiMAX and WiFi and it worked fine, even when using the built in speakers and mic (your caller will hear their voice echo back if you dont use the headset though). To use Skype on Windows Mobile youll need to download and install the application. Each time you wish to use Skype youll need to run the app and sign in-- theres no turnkey integration with the phone app as there is on the Nokia N900 since there is no phone app on the Mondi (once again, this isnt a phone).
Video Review
Heres our 8.5 minute video news of the Samsung Mondi that shows off the hardware, Samsung custom user interface, WiMAX speeds, the Opera web browser and more.

Performance and Horsepower
The Mondi uses Samsungs own ARM11 family S3C6410 CPU running at 800MHz. Thats a lot of high-end processing power and the Mondi makes good use of it when playing back fairly high resolution video in MPEG4, DivX and other formats. We were surprised that the device sometimes lagged in Samsungs custom home screen, whose UI is attractive, finger-friendly and intuitive but not so full of eye candy that it should drag on performance (see our video news to check out the home screen UI). TouchWiz, Samsungs UI for touch screen phones is also on board and we have to wonder why: it really doesnt add to the experience and really slows down the device (fortunately, you need not run it).
After using the HTC HD2 with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and noting how that CPU helped speed Opera rendering times (making its EDGE connection feel much faster) were surprised that neither the 800MHz Mondi nor Samsung Omnia II show much speed improvement in Opera Mobile 9.5. Opera runs about as quickly as on the average 528MHz Qualcomm CPU-- decent but not seriously fast. Samsung customized the Mondi and Opera to support Flash 8 content in the browser (no need for an external player). YouTube uses Flash 8 but Hulu uses Flash 9, so that means YouTube but no Hulu for you. Even over a fast WiFi connection, YouTube standard resolution video played jerkily at about 12 frames per second-- not ideal, but maybe better than nothing. Opera supports a max of 3 windows and oddly it wont let you run Opera and Internet Explorer Mobile concurrently though the OS and device otherwise support multi-tasking.
Samsung <br /> Mondi
The mobile equivalent of Windows programs that are standard on Windows Mobile are on board. Office Mobile and Outlook run quickly enough, and the high resolution screen makes reading and editing MS Office documents a pleasure. As a mobile office, the Mondi does the job. For those of you who are still very new to mobile computing, Windows Mobile runs mobile versions of Microsoft applications that have many but not all features of the desktop versions. You cant install programs meant for true Windows PCs and notebooks on a Windows Mobile device. You can download and install additional programs made for the WinMo platform, but youll need to do that minus the Windows Mobile Marketplace which currently only supports Windows Mobile 6.5 (the Mondi runs 6.1 and theres no word of an upgrade).
The Mondi has 4 gigs of internal flash storage (nice) and an SDHC microSD card slot so you can carry plenty of business documents, maps and multimedia content on the device. It has 256 megs of RAM with 81 megs free at boot, which should be enough memory to keep the device running smoothly. We did notice instability when heavyweight applications were running. For example, we switched out of Route 66 navigation to turn on the WiMAX connection so we could look up POIs and the Mondi slowed to a crawl and had difficulty drawing the home screen background and Start Menu icon.
Camera and GPS
First: the good news. Samsung includes all the hardware you need to use the Mondi as an in-car GPS system: windshield mount and car charger. In fact, these items are handy if you work in a vertical market and need access to your device for any reason while in the car. The Mondi ships with Route 66 navigation software with maps of the US and Canada. Route 66 is more popular in Europe than the US but it nonetheless gives good turn-by-turn directions and has sharp maps. The bad news? The Mondis GPS seems weak and we had difficulty getting a satellite fix. Indoors there was little hope but outdoors we could get a position fix. Tall buildings and heavy tree cover caused problems for the Mondi on the road but with clear skies it managed to keep up with our location.
The 3 megapixel main (rear) camera has an autofocus lens and it takes reasonably good shots for a camera of that resolution. The camera has face detection, smile detection and panorama mode as well as geotagging. It can shoot decent quality video with audio at VGA 640 x 480 and QVGA 320 x 240 resolutions at approximately 25 fps. The front-facing VGA webcam is for video conferencing though we couldnt find an application to make use of it.
Samsung<br />  Mondi
Conclusion
The Samsung Mondi is a powerful handheld, but it feels a bit behind the times now that PDAs have been eclipsed by powerful smartphones that are smaller and equally as capable. The Mondi is the first 4G handheld and that should give it a leg up: it might not have a cell radio but its capable of fast data connections. Unfortunately, the Mondi is a bit ahead of its time in that respect since WiMAX 4G is currently available in very few metro areas and the download speeds and connection reliability suffer due to poor building penetration. But if you want a very large-screen Windows Mobile handheld to be your mobile office, the Mondi fits the bill and adds a good QWERTY keyboard too. It has WiFi for local area connections when WiMAX isnt available, but if you want Internet anywhere and not just at WiFi hotspots, check the WiMAX coverage maps carefully before taking the plunge.
Pro: Solid build quality, large and sharp high resolution display thats easy on the eyes. Plenty of built-in storage. As always with Windows Mobile, you get excellent MS Exchange support and desktop syncing to Outlook too.
Con: Gets sluggish at times, GPS isnt the strongest, hard to find a good WiMAX signal indoors. WiMAX coverage areas are currently very limited.
Price: $449
Web Site: www.samsung.com


