Pet Society Tips and Tricks

Pet Society Tips and Tricks

While the Facebook fad that is Playfish's Pet Society is being outsourced by MySpace now, a lot of people are still getting addicted to this Sims-like, Nintendog-like online flash game.

Here are a few tips and tricks I would like to share with you based on experience on the fastest ways on how to level up in the Pet Society with no cheats whatsoever. I must admit that these tips and tricks can be found on a lot of Pet Society fan sites as well but heck, I did discover these things myself.

1. Visit all friends Technique - The more friends with pets you have, the more you garner experience points. There are 5 paw points + 20 coins for your first visit of the day. Unconciously, while browsing thru your friends' pets, you are leveling up and earning money. Do keep in mind that you must visit all your friends' pets regularly to earn these "default" paw points and coins.

2. The Visit and Hug Technique - While at the lowest levels, this technique should do the trick for you. After visiting all the pets around the neighborhood, select the lowest two pets in your friends list. Visit then hug the first one. And then visit the second to the lowest pet. Repeat this technique and you'll gain paw points faster. You must be wondering why you should be picking the last two pets in your list. This is mainly because most of the lowest level pets don't have furnitures, additional clothing, designs in their rooms. This avoids causing lag in the game which also adds to the boredom you're experiencing when the repetitive tasks are at hand. With the default visit and hug technique, you'll garner 5 paw points in a jiffy.

3. Visit and Feed Apples Technique - Before your first visit of all your friends' pets, buy as much apples as you want to at the Food Shop. Why apples? It is the cheapeast food you could possibly feed them and your pet as well. You can also choose other five-coin foods as well such as corn too if you want to. Then on your first visit, take note of those pets with less than full heart bars. Feed them apples even if they only have the slightest difference in their heart bars. You gain an additional 17 paw points and an additional 2 coins after feeding them. The additional 2 coins will your consolation as every feed of apple is actually costing you only 3 coins per feed of pets. After visiting all your friends' pets, go home and save your game status. Reconnect to Pet Society and then repeat the process again. The pets whom you've feeded apples to will have their heart bars reset back to their initial state before you came and fed them apples in your previous visit. I recommend doing this for Level 15 and up.

4. Visit and Clean Technique - This is just almost the same as the previous technique, however, you're just inspecting their hygiene bars. I don't particularly know the exact paw points you're getting for the hygiene bars but randomly you'll be having 6, 13 or 20+ paw points with the addition of 2 coins per satisfaction the pet is having from your cleaning.

5. Give a Gift and Send Back Technique - This technique was actually a friend's advice. If you have saved tons of money, buy something expensive enough. Buying expensive items already earns you huge paw points. However, giving them as gifts to your close friends whom you are leaving a message behind stating you want them back in return they'll be having huge paw points as well by sending them back as a gift is a faster way of leveling up. I have experienced giving gifts with a reward of 47 paw points. The only drawback here is how fast your friends will send these gifts back and how fast the time spent for sending these gifts will happen.

6. Open multiple accounts simultaneously Technique - Have you created another account just for the sake of Pet Society? Or do you have friends which have their log-in credentials saved in your computer? You can open them simultaneously by opening different browsers at the same time in your computer. You can opt to install other browsers as well like Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera if you want to. Do the Give a Gift and Send Back technique like madness once get this going. One disclaimer though, do take note that you are only purposely logging-in other accounts for the purpose of leveling up in Pet Society.

7. Low Food and Hygiene Bars Pact Technique - So most of the previously mentioned techniques have gotten you to the leveling all by yourself. Now, it's time to make an agreement with your friends to leave their food (heart) bars and hygiene bars as low as possible before leaving the game. In this way, you are helping yourselves level up because there are more pets to feed thus further gaining paw points for yourself. Do the Visit and Feed Technique like crazy with Give a Gift and Send Back technique as a combination to your buddies.

Well I guess that's about it. If ever I'll be getting addicted to Pet Society again and I'll discover techniques by myself or my colleagues as well, I'll be keeping you posted. Have fun playing!

Element Tower Defense

Element Tower Defense

Aside from Defense of the Ancients All-Stars, Tower Defense games such as Element Tower Defense have been quite popular in Garena. Tons of Garena players are still playing Warcraft not because of its long-term support thru patches but because of custom-made maps. And in this article, we feature a bit of trivia about Element Tower Defense - a Warcraft custom-made map.

