Turtle Beach - Article

Turtle Beach is one of the most known headset creaters around the world. Turtle beach company was founded in 1985 by Roy Smith and Robert Hoke.Turtle beach, do not only make headset. They are also well know for their sound cards and other products. Their first product was a graphical editing that supported the Ensoniq Mirage Sampling keyboard. Mirage keyboard was one of the first Sampling devices that made it possible for musicians to play realistic sounds.

In 1988 they started working on their first hardware product, a hard disk based audio editing system. After a few years working hard they got finished, and called the product : 56k Digital Recording System, which was realesed in 1990. 56k digital recording system was based on a chip called motorola 56000 DSP. The 56k recording system was the first product in the world who  actually played, excactly the sounds it recorded, and therefor was populare among many radio stations.

In 1990 they started creating theyr first Pc - soundcard. This product was called "Multisound".

Christmas - Article

We celebrate christmas because birth of Jesus. Christmas is higly rated as the biggest celebration, and it have been celebrated for a long time. This celebration is generally on 25th December, but some countries celebrate it on the 24th. There are millions of people around the world who is following this old tradition. This tradition is also christian, but it have made it through so several non-christians celebrate christmas too. 

On christmas day you are supposed to go to church, give gifts to friends and family, maybe to a homeless man/woman? Spend time with family and decorate your house with christmas decorations, like angels, chistmas trees, pictures and santas! Most people make a very good dinner on this special day, like turkey! The santa claus may be the most recognizable figure ever. 

YoTrol Website - Review

Okay, to start this of with, i need to say that i'm often on the site called YoTrol. So this website is all about laughter. I don't know if there are user submitted pictures or not, but one thing is for sure, it's awesome pictures. So, the website is putting some funny images or Gif's out there everyday to keep us motivated to click into the site. So i guess that the site earns some money, if they haven't, it would be shut down i guess.. There is only one bad thing about the website following me; if you go into one and one picture, and not the home page, you will have to share the picture before you can look at it yourself. And i don't think that is good at all, so that is the worst thing about the website. If your viewing the homepage, you can look at many pictures at the same time without sharing a thing :)

Another site says that YoTrol is only 32% safe? I can't really tell why.. Umm, but the popularity is very high, and if the site was unsafe, i don't think so many people would have comed to it!

I will give the site a rating of: 7/10. Personal choise.

PopCorn - Article

Popcorn also known as popping corn is a type of corn that puffs when heated.  Popcorn was first discovered for thousands of years ago by the Guatemalans. They have found corns from 1900s which has a color of purple. During the great depression popcorn were sold for about 5-10 cents per bag and after that became populare. During World War II the sugar productions became low and the Americans had to eat like 3 times more popcorn tan they had before.

Popcorn are often solf in theaters and are salted with melted butter on and has been sold since 1914 like that. Popcorn are not recommended for children under four because of the risk of choking.

Jagex - Article

Jagex -

Jagex is a wordwide, british gaming company made in java. The owner "Paul Gower" Said earlier that Jagex stands for " Ja"va "G"aming "Ex"perts. Theyr most populare game was made in 1999 and published in 2001 as "Runescape." With runescape they have made alot of money by making it possible to pay for extra features (Membership)  Jagex has over 450 employes and was founded in 1999 by Andrew Gower and Paul Gower. In 2011 they earned  £18,794,000.

News

In theyr earlier try of getting rid of bots, and other cheaters with something called Bot Nuke where they ban alot of bots in one day, they lost alot of money because some of the bots used stolen creditcards, and so Jagex had to refund the membership of the following victim. Therefor they made a game called Solomon's and squeel, to make up after the money after theyr last Bot nuke.

Logitech - Article

Logitech International S.A. is a world wide producer and devoloper of some popular computer accessories, like headsets, keyboards, mice, microphones, game controllers and webcams. Their headquarter is found in Romanel-sur-Morges, Sweitzerland. Logitech also makes home and computer speakers, headphones, wireless audio devices, as well as audio devices for MP3 players and mobile phones. Logitech is a big company, and the number of employees is acctually 11.000! This company was founded Oktober 2, 1981.

