Hey, I was just having a look for something new to try game wise and came across Combat Arms, it really looks nice and as it is open beta it means you can all get your hands on it without it costing you anything.

I am downloading the open beta right now so if you are reading this why not come and join me in this sweet looking online FPS.

vBulletin 3.7.0 is available immediately from the Members’ Area to all customers with active vBulletin licenses, and will be offered as the primary choice to those making new purchases.

This release supercedes the 3.6.x branch as our primary product. vBulletin 3.6.x will continue to be maintained for a limited time, as outlined in the end-of-life announcement posted today. We recommend that all customers with active licenses upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0.

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, most of which have already been described in the release announcements for the various pre-release versions, and in the First Look thread that was posted at the beginning of the beta process, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.

PHP and MySQL Requirements

vBulletin 3.7.0 requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 (These are the same requirements as vBulletin 3.6), but we strongly recommend that all customers run PHP 5.2.5 with APC and MySQL 5.0.51 or later. Major performance benefits can be had by taking the recommended route rather than simply satisfying the required versions.

What is a ‘Gold’ Version?

When talking about software, the term ‘gold’ is not related to the color of the application. Rather, it refers to the practise of burning the final version of a software product to a CD-R so that it can be sent to a large scale CD press for large-scale distribution. It is used to indicate that the code is ready for deployment to customers. The official name of this new version is vBulletin 3.7.0.

Installing or Upgrading vBulletin

Anyone who has installed or upgraded any version of vBulletin 3 before will be familiar with the process, but for those who are new to the system, the vBulletin manual has all the details for installing and upgrading.

Template Changes

A large number of templates have been changed when compared with vBulletin 3.6.x. It will be necessary to revert affected customized templates or otherwise carefully integrate the changes into your custom versions or new features and existing functionality will be adversely affected. A complete list of the templates you have customized whose original version has been changed by the 3.7.0 upgrade is available within your Admin Control Panel after the upgrade is complete.

Bug Reports

As with any software, bugs will appear. If you find a problem that you believe to be a bug, please don’t post about it on the forums where the development team may never find your message, but instead use the dedicated bug tracker to make a report that can be tracked through to completion.

Before reporting a bug, please ensure you are able to reproduce the problem on a board using a default, uncustomized style with all plugins disabled.

A few days ago, Google launched a new tool called Google Ad Manager to help website publishers manage their direct ads selling more effective.

If you run a content based website or blog, probably your main source of online revenue will depend on selling ads directly to advertisers . Selling ads directly to advertisers does involve management work and sale process and when your ad space were fully sold out, some advertisers may request to reserve an ad space for them if there is an ad space becomes available in future. If you do all the things manually, it will be time consuming and can easily make a mistake. The Google Ad Manager is seem to be created specifically for helping you solve these problems.

It will help manage your direct ads selling more easier and effective; and most importantly provide fast service to your advertisers. The tool is right for you if you want to consistently make money online by selling ads.

Google Ad Manager

And the good news is, Google Ad Manager isn’t just restricted to Google Adsense network only. You can choose to use any ad network you like.

I know that that it depends on how good you are at something and not just what you do so with taking that in to consideration, what are the better jobs when it comes to opportunities with the web.

I am going to do some research to see what pays well but if you are able to post some f your own knowledge that would be great.

I will post an update when I have some more information regarding my question.

Today I finally went for fully dedicated hosting, I have been waiting before making the upgrade for a while now but it is complete now.

If you have any comments to make regarding dedicated servers please feel free to leave a comment.

I thought it was a good time to upgrade for a couple of reasons, one reason is because I am working on building my client base up now for my web hosting and design and the second reason is that my course will be covering server management and such soon so it will be a great help for that I am sure.

It is only a very basic website guide designed for complete beginners of the whole proxy scene.

If you are interested in checking out the proxy guide I have made then please click the link below.

Proxy Guide

I hope I did a much better job on this one than in my first attempt, please feel free to drop me a comment and let me know what you think of it.

All comments more than welcome!

P.S Thanks to those who helped me out with this one.

Hey all, I have just made my very first glossy image in Photoshop.

As it is my first attempt I would really appreciate any constructive criticism, I did not actually use any tutorials online or anything, I just made what I saw from all the sweet web 2.0 glossy images we see pretty much everywhere.

I love the glossy look but I need to be careful how I use it as because most of you reading this will know, it is easy to over use a new technique you have learned, I remember when I first started using gradients and oh my I went crazy and it was only when it was pointed out to me that I realised how bad things looked.

Anyway, your comments are really welcome on my glossy button.

Are you running a vBulletin forum and want to know how you can get more traffic? Well there is a great product available from vBSEO that will help you rank much better is search engines under keywords that matter.

vBuleetin search engine optimization will help by rewriting all your URL’s to include keywords and also change the extension from PHP to HTML which is always better when it comes to ranking well.

The vBSEO solution enables your vBulletin forum to get more web visitors from all search engines including Google, Yahoo, & MSN Search.

I have been using vBSEO for a while now and I promise it was the best move I ever made.

It costs $150 which may turn you away but when you understand the benefits you will change your mind, after all, if you want to make money then you have to invest it.

Some other great things that come with vBSEO are:

Trackbacks - A Trackback is simply an acknowledgment. This acknowledgment is sent via a network signal (ping) from Site A (originator) to Site B (receptor). The receptor often publishes a link back to the originator indicating its worthiness.

Trackback requires both, Site A and Site B to be Trackback enabled in order to establish this communication. Trackback does not require for Site A to phisically link to Site B.

Pingbacks - A Pingback is also a signal (ping) sent from Site A to Site B. However, it’s also a link. When Site B receives the notification signal, it automatically goes back to Site A checking for the existance of a live incoming link, if it exists, the Pingback is recorded successfully. This makes Pingbacks less prone to SPAM than Trackbacks.

Both sites must be Pingback enabled in order to establish this communication. If a site is Pingback enabled, each time you link-out you will be “pinging” external sites. Pingback requires for Site A to phisically link to Site B.

Refbacks - A Refback is also a link. However in this case, Site A (link originator) does not need to “tell” anything to Site B (receptor). Instead, the receptor Site “discovers” this link immediately after the first web visitor gets to the site by clicking on the link. This is done by analyzing information carried by this web visitor’s browser referer header.

This is an easier method than Pingbacks since the Site originating the link doesn’t have to be Pingback enabled (Posting a link back within any webpage is good enough).

I would suggest really having a look at it because it is more than worth the money.

Check out my forum running it if you like here: Huxley Forums

Or if you want to learn more or get a copy then visit the vBSEO website now!

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I hope you enjoyed this article

I was having a look through Template Monster and noticed that they also did Word Press themes which I thought was great, they have tons to choose from so go and have a browse for yourself and see if there is anything you like.

They are not too expensive either especially when you see the quality of them.

I want to get one for my blog but can’t decide on which one would suit this blog the best.