Specs:
Display: 4.3" resistive touch screen. Resolution: 800 x 480 pixels. Has an accelerometer (used mainly in the Opera web browser) and haptic feedback. Has Etiquette mode (turn the device face down to silence alarms).
Battery: Lithium Ion rechargeable. Battery is user replaceable. 1500 mAh. Claimed WiMAX usage times: up to 4 hours. Claimed WiFi usage time: up to 5 hours.
Performance: 800 MHz Samsung processor (ARM11 compatible S3C6410). 256 megs RAM with approx. 81 megs free RAM. 4 gigs internal flash storage.
Size: 4.88 x 3.03 x 0.63 inches. Weight: 5.39 ounces.
Camera: 3MP autofocus main camera, front-facing VGA camera. Main camera features smile shot, panorama mode, anti-shake and face recognition.
GPS: Has GPS and comes with Route 66 navigation software and pre-loaded maps for the US and Canada.
Audio and Video Playback: Built in speaker, mic and 3.5mm standard stereo headphone jack. Voice Recorder and Windows Mobile Media Player 10 included. Video codecs supported: DivX, XviD, FLV3.1, 3GP, AVI, WMV, MP4, H.263,H.264, MPEG-1, RealVideo. Audio formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC+, AMR, AWB, M4A, MP2, RealAudio and WAV.
Networking: Integrated WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth with A2DP stereo and headset/handsfree profiles and WiMAX.
Software: Windows Mobile 6.1 Classic operating system. Microsoft Mobile Office suite including Mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint (view only), Internet Explorer, and Outlook. Also, Terminal Services, MSN Instant Messenger for Pocket PC, Windows Media Player 10, Solitaire, Bubble Breaker (game), Voice Recorder as well as on-screen keyboards. Additional applications: Opera Mobile 9.5, Camera, WiMAX connection manager, JBlend Java VM, Fring, Smart Converter, PowerCalc, GyPSii, ShoZu, Photo Slides, TaskSwitcher, Samsung custom home screen and Samsung TouchWiz UI.
Expansion: 1 SDHC microSD card slot.
In the Box: Mondi, battery, charger, stylus, headset, software DVD with ActiveSync 4.5, Windows Mobile Device Center and Navigation software, car charger, car mount and printed guides.
                                                                    ( Author :  Lisa Gade, Source : mobiletechnews ) 

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Monday, April 14, 2014

Insertion sorting

Q. write a c program to implies the insertion sorting method.


Ans.


/* c program for insertion sorting method */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
int main()
{
 int arr[30];
 int i,j,size,tmp;
 printf("
------ Insertion sorting method ---------

"
);

 printf("Enter total no. of elements : ");
 scanf("%d", &size);
 for(i=0; i<size; i++)
 {
   printf("Enter %d element : ",i+1);
   scanf("%d", &arr[i]);

 }
 for(i=0; i<size; i++)
 {
  for(j=i-1; j>=0; j--)
  {
   if(arr[j]>arr[j+1])
   {
     tmp=arr[j];
     arr[j]=arr[j+1];
     arr[j+1]=tmp;
   }
   else
     break;
  }
 }
 printf("
------- Insertion sorted elements -------

"
);

 for(i=0; i<size; i++)
    printf(" %d",arr[i]);
 getch();
 return 0;
}


/************** OUTPUT ***************/
Insertion sorting method output



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    Sunday, April 13, 2014

    How To Store Your Boat Properly This Winter With The Help Of St Petersburg Marinas

    By Jay Dy


    Unfortunately, boats moored in temperate climates are often not given the preparation they need for the onset of wintertime. Owners can get caught out when a cold snap (even a short one) plays havoc with their vessels structure and systems. Owners using St. Petersburg Marinas can rely on getting timely help with this all-important aspect of boat ownership.

    In areas of the country that have harsh winters, keeping vessels onshore for the winter season is standard practise. In states with milder winters, the in-water vs. Onshore issue is really down to personal choice. Many choose to keep their vessels sea-bound since this makes things easier when it comes to re-commissioning.

    Many owners however prefer onshore storage since this is overall the safer option. One obvious but huge advantage is that a land-stored vessel cant sink. Reclaiming a sunken vessel is a massive and expensive task which is of course best avoided. Significant numbers of craft sink each year due to thru-hulls that have been left open.

    If a vessel is kept in the water, its essential that all of its seacocks are closed to prevent water ingress. The exception being those used for cockpit drains. If there are any thru-hulls below the waterline that cannot for any reason be closed, then the vessel must be stored ashore.

    With regard to fiberglass hulled vessels, on-shore storage has the advantage of keeping them exposed to air and thus reducing the risk of blistering. These unsightly blemishes develop when water seeps beneath the hulls gelcoat and penetrates the first layer or so of fiberglass composite. They can be up to a few inches in size and are a most unwelcome (and expensive) development for any owner.

    In general, preparing a boat for winter need not be a difficult undertaking. St. Petersburg Marinas can help owners do it the right way and ensure their vessels remain safe and ready for the next season. If they are in any doubt about what to do, experienced staff are always on hand to give advice.




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    Benefits Of Webcasting Service San Francisco Area

    By Doris Rivas


    The usage of webcasting service San Francisco area has made the users realize that it has a lot of advantageous to offer to every user. Giving it a try is something that a person will never regret. Most companies are nowadays changing the way they carry out various businesses due to change in technology. Among the changes that have occurred in the recent past is the ability to broadcast live videos through the internet.

    People can enjoy a good number of benefits with the use of this technology. Whether an individual is a presenter or a viewer this technology has benefits for all of them. For quite a long period of time people have been scratching their heads trying to figure out how expenses can be reduced especially in business. In the modern world those issues are over. Web-casting did a very nice job in cutting down unnecessary costs. Web-casting is very cheap and very easy to use.



    Web casting is a technology that can be used in various places. These places comprise f educational centers, business centers or facilities and even government offices. Therefore, it is advisable to change from old methods of conducting business to web-casting era. It is a very flexible alternative. This is because viewers can watch the web casts when they are download to access the net. This is possible because web casts can be recorded and uploaded on the websites for the benefit of the viewers.

    Reduction in business expenses has been brought by the use of web casting. People need to know that getting prepared for a specking occasion, conference or class is a process that can be very costly. There is a way of avoiding such expenses. Use web-casting and the changes will really make a difference. People who do not use this service means they will have to pay for food, handouts, technical support and rental rooms. These can be avoided by using web casting.

