Everyone know Nintendo legendary Mascot, Mario Brothers. So far, Mario Brothers was known as plumber that have short body with thick mustache wearing red hat and red cloth. But what happen if a sexy and beautiful woman become Mario Bother cosplayer? That what happen when Meagan Marie transform into female version of Mario. Wearing Mario Brothers red plumber clothes make her so hot and sexy. Who is Meagan Marie?

Meagan Marie is one of Cosplayer Girl from United States. She once worked as Associate Editor at Game Informer magazine, but now she is Community & Communication Manager at Crystal Dynamics working on next Tomb Raider installment. Meagan is a woman who really love video game. She ever work as game consultant.

Video Game & Comic Lover who love to be Cosplayer

Since her childhood, Meagan love video game and fiction story. This make her love costume play. She still play video games every day. Her favorite video game are Tomb Rider series, Final Fantasy series, and many other game. She also love reading comics at nights and or working feverishly on new costume for an upcoming convention. She has been dressing up and attending conventions for five years now. Meagan admit that her costume play is her most engrossing and expensive hobby.

Because grow up in United States, her childhood was filled with cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series, DuckTales, and Disney Gargoyles, but now she seem love Japan anime too. One of her favorite anime is Princess Monoke that created by Ghibli Studio.

Meagan Marie and Lara Croft

During the release of new Tomb Rider game, Meagan was cosplaying as Lara Croft in sexy dress. Her Lara Croft dress was shown at 2010 Tokyo Game Show with photographs taken by Ljinto. Even the costume is exactly same as official Lara Croft costume, but her appearance is hot and gorgeous. I personally prefer her than Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft.

Lara Croft means a lot for Meagan Marie. Her love of the video game ignited the moment I was introduced to Lady Lara Croft. Lara inspired Meagan to be intelligent, strong, and independent. Because of her love to Lara Croft figure, she collect a lot of thing related to Tomb Rider. Lara Croft also the reason why she started cosplaying. Meagan Marie always want to be a super hero.

Meagan Marie Cosplay Transformation

Meagan Marie become more famous when she wear Lara Croft cosplay costume. Beside Lara Croft, Meagan Marie has tried a lot of cosplay costume based on many characters from anime and games, including Princess Monoke, Elektra, Two Face, Wonder Woman etc. Here her transformation that picked from Meagan Marie official website :

Super Mario Brothers

Lara Croft

Two Face

Wonder Woman

Elektra

Princess Monoke

Anya Stroud (Gear of War)

Beside all characters above, there are more of cosplay characters that performed by Meagan Marie. If you want to know more, just visit her official website.

Meagan Marie – Lara Croft lovers who become Hot Mario Brothers Cosplayer Girl is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

It’s already 4 years since i started this blog. I just realize that i rarely wrote article about Macbook. I start using Macbook since 4 years ago, so it’s mean my blog is as old as my Macbook. After 4 years using, i am very satisfied with my Macbook. So today i want to write an article about Macbook Battery. Why makes Macbook battery more expensive than other battery? What the difference between Macbook battery and other laptop battery.

Let’s begin…

First, i want you to make sure that there is no eternal thing in this life, even Macbook battery. As the time passed, Macbook battery of course must be replaced. But i will give you several tips how to use Macbook, so the battery lifespan can last at least according to age that have been determined by Apple.

The Difference Between Macbook Battery and other Laptop Battery

Everyone want to extend their laptop battery life. If you search on Google, you’ll find a lot of article said that remove the battery from laptop during daily use is a way how to extend the battery life. Does Macbook battery be treated the same way? The answer is NO.

A lot of my friend who have non-Macbook laptop said that all battery maintenance is same. Macbook battery is different than other laptop product. You don’t need to remove your Macbook battery to extend its lifespan. Macbook has a chip on their battery that can control electricity that in and out. Once the Macbook battery fully charged, it will automatically reduce the electricity to the battery. It’s totally different with other laptop that always fully charge the battery, even the battery is already full. So you don’t need to remove your battery if you use your Macbook.

I use my Macbook everyday for 4 years. And i rarely turn off my Macbook with the battery attached on it all the time. I usually turn off my Macbook once a week. If i don’t use it, i just close my Mac to turn it into sleep mode. Today, my battery still can last at least more than 2 hours if it is actively used.

