Top 10 Video Games Characters With Real-Life Prototypes

Today, game developers try to do everything possible to make their project successful, popular and really epic. Much money is always spent to create realistic surroundings, characters, unbelievable graphics, and stunning visual effects. The frameworks of graphic reality are incredibly expanded today, but anyway, real people are often used as prototypes of this or that video game character. Every new blockbuster brings us familiar faces, and it’s quite easy to guess what celebrity has become its real-life prototype.

Here they are: the top 10 most popular and well-known video games protagonists and characters whose appearance is easy to recognize and find among our favorite actors and models. They look very alike, don’t they?

Top 10 Deadliest Hobbies

Thrill seeker. Adrenaline junkie. Idiot.

There are many names that can be given to people who have deadly hobbies. These people can’t be content with normal hobbies, like hockey or crocheting. They have to push themselves to the limits of what their bodies can withstand. And they could potentially kill themselves while doing it. A single misstep with equipment or your own control, and you could go splat real fast. These hobbies are the world’s deadliest, ranked according to how statistically deadly they are.

How Can I Make Ctrl+Alt+Del Go Right to the Task Manager in Windows 7?

Years of Windows use has Ctrl+Alt+Del ingrained in your muscle memory, but in Windows 7 and up it no longer takes you directly to the Task Manager but the Welcome Screen instead. What to do? The solution is as simple as learning a new trick.

How to Make the F8 Key Work for Safe Mode in Windows 8

Booting into safe mode became non-trivial in Windows 8, especially if you were accustomed to the old F8 shortcut. Here is how to get F8 working again.

Minimalism, A New 'Talk Of The Town'

Nowadays, design blogs and graphic magazines are inundated with a special buzz-word ‘minimalism’. Bloggers and designers of both graphic and web origin have already written a hundred articles about minimalism and the importance of minimal design. I myself have amused many readers with my blog post Minimal is the New Sexy just a few months ago. Minimalism is such a strange design style that when even a simplest man looks at it, he cannot help himself but to praise its beauty and cleverness. However, I have always been of the view that it is certainly not due to all the special ‘talk’ about minimalism that amuses its onlooker. Then why do we find minimalism so creative?

Of all the people who might be thinking on these lines, I have tried to jot down some points that I mustered up through my observation and experience. So whenever your mind (or someone else’s tongue) asks you about minimalism, just reply keeping the following points in mind.

40+ Elegant WordPress themes

Everyone loves free stuff. I have researched over the Internet to find the best looking free wordpress themes to share with you. So here is a wonderful list of 40+ elegant free wordpress themes. Click on the Name or Screenshot to see demo, Download link and more details about the theme.

Make WordPress, A Professional Website

Not every website owner has the ability to throw a huge amount of money at their site to make it appear more professional yet it is not easy to make professional wordpress website either. So, one need to be well informed and well up to date with the new changes that have occurred in WordPress and in Web design techniques over the time. Attempting to create a professional appearing site without experience can often be more difficult than thought. Without a budget, resources and manpower, it is important to find cost-effective website development tools to design the ultimate site.

30+ New Useful WordPress Needs

As an experienced WordPress user, we keep ourselves updated with the development of the core, plugin releases and useful WordPress tips and tricks shared by developers and enthusiasts. In today’s post, we’d like to share with you updated WordPress tips and tricks and plugins that are interesting and useful. Without further ado, here’s another 30+ More Useful WordPress Tricks & Hacks.

Awesome WordPress Themes For Any Video Blog

Video blogging (or vblogging) is definitely nothing new, but the chase towards this type of blogging has been significantly increasing. With the demands, there comes the supply; WordPress theme designers are beginning to develop themes specific for video bloggers and lately some among the top tiers are releasing nice premium themes for video blogging.

40+ Most Needed WordPress Tweeks

Have you ever came across a WordPress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 WordPress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted WordPress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.

WordPress for Beginners: Power charge your site for SEO

Whenever you enter a query in a search engine and hit 'enter' you get a list of web results that contain that query term. Users normally tend to visit websites that are at the top of this list as they perceive those to be more relevant to the query. If you have ever wondered why some of these websites rank better than the others then you must know that it is because of a powerful web marketing technique called Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Don’t expect silver bullets, I have none. If your blog content or the product/service you sell is not useful for your visitors, doing SEO won’t take you far. Fine-tuning your WordPress site will work only if your content is good. Consider this a disclaimer before going further.

How to Add the Facebook Like Box / Fan Box in WordPress

Facebook like box also known as Facebook fan box has become a must have element for many website. It allows website owners to provide their users with an easy way to join their facebook community and get updates right in their Facebook news feed. Recently one of our users brought it to our attention that we have not covered the topic of how to add the facebook like box in WordPress. In this article, we will show you how to add the facebook fan box in WordPress.

