Linkbucks is another best and one of the most popular sites for shortening URLs and earning money. It boasts of high Google Page Rank as well as very high Alexa rankings. Linkbucks is paying $0.5 to $7 per 1000 views, and it depends on country to country. The minimum payout is $10, and payment method is PayPal. It also provides the opportunity of referral earnings wherein you can earn 20% commission for a lifetime. Linkbucks runs advertising programs as well.
Shrinkearn.com is one of the best and most trusted sites from our 30 highest paying URL shortener list.It is also one of the old URL shortener sites.You just have to sign up in the shrinkearn.com website. Then you can shorten your URL and can put that URL to your website, blog or any other social networking sites. Whenever any visitor will click your shortener URL link you will get some amount for that click.The payout rates from Shrinkearn.com is very high.You can earn $20 for 1000 views.Visitor has to stay only for 5 seconds on the publisher site and then can click on skip button to go to the requesting site.
CPMlink is one of the most legit URL shortener sites.You can sign up for free.It works like other shortener sites.You just have to shorten your link and paste that link into the internet.When someone will click on your link. You will get some amount of that click.It pays around $5 for every 1000 views.They offer 10% commission as the referral program.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.The payment is then sent to your PayPal, Payza or Skrill account daily after requesting it.
Al.ly is another very popular URL Shortening Service for earning money on short links without investing any single $. Al.ly will pay from $1 to $10 per 1000 views depending upon the different regions. Minimum withdrawal is only $1, and it pays through PayPal, Payoneer, or Payza. So, you have to earn only $1.00 to become eligible to get paid using Al.ly URL Shortening Service. Besides the short links, Al.ly also runs a referral program wherein you can earn 20% commission on referrals for a lifetime. The referral program is one of the best ways to earn even more money with your short links. Al.ly offers three different account subscriptions, including free option as well as premium options with advanced features.
Oke.io provides you an opportunity to earn money online by shortening URLs. Oke.io is a very friendly URL Shortener Service as it enables you to earn money by shortening and sharing URLs easily. Oke.io can pay you anywhere from $5 to $10 for your US, UK, and Canada visitors, whereas for the rest of the world the CPM will not be less than $2. You can sign up by using your email. The minimum payout is $5, and the payment is made via PayPal.
LINK.TL is one of the best and highest URL shortener website.It pays up to $16 for every 1000 views.You just have to sign up for free.You can earn by shortening your long URL into short and you can paste that URL into your website, blogs or social media networking sites, like facebook, twitter, and google plus etc. One of the best thing about this site is its referral system.They offer 10% referral commission.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.
Wi.cr is also one of the 30 highest paying URL sites.You can earn through shortening links.When someone will click on your link.You will be paid.They offer $7 for 1000 views.Minimum payout is $5. You can earn through its referral program.When someone will open the account through your link you will get 10% commission.Payment option is PayPal.
Linkrex.net is one of the new URL shortener sites.You can trust it.It is paying and is a legit site.It offers high CPM rate.You can earn money by sing up to linkrex and shorten your URL link and paste it anywhere.You can paste it in your website or blog.You can paste it into social media networking sites like facebook, twitter or google plus etc. You will be paid whenever anyone will click on that shorten a link.You can earn more than $15 for 1000 views.You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $5.Another way of earning from this site is to refer other people.You can earn 25% as a referral commission.
The payout for 1000 views-$14
Minimum payout-$5
Referral commission-25%
Payment Options-Paypal,Bitcoin,Skrill and Paytm,etc
Short.pe is one of the most trusted sites from our top 30 highest paying URL shorteners.It pays on time.intrusting thing is that same visitor can click on your shorten link multiple times.You can earn by sign up and shorten your long URL.You just have to paste that URL to somewhere. You can paste it into your website, blog, or social media networking sites.They offer $5 for every 1000 views.You can also earn 20% referral commission from this site.Their minimum payout amount is only $1.You can withdraw from Paypal, Payza, and Payoneer.
Although Fas.li is relatively new URL Shortener Service, it has made its name and is regarded as one of the most trusted URL Shortener Company. It provides a wonderful opportunity for earning money online without spending even a single $. You can expect to earn up to $15 per 1000 views through Fas.li. You can start by registering a free account on Fas.li, shrink your important URLs, and share it with your fans and friends in blogs, forums, social media, etc. The minimum payout is $5, and the payment is made through PayPal or Payza on 1st or 15th of each month. Fas.li also run a referral program wherein you can earn a flat commission of 20% by referring for a lifetime. Moreover, Fas.li is not banned in anywhere so you can earn from those places where other URL Shortening Services are banned.