For Macbook user, first you must know what is Cycle Count.

What is Cycle Count

Cycle Count is number of charge cycle has been used. To understand better about Cycle count i give you an example as illustration

Let’s assume that battery is now 30%, then refilled to 100%. After that, the battery has been used to 50%. Then the battery is charged again to 100%. So it means that you have charge 70% + 50% = 120%. Like what i have explained, one cycle means one time of 100% charge. So the that battery already have 1.2 cycle.

Why Do Battery Cycle Counts Matter?

Cycle Count is helpful to know how your Macebook battery condition. Apple says new notebook batteries are designed to retain 80% of original capacity after 1000 cycles. If your battery is performing at less than expected and is still under warranty, it may be a good idea to schedule an appointment with Apple Genius.

How to Check Macbook Cycle Count

The easy way to check Macbook Cycle Count is by follow the following steps

• Launch Apple System Profiler (called System Information in Lion) either through /Applications/Utilities/ or by going to About this Mac and selecting More Info.
• Under Hardware, select Power
• Look for Cycle Count under the Battery Information

To check Cycle Count and Battery Health, you can also use free software like Coconut Battery and Battery Health.

How to Maintain Cycle Count So It is not Increased So Rapidly

Of course if you reduce the use of your MacBook is not the right solution for you who usually use your Macbook everyday. Here several tips to slow the increase in Cycle count :

• If possible, connect your Macebook to Power Adapter (Charger).
• If the battery indicator in menubar shows 100%, then do not be remove your MacBook from Power Adapter. MacBook has its own mechanism for taking power. If 100%, the power will be taken directly from the Power Adaptor. You can check it by clicking on battery indicator.
• Unplug power adapter, if battery indicator already 95%. The purpose here is when it reaches 100%, the battery will perform discharge mechanism. If the decline already reached 95%, then removed your MacBook from Power Adapter. Use your MacBook up until battery drained to 20%. After that plug your Macbook to Power Adaptor again.
• Calibrate the battery once a month. Macbook Battery Calibration is done by using the MacBook until the battery is completely reaches 0%. However, don’t too often calibrate, just once a month. If you don’t know how to calibrate, just read my next article about How to Calibrate Macebook Battery.

Several Tips How to Extend Macbook Battery Life is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

Today, while i look around my Facebook account, i found a interesting picture that was shared by my friend. It’s about a doggie language. I myself have a dog in my home. It’s female. For me, a dog is special animal that different than other animal. Dog is human best friend. They never talk, but they listen. Sometime they can understand what human talk about. My dog for example. She can understand when we want to bathe her. She will hide in some hidden place, so we can’t find her.

We can understand what the dog feeling by its behavior. The picture below describe dog language to make us more understand what they feel.

Doggie Language : Understand What Your Dog Feels is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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There are a lot of my friend ask me about how to convert office document (word, excel or powerpoint), image or HTML page into PDF file. For you who using Mac OS X, it is very easy to do this. You don’t have to install anything on Mac OS X to make it happen. But if you are using Windows, then there are several steps you must do before can save document, image or HTML file into PDF file. To make it clear i will give you step by step guide how to Convert Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Document, Image or HTML Page into PDF File both in Mac OS X and in Windows.

How to Convert Office Document or HTML File into PDF File in Mac OS X

You don’t need to install anything in Mac OS X. All you need to do is click File > Print on your application and there is a PDF button on the bottom of the Print dialog. I’ll give you an example if you want to convert a document that you open in Microsoft Word for Mac into PDF File.

1. Click File > Print

2. Click PDF Button at the bottom of Print Dialog, then choose Save as PDF.

3. Name your File and Click Save.

4. It’s Done

It’s very easy, right? For another application, it’s exactly the same. Just click on File > Print and follow the above procedure.

How to Convert Office Document, HTML File into PDF File in Windows

If you are using Windows as your Operating System, you need to install a software to convert file into PDF. The software i have been using for my Windows is CutePDF Writer. This is free simple software to give PDF converter functionality just like Mac OS X.

1. First you can download the CutePDF Writer from this link.
2. Install the software

Uncheck Install the Ask Toolbar and make Ask my default search provider and Make Ask.com my browser home page and news tabs page. Click Next and then click Install.

Then there will be a Dialog like below

Click Yes and The installation will be running.