    Increased in flexibility in the way business are operated has been caused by the use of web casting services. If presenters and listeners were to speak about web-casting they would certainly support the fact that web casting has various benefits in the life of a human being. Web-casts can be broadcasted via the net live or recorded. In most cases both cases are used to ensure all clients benefits from web-casting services.

    Web-casting is the type of technology which is very affordable yet it has no equal. Other methods can never beat this method in terms of services and benefits it has. When planning to install in-house technology a person ought to look for help from the companies that offer support and solutions. An individual can set up these services and run them through a PC.

    One other advantage associated to web casting is that it is time saving. It is very easy and flexible to use. Speakers do not need to be in a conference physically.

    Such are the benefits that webcasting service San Francisco neighborhood has brought into the lives of human beings. With web cast a person do not need to have extra burden of planning events. Web casting is really very important.




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    Saturday, April 12, 2014

    Some Tips On Choosing The Right Digital Project Binder

    By Marcie Goodman


    You have been pondering the idea of getting a digital project binder. You have decided that this can be a good option for you especially considering the fact that you will be needing the extra memory and space that the software might provide. So, you have decided that this may be the perfect time for you to ensure that you get the right one this time.

    There re many people these days that require to produce a lot of documents to carry out the project. You may find it hard to get all these items stored properly. This is why many people today look for software and other options that should allow them to have the documents they want to save b saved in a single location alone.

    There are many available providers you can find. It helps if you take the time to ensure that youll get all these choices and these options reviewed. This would at least help give you a good idea of the many options present for you, you can use these options to ensure that when the time for you to make a choice comes, youre sure that you will really make the most out of these options.

    Be familiar with the many factors that you must consider prior to making up your mind. Remember that there will be many options that would be present for you before you will decide what your next steps are going to be. This should at least help make it considerably easier for you to end up with the most appropriate choices there are at the end of the day.

    Consider the capacity of the many possible software you can chose to use for the purposes that you have in mind. It would help significantly if you will assess your needs for storage ahead of time. Then, you are sure that you are going to end up with a product that is going to work really well for you. Thus, you can maximize all these options available for you.

    Consider the costs that you are going to have to spend this time. Find out as many details as you can about the amount of cash that you are going to have to spend when paying for the products that you are interested in. This is highly necessary so you are confident that when the time comes for you to make a final decision, you are sure that it is going to work really well for you.

    Get a download trial. It is always very helpful that youll have a good idea about how these products work and how well they function first before you decide to pay for them. It is a good thing though that there are a lot of companies these days that would offer these products on a download trial basis. So, take advantage of this before you will make up your mind.

    The right digital project binder is one that will be offered along with a good customer and technical support. There may be instances when you might have issues with the way you are supposed to use these items for the purposes that you will be utilizing them for. Having providers that can assure you twenty-four seven technical assistance will be very reassuring.




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    Friday, April 11, 2014

    How To Choose Cloud Service Providers

    By Jeannie Chapman


    Because of the large number of cloud service providers Chicago on the market, it will definitely be a hard task to choose the best one. It is important that you will know all requirements that will be needed for you to have a provider that will be suited for you. Before anything else, you have to do a careful research.

    When you would be conducting the research, you must consider several things regarding those that you are looking for. Yet, there would be several tips that could be used in order to have ease in the overall process of selecting. Still, you must be careful so that you would somehow avoid having disappointments and regrets in your selections.

    Make sure you would check the reliability or the reputation of a company that you would select. It is essential that you would know the number of years they had already spent in this industry. When they have such, there would be greater chances of having good quality from them.

    For you to know the reliability and the reputation of the provider, you can talk to their clients and customers. You can ask them about what they have to say about the services that will be offered by the certain company. This will be a good way that can be used to determine the truth behind their claims.

    If you are searching for the perfect providers that may help you, you should ensure that they are capable of working quickly. There are situations that many problems may arise without prior notice. You have to ensure they are capable of fixing it regardless of the time and without interrupting the whole business operation.

    You must select some companies who would be very dedicated in supporting the problems you would be facing. If you would be speaking with a particular company, you must do it inside their offices. Make sure you could see the entire support department for you to personally assess if they could be qualified for this job.

    Every company that will move in a cloud environment has to ensure the security of their business. As much as possible, it has to cover the systems and the processes that will be important for the operation. It is important that the chosen provider can secure all the levels of the infrastructure and all of the services they will offer.

    When you want to know more regarding them, there would be many resources that could be used. The internet would be one of the better resource that you could use since it could give you better information in a matter of seconds. Moreover, this would be easier to use as well or could be accessed easily wherever you might be if you only have an end device and a reliable internet connection.

    Normally, the term cloud would refer purely to the internet. Most people have already been into this technology and thus they must fix or repair some problems on it. The cloud service providers Chicago would play an essential role in order to go one with all the daily processes or tasks.




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    Thursday, April 10, 2014

    Overloading the Short Hand Operators and using Friend Functions

    In this article we’re going to overload the shorthand
    addition (+=) and subtraction (-=) operators
    using friend
    functions.


    As you can observe in the program below, the operator functions are taking
    the first argument (operand) as a reference
    (call by reference). This is due the fact that these operators need to alter
    the data of the actual operand itself.


    This is similar to the case of increment/decrement
    operators
    (click for detailed information).



