The current model of the Razer Blade 14 is equipped with a new AMD processor and Nvidia graphics unit. The notebook can now also be ordered for euro prices. These are the Ryzen 9 7940HS with eight Zen 4 cores and the Nvidia Geforce RTX 4070 laptop with 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM. This is a generation update to the previous Blade 14 with Ryzen chip. The new model should therefore generally work faster.
Razer relies on the same 14-inch chassis as before. A Full HD panel with a frame rate of 144 Hz is installed in it. A 14-inch panel with 2,560 x 1,600 pixels is also available as an option. This not only has a 240 Hz frame rate, but also a little more vertical space thanks to the 16:10 format. The WQHD panel is standard in the new model and always installed.
In addition to the RTX 4070, there will also be a version with the slightly cheaper and less powerful Geforce RTX 4060. The SoC always remains the same. The Ryzen 9 7940HS is manufactured by TSMC in 4nm finfet and can access a maximum of 54 watts. The default setting is 35 watts.
Notebook: The Razer Blade 14 with AMD Zen 4 can be ordered
Starting price from 2,800 euros
The Blade 14 can be configured with permanently installed or optionally with plugged-in RAM. Around 16 or 32 GB of DDR5 RAM is available. The notebook can subsequently be expanded to up to 64 GB of RAM. A 1 TB SSD (PCIe 4) is also installed.
Two USB-A ports (3.2 Gen2), two USB-C ports (USB 4) and one HDMI 2.1 socket can be found on the sides of the case. The Blade 14 is charged via a dedicated power supply and the appropriate connection, since the 100 watts from one of the USB ports is not enough in some situations.
Notebook: The Razer Blade 14 with AMD Zen 4 can be ordered
The Razer Blade 14 with the new Ryzen 9 chip can already be ordered. Razer offers a configurator for this in the online store. The price starts at 2,800 euros. An upgrade to the Geforce RTX 4070 costs 400 euros. 32 instead of 16 GB are 100 euros. The RAM upgrade is also only available if customers buy the RTX 4070 variant.
How to take a screenshot on LG Gram Notebook? Many of the users will be able to have access to take a screenshot, but to achieve this, we must select some keys or, why not, find the applications available to our Windows operating system.
Next, we will see some methods of how to take screenshot on our LG Gram Notebook. Although it is true that we can select between these methods, we can also choose those with which it is easier to capture the screen, although we can always try each one of them, we will see which one suits what we want to do and how we want it. make the catch
Take a screenshot with Shift + S + Windows keys
This is one of the most current methods in terms of key combinations, since it will allow us to use the Trimming and annotation functionin case you select the screenshot from the notification bar.
If you simultaneously press Shift + S + Windows key, it will immediately open the snip and capture options on our screen. At the top of the screen, you’ll be able to choose cropping options. Among the options, you can establish if the capture will be done freely or a box selection.
You can copy and paste the screenshot image, in a very simple way, with the paste keys. Besides; if you choose to click on the image displayed in the notifications window, the Crop & Annotation program will open. So, it can be edited precisely and efficiently, then shared or saved.
Capture your screen with the Print Screen or PrtScrn keys
If you decide to take a screenshot in the more conventional way, simply press the Print Screen keys or, failing that, PrtScrn. To the press screenshot keywe can count on the image being saved to the clipboard.
Now, when selecting this option, only paste the image on the sheet where we want to paste the screenshot.
Use the Snipping Tool
The Snipping tool is an extremely useful tool. In such a way that, at the moment in which we have agreed to use it, we simply have to click on the New button. The Snipping Tool will open. to achieve take the screenshotdrag the pointer with the click held down.
If you are done, just release the click and you will see that the image you have captured of the screen will appear in the Snipping application. In this window, we can copy for later paste the screenshot.
Download screenshot apps
On the web there is a huge variety of applications with which we can access to do screenshots efficiently and streamlined. It will only suffice to find the one that suits what we are looking for.
Hello everyone ! My name is Erwann Ricord, and I designed two microgams published by Matagot: Le Roy des Ribauds to be published in Cannes, and the already released Western Legends Showdown, which takes place in the same universe as Kolossal’s game Cowboy/Sandbox. As a young game designer, I don’t pretend to design the best games of all time. However, I find it interesting to share with you how I transformed an idea into a board game in this board book on Campustech!
Genesis of Roy des Ribauds
The desire to create The King of Ribauds was born from my love for handheld games. I like the fact that a little game can accompany everyday moments like a picnic, a train trip or even just cooking spaghetti. What amazes me about this type of game is how minimalism serves gameplay to create a unique and remarkably fun game. I like to draw this parallel with video games where a good Gameboy Advance game, for example, touches me a thousand times more than a recent game that tries to do everything too well.
The need for ever more novelty in this type of game pushed me to create my own microgames.
To read :Revolver Noir: the first Micro Game that can be played standing up!
General concepts and influences
As I used a traditional card game to test my ideas, I then imagined that the game would take place in a medieval setting, to match the art of the cards I was using. These traditional card games are a bit neglected by us board game players, and I think it’s a good thing to discover them through new games that pay homage to them.
