Kabam: This Means War

Hello all, this is my second day on This Means War by Kabam. At first day review, I felt it similar to Clash of Clans game play. With same system implements it looked identical. But today, I tried attacking few bases through multiplayer battle. I was surprised that Kabam has decided to make the warfare to the another level. While I attack bases, even my base is exposed to opponent attack. The It drew some imaginary battle line from which we could deploy our forces for attack. The moment when the forces reach the opponent base. A wave of enemy attackers launch attack over my base. Wow! It risk my resources to be plundered by the opponents. It looks like war between neighbors. Still, it is a war game.

One big difference when it comes to raiding opponent bases is that, we can redeploy forces fallen in the battle. So we get unlimited supply of troops but limited by same set of units. Example, if you have one rocket trooper in your whole attack unit. You can deploy back only one rocket trooper for the whole battle. Well, lets see how this game play go after each upgrade.

With Command center upgraded to level 3, I was able to join alliance. The difference is not a big deal. As usual, we can send or request reinforcements from our alliance member. Also some parts could be requested from your alliance. But for now, I been raiding enemy bases like mad.

Unfortunately, I found my base attacked and a shield protects my base right now. Let see what happens next.

Kabam: This Means War

This is my first day playing 'This Means War' by Kabam. Google Play recommended to install this game. Out of curiosity I installed it. Basically, it is action strategy based game. So far, the tutorial were based on Single player mission. Nothing much on the part of Multiplayer as I had in Clash of Clans, Invasion, Royal Revolt...

Basic Terminology:

The intro part has exposed towards the basics of the gameplay. And for the purpose of this post, I will list few of them.

Power Cells: These are the elements which could be bought for some real money. Like I would be diamonds or gems for real money in other games. No surprise, you have to make deal with Kaboom for the speed ups.

Engineer's Tent: Though it may spell and pronounce as Engineers, it would simply call them builders employed in your base. At first, you would be kept incharge of a war base as usual. Nothing new on this part. Number of Engineer Tent decide how many constructions could be made simultaneously.

Command center: It is the heart of the base. It decide how many building and types of such building shall be present in your war base.

Supply collector and Storages: To be frank, I really wonder who send supply 24x7 in this game. But you will receive supply relentlessly. In this place, you could collect all your supply that have reached your base.

Red Mercury Collector: This is the vital resource of your base. Sorry, this is want the intro said about the resource. So I hope it will be the vital resource to reckon with.

Army Camps: It is the base where your units stay all day. The units must be produced from a separate barracks.

Gameplay:

Basically, I started the game under a shield. I lose shield if I enter multiplayer battle. Once I lose my base to an attack, then I gain back the shield. Feels similar to Clash of Clans where people farm with TownHall outside the walls. But for now, I would not make a flat assessment.

There are three types of game who can play. Single player mission where you fight against a Major ranked officer, one against friends and last one is multiplayer battle.

Gameplay is all about building troops and fill the army camps. Then launch attack! You end up looting resources from other bases if you win the fight. 

Overall, my first day at 'This Means War' feels like I am in another replica of Clash of Clans. The setup seems similar to that. Lets wait some time, to know more about the multiplayer feature of this game. If my base could be attack even if I am offline then it would be exact replica of Clash of Clans. So stay tuned to know more about this game.

How did I fix dead Lenovo Laptop

I was happy with my Lenovo T series laptop which is working perfect with no flaws since 2003. LOL! Even I forgot the model name. That old is the laptop about which I gonna talk about. With arduous service, the laptop died 2 weeks ago. The death was without any symptoms. A sudden death! Nothing but a black screen gazed at me. So thought of buying a new laptop. Still, to try my luck, I browsed few forum regarding my issue (though I didn't post my question or problem). I found a crazy bit of information which was weird at first. But works actually.

The info was how to reset your apparently dead Lenovo laptop. The information was quite simple yet effective:

1. Unplug your AC input cable and battery from the laptop
2. Then press power button 10 times each with 1 second intervals. Then press and hold the power button for 30 seconds.
3. Insert your battery and boot your laptop as usual. It will work!
4. Remember, do not plug in your AC adaptor cable before booting the laptop. If you do and your laptop dies, repeat from step no. 1.

As stated above, the steps seems weird. But to my surprise it did work! For those who use Lenovo laptops must remember these steps if you find your laptop not responding to the boot request.

And for your information, I forgot the source of the website forum. I just desperately tried these steps. It worked. So writing about it as it may help others. Once I get to know the real source, I will post them. If you know, let me know! If your laptop didn't get fixed by following the aforesaid steps, kindly leave a comment about your problem.

How to extent Wifi coverage with second router?

With those who use wooden construction material can move on with this blog post. But for those who still complain about the black spot or patchy WiFi connection inside the house, You are in right place. I am not going to present with some cut and paste article from another website. All I am going to present is my personal experience of setting up WiFi connection and extending it to increase the coverage area. Technically, to fill black spots where you won't find signal with your existing Wifi router.

