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Diablo 3 - Hell is coming on May 15, 2012

Thu, 17 May 2012 23:04:39 +0000

It's OFFICIAL! Diablo 3 is getting release on May 15, 2012.

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The End of Days approaches…. Diablo III is set to launch on May 15, 2012, and you can be ready to play the minute the servers go live by pre-purchasing the game digitally on Battle.net today. Simply complete the digital pre-sale process, and your account will be flagged for automatic access to Diablo III when it launches at 12:01 a.m. PDT on May 15.

- Blizzard

"Ditch your Facebook, your social life, your sleep, your homework and studies, and your girlfriend for Diablo 3!" - Anonymous

I'm planning on buying my copy asap the moment it comes out!
Anyone else super excited? It's been over 12 years since Diablo2 came out.

- Chiuy

Site Name Change

Thu, 17 May 2012 19:48:36 +0000

We have moved the forum away from w3techie.com onto http://cubicforum.com and are working on re-branded the entire forum as "Cubic Forum" in an effort to provide a more positive experience for all of our visitors. While the moderators and I work hard to moderate all discussions on our forum, the overall value of the content provided at the forum is much lower than that provided at the w3techie blog. This negatively impacted our site during Google's last algorithmic update, and I have chosen to separate the forum from the blog to increase rankings and traffic to both sites.

Any thoughts on this?

Learning HTML, CSS & PHP

Sat, 12 May 2012 07:45:10 +0000

I need to begin learning this as soon as possible. Although I'm still pretty young, I want to get a good head start at this so that once I reach a point where I know how to "do" HTML, CSS and PHP I won't be asking people for too much help. I need to be, in a nutshell more self-reliant. Anyways, where can I learn this the best way? I don't care about how long it take, I have time. I'm willing to buy books as well. Do you guys think For Dummies books will help? If so, can you link me to them?

Here's a site someone showed me: http://html.net/tutorials/

Although I can learn all that stuff on there, I don't want to be staring at my computer screen for hours.

What would you recommend me?

By the way, HI! Haven't been on here in a while, my site needed some attention.

Music Quality

Wed, 09 May 2012 21:08:30 +0000

How do you guys get your music? From some 99 cents MP3 from itunes or do you go out and buy the album and rip it? Or do you download them *gasp*, and if you do download them do you look at the kbps or do you just download the lowest size or fastest one?
I was wondering as I normally aren't big on music, but I love anything quality and a good flac/lossless file will kill an mp3 (maybe not a 320kbps MP3 as it varies player to player).

How do MacBook Pro release cycles work?

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 01:30:36 +0000

I'm buying myself a MacBook pro and I have questions about their release cycles.

When will the new ones come out? Is it better to wait right now and buy when the new models arrive or should I just buy now?
What are the differences with each release cycle? Are the upgrades worth it? (I read some articles about the CPU upgrades but they were comparing the MacBook Air with the MacBook Pro).
What happens to the pricing? How much cheaper do the old versions become? Are the new versions priced the exact same as the apst generation was?

Thanks in advance!

Megaupload was seized by the federal government

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 03:07:35 +0000

So... the owner of Megaupload.com was arrested today and the website was shut down permanently by the federal government because more than $500 million pirated softwares/videos were link on that site.
What do you think about this action?
What is the point of stopping SOPA if they can already do this? SOPA or not, the federal government will always seem to find loop hole around it.
Million of users that uses Megaupload and Megavideo say that this action was unfair.
As stated on Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, and other file hosting service, they are not responsible what type of files that are uploaded onto their service because it is impossible to know what type of files are which. Some files can have different names which are impossible to track down. Megaupload seem to have the most illegal files so the federal government decided to shut it down and arrest the owner.
Was this a justify action?

Why is the federal government so concern about torrent/illegal sharing softwares? Lets face it... (not that I'm saying I am torrenting), torrent actually helps a lot of people. It can help students get software such as Adobe Photoshop and learn for free. I'm sure in the future when they can get a job, they will pay for the legit version.
I'm also pretty sure there are lot more crimes out there beside sharing illegal files... such as inside the federal government iteself where politicians are stealing millions of dollars from people.

The government is so corrupted... even people that are running for president... if they have money, they can run. In the government... it's not run by the average people of the United State, it is run by the most corrupted greed rich people that just wants more power.

- Chiuy

What should I make a article on?

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:19:49 +0000

On my website www.thementalmind.com I have been getting 100-200 views a day and 80% are from one article. I need other good articles to push more views on my website. They have to be somewhat related to Psychology / Human Life / Mental.

Thanks!

Last Purchased Game?

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:30:25 +0000

I just bought Black for the PS2. Looks promising so far.

What was your last purchased game?

The Path of Exile

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:46:54 +0000

Fixing bad sectors on an SSD

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:36:38 +0000

My SSD broke and i got an RMA but I'm having issues with it. I think it has some bad sectors but I have no idea how to fix it.

When I put in in a computer and try to install Windows XP or Windows 7 (or just use the restore disk) it either crashes with a BSOD, freezes up, or can't detect the drive.

I can boot into Ubuntu with a live CD and format the drive, but it's some strange formatting and the windows install disks can't get it to NTFS (actually nothing can get it to NTFS).

I tried plugging it into my PC as a secondary drive to try to format it to NTFS through the partition manager, but it starts formatting and then it hangs and then the drive seems to disappear, until I unplug it, plug it back in, and restart the computer.

Does anyone know of any boot-time tools that I ca use to force a Chkdsk to find and fix bad sectors on the drive?

Google toolbar has been discontinued

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 22:05:05 +0000

Ever since I have gotten back into SEO I have been waiting patiently for the google toolbar to be updated(the one at the time didn't support the newest firefox update).
I just checked today to see if it has been updated and it seems as though they discontinued it, bummer. It was a really good toolbar, my second favorite. http://www.google.com/toolbar/ff/index.html

Dead Space 2 Trophies hack

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:26:35 +0000

From EliteConsoleGamerz - my site =)

No Spam

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:42:27 +0000

Have you guys noticed how greatly the spam here has been reduced?

I think it's the new Question and Answer challenge for bots. The questions are pretty difficult now, but regular visitors should be able to answer them with a visit to Wikipedia or some Google searching.

PS3 VS XBOX

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:33:39 +0000

I choose PS3 because i like the games most of my friends own one. And free internet.

What's the fastest way to bring in more traffic from search engines?

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:53:23 +0000

I say it's by manually chancing meta descriptions for your pages so you can increase your clickthrough rates.

You can increase your CTR very quickly with some catchy descriptive text, and a higher CTR has the potential to drive a lot of new visitors to your site!