Unlike DoTA wherein multiplayer is required (well, for now IceFrog's also keeping the map with AI available at getdota.com) and a series of complex item building, strategy between players and attracts attention because of the competitive level, you can play this map by simply creating a game, choosing the map and voila you can actually play it by yourself.

Although I have just played it thrice in Garena along with my friends, it is quite a stress-free game with only one purpose - defend yourself by creating towers. There are six elements in which the gameplay revolves into - Fire, Nature, Earth, Wind, Light and Darkness. At first, there are the basic towers - Arrow and Cannon to help you defend from mediocre enemies. Then, after every 5 levels, a lumber is rewarded to you. In this way, you can summon an enemy with a particular elemental type you have to defend to. Successfully killing it would automatically lend their powers to you. There are five levels for each type of elements. After you've successfully defended yourself from the first level, you will automatically be able to summon the next level elemental - assuming you have a lumber available.

The gameplay reaches its peek when you have successfully defended yourself from 60 waves of creeps plus the elementals you've summoned. Once at level 60, guess who you'll be defending yourself from? Ronald McDonald! The game goes on until you have ran out of lives from defending yourself. In actuality, Ronald will keep on getting stronger until you can't defend yourself from him anymore.

Multiplayer

Basically, there are eight slots available for the multiplayer mode. In this mode, players just have to successfully defend themselves. Once their lives are over, the winner will be determined by the number of kills he had from his tower defense.

Wanna try it? For more info, you can download the map and get detailed FAQ by visiting http://www.eletd.com. Have fun gaming!

Prince of Tennis National Championship Finals: Sanada vs Tezuka

Prince of Tennis National Championship Finals Summary
by Shindo Hikaru

Summit Showdown!

Sanada, Yukimura and Tezuka's past is revealed. Ryoma Echizen is missing and Momoshiro is out there looking for him together with Atobe riding in a helicopter. Sanada and Tezuka battle it out at the Singles 3. Sanada used the following techniques to answer Tezuka:

Swift Like the Wind
Fuu - Wind, Rin - Woods, Ka - Fire, Zan - Mountain
Quiet Like the Forest
Invade Like Fire
Immovable Like a Mountain
Strike Like Lightning

Unpredictable Like a Shadow - Sanada's sealed ultimate techniques that leaves no trace of weakness and gives off multiple behavioral patterns so that opponents would not be able to read his movements.
Fuu - Wind, Rin - Woods, Ka - Fire, In - Shadow, Zan - Mountain, Rai - Lightning

Meanwhile Tezuka used the following in order to answer Sanada:

Tezuka Zone
Hyaku-Ren Jitoku (Pinnacle of Hard Work)
Saiki Kanpatsu no Kiwami (Pinnacle of Great Wisdom)
Zero-Shiki Drop Shot
Tezuka Phantom - Tezuka Zone with an opposite effect

Sanada explained that Hyaku-Ren Shitoku no Kiwami was defeated by Lightning and Saiki Kanpatsu no Kiwami was defeated by Shadow which triggered Tezuka to use the Tezuka Phantom. He used the technique until the end which caused his left arm to sore while Sanada used the Fuu-Rin-Ka-In-Zan-Rai which caused Sanada's legs to sore when he was down 4 to 5 in favor of Tezuka. Atobe, Fuji and Ryuuzaki-sensei both said that Tezuka is sacrificing his left arm again for Seigaku's dreams. Ooishi fell into his knees and began to cry. Yukimura explained to him that for Rikkai Dai to win its third consecutive title, he must stop using his ultimate technique and throw it away for Tezuka to not be able to predict when he will be using Fuu-Rin-Ka-In-Zan-Rai again. However, upon leading the game, he brought it up again to have a head-on challenge against Tezuka because it would be against Rikkai Dai to win without using his sealed technique.

Sanada recalled Rikkai Dai's second consecutive championship win in which he was defeated by Tezuka and told to himself that he won't be able to defeat Tezuka ever. In the end, Sanada won the game 7-5 with Tezuka's shot falling short of the cord ball using his Tezuka Zone.

If I were a Handheld console manufacturer...

With Nintendo and Sony releasing their third generation of DS and PSP, I think most of the handheld console owners are now wondering what's next in the future on Handheld gaming?

