Friday 12 December 2014

Friendship Poem

Friendship is a seed from which beautiful flowers bloom

Shares a long exhilarating journey

From womb to doom.

Friendship is caring. Friendship is sharing

A friend is an angel with no information

But slowly becomes part of your life and every other occasion.

Friendship is a strong unbreakable bond.

With a whiz of a magic wand.

A friend is a mirror reflection

Accepts you without perfection

And gives lots of affection.

A friend is a being, there for you through thick and thin

Protects you like a shadow like your own kin.

Friendship is loving, trusting and helping

A friend supports and helps you achieve your goals

Picks you up every time you fall.

Friendship is truth and honesty

A friend gives honest opinions and true judgments.

Friendship is guidance

A friend shows the way and is always there if you lead astray

A true friend doesn't care about what others and society have to say.

Friendship is respect

A friend easily forgives and forgets.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest.... It's about who came,

and never left your side.

By Umar Arif

Friday 31 October 2014

Preperation for omega ruby and Alpha Sapphire

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire

Prepare for an epic adventure exploring a world filled with Pokémon in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire for the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Your adventure takes place in Hoenn, a region that consists of a main island that stretches widely from east to west, along with countless small islets that dot the deep blue sea around it. A live volcano steams constantly in the heart of this green-covered island. Look forward to a region rich with natural beauty, a variety of Pokémon, and extraordinary people!

The identities of the Pokémon on the boxes of Pokémon Omega Ruby andPokémon Alpha Sapphire have been revealed! Their names are Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre, respectively. These Pokémon will have a great role to play in shaping the stories in which they each appear!

Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire tell a grand tale that draws ever closer to the heart of the secrets behind Mega Evolution, said to be the greatest mystery of the Pokémon world. One of your many goals will be to seek out these powerful Pokémon and unlock their incredible potential.

During your journey through Hoenn, you’ll be able to build and invite friends to visit your personal Super-Secret Base! Come up with your own Secret Base design, including selecting and placing Decorations however you like. Then, using communication features, you’ll be able to easily connect with other players all around the world to share your Secret Bases with one another. When you visit another player’s Secret Base, that base’s members will be hanging out there. You can talk to them or even battle them! If you find other base owners that you like, you can scout them as one of your Secret Pals and bring them back to your own Secret Base.

You can also use Super-Secret Bases to play a capture-the-flag activity. Examine the flag beside the Secret PC in another player's Secret Base to obtain it! You can take one flag per day from each base visited. Visit lots of Secret Bases and collect lots of flags to improve your team’s rank and get rewards, including increasing the skills of your Secret Pals.

Meet many interesting people and Pokémon Trainers as you travel across the Hoenn region, including Pokémon Professor Birch, who runs the Pokémon Lab in Littleroot Town. With him you will have your first meeting with the Pokémon that will become your partner on your journey, and a new bond will be born. You'll also encounter incredibly tough Trainers during your journey. Visit Pokémon Gyms, where Pokémon Trainers gather and Gym Leaders stand ready for Trainers to challenge them.

The Pokémon-Amie feature, which debuted in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y, enables players to get closer to their Pokémon by petting them, playing games with them, and feeding them. You can play with the Pokémon on your team at any time using Pokémon-Amie—the more you care for your Pokémon in these ways, the deeper your bond will become. As your Pokémon become more affectionate toward you, they will be more likely to avoid attacks in battle, land critical hits on opponents, and perform more admirably than before.

During your adventure, you'll be able to create your very own Secret Base. Work on making a space that is all your own, just the way you like it. But that's not even the best part! Using communication features, you'll be able to easily connect with other players all around the world to share your Secret Bases with one another.

You won't raise your Pokémon just for battle in Pokémon Omega Ruby andPokémon Alpha Sapphire. In Pokémon Contest Spectaculars, your Pokémon will compete to see who has the most appeal! There are five kinds of contests that you can choose to enter: Coolness, Beauty, Cuteness, Cleverness, and Toughness. Your Pokémon will be judged on its appeal based on one of these five conditions. Choose a contest condition in which your Pokémon excels, and enter it in one of the corresponding contests!

Enhance your Pokémon's ability to perform by feeding it Pokéblocks made from Berries. The type of Pokéblock you make is based on the color and variety of Berries you choose. When you feed them to your Pokémon, its contest conditions will improve according to the type of Pokéblock it eats!