Official Website: Logitech

A list of their products:

• PC keyboards, mice, gamepads, and trackballs (wired and wireless models).
• QuickCam webcams including the first webcam to support 1080p video on Skype.
• PC speakers, including stereo as well as 2.1 and 5.1 channel surround sound systems.
• Logitech G-Series PC gaming hardware.
• PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360 and PSP gaming hardware, including game controllers, joysticks, keyboards and racing wheels.
• Headphones, headsets and desktop microphones.
• iPod, PSP, MP3 player and mobile phone accessories. Including iPod and PSP speaker docks.
• Keyboard Cover for iPad 2 and iPad 3
• Harmony universal remotes.
• Squeezebox wireless music systems and adapter.
• io2 Digital Writing System.
• Ultimate Ears headphones and in ear monitors.
• Logitech MOMO Force steering wheel
• Logitech Alert 750e Outdoor Master System security cameras 
• Logitech Alert 750i Indoor Master System security cameras 
• Logitech Attack 3 & Extreme 3D Pro flight simulator joysticks
• Logitech Washable Keyboard K310
• Logitech Unifying receiver
• Logitech UE Boombox
• Logitech UE Mobile Boombox
• Logitech UE 9000 Noise-Cancelling Headphones
• Logitech UE 900 Noise-Isolating Earphones
• Logitech UE 6000 headphones
• Logitech UE 4000 headphones
• Logitech Touchpad T650
• Logitech Touchpad T620
• Logitech Zone Touch Mouse T400

Netflix - Article

Netflix is a online internet streaming website where you can search for alot of movies and watch them without downloading them. It was founded in 1997. The public company have 2348 full-time workers.  Their movies have been watched over a billion times now, and that is starting to get pretty intense. You pay an accurate amount of money each month to watch so many movies and series you want, no more cost than the monthly outcome of yours.


Area served:

• USA
• Canada
• Mexico
• South America
• United Kingdom
• Republic of Ireland
• Nordic countries except Iceland

Their headquarter is in Los Gatos. They launched their company international in 2010 too. 

Official Website: www.netflix.com

Temple Run - Article

Temple Run

Temple run is a world wide app, founded in 2008 by Keith Shepard an Natalia Luckyanova. (Wife and Husband) 
In temple run you are taking controll over a explorer who is supposed to steal a idol from a temple, but thats not to easy when your chased by the "Demonic Monkey." In the game you are supposed to get as much cash as possible. With the cash you can buy, powerups, speed ups and even a new skin. The game is endless though so you can only expect getting alot of cash. The game is available for the iOS and android systems, by downloading from the app store for free. 





GamePlay

The game centers alot of explorers, where you choose one to play with and you are supposed to get as much cash as possible before you either get wrecked by something, falling down or getting attacked by the "Demonic Monkeys" who will eat you alive. The "demonic Monkeys" are supposed to chase the player out of the temple (Therefor "Temple run") You got three diffrent moves. The first one is jumping over something on the ground. the secnd one is to slide under something and the third one is to turn "Left" Or "right" when able to. 



The characters controllable by the player are:

Guy Dangerous, "just your average explorer" (default explorer)Scarlett Fox, a "Cunning" escape artistBarry Bones, a city cop "with an attitude"Karma Lee, a Far East explorerMontana Smith, the "second greatest" explorer everFrancisco Montoya, a conquistadorZack Wonder, a football star


The only diffrence between the Controllable persons are the grunts and sounds. 

There is no finish line nor are there any levels. The only objective of the game is to run as far as possible, and get lot of cash.
 
Their score is determined by their distance, plus five times the number of coins collected, plus 600 times the Ordinal Number of the total number of coins divisible by 100.

