Many people are willing to spend their hard earned money on virtual items in games they are obsessed with, such as Farmville. What they are doing is essentially fattening the wallets of the game company investors, while receiving something that doesn’t exist, in a world that doesn’t exist. That is why they call it virtual world.

What about this: spend money on virtual items in a village building game, which correspond to a real village in Uganda. You buy a virtual blanket in the game, a villager in Uganda receives a real blanket.

New Era Charity makes it possible with its iPhone game, Raise the Village.

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This post brought to you by LG. All opinions are 100% mine.

LG Optimus 7 is part of the first generation Windows Phone 7 lineup, along with its counterparts at HTC, Samsung and Dell. Microsoft had impose a strict hardware guidelines to ensure manufacturers provides a consistent and great user experience. It’s therefore safe to say that all WP7 are high-end phones, by today’s standards at least.

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If you ended up reading this, chances are you are a geek who periodically need a dose of amusing science fiction and mind intriguing goodness. The following is a list of movies I have personally seen and thinks will satisfy your inner geek.

*No Star Wars, no Star Trek, no Matrix, no Terminator, no aliens, no zombies.

1. The Social Network (2010)

A story about how Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2003 and what happened along the way. Very inspiring for internet entrepreneur, but you might end up hating Mark for what he did to his partner.

IMDB rating: 8.3/10 | Trailer

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ImageShack has officially stopped updating its right-click upload Firefox add-on since Firefox 3.0, to push more downloads for its toolbar presumably (only my grandmother install toolbars these days). However, with the amount of savvy developer out there, there are still Firefox add-ons with similar functionality that works well up to Firefox 3.6 & 4.0b7.

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If your web host does not come with Fantastico or other automatic web application installer, you would know how tedious it is to do the job manually.

Instant Install is created exactly to solve this problem. Instead of downloading and uploading the entire script of your desired web application, which really is a lot of files, you can complete the same task with just a tiny php file (417 bytes).

Just upload the Instant Install php installer to the directory where you want to install your web application, point your browser to it, select your desired web app, and lastly, sit back, relax.

Instant Install will then download and extract the files to your server and then forwards your browser to the setup. For now, Instant Install supports the installation of 9 web applications, namely:

• WordPress
• bbPress
• Chyrp
• Drupal
• Joomla
• phpBB
• PrestaShop
• Symphony
• Vanilla

Head over Instant Install to download the php installer.

Hold your horses if you are about to sign up for a web hosting plan. This Black Friday (November 26th), HostGator will hold a special offer that is irresistible, the best deal yet in HostGator’s 8 years in business.

So what’s the deal?

• 50% off everything from 12:00AM CST – 5AM CST (-6 UTC/GMT)
• 80% off everything from 5AM – 9AM CST while supplies last
• From 9AM – 11:59PM CST OR after 80% off accounts have sold out, 50% off everything will be resumed

Off everything meaning you will receive the same percentage of discount on just any plans (shared hosting, reseller, VPS, & dedicated server) and any duration. Obviously, the longer the term length you sign up, the more you will save.

If you’re signing up 3 years worth of shared hosting with 80% off, that would only come to $35.64. That’s obviously a steal, with you only paying less than a dollar a month ($0.99) while I’m paying $9.95 for the same thing.

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