    // Overloading the shorthand
    // += and -= operators using
    // friend functions
    #include <iostream.h>

    class myclass
    {
    int a;
    int b;

    public:
    myclass(){}
    myclass(int x,int y){a=x;b=y;}
    void show()
    {
    cout<<a<<endl<<b<<endl;
    }

    // declared as friend
    friend myclass operator+=(myclass&, myclass);
    friend myclass operator-=(myclass&, myclass);
    };


    myclass operator+=(myclass &ob1, myclass ob2 )
    {
    // data of the first operand
    // are to be changed, so accepting
    // it as a reference
    ob1.a+=ob2.a;
    ob1.b+=ob2.b;

    return ob1;
    }

    myclass operator-=(myclass &ob1, myclass ob2 )
    {
    ob1.a-=ob2.a;
    ob1.b-=ob2.b;

    return ob1;
    }

    void main()
    {
    myclass a(10,20);
    myclass b(100,200);

    a+=b;
    b+=a;

    a.show();
    b.show();
    }


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    Facts About A Windows Data Recovery Software

    By Angela Briggs


    Data and information loss are among the few computer related issues that most computer users dread and would not dream for. This is because the recovery of the missing information can be very tedious. In addition, the data can be lost completely and thus being a great loss to the victims. It is for this reason that technological experts have come up with a windows data recovery software that is in a position to retrieve all lost files and folders.

    The loss of files may be as a result of very many causes which really vary. Such losses may be due to accidental deletion of files from a hard disk or any other storage media. Also data loss can occur if some partitions of the hard drive are missing hence loss of information in the specific partitions. This is a phenomenon that may occur in case a computer fails to boot thus causing any information stored in it to be lost. Loss of information can be very disappointing and hence the recovery software really plays a great role in the retrieval, recovery and accessibility of any lost items.

    This program can recover information lost in computer drives either in the form of files or folders. By this, the software creates a computer restoration point. By this, it is able to return the processes of a computer to a previous stage in its running and it is able to retrieve all the data that was present at that time. This can be disadvantageous since any information that was stored after that point might not be recovered.

    With this type of program, an individual can also retrieve information from a computer that completely fails to boot. This mainly occurs if there is loss or corruption of a particular operating system. Recovery of such information is normally an easy task since one only requires to boot the computer from the disk with the recovery tool and it restores all program files of the computer. In spite of the step being easy, it can really take a lot of time since it involves scanning of the whole drive and computer for any files present.

    This program is also an important tool for the retrieval of information stored in different storage media for instance audio media. In addition, it can also be used to recover any photographs taken by camera. Recovery of audio media can involve making all erased volumes to be recovered. This may include system sounds, music player sounds and warning tones among others. This is made possible since the program has a very strong encoding which enables it to recover media of diverse file extensions.

    Data recovery soft wares are very common. However their availability to users can be a problem since not many people can be in a position to acquire one. This is a program that is normally available in a disk and one only requires purchasing the disk. Similarly one can get the program from the internet.

    Such soft wares are of great importance since they really help in accessing of information that was completely lost. In addition, they are very easy to use since they are not very complex.

    As a matter of fact, data security is very important and its loss can be very disappointing and embarrassing. It is for this reason that we should strive to acquire a windows data recovery software.




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    Wednesday, April 9, 2014

    Create A Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Free Of Charge

    By Madelin Hoang


    If you had been surfing to find the best approaches to track cell phone number totally download online, you could have run into numerous sites offering download cell lookup services. Indeed, choosing one of these simple websites could possibly be irresistible. But like practically whatever comes at no cost in everyday life, you will find downsides. One of these is the opportunity of virus or malware infection of the mobile phone or laptop or computer the application of to gain online access.

    Plus there is the top possibility of you using the site only to find out that there is little information being gained. At the very least, you could only understand the persons name having a cell phone number search. Should you be truly seeking ways to track cell phone without having to pay much cash but gaining sufficient personal information about the cell numbers owner, theres one very good way to do this. It is to use a few of the vouchers, which are available online. Maybe you have heard about shopping on the web coupons for choosing various items like clothes, footwear and accessories online.

    So in case you have a very good recommendation for an agent from the friend, it is best which you search for more agents over the internet. Its also possible to undergo various local magazines and newspapers, which will ordinarily have advertisements of apartments for let. Agents usually perform advertising and handling in the apartment for let. Its merely a matter of giving them a call up and speaking to them via phone before fixing a scheduled appointment to look at the appropriate apartments for let. If however, you be a single woman, watch out for simply seeing any stranger. Who knows what may happen considering the things that are happening in the world today.

    Ask real estate agents some questions like where he lives, his age or another information that is personal. In case you are shy to have this sort of information, then get his name at least. You can use his cell number to do a reverse cell phone search online. It is you a few dollars per number search. So in order to low cost, select among the yearly or biannually packages. This type of package is much more cost saving ultimately.

    As soon as you do the check, it is possible to find out his complete name, his present residential address and other information. So verifying whatever information he gave can be very easy. When youre done apartment hunting, dont pay your deposit yet, unless you have performed a cell phone lookup search while using agents name. There are instances of fake real agents cheating others out of their money. Moreover, it will always be best to involve some details about real estate agent in the event you will find theres challenge with the rental with the apartment.

    Pay the deposit and rental money towards the agent when you are sure that hes who statements to be after by using a reverse cell phone search. Before you spend money the bucks, read the tenancy agreement carefully, taking good note of the fine print. Make sure that the tenancy agreement has got the signature in the apartment owner. When youre satisfied with everything, only then should you sign the document and give over the money to the agent.




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    Small Business Voip Phone Systems Will Save Companies Time And Money

    By Judy Sullivan


    Smaller companies often struggle to survive when global economic prospects are poor. They simply do not have the resources to carry them through bad times. They are therefore forced to adopt stringent measures to save money but at the same time they simply cannot allow their service levels to drop. One of the best ways in which to save money whilst increasing productivity is to move to internet based communication. Small business VoIP phone systems are becoming increasingly popular.

    The growing wave of companies that move towards internet based communication is based on many sound reasons. Effective telecommunications is vital for success and no company can afford to alienate clients simply because the communication system is poor. Internet based communication provide companies with sophisticated communication technology that is simply light years ahead of a traditional PBX. The best of all is the fact that it is much cheaper than traditional systems.