Powerups:

Mega Coin (worth 150 coins)Coin Magnet (multiplies coin value by 3)Invisibility (lasts 30 seconds)Boost (for 750 meters)Some 2-point coins begin at 1000 metersSome 3-point coins begin at 2000 meters

Pikachu - Article

Pikachu is an anime character from the famous game series, Pokèmon. Pikachu is probably the most known pokèmon ever, that's because it's the main character's pokèmon. The little pokèmon is all yellow, almost. It's also of the type thunder from the game. Pikachu is designed by a japanese designer called Ken Sugimori. In the international pokèmon index, or Pokèdex, it's number #25.  The pokèdex also says it's a mouse pokèmon.

Pokèmon is a very wide theme. You can buy Pokèmon cards, books, mangas, games and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri.

Pikachu is a mouse character with a thin yellow fur. It is a Electricity-Type pokèmon, it shoots out thunder from the cheeks. It is 1.04 feet tall too. Pikachu evolves to Raichu when a "Thunderstone" item is used on him.  

Santa Claus - Article

Santa Claus

Santa claus, also known as Saint nicholas, father christmas or simply "Santa", is a historic character who is said to bring gifts to houses where good kids live. He is said to come at midnight (24 december "Christmas Eve") when everyone is sleeping. The modern santa claus is made from the dutch word "sinterklass". Sinterklass comes from dutch, christian mythelogi.

Santa Claus is often drawned as a fat man, clothed with red, and have a white beard. 

Since 1820 they have believed that Santa lives on the north pole, with lots of green elfs, and nine magical reindeers. 

Since 1934, when the song "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" was made they have believed that he makes a list where he categorizes the childrens by theyr behavior ("Naughty" or "Nice"), and to deliver presents like candy and toys to the good ones, and coal to the naughty ones. He is supposed to give all the "Nice" kids in the world presents, before the morning after. The reason he is so fast is because of his magical elves (Who makes the presents) And his reindeers. 

Santa claus is often seen, climbing through small chimneys. This is a tradition, often used by Europe. 

Family Barn - Article

Family barn is a flash game. It is a farming game, you can farm wheat and alot of different crops and stuff. You can milk cows, make cheese and alot more! It's very fun. It's easy to get addicted to it, so watch out! You can get coins by doing all the farm stuff, and the coins are very important, because you will need them when your buying crops, trees and animals.

There's also tasks, or missions if you want to call it that, too. You can also earn coins by doing them. An example on a task is: "Produce 2 cheese". By doing this task you will earn coins, expirience, stuff and sometime a special type of cash called Ranch cash. Another task could be something simple like buying an item.

These Ranch coins, they are special. They are hard to get, and if you want to get alot of them you will need to pey real money to get it. You get only 1 each time you level up to the next stage. And that takes time.

Right now on GamesGames it is the most popular game. Maybe it is that on several game sites, but i don't know.

If you want to play the game: Family Barn

Icy Tower - Article

Icy tower is created by a swedish game maker team called "Free Lunch Games". This game is a very popular free game, it's also singleplayer. Maybe in the future they upgrade it to multiplayer? It was first released December 22. 2001. This is a platform game that is set in a tower and the player's goal is to climb as high in the tower as possible without falling off the bottom of the screen. The time is going faster so you nee to hurry up, till the end you will lose if you like it or not. By default, the player controls the character using a keyboard. 


The gameplay is good, you are supposed to get high in the tower. To get higher up you will need to jump from floor to floor by using your spacebar to jump and keybord to controll left and right. If you jump high you can earn combo, and combo equals more points.
The goal for the game is to reach the highest possible score, you can get score from high climbs and good combos!

The horizontal length of each floor depends on the player's progress in the tower, the version of the game, and a random factor. Their arrangement is entirely random. Their appearance changes every 100 floors until floor 1000.

Genre:

• Action
• Platform

System requirements:

• 5 MB HDD
• 16 MB RAM
• 200 MHz CPU

Asus - Article

Asus is a Multinational Computer hardware, and electronics company which has theyr headquarters in Taiwan. They produce diffrent desktops, laptops, mobile phones, monitors, motherboards, servers, tablet PCs and videocards. Asus, is mainly selling theyr own creations, but they are also producing for other manufactuers like Apple, Dell and HP. Asus is worlds fifth largest PC vendor by 2011 sales. After (Hp, Lenovo, Dell and Acer.) Asus Company has a total value of  US$1.3 billion.