Adf.ly is the oldest and one of the most trusted URL Shortener Service for making money by shrinking your links. Adf.ly provides you an opportunity to earn up to $5 per 1000 views. However, the earnings depend upon the demographics of users who go on to click the shortened link by Adf.ly. It offers a very comprehensive reporting system for tracking the performance of your each shortened URL. The minimum payout is kept low, and it is $5. It pays on 10th of every month. You can receive your earnings via PayPal, Payza, or AlertPay. Adf.ly also runs a referral program wherein you can earn a flat 20% commission for each referral for a lifetime.
Bc.vc is another great URL Shortener Site. It provides you an opportunity to earn $4 to $10 per 1000 visits on your Shortened URL. The minimum withdrawal is $10, and the payment method used PayPal or Payoneer. Payments are made automatically on every seven days for earnings higher than $10.00. It also runs a referral system wherein the rate of referral earning is 10%.
Short.am provides a big opportunity for earning money by shortening links. It is a rapidly growing URL Shortening Service. You simply need to sign up and start shrinking links. You can share the shortened links across the web, on your webpage, Twitter, Facebook, and more. Short.am provides detailed statistics and easy-to-use API. It even provides add-ons and plugins so that you can monetize your WordPress site. The minimum payout is $5 before you will be paid. It pays users via PayPal or Payoneer. It has the best market payout rates, offering unparalleled revenue. Short.am also run a referral program wherein you can earn 20% extra commission for life.
It is a new URL shortener website.Its CPM rate is good.You can sign up for free and shorten your URL and that shortener URL can be paste on your websites, blogs or social media networking sites.bit-url.com pays $8.10 for 1000 views. You can withdraw your amount when it reaches $3.bit-url.com offers 20% commission for your referral link.Payment methods are PayPal, Payza, Payeer, and Flexy etc.
Ouo.io is one of the fastest growing URL Shortener Service. Its pretty domain name is helpful in generating more clicks than other URL Shortener Services, and so you get a good opportunity for earning more money out of your shortened link. Ouo.io comes with several advanced features as well as customization options. With Ouo.io you can earn up to $8 per 1000 views. It also counts multiple views from same IP or person. With Ouo.io is becomes easy to earn money using its URL Shortener Service. The minimum payout is $5. Your earnings are automatically credited to your PayPal or Payoneer account on 1st or 15th of the month.
Cut-win is a new URL shortener website.It is paying at the time and you can trust it.You just have to sign up for an account and then you can shorten your URL and put that URL anywhere.You can paste it into your site, blog or even social media networking sites.It pays high CPM rate. You can earn $10 for 1000 views.You can earn 22% commission through the referral system.The most important thing is that you can withdraw your amount when it reaches $1.
The payout for 1000 views-$10
Minimum payout-$1
Referral commission-22%
Payment methods-PayPal, Payza, Bitcoin, Skrill, Western Union and Moneygram etc.
Clk.sh is a newly launched trusted link shortener network, it is a sister site of shrinkearn.com. I like ClkSh because it accepts multiple views from same visitors. If any one searching for Top and best url shortener service then i recommend this url shortener to our users. Clk.sh accepts advertisers and publishers from all over the world. It offers an opportunity to all its publishers to earn money and advertisers will get their targeted audience for cheapest rate. While writing ClkSh was offering up to $8 per 1000 visits and its minimum cpm rate is $1.4. Like Shrinkearn, Shorte.st url shorteners Clk.sh also offers some best features to all its users, including Good customer support, multiple views counting, decent cpm rates, good referral rate, multiple tools, quick payments etc. ClkSh offers 30% referral commission to its publishers. It uses 6 payment methods to all its users.
When a game hits peak popularity, it's not uncommon for it to be taken away from independent retailers in some form or another. It might be a retailer exclusive, or a publisher's attempt to spread the wealth (and power). If Target came to you after publishing a hot board game and offered you a bazillion dollars for an exclusive to the expansion, what would you say? It might kill your company, but you would have a bazillion dollars.
This morning I had two examples of pivot math, in which I needed to adjust expectations based on publisher removal of market demand. One is for Wizards of the Coast and the other for Ravensburger:
How many should I buy?