    One of the biggest advantages of this technology is that they can be scaled to suit the exact needs of the company. Regardless of how many different departments or branches a company has, only one central communication system is necessary. New branches or users can be joined to the system without having to request new lines. Likewise, users or branches can be removed when no longer needed.

    Another aspect of internet based communication that continues to thrill users is the flexibility that they enjoy. An employee can use the system wherever he or she is. They can use a variety of devices, including tablets, laptop computers and smart phones to do so. They can even access the system from home. This can certainly lead to increased productivity and higher levels of customer satisfaction.

    Of course, the biggest advantage enjoyed by users of internet communication is that they are able to achieve substantial savings. Many companies have reported savings of up to fifty per cent. Savings are also achieved because there is no requirement for a telephone operator at every site or department and because there are no multiple installations of the system.

    Most companies that move to the internet quickly realize that they can achieve substantial additional savings on maintenance. A traditional PBX is maintained by highly skilled and expensive technicians and there are normally a number of separate systems that needs constant maintenance. Internet communication, however, are mainly maintained by the service provider. At the same time clients enjoy constant upgrades and they always have access to the latest technology and innovations.

    Users that have moved from traditional systems to the internet are often surprised to learn that they not only continue to enjoy the features that they became used to, but that they also have access to a number of new, advanced features that can make their jobs easier. They have call forwarding to any user on the system, regardless of the location of that user, the have voice to email and fax to email, to name just a few popular features.

    Small business VoIP phone systems certainly help companies to operate smarter and more effectively. The big bonus is that they are able to save substantial amounts of money too. The system is feature rich and can be instrumental in increasing the productivity of employees. There can be little doubt that this technology will become increasingly popular.




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    Tuesday, April 8, 2014

    PROCESSING ONE DIMENSIONAL ARRAY

    TO SEARCH FOR A NUMBER IN A LIST OF NUMBERS

    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<conio.h>
    void main()
    {
    int a[10},n,i,f,s;
    clrscr();
    printf("Enter the no of numbers
    ");
    scanf("%d",&n);
    printf("Enter %d numbers
    ",n);
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
    scanf("%d",a[i]);
    printf("Enter the number to be searched
    ");
    scanf("%d",&s);
    /* searching for s in a begins */ 
    f=0;
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
    if(a[i]==s)
    {
    f=1;
    break;
    }
    /*searching for s in a ends*/
    printf("
    List of elements
    ");
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
    printf("%d",a[i]);
    printf("
    Enter to be searched
    ");
    printf("
    s=%d
    ",s);
    if(f==1)
    printf("%d is found",s);
    else
    printf("%d is not found",s);
    getch();
    }
    OUTPUT
    Enter the no of numbers
    5
    Enter 5 numbers
    1   2   3   4   5
    Enter the number to be searched 
    3
    List of elements 
    1   2   3   4   5
    Elements to be searched
    3
    3 is found
    Explanation
    a is declared to be array of int type of size 10.Maximum 10 values can be read into the array.n,i,s and f are declared to be variable of int type.n is to collect the number of values to  be read into a, which lies within 1 and 10.i is to traverse all the elements of a.s is to collect a value which is to be searched.f is to be determine whether s is found in a or not.It acts as a flag variable.The procedure of searching for s in a is implemented in the following segment of the program.
    f=0;
    for(i=0;i<n;i++)
    if(a[i]==s)
    {
    f=1;
    break;
    }
    before searching begins,f is set to zero with the assumption that s is not available in a.During the course of searching that is inside the body of the for loop, if s is found t match with any element in the array, f is set to 1  and loop is excited. If s takes 1 then it means s  is found in a.If f retains 0,we conclude that s s not fond in a.The value of f would thus tell us whether s is found in a or not.  
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    Monday, April 7, 2014

    Tower of Hanoi operations


    /*A program to impelement Tower of Hanoi operations to understand stack.
    compiler- Turbo c++     author- Mangilal Sharma
    --------------------------------------------------------*/
    #include<iostream.h>
    #include<conio.h>
    class hanoi
    {
     public:
     void tower(char,char,char,int);
     hanoi();
    };

    void hanoi::tower(char peg1,char peg2,char peg3,int n)
    {
     if(n<=0)
     cout<<"
    Illagal entery ";

     if(n==1)
     cout<<"
    Move Disk from  "<<peg1<<" to "<<peg3;

     else
     {
      tower(peg1,peg3,peg2,n-1);
      tower(peg1,peg2,peg3,1);
      tower(peg2,peg1,peg3,n-1);
     }
    }

    hanoi::hanoi()
    {
     int n;
     char ch=y;
     while(ch==y||ch==Y)
     {
      cout<<"
    Input the no. of disks:";

      cin>>n;
      cout<<"
    Tower of Hanoi for "<<n<<" disc";

      tower(x,y,z,n);
      cout<<"

    Enter Y/y For again enter:";

      cin>>ch;
     }
     return;
    }
    /*=========================18Nov.,2010=============================*/
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    ADDING CURRENT NUMBER WITH BEFORE NUMBER UP TO n TERMS


    Write a program to generate the following sequence:

    1,2,4,7,11,16...........................................20 terms
    The second number in the sequence is obtained by adding 1 to previous number, the third number is obtained by adding 2 to the previous number, the fourth number is obtained by adding 3 to the previous number and so on. The loop is to be executed for 20 times.The program is as follows:
    #include<stdio.h>
    #include<conio.h>
    void main()
    {
    int term;
    int i;
    i=1;
    term=1;        /*control variable*/
    while(term<=20)
    {
    printf("%d
    ",i);

    i=i+term;
    term=term+1;
    }

    In the above, the variable term is used to control the execution of the loop and the variable i is used as a processing variable.The logic of the program depends on the statement i=i+term; where the next number in the sequence is obtained by adding the value of term to the previous number and the term is incremented by 1 every time the loop executes.The success of the program that uses a while loop depends on the proper use of control and process variables.The control variable is to be initialized, tested in the condition and then updated in the loop.The process variable is used in the logic
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    Sunday, April 6, 2014