The iPod Touch Potential

Recently, a friend of mine bought an iPod touch and to my surprise it runs Java-based applications though it can only work on iTunes. The handheld touch-based media player has got me interested more on its true potential as a serious handheld platform. Sure there is Nintendo's DS which attracted most of its current owners with its unique gameplay features but of course as the years progress, gamers demand more on both the handheld manufacturer and game developers as well. Sony's PSP has attracted those gamers who want superior visual and audio in gaming than that of the DS. Also, its browsing, TV-out and media capabilities have made it even more interesting.

With the rumors that Microsoft is supposedly to release its own version of a handheld console to rival Nintendo and Sony, many are wondering if they are capable of pulling such a thing. Sony's still got baby steps and still have a long way to go to reach Nintendo. But if we take a look at the success of the Playstation 1 and 2, they have what it takes to challenge the long time handheld console giant Nintendo.

The next generation handheld consoles may be years away from release even the product conception may still be in the alpha stage. However, I think it may be a bit difficult for these giant companies to top their own current handheld consoles specifically Nintendo. Knowing the success of Wii, gamers expect more creativeness and more gameplay from them. Sony on the other hand only needs to further innovate and develop a strong series of franchise-building games incorporated in their handheld consoles.

Maybe they should take a long hard look and consideration on iPod Touch's technology. Maybe they should just allow more customizable features to be developed in their consoles. Recently, exclusivity is taking a toll on the public's acceptance of gadgets nowadays.

What I wanted on a handheld console would be iPod Touch's technology. Gameplay plus iPod Touch's technology and Nintendo's innovative dual screen will be a console to reckon with. Nintendo's originality reinvented. With lots of successful franchise games released by Nintendo, don't you think it's time to create new franchise games for the new generation of gamers? Sure they have attracted casual gamers into the world of gaming. But don't ever forget the hardcore gamers who are forever embracing the gaming industry. Squaresoft should also take this one seriously. Improved visuals and audio capability is also a must considering players nowadays demand more since they are exposed to PS3 and XBOX 360's visuals.

Game manufacturers definitely would like to create a handheld console for the ages. But given the ever-changing technology, demands of the gamers and cost of game manufacturing and game development, gameplay is still the most important part of the game and it is what gamers are entertained for.

How to play Real Media files

Ever wondered how to play real media files without installing Real Media Player? Try Real Alternative. Current version is 1.90 and it also includes Media Player Classic which is a player that rivals VLC and GOM Player for that all-in-one video player for all codecs.

Happy Downloading in this last day of 2008! Looking for more blogs to enrich our knowledge in IT!

Cyberlink YouCam and CD-R King PC Camera

At the recent Christmas Party, I received a present which is the CD-R King Webcam. Yey! It's easy to install, fast and smooth. I tried installing an application called Cyberlink YouCam and yeah it worked for my web cam. It's an application for adding custom backgrounds, animations and even face warps for a fun and exciting way of utilizing your web cam.

Anyways, eventhough this PC Camera (as CD-R King has classified it as such) is not on a superb level of quality, it is a bang per buck web cam since it is easy to use and comes with a driver. If you're wondering what its specs are, here it is:

•	Product Name: PC Camera 5.0 Mega Pixels (U2)
•	Software Interpolation: 5.0 Mega Pixels for Image Capturing
•	With Face Tracking, Special Photo Effects, and Photo Frame Feature - DirectX 9.0 needed
•	Face Tracking is available only from 800 x 600 below.
•	Interface: USB 1.1 / 2.0
•	Color Depth: RGB24; I420
•	Frame Rate: 30 fps
•	S/N Ratio: 48dB
•	Gamma: 0.47
•	Grayscale: 8 scale
•	Aperture Range: F2.0 / F3.60
•	Focus Range: 8.0mm to infinity
•	Compatible with Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Live MSN
•	Compatible with XP and Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Ultimate, Vista Black Edition.
•	With snapshot button

You can also find these specs on the official CD-R King Website.

Here is the site where you can find downloads of face warps, emotions and background animations for your Cyberlink YouCam.

To import an Emotion Effect file in YouCam, just click the folder icon and browse thru the DZP files you've downloaded and that's it! You're good to go!

Have fun using the Web Cam!

How to resize a partition in Windows Vista

What's up? While I was having a long hiatus (again!?) in blogging... I'm currently addicted to photography as of the moment so I'll be leaving a digital print here first by finding a digged partitioning tip in Vista. Apparently, Vista does not support Partition Magic so I'll try this link out later at my cousin's Compaq laptop.

Here is the link: How to resize a partition in Windows Vista

Have fun and enjoy the holiday vacation everyone!