Saltmarsh: 30 days of Tomb of Annihilation sales (because those are my terms), with a 10% bump for growth, with this total divided in half because of removal of early release (it will be sold on Amazon the same day by idiot retailers). I suspect Amazon gets half the D&D market.
Villainous Expansion: Total sales of Villainous base game, divided by three, because it's an expansion, divided in half because of early Target release by months. Everyone who cares will already have it and coming out three quarters after our huge sales push means it will be cold.
A younger me might have decided to drop Villainous entirely and avoid it, especially after we sold 50 or so copies over the holidays as one of our top picks. That's a really small number for some larger stores, but out here in the burbs, we run shallow and wide. As for Saltmarsh, I might begin slimming down my D&D overall and start banging the drum for Pathfinder 2.0, which is coming soon. That's all counter productive though, so I just pivot and move on. I certainly won't push Villainous again or most Ravensburger games, nor will I be looking to invest time in jump starting Adventurer's League, which can't seem to gain a footing. I will cultivate my indifference.
This gets to the problem of the game trade in general, without allies we have cold war enemies. Publishers want retailers to do some lifting for their product, but we have product PTSD. We're not willing to enter into new co-dependent relationship in which we're beaten in response to our love. So most retailers put minimum effort into promoting products and instead focus on well established events and reliable staples. It takes a tremendous amount of effort and tremendous love for these games to do otherwise. The key to success is a series of co-dependent relationships in which we don't get angry, we quietly pivot. But it wears you down, let me tell you.
Campaign: It is the Last Age of Homo Sapiens on Earth, a dying world long sucked dry of its essence and resources by countless millennia of generations. Thousands of years ago, the bulk of human race left, leaving behind civilization in ruins; those left began to plunder and pillage, setting themselves up as kings and queens fighting over the leftover scrap. Now even those remains are dying off and falling apart; with the remaining population looking for ways to leave themselves, if possible anymore.
Homebase (Hex 0) (0101): Eclandria - The decaying city of the Nine Queens, once the pinnacle of humankind's achievements, with spires that reached up nearly into space, then fought over by countless factions after The Exodus, now a shell of ruins and farmlands interspersed among rebuilt edifices and smaller towers. The few remaining Servicers continue to attempt to repair themselves and other bits of technology, while the Defenders rust and rot, allowing raiders steal away what remains of the wealth of the city. The remaining Queen has devoted all of her resources to recovering enough technology to repair the last of the Great Silver Arks, but time is running out as energy cells fail and her educated Thinkers die of old age.
Three Hexes (Hex scale is 24 miles) Location 1 (0001): Ordrung - Once a massive facility for a long forgotten military unit of the Before times, this fortress is now home to a barbaric, vicious band bent on a final victory. Their kidnap raids on Eclandria has led to the capture of many of the young children of the city now serving as slaves of the gang. Several Eclandrian rescue teams have instead supplied the thugs with updated equipment and a Servitor, which they're now using as a guardian wandering the area around the crumbling edifice. Location 2 (0201): Capcanav - Festooned with bright banners, tents and dozens of aged humans, the ancient starport also hosts several decayed hulks of spaceships - the Great Arks. The Elders hold daily meditations and rituals in worship of "Those Who Have Gone Up", believing that the long-gone travelers have become gods and will return if humanity is humble enough. The Elders are dismayed at the Eclandrian attempts to repair an Ark and are trying to raise an army to resist them. Location 3 (0102): Alexindia - The Library of Knowledge and Death is contained in a vast maze underground, full of strange flickering illusions that speak in long-lost languages, crystal discs said to contain forgotten knowledge, and strange metal cabinets full of decaying material. A cult of priests has made themselves guardians of the knowledge, believing that they must die in order to understand what is contained within the archives. On a regular basis, they commit suicide (or kill each other) and resurrect/revive the dead in order to perform a "learning".
"Three Hexes" are simple campaign starters to show that you don't need to do a lot to have interesting settings for people to play in. Feel free to use these in your game, campaign or as ways to spur on your own creativity and imagination!
I've purposefully left a lot of detail out because these are supposed to spur on your imagination! The scale is what I would use in my own world, but if something else suits you better, then go for it. I may have the features moved about on the hexes for clarity, if they don't suit you, move them!
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Simplify how you manage background work with WorkManager
Today, we're happy to announce the release of Android Jetpack WorkManager 1.0 Stable. We want to thank so many of you in our dev community who have given us feedback and logged bugs along the way - we've gotten here thanks to your help!
