Friday, August 8, 2008

How Changing Computer Registry Files Will Result in a Faster Computer

What impact will changing computer registry files have on your PC, and is this type of activity beneficial? Let's explore why changing computer registry files might be needed, and the best way to go about it.

If you have a computer which uses the Windows operating system, then it has a registry. When you try to open a program on your PC, the computer accesses the registry to discover where that program is located.

This huge database contains all kinds of files, including references to settings and values the operating system needs to operate properly. It also stores system hardware and ports, as well as programs, document types, property sheet settings and user profiles.

Over time, this process takes its toll on your registry, which ends up getting way too big and bloated. It can make your computer slow to a crawl, including system freezes and crashes, web pages that take forever to load, start ups and shut downs that seem to last an eternity, and even that machine gun sound that comes from your PC.

Changing computer registry files will help reverse this, and the good news is that it is not hard to do. But you have to make sure you do it the right way. If you do not a lot about computers, you should not make an attempt at changing computer registry files yourself, since even the smallest mistake can cause major problems. Instead, you should seek a registry cleaner that will scan your system, and will identify errors that you can delete.


Tuesday, August 5, 2008

5 Quick Tips For Making Gold in WoW - Don't Be Poor Anymore!

Making gold in WoW is something that is really not that difficult to do, but a lot of players struggle to make gold in WoW simply because they do not know how. If you want to be a wealthy character, you have to have a strategy to follow.

These 5 quick tips will help you to make more gold in WoW.

Tip 1: Check the Auction House in the early morning hours. Players typically play from the evening into the night and log off when they get tired. You may do this too, and what is the last thing you do before you log off? Well most players list the items they have collected on the Auction House. Since they are very tired at this point, they are prone to making mistakes. Sometimes, if you are on in the morning, you can acquire things very cheap and relist them the next day for more money.

Tip 2: Sell novelty items on the Auction House. Players save all kinds of bizarre things, like pets or costumes, and they pay high prices for them. Check your AH to see what players if players are buying this type of item.

Tip 3: Sell transmutes. Players with high level alchemy or tailoring can use transmutation to sell profitable items in the auction house. Simply buy the mats, transmute, and sell the result on the AH for a profit. It couldn't be any easier.

Tip 4: Fish for Deviate Fish. The Savory Deviate Delight is a preferred cooking recipe for many characters because of the random effects it has. A stack of Deviate Fish, which is the main component, will sell very well on the Auction House.

Tip 5: Upgrade your bags as fast as you can. The more room you have, the more items you can farm and the more money you can make at the Auction House. Bags can be costly but they are worth it to have. Think of it as an investment.

How to Earn Gold in World of Warcraft

Say World of Warcraft and I am sure everyone knows it. It is the most popular game online. You cannot survive a game in WOW without gold. Therefore you must constantly looking for more ways to earn gold and learn it step by step. At different levels, you get to use different skills to earn gold.

Level 40 is when you have at least 100g in possession after minus the class skills. At least now you can afford your own mount with pride. At the same time, you should take up blacksmithing or even alchemy as your profession to gain more gold.

When you reach level 58, it is advisable for you to go to Outlands. You can start farming for elemental motes. You will need primals for the Burning Crusade and you can get primals through the farming. The Burning Crusade is to make flying mounts easier apart from making more gold than being in Azeroth. However, it is best to stay in Azeroth until you are in level 60. Blizzard has also upgraded the quest money and exp rewards in Azeroth.

When you have reached at least level 60, you can stealth Herod and kill him to grab his loot. However, you will need the Scarlett Key and Enchanting to do it. You can actually try this when you are in the level 50s although it is better if you are in level 60. Once you have killed Herod, grab the loot and disenchant it. You will get at least 2g or Large Radiant Shard. You can sell the shards. Then you can DE the loot. Now, imagine if you have 10 shards, you can have 5 runs in the day and another 5 at night. Just nice for the day and in one week you get at least 140g of gold. Easy task!

Playing World of Warcraft is very addicting to some die hard players. Some people can play during the day and night without having to take a break. However, please play the game with some consideration. You should never strain yourself too much as this is a long term game. You can always pick up the game wherever you left it. When you play it the right way, you will feel the fun and excitement.

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Prevent Alzheimer's - Play Scrabble

Playing Scrabble or other "thinking" board games is being shown by modern medical science to have many health benefits. No matter what your age, "brain sports" such as Scrabble have been proven to be of particular benefit for many aspects of human mental health.

At the simplest and most obvious end of the spectrum, the social aspects of Scrabble and other board games can be a preventative or even a treatment for loneliness, depression and social phobia.

At the other end of the spectrum, a study from the University of Southern California and published in the respected "Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences" shows that mentally stimulating recreational activities in early and middle adulthood is strongly associated with a reduced risk of Alzheimer's Disease in later life.

A similar study by the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Aging in 2002 studied 700 dementia-free people aged 65 and older for a period of 4.5 years. It compared the level of active cognitive activities regularly performed by the study participants, such as card games, checkers, crossword puzzles, reading books and visiting museums. The NIH reached a conclusion that those with the highest levels of cognitive activities in their lifestyle had a 47% reduced risk of future Alzheimer's disease than those who had the least levels of cognitive activities in the lifestyles.

A 2008 study by the University of NSW published in the renown journal "Public Library of Science" adds that, in addition to Alzheimer's Disease, the onset of other degenerative brain diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's Diseases can also be delayed or prevented with these forms of mental activity. It found that a brain region known as the hippocampus, known to shrink with age and particularly with these three degenerative brain diseases, has only half the rate of shrinkage in people engaged in active mental tasks as in those with low levels of mental stimulation.

