December RTS updates

Merry Christmas from FreeGamer!

As a nice present from the 0 A.D. team, the new Alpha 15 Osiris was released today:



Lots of great new features and especially multiplayer games should be now much easier to do with hosting improvements and a lobby for browsing available games.

Another open-source RTS engine (using Mono/C# though) has also released a new version: OpenRA. Currently it is still geared toward running an assortment of older Command & Conquer based games, so you need to own these for the data. But this release adds lua scripting for the creation of custom missions, so maybe someone will come up with a libre game to run on this engine.

Last but not least, a new version of Warzone2100 was released about a week ago. This one actually includes some higher resolution textures, which is hopefully the first step to officially integrate all the awesome new art assets from the art revolution project.
Speaking of WZ mods: There is also an interesting new tower-defense mod currently being developed.

Google Adsense Approval Trick To Monetize YouTube

 Today, I have got some relief and thus publishing an important article about getting an Approved Adsense Account in 1 hour. I was getting several request, Where user asked me to provide some easiest method for getting an Approved Adsense Account.

Google Adsense is undoubtedly one of the best Ad network for bloggers and Web Masters but getting an approved adsense account was never an easy procedure. However, those days are passed and now, You can get an Approved Adsense Account in 1 hour. Isn’t that unbelievable? But it is true. In this post, I will show you “How to get an Approved Adsense Account in 1 hours?”

You can get an Approved Adsense Account in 1 hours through the help of YouTube Monetization method. The whole procedure is shown below:

• First of all, Create a New Gmail Acount .  If you haven’t used your Old GMail account for Monetization then you can also use your Old account as well. If your country is not supported by Adsense then choose a country like US and UK, while creating New Gmail Account
• Login to your “YouTube” Account by visiting https://www.youtube.com/
• Visit http://youtube.com/account_monetization
• Enable “Monetization” for your YouTube Account. The screenshot for doing the same is given below:

After that, You will have to “Accept” all terms and condition. The screenshot of the same is given below:

Finally, Click on “Monetize” Button. The screenshot of the same is given below:

• After doing that, You will receive an EMail in your Inbox.
• Now, Upload a Unique video in your YouTube Account. While doing that, Don’t forget to add appropriate description and Tags for videos. Wait for the upload to get completed. Once done, Publish it.
• To associate an Adsense Account, Visit https://www.youtube.com/account_monetization and expand the topic “How Will I be Paid” and click on the link “Associate an Adsense Account“. The screenshot of the same is given below:

Now, You will be redirected to a screen, Where you will have to set up your Adsense Account. Click on “Continue” button for filling your other details such as Address, Country, Payee Name etc

After clicking on “Continue” button, You will see the below given screen. Enter all details correctly.

• After filling all details, Click on “Submit” button. Wait for 1-2 hours. You will get an EMail containing the details of  an Approved Adsense Account. Hurray….Hurray…enjoy.

• Login to your Adsense Account
• Click on “Account Settings” option on Home Page. The screenshot of the same is given below:

• Move to “Access and Authorization” section. You will find this section at the end of “Account Settings” Page.
• Click on “Edit” link which appears next to “Only host sites are allowed to show ads for your account” option.
• Now, Add the url of your website(where you want to show Ads) on “Show Ads on Other Website” Page. You have done most of your work.
• Finally, Create an Ad Unit and implement the code in your website.. Enjoy.
• If you want to display Adsense Ads on Blogger Blog, Simply Associate your Adsense Account with blogger.

The above described method for getting an Approved Adsense Account in 1 hour is the easiest one. Anyone can easily get an Approved adsense account. The method is tested and 100% working. However, Always follow the terms and condition of Adsense otherwise they will ban your accountwithout any pre-warning.

Simply Give it a try and post your comments.

AUD/USD Forex 24th December 2013

AUD/USD Primary & Monthly Cycles

December lows currently supporting the trend,

whilst the overall bias is to move down into the 2014 lows/BUY ZONE, as part of the Primary Break-n-Extend pattern.

Short-term resistance during the rest of December #A @ 89.90

Until those lows are reached, then 1st Quarter resistance around 91.40/70

Popular Posts Widget for Christmas

The Christmas countdown has begun and while homes are decorated with colorful lights and the sweet smell of pine trees, there's no reason why we wouldn't decorate our Blogspot blog with Christmas bells next to the Popular Posts widget for Blogger!

So, today I was playing around a bit with CSS and I was thinking that it would be cool to add some fresh styles to the Popular Posts widget in such a way to look just ready for the forthcoming Christmas holiday.