    DENSITY OF TAPE

    Density of a tape is referred to as the number of frames per inch(fpi) or character per inch(cpi) rather than bits/bytes per inch(bpi) Regardless of which term is used,a frame or byte is a group of related bits that make up a single character written across the width of the tape.
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    ANSI C STANDARD


                    Although K& R C had a rich set of features it was the initial version and C had a lot to grow. The [Kernighan and Ritchie 1978] was the reference manual for both the programmers and compiler writers for almost a decade. Since it is not meant for compiler writers, it left lot of ambiguity in its interpretation and many of the constructs were not clear. One such example is the list of library functions. Nothing significant is said about the header files in the [Kernighan and Ritchie 1978] and so each implementation had their own set of library functions. The compiler vendors had different interpretations and added more features (language extensions) of their own. This created many inconsistencies between the programs written for various compilers and lot of portability and efficiency problems cropped up.
    To overcome the problem of inconsistency and standardize the available language features ANSI formed a committee called X3J11. Its primary aim was to make “an unambiguous and machine-independent definition of C” while still retaining the spirit of C. The committee made a research and submitted a document and that was the birth of ANSI C standard. Soon the ISO committee adopted the same standard with very little modifications and so it became an international standard. It came to be called as ANSI/ISO C standard or more popularly as just ANSI C standard.
                    Even experienced C programmers also doesn’t know much about ANSI standard except what they frequently read or hear about what the standard says. When they get curious enough to go through the ANSI C document, they stumble a little to understand the document. The document is hard to understand by the programmers because it is meant for compiler writers and vendors ensures accuracy and describes the C language precisely. So the language used in the document is jocularly called as ‘standardese’. For example to describe side effects, the standard uses the idea of ‘sequence-points’ that may help confusing the reader more. L-value is not simply the ‘LHS (to =) value’. It is more properly a "locator value" designating an object.
                ANSI standard is not a panacea for all problems. To give an example, ANSI C widened the difference between the C used as a ‘high-level language’ and as ‘portable assembly language’. The original [Kernighan and Ritchie 1978] is more preferred even now by the various language compilers to generate C as their target language. Because it is less-typed than ANSI C. To give another example, many think ‘sequence-points’ fully describe side-effects and the belief that knowing its mechanism will help to fully understand side-effects. This is a false notion about sequence-points of [ANSI C 1989]. Sequence points doesn’t help fully understand side-effects.

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    Saturday, April 5, 2014

    Conditional Statements if else in PHP

    Look at the following code:



    <?php
    $t=(int) date("G");

    if($t<12)
    echo "Good Morning!";
    else if($t<17)
    echo "Good Afternoon!";
    else if($t<21)
    echo "Good Evening!";
    else
    echo "Good Night!";
    ?>


    If you are a reader of this blog (or know C++!) then the code would look familiar.


    As is obvious, that is a PHP code but looks similar to C++.


    You see, the if and else statements are all similar to that in C++.


    Talking about the code, it is pretty straightforward, we are taking the current
    time, type casting it to an integer in a variable $t (type casting is also done
    in the similar manner in C++). Then we are printing different messages according
    to what the current time is.


    That being clear, let’s us look at the working of date() function a bit.
    We’ve previously used date function in the post Writing
    and Running PHP Scripts
    . As I explained, it takes a string as an argument
    through which we can tell the function to return the date/time in the format
    we want.


    Previously, we used date function with the format string "h:i A, jS F
    Y" and in this post we are using “G”. Actually each character
    in the string we send as an argument represent one part of date/time. PHP’s
    date function understands more that 30 different characters which can be used
    to get the time in the required format.


    Taking the example of the format string "h:i A, jS F Y". we have
    h,:,I,A,j,S,F,Y characters in it which means the following:



    • h-Hour of the day in 12-hour format with leading zeros. Range: 01 to 12.

    • i-Minutes past, with leading zeros. Range: 00 to 59.

    • A-Morning or afternoon, in UPPER case letters. Maybe AM or PM.

    • j-Day of the month without leading zeros. Range: 1 to 31.

    • S-Ordinal suffix for the current date. May be st, nd, rd, th.

    • F-Month of the year in full text format. Range: January to December.

    • Y-Year in 4-digit format.


    So on 26th may 2008 at 12:00 PM, using the format string "h:i A, jS F
    Y", we’ll get



    • “12” from h

    • “:” as it is

    • “00” form i

    • “ “ (space) as it is

    • “PM” from A

    • “, “ as it is

    • “ “ (space) as it is

    • “26” from j

    • “th” from S

    • “ “ (space) as it is

    • “May” from F

    • “ “ (space) as it is

    • “2008” form Y


    Combining them it makes



    12:00 PM, 26th May 2008



    In the code at the top of this post, we sent the format string “G”
    to the date function which returns the hour of the day in 24-hour format without
    leading zeros. Since date() function returns a string we type casted it to and
    integer before storing it in $t, which would ease arithmetic calculations.


    Here, we are also using a variable and type casting without much discussion,
    we’ll discuss them in detail in the coming posts.