About the name:

Asus comes from the name "Pegasus" (The winged horse of greek mythology) Only the last 4 letters where used  (Asus) because they wanted a high position in alphabetical lists.


Asus was founded by T.H. Tung, Ted Hsu, Wayne Hsieh and M.T. Liao in 1989. All four worked previously at acer company. Theyr first real creation was produced in 2005 which was a TLW32001 model.

Angry Birds - Article

Angry Birds

About:

Angry birds is a video game made by Rovio. It was published, December 2009 and since has sold about 12 million copies, and 250 million downloads (2011). Rovio did not just make the original “Angry Birds”. He also made for example the second one in the series called “Angry Birds Seasons” Which contains some holiday-Themed maps. The game was originally made for Apple’s iOS, Now in 2012 you can play “Angry Birds” on almost everything…

About the game:


In the game, players use the slingshot to shoot birds at pigs on different structures. The less birds you use, the more score you will get. Some of the birds has different special attacks, like exploding when clicking on, or turning into three birds before landing which cases more damage        , in several situations.
Summary:

Angry birds is a game made by Rovio in December 2009. The game has sold 12 million copies. Angry birds is a game where you use a slingshot, to shoot birds, on pigs. Some of the birds has special features, and are more dangerous than others.



Angry Birds Series:




Angry Birds (Published December 2009)
Angry Birds Season
Angry Birds Rio (Published March 2011)
Angry Birds Space (Published March 2012)
Angry Birds Star Wars (Published October 2012)

Ellen MacArthur - Article

Ellen MacArthur is now an retired British sailor. In her days, back in 2005 she started her journey to achieve one thing, sail around the world alone! So she sat out on the big journey alone trying to beat the old record sat by Francis Joyon. Ellen knew it was dangerous, if something happend on the boat, there was no one else than her self who needed to take care of it. When she was out, she couldn't sleep for any longer than 20 minutes a time. What a pressure that would have on her body. She wasn't able to take any shower either, but she didn't  mind at all, there was no one around who could tell her that she smelled bad. After 71 days, 14 hours and 18 minutes she came back to the coast of France. When she crossed the finish line, she felt like just falling asleep right on the ground. Sore hands which was full of salt and she was very, very exhausted.

"When i crossed the finish line I felt like collapsing on the floor and just falling asleep. I was absolutely over the moon. The whole voyage has been draining, and there are a lot of things going around in my head. But it's great that i can finally switch my brain off and relax in the company of others, which i've really missed." -Ellen MacArthur.

Because of this great achievment of her, she was given the title of the queen: "Dame Commander of the British Empire" which was huge, and she was the youngest person to achiev this, she was only 28 years old.

Ellen grew up in a part of England, Derbyshire, she was inspired by her aunt in age of four, when she took Ellen for a boat trip. Since then her life has been focused on sailing and contests. In the age of eight, Ellen had been sparing alot of money to buy her own boat, but when she came last in a sailing contest at school 2 years later, she was so upset and she promised herself that she was not going to lose any sailing contest again, and she was right.

Skype - Article

Skype is a internet based software which you can use for free to call someone. The person you are calling will need to be logged on to recive the call. If you pay real money you can call normal cellphones too, but most people prefers to use it for free. 

The program was first released in 2003 by Estonian Devolopers. They also originally devoloped Kazaa. The project was funded by two guys, the first one came from Sweden, and the 2nd one came from denmark. It grew and achieved over 600,000 registered users. After this Microsoft bought the platform for $8,5 billion dollar!

Skype has a amazing security system, it's impossible to break it. You register and you don't need to worry about anyone that will hack you or anything like that, it won't happen. The software has an encryption system  for security. Every user will have an unique username so other people can contact them with that username. Skype also have some unique emoticons which is really cool.

