Easter Egg

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 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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Breaking the Konami Code

Category: Computers

If you have been playing Contra on the Family Computer (or NES) game console during your younger days, you must be familiar with the 30 Lives Code.

Contra konami code

Contra (we used to call it Rambo) is a relatively hard game for a beginner so in order for us to beat the game, we have a cheat that makes our standard 3 lives become 30. The cheat code can be activated by pressing the following sequence of buttons on your game controller at the game’s title screen:

UP – UP – DOWN – DOWN – LEFT – RIGHT – LEFT – RIGHT – B – A

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Today’s Google Doodle: Halloween Candy Treat

Category: Computers

Since today is Halloween, Google is celebrating the holiday with a special doodle with their logo changed to one with a candy which looks like a jack-o-lantern.

google_doodle_halloween

Instead of the traditional “trick or treat”, Google has devised its own “click or treat” as upon clicking the logo, more candies appear.

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A Different Kind of Easter Egg Hunt

Category: Computers

I have long been fascinated with Easter eggs. No, I’m not talking about the ovoid, shiny, decorated, different-colored objects apparently hidden by the Easter Bunny for kids to hunt down during Easter Sunday morning. What I’m referring to are those hidden message, in-joke or feature in an object such as a movie, video game, or computer program. They are the “virtual” Easter eggs.

To better understand what I’m talking about, type this in the address bar of your Mozilla Firefox browser: about:mozilla. The message that appears is an Easter egg. It might differ depending on the version you are using. Mammon refers to those Internet Explorer users. Here’s another one; go to Yahoo’s website. Click on the dot in the exclamation point. You must have a speaker to hear the yodel.

Yahoo! easter egg

Cool huh? Continue reading for more eggs.

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