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    Friday, April 4, 2014

    PROGRAM TO FIND THE INTEGRAL VALUE USING TRAPEZOIDAL RULE

    #define f(x) 1.0/(1+x*x)
    main()
    {
    int n;
    float a,b;
    float trapz(float,float,int);
    printf("Enter the values of a,b and n
    ");

    scanf("%f%f%d",&a,&b,&n);
    printf("Integral value of f(x) by trapezoidal rule:%f
    ",trapz(a,b,n));

    }

    float trapz(float a,float b,int n)
    {
    float x,y[51],h;
    float sum;
    int i;
    h=(b-a)/n;
    x=a;
    for(i=0;i<=n;i++)
    {
    y[i]=f(x);
    x=x+h;
    }
    sum=y[0]+y[n];
    for(i=1;i<n;i++)
    sum+=2*y[i];
    sum=sum*h/2;
    return sum;
    }


    OUTPUT:
    Enter the values of a,b and n
    0     1     10
    Integral value of f(x) bu trapezoidal rule:0.785398 
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    Configuring Apache Web Server and PHP

    [Update: You may download the MSI
    package
    of PHP instead of the ZIP one which would do all the set-up and
    configuration itself and you wouldn’t have to do the following by yourself]


    This is the crucial part guys, first I start off with giving the locations
    of the configuration files of Apache and PHP.



    Apache: [X:…]Apache Software FoundationApache2.2confhttpd.conf

    PHP: [Y:]PHPphp.ini-dist [renamed to php.ini later]



    Now let’s start guys:


    1. Start by backing up both the configuration files, you’d
    need them in case you mess up the files.


    2 .Rename the php.ini-dist file to php.ini


    3. Look for a line like below

    doc_root

    and make it look like

    doc_root =[X:…]Apache Software FoundationApache2.2htdocs


    be sure to change ’[X:…]’ with the location you installed
    Apache server in. Save the file.


    4. Open the folder you installed PHP in. There you’ll
    see lots of DLL files, select them all and click copy. Now open your Windows
    System directory and click paste. If any of the files already seem to be there
    be sure to make a back up of them.



    Location of Windows system folder for various versions of windows is listed
    below:


    Windows XP/Vista: c:windowssystem32

    Windows NT/200: c:winntsystem32



    5. Now, copy the php.ini file (the one you edited) and paste
    it in the system root directory.



    Again the Location of Windows root directory for various versions of windows
    is listed below:


    Windows XP/Vista: c:windows

    Windows NT/200: c:winnt



    6. Now PHP itself is all set-up, its time now to tell Apache
    to use it to interpret special files(.php). Open the httpd.conf (Apache configuration
    file)


    7. Seach for the word “Load Module” without the
    quotes, you’d see many such lines, scroll to the end of that section and
    paste or type these lines after the last Load Module statement:


    #-----For PHP--------
    LoadModule php5_module "x:/php/php5apache2_2.dll"

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

    # For syntax highlighted .phps files,
    AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

    #-----/For PHP--------

    Change the line “x:/php/php5apache2_2.dll” from ‘x’
    to the drive you installed PHP in. Save the file.


    Now we are all set-up, restart the Apache server for the changes to take effect.
    Copy and paste the following in Notepad and save it with a ‘.php’
    extension (Save as type: All Files) and put the file in the htdocs folder.


      <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>

    Now open the browser and type http://localhost/[filename].php.


    You should see something like below, if you have done everything correctly.


    PHP info


    If not replace both the configuration files by the backed up ones and start
    all over again.


    Best of luck!


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    Tuesday, April 1, 2014

    World in Conflict

    It goes without saying that its a good thing World War III didnt erupt between the United States and the now-defunct Soviet Union. For many of us who were children during the Cold War, the fear of being annihilated in a nuclear conflict was very real. So its a bit strange now that we can look back at that era and have the luxury of imagining what could have been. Or we can play World in Conflict, Sierra and Massive Entertainments incredible new real-time strategy game. This isnt your standard RTS game, as World in Conflict doesnt follow the familiar model of resource gathering, base building, and swarming armies. Instead, it feels almost like an action game masquerading as a strategy game, and it offers up a relentlessly fun and amazing new approach to the genre, one that works in single-player and even more so in multiplayer.




    World in Conflict is set in an alternate-history version of 1989. Instead of the Berlin Wall falling and communism collapsing, the Soviet Union launches an assault on Western Europe, and the United States rushes its forces in to aid its Western allies. Four months into the conflict, after the US Navy has been attrited down, the USSR launches a surprise invasion in Seattle and pushes inland. In the 14-mission single-player campaign, you play as a company commander who is part of the meager US defense; there is no campaign from the Soviet perspective, though you can play as the Red Army in multiplayer. However, the campaign twists and weaves, letting you experience a sample of the European conflict, battle in remote areas of the Soviet Union, and bring the fight to New York City.

    Yes, the story is a bit far-fetched, but World in Conflict does a great job of making the implausible seem believable. Thats partly due to the excellent storytelling, which is spearheaded by pitch-perfect narrator Alec Baldwin. Hes backed up by a great voice acting cast that brings the principle and secondary characters to life, along with a story that offers up emotional and sometimes humorous vignettes from a world at war. For instance, youll hear a soldiers futile battle against Army bureaucracy, the phone conversation of a husband and wife, and the deliberations of the president and his top military advisors. While theres a small misstep or two, such as a gospel song in the weirdest of places, the game effectively tugs at your heartstrings, which is rare for a strategy game, especially when it concerns the fate of one character whom you presume to be entirely one-dimensional but isnt. Some of these vignettes are conveyed through in-game cutscenes, while others are delivered through graphic-novel-style drawings. World in Conflict also features some incredible prerendered cutscenes that are so good you actually wish there were more of them.

    This isnt a hardcore wargame or simulation. There are far too many gameplay abstractions for that, from being able to air-drop reinforcements on the battlefield within seconds to repairing equipment almost instantly. Instead, World in Conflict is thrilling game about destruction. You get to unleash all the firepower of modern military units on an open battlefield, but you also get to experience the challenges of combined arms warfare. Thats because the game has a great rock-paper-scissors combat system that captures the vicious circle of war. Tanks can kill tanks and other vehicles well, but arent so good against infantry. Artillery can kill infantry easily, but arent so good against tanks. Helicopters can knock out vehicles well, but are vulnerable to infantry and antiaircraft units. Its a constant chess match about what you need to bring to battle and how you use it. The game is also smart enough to limit the number of units you can control. Instead of commanding the entire battlefield, youll have only a relative handful of units. This makes managing your units a lot easier, like when employing their secondary abilities such as popping smoke grenades to create cover when under attack.




