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Revealing the secrets of The Sims II

June 2, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

The Sims set off a new trend in strategic gaming and have remained tremendously popular since the very first Sim was launched. People spend several hours in a day building stuff, collecting resources and using their minds to create places of absolute harmony and success. However, a little bit of cheating doesn’t do any harm where ‘progress’ is concerned! So here are some neat tricks that you can use in The Sims II!

Music plays a great role in setting up the environment of a game but many gamers don’t like the music that the Sims has. So here is a trick that will let you listen to your favorite songs within the game! First of all, build a list of the MP3s that you want as part of The Sims II. Then go to MyDocuments/EAGames/TheSims2/Music/ and select the music station that you will want your music to play on. Now, drag and drop your MP3s in this folder. Go back to the game now and open the options menu. Select music settings and then the music station where you have saved your songs. Once there, you can select the songs that you want the radio station to play during the game. Voila! You can now play to your own tunes!
Want to have some pizza for free? Make your Sim order a pizza. However, when the delivery guy shows up, don’t take the pizza. The poor guy will wait for a while and eventually leave the pizza by your door step. Stack up lots of free pizza and your Sim can have it whenever it feels hungry as they never become stale!

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Protecting Your Teen on Facebook

May 15, 2011 By admin Leave a Comment

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If you’re like the majority of parents today, your teen has a Facebook account. And, if you’re like the majority of parents, you’ve heard the countless horror stories about cyber-bullying, stalking, sending and receiving sexually explicit postings, and other issues that have put teens into physical danger or caused intense emotional stress.

You may be wondering if refusing to let your teen have a Facebook account is the only way you can prevent anything bad from happening. It is one way, but there are other ways you can protect your teen on Facebook or any other social network account (Facebook is the one you hear about the most, but there are others; these tips apply to any of them).

Become your child’s “friend.”

Not only will this give you access to your child’s page, but just knowing that you are literally seeing everything your child sees will keep him and his friends “on the straight and narrow” when it comes to content that is posted. If you start seeing a lot of “code words,” ask your child to translate, and then explain that this will not happen again. If it continues, suspend Facebook access for a period of time.

Keep up with your child’s contacts.

If you don’t know a person yourself, ask your child to give you information on who the contact is and how this person came to be on your child’s Facebook page, this is the only way to ensure Facebook privacy for your kids. If the person doesn’t know your child enough to your liking, have your teen remove them from their friends list.