Note :
If you found an error during the installation, make sure your Firewall is turned off before the installation.

3. After the installation is done. You can convert all kind of documents into PDF file just by using File > Print (exactly the same like Mac OS X).

4. Choose CutePDF Writer from Printer Name and click Ok.
 

5. Name your File and Click Save.

How to Convert Word Document or HTML Page into PDF File is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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Today is sunday. So, i am relaxing myself today. I done several things in my Mac OS X, i remove all unused application on my Dock, i change my wallpaper background, i arrange bookmarks in my Firefox and i open and check my Address Book. When i check my Address Book, it is completely a mess. Couple months ago, i synced my Address Book with Yahoo. I found a lot of name that are not standard. So today, i decide to delete all my contact in Address Book, except several people data that i manually input. And i suddenly thought that it might be better if I sync my Address Book with Facebook. So i googling about How to Sync Facebook Data with my Address Book. And i found this amazing tools on Google. It called AddressBookSync. This is a free software that created by Dan Auclair.

AddressBookSync

AddressBookSync is a free Mac OS X application to download profile pictures and other Facebook data to Address Book cards. This is a handy tool to keep your contacts’ pictures updated if you have numerous Facebook friends in your Mac OS X Address Book.

Features

• Downloads the Facebook profile picture, birthday, and current location into Mac OS X Address Book for any matched contacts.
• Crop/Scale tool to pick the best portion of your friend’s picture to use in Address Book.
• Automatically finds matches between your Facebook friends and your Address Book contacts.
• Handles name matching discrepancies for most common short/alternative first names.
• Allows you to manually match any Facebook friends that were not automatically matched to contacts.
• Ability to select which friends you want to be synchronized to the Address Book.
• Ability to customize what data (picture, birthday, location) gets synchronized for each person.
• Sparkle integration for automatic updates to the application.

I have tried this software and the result is awesome. My Address Book filled with my Facebook friend data contact and all the name is standard. The amazing things is it also synchronize my friends profile pictures with Address Book. Unfortunately, it can synchronize phone numbers and email address as Facebook does not allow this by their Terms of Service.

How to use the application is very easy. You just have to login into your Facebook account via the AddressBookSync and then the application will automatically import the Facebook Friend data into your Address Book. The software will automatically separate if there is existing contact in your Address Book. You can manually choose which data you want to insert to Address Book.

If you interesting to use this product just visit AddressBookSync official website by following this link.

How to Import your Facebook Friend Info into Mac OS X Address Book is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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When you search on Google, sometimes you will see rating star below each row of each engine result that indicate how good the page of a website based on visitor opinions. This star rating make your page more interesting, because people will assume that the page you has written is useful and interesting. To add this star rating, you must connect your website with Google social media, Google Plus. So, if you don’t have Google Plus account, first you have to register at plus.google.com.

How to Add Star Rating Rich Snippets in Google SERP

1. Login to your Google Plus Page and click Profile on the left.

2. Click Edit Profile

3. Click Contributor to on your Google Plus Profile Page

4. Enter Name and URL of your website

5. Click Done Editing

6. Login to your Blogger Dashboard and click Template > Edit HTML. Click Proceed and check Expand Widget Templates

7. Search code <b:skin><![CDATA[/* and place the code below above it

<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<link href='https://plus.google.com/112141088842387905796' rel='publisher'/>

8. Place this code below under <body> code

<div itemscope='' itemtype='http://data-vocabulary.org/Review'>

9. Place closing tag </div> above code </body> on the template.

10. Search

<h1 class='post-title entry-title'>

or

<h3 class='post-title entry-title'>

or

<h3 class='post-title entry-title'>

on the template and place the code below above it

<span itemprop='itemreviewed'><span itemprop='description'>

and place the closing tag </span></span> under </h1> or </h2> or </h3>

11. Search

<span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>

and place the code like below

<span class='fn'><span itemprop='reviewer'><data:post.author/></span></span>

12. Last step is give star rating by place the code below the code at point 10.

<span class='fn'><span itemprop='reviewer'><data:post.author/></span></span></b:if></span><span itemprop="rating">4.5</span>

13. It’s finished. You can see the preview through Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool

How to add Star Rating Rich Snippets at Blogger (Blogspot) Page in Google Search Engine Result Page is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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One of many ways how to make your visitors stay longer in your website is provide interesting article. If you have a lot of interesting article in your website, then visitors will stay longer in your website. If this happen, then the Bounce Rate will decrease. Website with low Bounce Rate is preferred by Google. To make sure that your visitors know there are a lot of interesting and useful article in your website, you can add Related Post below your article. But sometime, common Related Post (Related Post that just using Text only) is not enough to pay attention of the readers. So it will be effective if you use Related Posts with Thumbnails.