    Then theres the games excellent resource system. Youre given a pool of reinforcement points that you can use to purchase units. Naturally, the powerful units cost a lot more than weaker ones, so youve got to choose quantity over quality. But it goes a bit deeper than that, as different classes of units have different abilities. For instance, light helicopters are some of the best scouts in the game, able to locate enemies from a distance, but theyre extremely vulnerable. Medium helicopters are able to shoot down other helicopters with their air-to-air missiles, but they dont do a lot of damage to armor. Heavy helicopters can eat tanks for breakfast, but arent effective against other helicopters. So while your initial inclination might be to load up on heavy choppers and go after enemy armor, a wise player recognizes that there are many roles to play on the battlefield. If your units are destroyed, their cost is slowly refunded back into your reinforcement pool, so you can order up replacements, although veteran units are more effective, giving you an incentive to keep your experienced units alive as long as possible.

    The nice thing about this system is that it effectively gives you an unlimited number or resources and units to work with, so its fairly forgiving to nontraditional strategy gamers. If that seems a bit easy, dont worry, because World in Conflict can also ratchet up the pressure by tossing in time limits. For instance, you might have to seize a town in less than 45 minutes, or achieve another objective in far less time. The margins for error are much smaller when youre working under a deadline.

    Aside from reinforcement points, the only other resource in the game is tactical aid points, which are accumulated whenever you perform a vital role on the battlefield. You earn points by killing the enemy, but you also earn points by seizing and fortifying objectives, repairing friendly vehicles, transporting infantry around the battlefield, and so on. Tactical aid is like the icing on the cake, because you can use these points to purchase all sorts of powerful and utterly cool things. You can call in air strikes, napalm strikes, cluster bombers, mortar barrages, artillery barrages, chemical warfare, airborne reinforcements, precision artillery, fighter cover, and much more. The ultimate tactical aid is also the most awesome one: tactical nuclear weapons. World in Conflict features the best-looking mushroom clouds in gaming, and when they go off the screen flashes white and you hear the high-pitched sound of electronics frying. Its essentially the chilling sound of death.




    All of this takes place on large, dynamic battlefields that come alive with the symphony of destruction. Thankfully, theres barely any worry about collateral damage in the game, so if you have to destroy a city to save it, then dont worry about the insurance bill. The destruction isnt just cosmetic, either. There can be all sorts of tactical implications. Take out a bridge and you force the enemy to go the long way around, or, in a multiplayer game, to call in a tactical aid to erect a new one. If the enemy is hiding infantry in woods and buildings, making them hard to root out, call in napalm and just burn down the trees or use artillery or smart bombs to blow up the structures. Everything blows up so beautifully that theres no such thing as overkill anymore. The game looks spectacular in DirectX 9, and its noticeably better in DirectX 10 thanks to more atmospheric lighting. If you only have a DX9 card, though, dont worry--you arent missing out on any gameplay enhancements aside from the ability to use dual-monitor support in multiplayer games.

    Pretty much everything in the game looks good, even up close. Move the camera low to the ground and you can make out all the gear on your individual soldiers. Pull the camera back and you can soak in vast landscapes. One thing the game does especially well is smoke. Drop a smart bomb on a building and it will not only explode in thousands of pieces, but it will send convincing pillars of black smoke skyward. After a heavy battle, the sky will turn black because theres so much smoke in the air. Thats the incredible level of detail in this game.

    As good as the single-player campaign is, though, it pales in comparison to the multiplayer game, which is fast-paced and wonderfully balanced. Imagine the first-person multiplayer action game Battlefield 2 reborn as a real-time strategy game, and you have an inkling of how World in Conflict unfolds online. This is an insanely fun multiplayer game that lets you be part of a team of eight as you attempt to destroy the enemy using teamwork and every tactical weapon in the book.

    Everything about multiplayer is designed to get you in a game quickly and keep you there for hours on end. First, when you join a server theres no wait for the current game to wrap up before you can get into the fight. If theres a spot open on the server, youre deposited into the middle of the current battle when you join. Second, theres no downtime at all. In most RTS games, you spend the first several minutes hurriedly trying to gather resources and build a base and units. In World in Conflict, you order up your first set of troops and watch them parachute or airdrop in seconds later. Fighting unfolds within the first minute of each game, and it doesnt stop until the very end. Third, thanks to the resource system, if your units are wiped out you can order up some more and be back fighting within seconds.




    Team coordination can be handled through a built-in menu system or, even better, the built-in voice-over-IP chat system that lets you communicate vocally with your teammates. All you need is a microphone. Playing in a relatively uncoordinated manner is still a blast, but if you play on a good team against another coordinated team, the gameplay elevates to a whole new level. Victory can be snatched from the jaws of defeat (or vice versa) in intense matches where both teams are hurling all on the battlefield, from air strikes, artillery, multiple tactical nukes, and more. Theres nothing quite more urgent than a team desperately trying to cobble together enough tactical aid points for a last-ditch nuke.

    Developer Massive Entertainment has been making real-time strategy games for almost a decade now, but World in Conflict is undoubtedly the studios masterwork. Everything about this game is top-notch, from the addicting gameplay to the amazing visuals. More importantly, World in Conflict offers up a refreshingly new approach to strategy gaming. So if youre a strategy fan, you should definitely try World in Conflict. And even if youre turned off by standard real-time strategy games, you owe it to yourself to try out what Massive has come up with in this exquisite package.

    By Jason Ocampo, GameSpot
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