When we looked at the top problems faced by developers, we saw that doing background processing reliably and in a battery-friendly manner was a huge challenge. This meant that periodically fetching fresh content or uploading your logs was complex. Different versions of Android provided different tools for the job, each with their own API quirks. For example, listening for network or storage availability and automatically retrying your tasks involved a lot of work.
Our answer to these challenges was WorkManager. We introduced a preview of the Android Jetpack WorkManager library at Google I/O 2018 and have since iterated on it with additional features and bug fixes thanks to your valuable input.
The goal of WorkManager is to make background operations easy for you. WorkManager takes into account constraints like battery-optimization, storage, or network availability, and it only runs its tasks when the appropriate conditions are met. It also knows when to retry or reschedule your work--even if your device or app restarts.
We believe WorkManager is a friendly, approachable API that can take care of one of the most complex parts of Android for you so you can focus on the code that makes your app unique.
WorkManager Highlights
Here are some key features of WorkManager:
Lets you set constraints, such as network status or charge state, on when the task runs
Supports asynchronous one-off and periodic tasks
Supports chained tasks with input & output
Ensures task execution, even if the app or device restarts
Supports Android 4.0+ (API 14+)
Watch and read below to learn when and how to use WorkManager to simplify managing background work in your apps:
When to use WorkManager
WorkManager is best suited for tasks that can be deferred, but are still expected to run even if the application or device restarts (for example, syncing data periodically with a backend service and uploading logs or analytics data).
For tasks like sending an instant message that are required to run immediately or for tasks that are not required to run after the app exits, take a look at our background processing guide to learn which solution meets your needs.
How to use WorkManager
To get started with the WorkManager API, add the WorkManager dependency available on Google's Maven repository in Java or Kotlin to your application's build.gradle file:
Now, simply subclass a Worker and implement your background work with doWork() and enqueue it with WorkManager.
class MyWorker(ctx: Context, params: WorkerParameters) : Worker(ctx, params) { override fun doWork(): Result { //do the work you want done in the background here return Result.success() } } // optionally, add constraints like power, network availability val constraints: Constraints = Constraints.Builder() .setRequiresCharging(true) .setRequiredNetworkType(NetworkType.CONNECTED) .build() val myWork = OneTimeWorkRequestBuilder() .setConstraints(constraints).build()
WorkManager will now take care of running your task when it detects that your device is charging and the network is available.
Why use WorkManager
Backward compatibility
WorkManager will leverage the right scheduling API under the hood: it uses JobScheduler API on Android 6.0+ (API 23+) and a combination of AlarmManager and BroadcastReceiver on previous versions.
It also seeks to ensure the best possible behavior so that it complies with system optimizations introduced in newer Android API versions to maximize battery and enforce good app behavior.
For example, WorkManager will schedule background work during the maintenance window for Android 6.0+ (API 23+) devices when the system is in Doze mode.
Reliable scheduling
With WorkManager, you can easily add constraints like network availability or charging status. Your work will run when the constraints are met and automatically retried if they fail while running. For example, if your task requires network to be available, the task will be stopped when network is no longer available and retried later.
You can also monitor work status and retrieve work result using LiveData. This allows your UI to be notified when your task is completed.
In the event that your work fails, you can control how your work is retried by configuring how backoff is handled.
WorkManager is also able to reschedule your work, using a record of your work in its local database, if an application or device restart occurs.
Control over how your work is run
We understand that each app has unique needs, and so do your tasks--even within the same app. WorkManager provides a simple yet highly flexible API surface to help configure your work and how it is run.
You can also chain your one time work requests to run in order or in parallel. If any work in the chain fails, WorkManager seeks to ensure that the remaining chain of work will not run. Read more about chaining work requests here.
If you require more flexibility over how WorkManager parallelizes and manages work, check out our advanced threading guide.
What developers have to say
redBus, the largest online bus ticketing platform, shares their experience using WorkManager to simplify how they collect user feedback in their Android app:
"Feedback is critical to redBus as we expand into other countries. It often happens that a user gives critical feedback about a functionality within the redBus app but when the app tries to upload the feedback to backend servers, there might not be enough network coverage or battery.
WorkManager has simplified the way redBus app delivers information to it's backend servers. WorkManager library's capability to handle parameters like network connectivity, battery and use appropriate handlers like AlarmManager or JobScheduler has enabled us to concentrate on building business logics and offloading execution complexity to WorkManager."
