And now for my next puzzle, I’ll make it short & simple.
Let’s see how technologically inclined you are. How many of these letter icons can you identify? It could be a computer program, website, service, platform, and even video game consoles and cellphones.
A few years ago, while browsing for books in PowerBooks, I noticed a book containing plenty of puzzles. I tried solving some of them, but most of them cannot be solved without the aid of a scratch paper. There’s one, however, that I was able to memorize because of the absolute simplicity of the problem. The idea is to distribute the numbers 0-9 in a 2×3=5 equation so that each numbers appear exactly once. There are no hints, but a single digit was already supplied.
It’s a tough problem, admittedly. I had previously solved a similar problem before, admittedly through luck. The problem is to decode the equation BUG + FLY = MOTH, which contains 10 unique letters, meaning the numbers 0 – 9. Multiplication is far more complex than addition because of the carry-overs. Worse, the puzzle appeared not just once, but 5 times, if I’m not mistaken.
Note: If you don’t want to read the technical details and just want to view the answers, just skip the next few pages and head over the last page by clicking on its link.
Long before computers gave up productivity in exchange for social networking, media streaming, gaming and many other unproductive practices, they have been utilized for usefulness, designed as a machine made to simplify tasks and produce beautiful output.
Microsoft Word is still an absolutely essential program that needs to be installed on every computer, even though its usage has lessened through the years. In fact, I noticed that I use a basic text editor like Notepad more frequently. Furthermore, there are also several free alternatives available, like OpenOffice, LibreOffice and Google Doc’s. And yet, in spite of all of these, I still prefer Word because there are still a lot of features not found in other word processors, enabling me create professionally crafted documents with absolute ease. There simply aren’t any substitutes. However, many users don’t seem to be aware of these features, so I decided to list down some of the easy ones.
Bored with Windows’ default screen every time you login? Well, here’s a way to spice up that screen and use custom pictures.
I had a few laughs a few days ago while browsing my favorite tech sites. Well, on ArsTech, MS just unveiled the newest version of its Windows Embedded OS. And I dare you to pronounce the complete name correctly on the first attempt. It’s Windows Embedded Compact 7 public Community Technology Preview.
Apparently, some of my readers have commented (thanks guys) that they were having trouble making the background work using the instructions I have posted in my previous blog post, so I decided to make a video detailing how it’s done. 
Anyway, sorry I made the video in haste so it looks rather simplistic. No background music or captions. Hope you can get something out of it. 
Click the Youtube watermark at the lower right portion of the vid for a larger screen.