To begin with you need basic things. Before getting started, have the following ready:

1. Two WiFi routers

2. Lengthy CAT 6 cable

3. PC/Laptop to connect and configure routers

4. Some patience and time. Most of you reading this article may try it for first time. So if you do fail in your first attempt, congrats! Be proud that you started learning something new!

Alright! Now let's get started with our setup.

1. First of all, decide upon which router will be your primary. It should the router which gets internet directly either through a modem or wired connection. Fix this modem as your primary router so that you can extend connection from it to the slave or secondary router.

2. Note down following configuration information from your primary router. If you are unaware of how to know those information. Open your web browser and type in the IP address of the router. In most case, it would be 192.168.1.1, if your are using D-Link router, try 192.168.0.1. For those who find this difficult may refer the user manual of the respective router. And for configuration information, following details of from the primary router may be noted:

• wireless mode
• channel at which primary router works
• security settings like WPA, WPA2, WEP
• Passphrase of your primary router
• DHCP addresses of primary router

3. That's it for the info you need from primary router. Now reset your secondary router and connect it your PC/laptop. Make the following changes to make it slave of your primary router:

• Click the LAN settings page and edit the IP address of the router to be one of the Static IP address under primary router. For example, if your router provides IP address in the range of 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.49, fix the IP address of the secondary router within this range. As our case is for home connection, I would highly recommend using last IP address which would kept idle! So in this case, set the IP address of the secondary router to 192.168.0.49. Hit save and let the router reboot.
• Now, enter the new IP address of the secondary router and select 'OPERATION MODE'. Set operation mode to 'bridge'. Then hit save and wait until router reboots with new configuration.
• Again login to the configuration page of the secondary router. Now, change the basic wireless settings to match exactly with your primary router. ONLY EXCEPTION IS ASSIGN DIFFERENT SSID TO YOUR SECONDARY ROUTER. Apart from that, change all the values like channel, security, wireless mode and it must exactly match your primary router. Now hit save and let the router reboot.

By now, you have made your secondary router work alongside primary router which would extend your WiFi connection fill black spots in your home. To connect two routers, you could prefer long Ethernet CAT 6 cable. To establish connection, plug one end of the Ethernet cable in any one of the LAN port in your primary router and plug the other end in any LAN port of your secondary router.  Place the secondary router well away from primary router to extend the WiFi coverage. That's it. It must work now.

For this experiment, I had the following equipments:

1. D-Link 816 wireless modem/router.
2. ZyXel wireless router (I had a spare router in home)
3. Cat 6/ Ethernet cable (any of them would work but make sure it is of good quality)
4. Ofcourse, an internet connection in working condition.

Nonetheless, power source is far more important. Do not forget to plug in your AC cable in your routers.

Twitter Hashtag creation Guideline

Twitter hashtag Creation

Did you know the quick and easiest way to have reach in Twitter? Haven't you found potential customer in Twitter? If not, something is probably wrong! So much money being spent on Twitter campaigns for product promotion yet waiting to harvest the gains! Now, to answer all this question. Ask yourselves now, what is your Twitter campaign hashtag? If are able to answer, you are half way done in your Twitter campaigns.

Most successful online campaigns in Twitter has striking similarity! Unique hashtag! If your Twitter campaign owns an unique hashtag then you are more than half way done in your twitter campaign. The problem is finding the unique hashtag. Brainstorming begins here! The only problem with creating hashtag is making it unique and must always point to your product or service in Twitter.

It is your one and only problem. Yet you could overcome the difficulty with flying colors, if you are ready to set proper strategy for your Twitter game. No surprise! Follow the simple guideline for Twitter hashtag creation:

1. It must be unique! Unique in the sense it must not be used by another person in Twitter. It doesn't matter if some one has made no significant reach with similar hashtag but be careful that neither of your hashtag overlap with each other.
2. Do your research prior to establishing hashtag in Twitter. Once you have made decision, you will lose your right to recall Twitter hashtag once your followers starts buzz with it.
3. Make sure it is more relevant and specific to your products and services. An generic hashtag would lead to overlapping of hashtags in Twitter. For example, #blogger in twitter indicate both using Google Blogger service and those who blog on any platform. So, make sure you are specific to your product.
4. The point #3 should not be made beyond the point that it breaks surprise to your Twitter followers. Relevancy and specific detail should not let your followers know about the surprise that awaits them till launch date. In simple words, your Twitter hashtag creation must create buzz among your followers but should not in anyway giveaway the surprise element.
5. The time of hashtag establishment is far more important! Make sure it go viral the moment you launch your Twitter campaign. Analytic tools are best friend when it comes to launching campaigns in Twitter. Once you get infographic about your followers activity in Twitter, you can make sure you get your product hashtag go viral the moment you tweet it on Twitter.

These 5 Twitter hashtag creation guideline will help you reach your potential customer through your Twitter campaigns. Something catchy will always get attention in Social media.