The first version of Le Roy des Ribauds was a simple version of Dutch with fewer cards. As it stood, it was really not satisfactory. However, the mechanics of Dutch, based on four hidden cards really interested me because it combines bluffing, memory and movement. This is how the idea of creating the king’s courtthis row of 4 face down cards with which players interact.
Once the courtyard implemented in the game, the rest came quickly.
To read :Board Notebook: Orion Duel, cosmogony of a modern abstract game
Development
Typically when I create a game I try to list mechanics that work around my basic idea. For example, the idea of the courtyard allowed me to have:
hidden or revealed cards
change the position of cards in the court
why not powers for each card
one hand for each player
Once the framework of the game was in place, I chose to create 4 different cards in order to have 16 in total. For their powers, I was able to use all the mechanisms previously mentioned. It seemed obvious to me, to add tension, that there are several ways to win. I wanted each victory to be different and for them all to be achievable within a game. The three victories rely on game mechanics and the power of other cards.
I therefore ended up with a first prototype called The Court of Blois (in reference to the assassination of the Duke of Guise) which was pleasant to play and which evolved as I played with those close to me.
Teamwork with Matagot
Over the course of the games, the feeling came to me that I had succeeded in obtaining a fast, nervous game, where each game did not resemble the previous one. Plus, my testers always wanted to play another game. Once the game is finished, I sent my prototype to Matagot without great expectations.
Although playing and creating board games for over ten years, The King of Ribauds is my first game signed by a publisher and was therefore my first collaboration with board game professionals. The exchanges with Matagot allowed me to refine the ruleswhich would have been impossible without their experience and numerous tests.
Their choice to place my game in the world of comics The King of Ribauds by Ronan Toulhoat and Vincent Brugeas (and from the French publisher Akileos) made it possible to give a little more credibility to the victory conditions and above all to obtain a graphically impeccable final result.
To read :Board notebook: the story of the game Almost Innocent by Philippe Attali
To finish
I sincerely hope that you enjoy this game as much as I do. I would also like to thank the Matagot team who allowed me to share my creations with other players. Finally, I thank Dorothée and Jean-Luc, my parents, and Manon, my partner, who are always ready to test my creations.
Erwann Ricord
How to play Roy des Ribauds?
Finally, here is a short video of the game in final version, to discover its hardware and gameplay:
At SamaGame we have been looking at the applications that Moleskine publishes for iOS, iPadOS and macOS for a long time: Actions and Flow are good examples of this, providing different angles to be able to manage our tasks and events or to take freehand notes.
Today we take a look at another of its applications, Moleskine Journey, with which they want to perfect their vision of what it should be to keep a digital diary with all our daily annotations. And after what they have learned during the last years and applications, they are getting closer and closer to what it is to carry a real Moleskine under our arm wherever we go.
Calendars, tasks, routine tracking and personal diary in one application
The main characteristic of Journey is that we are not facing an application that is limited to combining calendar, reminders and notes in a different interface. What we see is a very flexible virtual agenda, which adapts to our rhythm and way of life with tools that until now I have only seen in complex solutions such as Notion.
The first thing Journey asks of us is our professional field, in order to try to adapt the structure of its agenda to something that fits us. A very positive point is that it allows us create a user account through Sign in with Apple, even with the possibility of hiding our email.
The application interface shows us (if we want to) a mix of our calendar events, our reminders and any annotation we want to make on a virtual page for each day. It also allows us to do a follow-up of our routines daily, to see if we comply with them or if we forget them too often (exercise, read …). Using the same format also allows us to track our mood by marking emojis. As all this data is personal, Moleskine Journey allows us to protect everything with an additional lock password.
The key is that on the daily page you have something very similar to what you normally have in a paper Moleskine: events, tasks, projects, annotations, reflections … a hodgepodge of data in various formats and total freedom to edit them.
Naturally all this is also transferred to the versions for iOS and iPadOS, where we can even put those routine and mood traces in an iOS 14 widget. All project data, follow-ups, reminders and calendars are synchronized through Moleskine’s own cloud.
Does all this have a price? Well yes, somehow you have to cover the costs of the synchronization servers apart from earning a profit for all those responsible for working on the applications. You can use Moleskine Journey for a week completely free of charge, with 2 GB of cloud space. At that point you can continue using the service with 30 GB of cloud space per 24.99 euros per year as an offer (the normal price is 34.99 euros per year and 100 GB of storage).
Given those prices, it all depends on the use you want to give it. If Moleskine Journey convinces you during that first week of testing and you take advantage of all its functions, 25 euros per year is not a bad price to enjoy an application on all your devices that controls all the work and personal aspects of your day to day.
On the other hand, if you don’t take advantage of that approach and only see an application that combines calendars and tasks in a different interface, then most likely Moleskine Journey is not for you. Applications like these take advantage of when you fit in with their way of doing things and take advantage of every detail of their possibilities. You can download the free trial of Moleskine Journey with its applications in the App Store.