One of best Related Posts with Thumbnails i found on the internet is LinkWithin. Using LinkWithin is very easy. Here are simple guide from me How to Linkwithin plugin into your blog :

1. Visit LinkWithin website
2. Fill Email, Blog Link, Platform and Width and click Get Widget.

3. Follow further instructions based on your Platform

4. It’s done

How to Add Related Posts with Thumbnails in WordPress / Blogger is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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When I visit my Facebook, i saw one of my friend wrote ‘type “zerg rush” on google and see What Happens‘ on his wall. This make me curious. So i immediately try it. When i try to type myself in Google, there was something surprising happen. The O letter suddenly appear from above and changed into Zergling creatures and then began attacking your Search Engine Result Page. It turns out that this is one of hidden Easter Egg that Google created.

For those of you who do not know what is Zerg, Zerg is a race in Blizzard game, Starcraft. Zerg Rush is one of the strategies employed by professional players to win in Starcraft battle game.

For those of you who have never typed “zerg rush” on Google, try it now and see what happens. It’s really creative Easter Egg from Google.

Type “Zerg Rush” on Google and see What Happen is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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Couple days ago, Google officially launched their new software, Google Drive. Today i has already tested this Google software. Google Drive is service that make it as home of all your files beside your computer hard drive. Google Drive can store up to 5 Gb (5120 MB). You can upgrade storage if you feel not enough with the existing storage. With Google Drive, you can access your files anywhere as long there is internet connection and Google Account. Google Drive is available for PC, Mac and Android devices. iPhone and Ipad version still in development and be launched soon.

What we can do with this Google Drive?

1. Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online
   If you already familiar with Google Docs, Google Drive will replace Google Docs functionality. You can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations files and store them on Google Server. The difference is Google Drive have a very large space of hard drive. So you can create as much as document as you want.
   
   
2. Files Sharing
   If you want to share files, applications, pictures, videos, you don’t need to have your own hosting or send them through email. You can store all your files in Google Drive and share them to your friends.
   

Install Google Drive Applications

I already installed Google Drive Application for Mac. With this application, you can view your files that was stored in Google server offline. You can also sync the files so you can easily copy the files you want to share in Google Drive through your Finder (Windows Explorer in Windows).

If you see any benefit you can exploit from this new Google service, i recommend you to install Google Drive in your computer. If you want to use Google Drive just go to http://drive.google.com

Google Drive : Store Your Files in Google Server is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life

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To complete my previous tips about How to add Facebook Button and How to Add Twitter Button on your Blog, this time I will also give you tips How to Add Google + Button in Blogger. Although not as popular Facebook and Twitter, Google + is one of the biggest social media in the world. Moreover, in the future Google is likely to include Google Plus as influence factor in SEO. So it will be better if we build network in Google + from now on. How to add Google button + similar like how to add Facebook and Twitter button on my previous tips. It is very easy.

Here are the steps:

1. Login into your Blogger Dashboard and choose blog you want to modify.
2. Click Template and Click Edit HTML.
3. Click Proceed and don’t forget to check Expand Widget Templates checkbox.
4. Search code below and place the code above it

<data:post.body/>

5. Copy the script below

Standard G+ Button (24 pixel)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div style='float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;'>
<g:plusone></g:plusone>
</div>
<script src='https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>

Small G+ Button (15 pixel)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div style='float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;'>
<g:plusone size="small"></g:plusone>
</div>
<script src='https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>

Medium G+ Button (20 pixel)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div style='float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;'>
<g:plusone size="medium"></g:plusone>
</div>
<script src='https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>

Large G+ Button (60 pixel)

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'><div style='float:right;margin-left:10px;margin-bottom:10px;'>
<g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone>
</div>
<script src='https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>

6. Click Save Template and you’re done

How to Add Google +1 Button Below Post Title in Blogger (Blogspot) is a post from: Vendy's Journal of Life