Month: October 2006

Ah, the Rubik’s Cube: hours of dedicated puzzle-solving ending in a surreptitious peeling off of stickers (come on, I’m not the only one who did that!). However, if you really want to learn how to solve the Rubik, then check out this step by step solver from Casey C. at the Oregon Institute of Technology.

Basically, you’re solving a mathematical problem. All you need to do is follow the (somewhat complicated) steps and you’ll solve the mystery that is the Rubik’s Cube…something that I’ve been trying to do since I was in eighth grade. — Wendy Boswell

Originally from Lifehacker

Simply put, for a 1080i/p game the console has 55% less time per pixel to render any special effects, anti-aliasing, illumination, etc. than for a 720p game.Is it really harder for a developer to make a game for 1080p as opposed to 1080i? No.Read on for more information

Originally from digg / Technology

with virtualapple.org’s online emulator you can relive, play, and enjoy old Apple 2 games and other disk’s, currently they have over 1100 disk images archived on the web site. and they will take contributions of specific disks,docs

Originally from digg / Technology

Web site vNES lets you play any of over 200 NES games online, in your browser.

While not the life hackiest of web sites, you could tell yourself that if you can get a quick Paperboy fix in your browser when you need it (only me?), you won’t have to waste your time digging through your storage boxes in order to hook up your Nintendo, then spend the next hour blowing, pushing, and coaxing your cartridge to the sweet spot that will actually let you play it. Sounds like a time saver to me. Requires Java 1.5 or higher. — Adam Pash

Originally from Lifehacker

We’ve blogged about folding here before at the Lifehacker HQ, but this instructional video will teach you three different professional folding methods: the simple, the Japanese, and the automatic folding machine (yes, really).

The simple is your everyday fold. The Japanese – well, it takes a little practice but you’ll nail it. However, the tour de force of this simple DIY video has to be the automatic folding machine: a simply engineered marvel of cardboard and duct tape. Don’t just take my word for it – watch the video and prepare to be amazed by the folding expertise. — Wendy Boswell

Originally from Lifehacker