According to some media Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City is now available for the PlayStation 3 and PCs as downloadable content (DLC) or a stand-alone physical disc or downloadable content [DLC] from PSN or Games for Windows-LIVE. Episodes From Liberty City includes both The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony.

If you already own GTA IV, you can just buy each add-on individually for $20 and download them  to your PlayStation 3 or PC storage media. GTA IV gamers in Europe will have to wait until this Friday, April 16 to conquer the sprawling streets of liberty city.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is one of the popular PS3 games and maintains itself at the top of the multiplayer charts.  Couple of weeks back, the “Stimulus Package Map” DLC was released for the Xbox 360 version of the game. Now, on May 4th in the US and May 5th in Europe, that DLC is finally arriving for the PC and Playstation 3.

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Finance 101. If you’re forced into carrying a balance on a credit card, paying it off while making purchases can seem like an endless two steps forward. To make matter even worse, the big players have raised minimum payments from 2% to 4% of your balance, meaning you’ll get out of debt much quicker. Here’s how to cope until that day.  The key to paying off a card with a balance is to stop using it, so as to avoid accruing day-to-day interest charges that start the month you can’t pay the balance. For small items of convenience that you know you can pay off by the end of the month, carry a separate “clean card.”

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Ad network and behavioral marketing help you expand your enterprise. Several Ad effectiveness survey have mentioned site sponsorships and pay-per-impression to bolster perception on any product and make public aware about its brand. Ironically, ad networks and pay-per-click-search were identified as the least effective strategy to meet the purpose. What they discovered was search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click and e-mail as the top three most effective tools, while ad networks, video ads were acknowledged as least effective.

If you are not gaining some experience turning that traffic into leads or sales would your campaign be worth attempting again ? May be your choice of message is being problematic for your campaign. Continue reading after the break………………………….

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In our earlier post we discussed Google’s extended domains in of arenas, including internet advertising, operating systems, cellphones, navigation, web applications and Web browsers.  It appears that it is now planning to step ahead in gaming arena.  Google recently hired Mark DeLoura as their “developer advocate” for gaming developments.  We still don’t know what exactly Google plans.

In a gaming site Gamastura, Mark DeLoura mentioned Google has planned to the importance of games as a platform of conveying information. Earlier he was an employee at Sony and it is more likely that he will get it nailed down.

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Farmville is one of the most popular garmes in facebook these days which is developed by Zynga.  It is only available on Facebook and its own domain Farmville dot com.  Either way,  you need to have a facebook account to enjoy this game.  In fact, I am personally addicted to this game.   In Farmville you manage your own farm by rearing animals and growing vegetables and fruits -virtually.  You need to gather XP and level up making farm coins at the same time harvesting crops, animals, and fruits.  The coins you earn will get reinvested to build a big and better farm.

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Streaming radio stations abound but finding them is one thing and enjoying thousands of them with a polished interface and all in one place is another. Antenna is a sleek Adobe Air-based radio tool that makes streaming radio fun.

Many streaming radio applications and web sites look like they were coded a decade or more ago and moth-balled. Antenna’s polished interface makes it easy to select music by country, genre, rating, and more. The interactive map shows you where the station you’re listening to is located or you can click the pink nodes on the map to see stations for that city or region.

Antenna takes the usually unpolished and dull experience of streaming radio and ratchets the presentation and ease of use up to a new level. If you love listening to radio from around your country and the greater world you’ll definitely want to check out Antenna and enjoy your streaming radio in style. Antenna is free and requires Adobe Air.

via lifehacker australia

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To adjust the remote desktop setting in full screen mode in Windows 7 please follow these steps

  1. Start ”Remote Desktop Connection”.
  2. Click on “Options”.
  3. Click on the “Display” tab.
  4. On “Display configuration” settings, you can change the “Remote Desktop Connection” display by moving the slider from  “Small to Large”.
  5. By moving the “Slider” all the way to large, the display settings will automatically set to “Full Screen”.

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TechCrunch has reported that  Facebook has enabled  users to generate  QR codes. It is on the left-hand side under the profile pictures, and enable users to view status messages or profiles from a cell phone. This means Businesses could benefit more as users can check their Facebook profiles  and decrypt the information which serves as ads embedded in the the form of  QR codes with their smartphones.
Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani, in her blog writes, “QR code generator can embed a URL, text, a phone number, or an addressed and ready-to-send SMS message into a QR code. Two things to keep in mind when you’re generating a QR code: the more data you stuff into your code, the smaller its pixels will be, and the more sensitive the scanners will have to be to read it accurately. Second, if you’re encoding a URL, make sure it’s a site that will load well on a mobile phone browser. Here’s more on best practices for using QR codes in your business.”

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All 60 matches of  2010 DLF IPL T20 (twenty – twenty) is being streamed live and free of cost in Youtube from March 12th  to April 25th . Youtube has launched an separate channel -> http://www.youtube.com/ipl, where anyone can log in and view the matches. The previous IPL match highlights are also available as on demand. FYI, live streaming is not available in the USA.

Schedule after the break…..

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