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How To Play Snake at YouTube

Category: Computers, How To

Here’s a new easter egg from YouTube.

After entertaining (or annoying) soccer fans with the constant hum of the vuvuzela embedded in its videos during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, YouTube brings back the classic Snake game that was so popular before during the early days of cellular phones.

The instructions on how to play Snake at YouTube are given after the jump.

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How to Get Traffic From Twitter

Category: Computers, How To

I have been a member of twitter since August 20, 2008 and honestly, I don’t really understand how twitter works and no idea on how to tap its power to benefit my site. I just tweeted links from my site hoping that the members of the twitosphere will check it out.

However in 1 year, my Google Analytics shows me that I only received 342 visits from twitter.

Last December 2009, Google announced a new feature allowing real-time streams of updates from various social networks as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before to appear in its search results page.

“Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand.”

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How to Hard Boil Eggs

Category: How To

Today, I noticed a rising trend of people searching on Google how to hard boil eggs.

Since Easter Sunday is fast approaching, it must be that people are already preparing for the kid’s Easter egg hunt.

In hard boiling an egg, the number one concern is time: for how long will you boil it in water?

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How to Block Those Annoying Facebook Applications

Category: How To

Why would I want to have a pillow or snowball fight with someone?

What will I do with these 14 gifts I received today? Or this heart? Or smile?

You uncovered an Ancient Vampiric Chest and you’re sharing the spoils with me?

Sorry, but no thanks. I don’t want to be your neighbor in Cafe World or join your Mafia either.

This is becoming so annoying.

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How to Transform a Football Stadium Into a Basketball Court

Category: Basketball, How To

Thanks to the magic of time-lapse videography, we see how the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas magically transforms into a basketball court for the 2010 NBA All-Star Game.

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How to Make Your Own Barcode

Category: How To

Today is the 57th anniversary of the issuance of US Patent 2,612,994 to creators Norman Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver for the barcode.

In recognition of this wonderful invention, Google substituted their homepage logo with its barcode equivalent.

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