Skype supports calls with up to 25 people at one time. They also supports video calls, screen sharing and group video calls up to 10 people at once. But for the group VIDEO calls you will need to have premium which you can buy from Skype.com

Official Website: http://www.skype.com

Meme - Article

Meme

A meme can be a picture or something to say, like "True Story" or "*TROLLFACE*". This was originaly created by Richard Dawkins which made a book with memes in, called "The Selfish Gene" He was inspired by other people. It is sad that the original creator is so unknown because these memes are so, so popular nowadays. People make animations, comics, websites fully with this.

Memes has been taken to the next stage by the World Wide Web (WWW, Internet). Suddenly alot of people started using it. After awhile your just saying like TrollFace automaticly because everyone knows what you mean with it!

Here are a collection of some internet memes: 

MiniCraft - Article

General about Minicraft

Minicraft is a 2D top-down action game developed by Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft. It was created in 48 hours as a part of the 22nd Ludum Dare competition, which requires game developers that enter the contest to make a game in that time frame based on a theme that is released just before the time starts. For this Ludum Dare, the theme was "Alone". The game was released on December 19, 2011. The mission in this game is to kill the "Air Wizard". To do that you first have to make weapons and make some food. Wood is one very important thing to have, its easy to get and is very useful. When starting you will be gain a random generated world. Persson tweeted on December 26, 2011, that he was working on Minicraft 2, but was planning on changing that interim title. When someone asked what type of game it would be in, he responded ("action roguelike with crafting and modifiable terrain."). On January 1, 2012, Persson announced via Twitter that the new title for the second to Minicraft was to be MiniTale. He also obtained "the .com and .net" URLs with the title to host the game on.

Energy bar

The energy bar is used when chopping wood, killing monsters etc.. When eating apples you will be gain more energy.

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Mining stone, iron etc..: Stone can be found over the whole world. But to find iron you will need a lantern. The reason you need a lantern is because the only place you can find iron is down stairs. (Stairs can be found randomly over the whole world).

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Farming wheat: To farm wheat you will need a shovel, hoe. Use the shovel to get seeds and the hoe to make the farm. (With the wheat you can make bread) 4 wheats = 1 bread.

Norwegian Nature - Short Article

The nature in norway are beautiful. I live in norway and i have an uncle which has a side job, photographing! So, i've started slow and take some pictures of the nature too, but i have alot to learn. I will show you some pictures my uncle have made later in this post.

Norway is filled with alot of mountains, rivers, forests, animals, birds, the coastline and alot of beautiful nature. There are also some big glaciers in Norway, we have found mammoths, acctually 20 of them! This is very special, there aren't a lot of countries which have found something that special. 

Picture Source: http://kjartantrana.blogspot.no (My Uncles Nature Blog)

Zoomballoons - Article

Zoomballoons

Zoomballoons is a free online game, its based on that you are a guy and you are supposed to shoot down zombies flying in balloons. When you shoot down a balloon they drop coins. You can use these coins on different upgrades like speed and power. There are also waves, it gets harder for each wave you make it through. I didn't play through the whole game so i don't really know if there's a ending. It would be awesome if it was endless.

The graphics wasn't bad at all, it was nicely done and all the animations were awesome. There is one thing i need to say, when the story goes on, the text is a little too slow. When i was reading it, i was like waiting for it to pop up more text. This is a game which eats some of your spare time, but it will become boring if you play it for longer times at once.  

Go and try it yourself: ZoomBalloons

Instagram - Article

Instagram is a very new and popular Android and Iphone app. You are able to take pictures, share them with friends, fans and the whole community. Your pictures will get promoted by some "Hashtags" which will lead you into a new page filled with pictues with the same hashtag.

This app have 80 million registered members at the moment. This is insane! It was published in Oktober 2010. The app was managed by 13 people, but in 2012 facebook bought the app and the employers for one billion dollar! Facebook and Instagram now are mixed together so you are able to share the photos to facebook too. This is also a great way to get a new profile picture.

Their homepage is: www.instagram.com
Creator: Burbn, inc.
Current owner of the app: Facebook inc.
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