Sudoku - a great & stimulating game
Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. The aim of the canonical puzzle is to enter a numerical digit from 1 through 9 in each cell of a 9×9 grid made up of 3×3 sub grids (called “regions”), starting with various digits given in some cells (the “givens”). Each row, column, and region must contain only one instance of each numeral. Completing the puzzle requires patience and logical ability.
The root of Sudoku lies in an 18th century brainteaser called Latin Squares invented by a mathematician named Leonhard Euler who hails from Basle, Switzerland. The Japanese copied the basic concept and introduced it to the world as suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru, which translates as “the number that is limited only to unmarried or single”. Sudoku attained international popularity in 2005.
Playing this puzzle is not easy as you think. It is not the matter of guessing where the numbers are (like jigsaw puzzle, guessing where the right pieces should be put), but every solution has its own logical explanation.
It’s said that Sudoku also can force your brain to think logically. This should be applied to the children, so that their fresh brain can develop better. The elderly also should try this to stimulate their brain.
There are lots of Sudoku resources. Below are a few:
Web Sudoku - Billions of Sudoku to play online
Sudoku Assistant - A step by step Sudoku helper by Andrew Stuart
Sudoku puzzle - how to solve
Daily Sudoku
Now, I myself am trying to solve Sudoku. The easy one is very hard. Arghh….
Download from Youtube.com
What is YouTube?
YouTube is a way to get your videos to the people who matter to you. With YouTube you can:
Show off your favorite videos to the world
Blog the videos you take with your digital camera or cell phone
Securely and privately show videos to your friends and family around the world
… and much, much more!
Now you can download the videos from youtube.com. First of all search the video and open as usual. Look at the address bar. As an example, it will look like this:
http://youtube.com/watch.php?v=pGxG9DvwLiU&search=ah-ha
pGxG9DvwLiU is the video ID.
To download the video, replace thevideoid with the one you’ve searched for
http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=thevideoidget_video.php
It will be like this:
http://www.youtube.com/get_video.php?video_id=pGxG9DvwLiU
A message box will appear and click save. The video will be downloaded as get-video.php. Change the file extension to .flv instead of .php.
To play this type of file, you must get a FLV player, which can be found free here
Credit goes to fungkur
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This e-mail was received this morning and I am looking forward to try it, as many said that it is good. Dragging and dropping, Outlook looks (without downloading any software) and …
And now Yahoo! Mail is on their way to beat GMail. Believe me, the interface is much more better than Gmail. For full resolution screenshots, go to http://patcavit.com/2005/09/14/y-mail-beta-impressions/