During your adventure, you will battle Team Magma in Pokémon Omega Rubyand Team Aqua in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. Led by Maxie, Team Magma seeks to increase the land, while Archie and Team Aqua wish to increase the seas. In order to bring about these grand plans, each will turn to the power of a Legendary Pokémon: Groudon or Kyogre. Team Magma pursues Groudon, while Team Aqua goes after Kyogre. What could be driving them to such lengths?

Look forward to encountering the Eon Pokémon Latios and Latias! In Pokémon Omega Ruby, you can team up with Latios, while Latias joins you in Pokémon Alpha Sapphire. And it has been discovered that Latios and Latias can also Mega Evolve, another exciting moment to anticipate!

Partway through your adventure, you’ll become able to Soar in the sky. Gaze down over the wide Hoenn region as you Soar freely wherever you wish! Among the destinations you can reach using Soar are very special locations called Mirage spots. In Mirage spots, you may be able to find rare Pokémon that cannot be found elsewhere in the region, and you may be able to obtain valuable items.

The PokéNav Plus is your best friend on your journey. It's a handy tool that will help you navigate your adventure as a Pokémon Trainer. It provides a lot of useful information, making your adventure easier and more fun than ever. Outside of battles and special events, the PokéNav Plus will always be displayed on the lower screen of your Nintendo 3DS system. You can instantly switch between its four main functions with touch input, and be ready to play in no time.

Pokémon fans first enjoyed Pokémon Ruby Version and Pokémon Sapphire Version when it launched in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance. Now, a whole new generation of Pokémon fans will experience the dramatic storyline that unfolds in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire.

Look forward to Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire when the games launch worldwide in November 2014.

Take a look at this (Can,t wait):-

Thank You

Umar Arif

Games, Games and more Games

Monday 27 October 2014

Although we are totally in love with Gravity Forms as our #1 choice for creating forms, you can only use it with WordPress. Therefore, when a client came to us with a landing page in html, we had to start looking for other options and here’s what I found:

I wanted to love Wufoo – it’s probably the most popular online form builder – and how cute is their logo? The user interface is so amazingly user friendly and easy to use. The free plan gets you up to 100 submissions a month but there are some major features that are lacking. I know we internet peeps expect almost everything to be free these days, so it’s hard to complain about their amazing free product missing a few features. But for me, these features were huge and meant not being able to use the free version. Here are the 2 major drawbacks of the free Wufoo plan:

The “report abuse” link in the form. After I filled out the form and published it on the client’s site, I was surprised to see that there was a “Report Abuse” link next to the submit button. Ummm.. what? I tried searching for a way to remove the “report abuse” link but discovered that there wasn’t one and I would have to wait until it just disappears after a “reasonable amount of time”. Well, I didn’t have the luxury of waiting around for Wufoo’s algorithm to determine whether or not my form was spammy or their vague definition of time. Of course if you upgrade your plan, the link magically disappears.

I was glad to see that I wasn’t the only one upset by the intrusive link. In fact, I enjoyed reading someone’scomment in the Wufoo forum about how she planned an event with Santa and the “report abuse” could be misconstrued to be reporting child abuse!! That’s no good.
No option for a “Thank You” page: Our client wanted people to fill out their form and then be taken to a Thank You page. But that option isn’t available in the free Wufoo package which was upsetting.

I think Wufoo’s website should be clearer about the limited features on the free plan.

JotForm

Another online form builder, Jotform, came up very high in my search results. This is a great alternative to Wufoo because I was able to set up a normal form (without a report abuse link) and enter in a URL for a Thank You page. However, here are the problems I had with Jotform:

Although Jotform’s interface loads really fast and you never even have to click save, there is not enough distinction between the tabs in the editing area. I was never quite sure which tab I was in and kept clicking around a lot.
I had to do some fancy CSS footwork to get the form to look right. There was a big margin to the left of the form which was really problematic since it made half the form was hidden from view. Also, I wanted to create a dropdown select box that only listed countries so I had to use the Address field and hide all the other fields (street address, city, state, zip code) except for country. In order to fix all the CSS, I had to go into Jotform’s editor under Preferences > Form Styles.
There was a javascript conflict on my site so I had to switch from the javascript embed to the iframe embed code and then it ran smoothly.