The Top 25 Fun Google Tricks

Maybe to help dispel the wacky notion that geeks are boring, or maybe to prove that Search isn’t all work and no play and Sergei and Larry are by no means dull boys, Google every-once-in-a-Google-Moon leavens their spam-fighting and user experience-enhancing with some honest-to-goodness, good clean Fun Google Tricks.

How to Autopost Your Blog to Facebook

Writing a blog is great fun. Getting people to read your blog can be a bigger challenge. One of the easiest ways to share your latest blog post is to notify your friends and followers on social networking sites.

If you have a Facebook account, you can use the NetworkedBlogs app from third-party developer Ninva to automatically import your blog posts to the Facebook notes section of the site.

Learn How To Make Free Memes Easily

 

Ever thought about how funny it would be to create your own memes with your wit and humor? There is no need to fantasize about this anymore.

Broken Link Checker WordPress Plugin

 

This broken link checker plugin was developed by Janis Elsts, It will monitor and check your wordpress blog posts, comments and other contents for broken links and missing images, and notify you if any are found.

5 Effective Ways to Build Organic Backlinks

 

Here are 5 Effective Ways to Built organic backlinks quickly. Apart from writing quality content and promoting it through social media, it’s necessary to have some quality backlinks to your blog. After the recent search algorithm changes by Google, many blogs are punished for several reasons. To stay safe and ahead of your competitors, it’s necessary to take some action and building organic backlinks will surely help.

This article is written after getting inspired from a video by Matt Cutts, the head of Google SPAM Team. He clearly mentioned some good points on how to build organic backlinks.

Optimize Your Blog Post Titles for Better SEO

The reason most of the blogger templates aren’t that SEO friendly because templates available in Blogger were designed long ago and haven’t been updated, probably since 2007, since then Google SEO algorithm has changed a lot and as being on blogger you don’t want to be left long away, to keep up with the competition making your Blogger template SEO friendly is very important and so this small SEO related article will help you to leave your competitors behind.

If you are also using a template from Blogger then you need to make some changes on it to fit your needs and also to fit the search engine needs. Normally search engine don’t focus on the markup importantly but it’s a good thing to change it to something user friendly.  What Blogger templates like ‘Simple’, Travel’ etc. have h1 tag as it’s Blog title, which is normal. But the Post title is not okay that all, it is in an h3 tag, for many reasons your blog might not being shown up in the search results and this is on of those reasons.

6 Essential Pinterest Integration Tips for Bloggers

 

The internet has fallen in love with Pinterest, and what’s not to love? This fast-growing online destination offers a smorgasbord of images to appease the visually-crazed, and is just social enough to make it a great networking tool. Thanks to the combination of these two elements, Pinterest has become an object of interest to bloggers far and wide.

Even if you don’t have a presence on Pinterest, there is a great chance that your audience does. This means you at least need to give it consideration. For those who are ready to go, the following tips will explain how you can effectively integrate Pinterest with your blogging efforts.

How to Add Multiple Post Thumbnails / Featured Images in WordPress

 

Recently one of our readers asked if there was a way to add multiple post thumbnails or featured images in a WordPress post. By default, most WordPress themes come with built-in support for featured images which makes adding post thumbnails really simple. However when working on custom projects, you might need to add a second featured image to a post. In this article we will show you how to add multiple post thumbnails / featured images in WordPress.

How to Install WordPress Locally on Mac using MAMP

Recently we published an article about how to install WordPress on your Windows computer using WAMP. As expected, we started to receive emails from our readers asking how to install WordPress in their Mac computer. Actually it is quite similar to Windows and in this article we will show you how to install WordPress locally on Mac using MAMP.
MAMP is an easy-to-install compilation of Apache, MySQL, and PHP bundled together for Mac. Using MAMP you can install WordPress on your Mac and test drive it. Most WordPress developers and designers use MAMP on their Mac for development purposes. However, your website on MAMP is only visible to you. In order to make it live you would need WordPress hosting.

How to Show and Hide Text in WordPress Posts with the Toggle Effect

Sometimes you may want to hide parts of your post or page content to give that article a compact look and allow users to click and see more information if they want. This technique is famously known as the toggle effect which is used across numerous websites in various different ways. The hidden content becomes visible when a user clicks on a specific link or button. This show/hide toggle effect is extremely handy for a FAQ page. You land on a page where you see bunch of questions listed. When a user clicks on the question, the answer expands right below. When you click on the question again, the answer will collapse. In this article we will show you how to show and hide text in WordPress posts and pages with the toggle effect.

How to Create an Image Gallery in WordPress

 

So you have bought a shiny new digital camera and want to share your pictures from last vacation on your WordPress blog? Great idea, but how do you add your images in a professional looking grid-like gallery view? Most folks start searching for WordPress plugins that will help them create a gallery in WordPress, but you don’t really need a plugin for this. WordPress has a built-in gallery feature that a lot of users don’t know about. In this article, we will show you how to create an image gallery in WordPress. The goal is to add your images in a gallery that looks nice and clean. We will also show you how to open your images in a carousel or lightbox view to create an immersive full-screen experience.