- Dinesh Shanmugam
Android Lead, redBus.in
Get started with WorkManager
Check out our getting started guide and hands-on codelab to start using the WorkManager library for your background task needs.
We appreciate your feedback, including features you like and features you would like to see.
If you find a bug or issue, feel free to file an issue.
In the early days of consoles, manufacturers decided it would be a good idea to have a video game character as a company mascot. Not becoming a console owner until the Playstation 2, I had assumed Nintendo's Mario and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog had always been rivals. I later discovered this was not the case and that they both made their debut in the arcade a decade apart – Mario as the protagonist in Donkey Kong in 1981, and Sonic in the racing game Rad Mobile. As an air freshener.
Later in 1991 Sonic appeared in his own right as the star of Sonic the Hedgehog, ousting Alex Kidd as the Sega mascot.By this time Mario was already established, having been the main character in several titles (including Dr Mario and three Super Mario games) and a cameo a few others (such as Punch Out!!, Tennis and Golf on the NES). Importantly, when Sonic the Hedgehog was released on the Mega Drive, Mario had yet to star in a 16-bit game.
Fittingly, Sonic theHedgehog is a platform game.Compared to the amply built, moustachioed Italian, Sonic is a lot faster and exudes an impatient attitude. Pause too long on a level and he puts his hands on his hips and taps a foot.
The manual says that the mad scientist, Dr Ivo Robotnik, is capturing innocent creatures and turning them into evil robots for whatever reason. It is up to you toreach Robotniks secret lab, defeat him and save the animals.
The game is set acrosssix zones with every zone divided into three acts. Each zone has a distinctlook and feel. Green Zone is the one that everyone knows. It contains loops, springs and several routes through. I like to zip through the stage a fast as possible whereas my wife likes to take her time and collect all the items (this is the only game she has liked on by blog thus far). Marble Zone slows things down. It is a linear stagecontaining some simple block puzzles and requires careful jumping in parts. Spring Yard Zone is fast level built like a pinball machine with lots of springs and bumpers. Labyrinth Zone is a convoluted stage with underwater sections where Sonic has to jump into large bubbles to avoid drowning. TheStar Light Zone has parts constructed like a roller coaster. Scrap Brain Zone I haven't yet had chance to play properly.
An underwater section in the Labyrinth Zone. Game play is the same only slower.
The aim of each act is to move from the far left of each level to reachthe goal at the far right. Inhabiting the levels are Robitnik's metallic minions. These can be dispatched using the Super Sonic Spin Attack which involves Sonic rolling into a ball and barrelling into enemies. It is performed by using the jump button for a high attack and the down button for a low attack. Some of the robotic animals have spikes which must be avoided. When an enemy is killed it releases the animal trapped within.
This creature can only be killed by jumping on it's head. Anywhere else and you die.
To aid Sonic there are several types of power ups dotted around including extra lives, extra rings, shields, speed boosts and temporary invincibility. Lamp postsact as checkpoints so you don't need restart the level should you lose a live. There are also rings that can be collected. Collecting 100 rings in an act rewards Sonic with an extra life. If you should get hit by an enemy while carrying rings you lose them all. The rings get scattered but you can normally collect a few before they disappear. If you get hit and have no rings you will lose a life.
Reaching the end of an act with a certain number of rings sends Sonic into a bonus screen, known as the Secret Zone. This is a spinning level where the goal is to get the Chaos Emerald. If you pick up enough rings here you can also collect another life. The manual says you must collect six Chaos Emeralds but doesn't say what they are for. I assume they are needed to complete the game.
The Secret Zone
At the end of each zone you face off against Dr Robotnik. He flies a different contraption for each zone and can be defeated by hitting him a number of times with the Super Sonic Spin Attack. Once defeated you can release all the animals from that zone.
Releasing the animals at the end of Sprint Yard Zone.
In all, Sonic the Hedgehog on the Mega Drive is an excellent game. Thegraphics are smooth, colourful and very fast, with slick animation. The sound and music are top notch. The controls are spot on and for the most part it's your fault when you die. There are some very difficult sections and a couple of places where there are unfair deaths. The unfair deaths can be avoided once you start to memorise the levels. It also speaks volumes that of all the games I have played so far, this is the only one the Mrs Wingnut has wanted a go on. She told me used to play it when she was younger, so I let her do the gameplay video. Bless.
It's not all running. There are some simple puzzles such as pushing this block onto the switch.