To see a demo for the Popular Posts widget for Christmas, please visit the demo blog:

Demo blog

How to Add Popular Posts Widget with Christmas Bells in Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard, then go to 'Template' and click the 'Edit HTML' button:

Step 2. Click anywhere inside the code area and press the CTRL + F keys, then search for this tag:

</head>

Step 3. Just above the </head> tag, add the following CSS code:

<style>
#PopularPosts1 .item-thumbnail:before{
display: block;
content: url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3-SRBh41U6liCZUEo-mIR86f2BtyDPat-RacJP6Nq3e2Fw-sBl1mEnVZCFUdjmIHOp1Kf31cY2hCFI58ZEFR3iPEbeV86VeUVl4lpVxg9m_vHMBMQyCzPCuDLXJ6ZRmuwxbjvc99h5Oc/s1600/bells.png');
margin-left: -15px;
margin-top: -5px;
z-index: 2;
position: absolute;
}
#PopularPosts1 .item-thumbnail img{
float:left;
margin:5px;
padding: 2px;
border: 6px solid #FED74C;
height: 72px;
width: 92px;
position: relative;
background: #F11C25;
-webkit-box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
-moz-box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
box-shadow: 2px 2px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.3);
transition: opacity 1s ease;
}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:nth-child(odd){
  -ms-transform:rotate(20deg); /* IE 9 */
  -moz-transform:rotate(20deg); /* Firefox */
  -webkit-transform:rotate(20deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
  -o-transform:rotate(20deg); /* Opera */
 -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:nth-child(even){
  -ms-transform:rotate(-40deg); /* IE 9 */
  -moz-transform:rotate(-40deg); /* Firefox */
  -webkit-transform:rotate(-40deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
  -o-transform:rotate(-40deg); /* Opera */
 -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out;
}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:nth-child(odd):hover{
  -ms-transform:rotate(0deg); /* IE 9 */
  -moz-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Firefox */
  -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
  -o-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Opera */
}
#PopularPosts1 ul li:nth-child(even):hover{
  -ms-transform:rotate(0deg); /* IE 9 */
  -moz-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Firefox */
  -webkit-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Safari and Chrome */
  -o-transform:rotate(0deg); /* Opera */
}
#PopularPosts1 ul li{
display: inline-block;
float: left;}
#PopularPosts1 .item-thumbnail{
width: 70px;
}
#PopularPosts1 li{
margin-right: 15px;
}
#PopularPosts1 .item-snippet, .item-title{
display: none;
} </style>

Step 4. Click the 'Save Template' button to save the changes and you're done. Enjoy!

Also, please check out this tutorial on how to add falling snowflakes in the background of a Blogger blog.

How to Use Character Entities in CSS, HTML and JavaScript

Sometimes, when using scripts, we must write special characters like accents by using a special set of codes called character entities. However, these don't always look good or we get a question mark or other strange symbols. Usually, this is solved if the character encoding is done right but the logic may not always work.

In Blogger, special characters most of the time appear correctly, but when it is about other services, like external files, things can get complicated.

For example, this usually looks good and when you click on this link, you should see the letters in the right way:

alert(" á é í ó ú  ☺ ✛ ❤ ");

If we are trying to use other method and we want to use this type of characters, sometimes we need to write them in a special format called escape sequence which is nothing but a backslash followed by a letter and a number in hexadecimal format. In the case of common characters or accents, it would be \x followed by two hex digits:

\xe1 is the letter á
\xe9 is the letter é
\xed is the letter í
\xf3 is the letter ó
\xfa is the letter ú

Other combinations generate special characters:

\n is a line break
\t is the tab character
\' is single quote
\" is double quote
\\ is a back slash

Or we can use \u followed by the Unicode character code expressed as four hexadecimal digits:

\u00e1 is the letter á
\u00e9 is the letter é
\u00ed is the letter í
\u00f3 is the letter ó
\u00fa is the letter ú

This will allow us to see correctly what we couldn't before if we were using some other services:

alert(" \u263a \u2764 \u271b ");

On this page you can find a comprehensive list of all the characters, both symbols and different alphabets.

Although rare characters are not often used in the CSS, there is a case when they are necessary as well, like when using the content property with the :after and :before pseudo-elements.

The same criteria applies there, but we only need to add a backslash followed by the four-digit hexadecimal code. For example:

content: ":\24d1\24d4\24d5\24de\24e1\24d4";

content: ":after  \263a  \2724  \2602";

:ⓑⓔⓕⓞⓡⓔ

:after ☺ ✤ ☂

Remember that IE doesn't understand the :before pseudoclass with content, and you would have to set the list-style-type property as none, or you would get 2 bullets in CSS compliant browsers.