- Hmonitor 4.2.2.2, Feeling the pulse of your machine — Last week I found a genius solution for watching and controlling my computer’s health and stability, which I would like to tell you about. Today’s hero is a small, resource-friendly, easy-to-use utility, which allows you to track all available system parameters, such as the system temperature, voltages, and cooling fans. Hmonitor does this by utilizing the motherboard’s hardware sensors, which are normally not…
- 1001 Lines. Train Your Brain — Can you imagine the approximate amount of time people spend playing the «simple» games like Minesweeper or Tetris still by much exceeds the time spent on playing the «cool and modern» strategies and MMORPG? You aren’t surprised or may say, «OK, the simple games always would be more popular as they are _simple_.» It’s the point, but it’s not the complete picture. The simple logical games are…
- Docker Sokoban. Another Brick in the Wall — «This brick we would move left… OK, here, we can move second brick up, three steps… But we will move it only one step, to leave place above it and then move the third brick one step right…. Ooops, the third brick is in the blind alley; I can’t move it more :(((((» The above strange text is my today’s morning thoughts. No, I’m not crazy (at least, not *completely…
- Boulder Dash. Hello from the Past. — The game known as «Boulder Dash» or «Rockford» originates from 1984 — the good old times of ZX Spectrums, when one diskette, 16 colors and PC Speaker were really ENOUGH for playing really COOL games. Today’s people, with their «strategies» and «3D-shooters» can’t even imagine what it was. For Those Who Remember, as well as for Those Who Want to Feel what…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- AudioDeformator Pro, Your Brain Can Do More — How would you like to be able to remember more, master something you have been unable to conquer, or get away from what’s been bothering you for too long? These and other similar goals basically depend on the works of our mind. Is there a way to help it do things better? A while ago, it’s been discovered that by affecting the mind with the sound of certain frequencies, one can bring his or her…
- The RSS feed Scroller Converter - a new way of putting your RSS feeds into action — For most Internet users, RSS is a technology which allows them to quickly download news from various sites into a single news aggregator without having to visit each and every of them on a daily basis. This approach saves a significant amount of time and allows you to focus on specific areas you are interested in as opposed to regular rather chaotic and time-consuming web browsing. However, it is also…
- 15 Puzzle: Endless Fun of Mind Rating — No one knows for sure when and where the 15 Puzzle has been invented. But the invention was truly a success: it’s hard to think of any other puzzle game that has gained such popularity. The whole world, both children and adults, have been playing it even these days. The idea of the game is to sort the 15 randomly placed numbered square pieces in the ascending order without taking them out of the 16-cell box. But although…
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