The evidence suggests a "Use it or Lose it" basis to human cognitive health.

If it is too late for prevention, research from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center that has been published in the "Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry" still has some encouraging news. They have demonstrated that computer and internet based mentally stimulating activities such as games can play a useful role alongside medication in improving the cognitive function of Alzheimer's patients. That is another plus for Scrabble, the various internet versions of which have grown the game into one of the most popular online today.

Irrespective of Alzheimer's Disease or other form of dementia, cognitive decline is a very common phenomena as we advance in years. Medical research teaches us clearly that keeping one's brain active with puzzles, games, study and similar means are an effective method of slowing the rate of age-related cognitive decline. Furthermore, the earlier in life one begins to regularly participate in such active brain games and pursuits, the longer it takes before any cognitive decline even begins.

The lesson is clear. Play Scrabble and other brain-games regularly to enhance and maintain your overall mental health throughout life, and to help prevent Alzheimer's Disease or other forms of age-related cognitive decline in your later life.

THE MASTER MIND: Sudoku - What is it All About Anyway?

THE MASTER MIND: Sudoku - What is it All About Anyway?

Sudoku - What is it All About Anyway?

Sudoku is the addictive Japanese number puzzle craze that is sweeping the world. Sudoku was invented by Howard Garns in 1979 and initially became popular in Japan in 1986 and attained international popularity in 2005. It was also further popularized by Nikoli Co. The puzzle was first called Number Place or Nanpure, a logic-based number placement puzzle.

Sudoku (pronounced soo-dough-coo with the emphasis on the first syllable) is a simple number-based puzzle/game played on a 9x9 grid that is divided into 3x3 subgrids. There is only one rule - fill them in so that in each row, column and small square the digits 1 to 9 appear only once. The fact that you have to get certain that each little 3 x 3 power grid incorporates each number 1-9 only in one case importantly increases the complexity of the puzzle.

Sudoku is a mind game and a puzzle that you solve with reasoning and logic. It is an excellent way for kids to develop their logic skills while having fun, and children as young as 7 or 8 can begin to enjoy them. No mathematics is required to solve the puzzles, just highly addictive blend of logic and lateral thinking. Sudoku game usually lasts for 10 to 30 minutes. It depends on the speed and the capability of the player.

Puzzles have always fascinated children and therefore it is easy for a parent or teacher to introduce the Sudoku jigsaw puzzle books to them. This is a challenge that few children can resist and in no time they would be totally addicted to these wonderful puzzles. Puzzles use a very small, well-defined rule set to solve them. They typically take a matter of minutes to comprehend the basic rules and start working on the puzzle.

Sudoku is rapidly sweeping the United States as well as the world. The common form in the United States consists of an 81-block square, subdivided into nine major blocks containing nine blocks apiece. It could very well kick traditional crossword puzzles out of the puzzle scene. Sudoku number placing games are perfect in working out the mental capacity for anyone interested. Imagine a game that allows you to enjoy and learn something new simultaneously. Sudoku puzzles are no doubt fun in many levels. To prove this, celebrities ranging from the cerebral Carol Vorderman to Big Brother's Jade Goody have testified to its benefits as a mental workout.

If you haven't involve yourself in the world of sudoku, believe me you're losing out a lot of fun, not only in terms of entertainment fulfillment and conquering personal challenges, but the uniqueness of sudoku has been known to be an ideal game to be enjoyed by your family and friends as well.

Age is Telling on Men and Not Women!

There has been a murmur all along going round over the United Kingdom that Bingo games of U.K. are tilted slightly towards the feminine gender. This is not without some reason of course, as the British ladies patronize U.K. Bingo Clubs and exclusive Bingo halls large in numbers during evenings as a routine. This gathering of ladies consists of moms, aunts, cousins, grandmas and youngsters and all of them fancy playing Bingo games as an entertaining and enjoyable pastime.

Some curious online Bingo operators wanted to ascertain the mind-track of the British women folk and in coordination with land Bingo Clubs and neutral agencies, conducted a survey recently. The participants of this big survey - gaining access and getting answers from 10,000 people in U.K. to the survey questions have revealed quite interesting facts.

The essence of the survey is throwing an amazing fact - women are happier and more fulfilled than men. Added information is the number of happier women increases as they get older and older. The main reason attributed by the survey participants is women are capable of handling multi-tasking (an admirable quality needed when you are playing Bingo online - to hear or see the flashing Bingo numbers with one eye, daubing checked numbers, chatting with another member, counting the completed numbers and calculating how much to go to close a full house and adding money for betting at intervals - all of them at the same time) capabilities. This helps them in overcoming any stress or strain in struggles when bringing up their families.

Women are blessed with this ability of focusing on more than one thing at a time and therefore they enjoy life fully with its pleasures and fun - big or small.

On the other hand, men are genetically motivated to act as the breadwinner and all life of them is self-centered in assessing their worth in terms of money and how much they can bring home to win a social status. Nothing could distract them from this, fun or no fun. When they become old and retire from active money earning period, they get depressed of losing self-assumed importance. They tend to worry always that their working life has disappeared. A grumpy old man is thus born.

It is no wonder that grandmas in U.K. are happily playing Bingo games offline and online and grab up fabulous prizes every now and then as we see. What they should do is wake up their partners too and club them to play enchanting Bingo games along with. This way both ends are benefited - the Bingo Game Industry and disenchanted old men to get rejuvenated as well.