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Minesweeper Cheat Code

Posted by ApOgEE On 10:48 AM 3 comments

Have you ever played Minesweeper? It is one of those free games pre-installed by default in every Microsoft Windows. Actually, it's not really fun for me but at least it's a game that can help me while I get bored, have nothing to do with no internet connection, and by that time I only have someone's PC with nothing installed. Then I'll pickup Minesweeper to fill my nothing-to-do time. Honestly, I'll prefer sketching if I have a pencil and a paper.

Anyway, the rules of Minesweeper is you have to find the Mines which you can guess their locations by the numbers. A number represent mines count around it. The simplest rule to understand it is take the number in the middle of 9 boxes like this:

|---|---|---|
| m | m | m |
|---|---|---|
| m | N | m |
|---|---|---|
| m | m | m |
|---|---|---|

The N represent the Number while m represent the possible mines position in the count of N. For example Number 3 represents three mines around the number like this.
|---|---|---|
| m | | |
|---|---|---|
| m | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| | | m |
|---|---|---|

However, there is also a cheat code for this game. You can simply type 'xyzzy' then press and release [Shift] key. Now, you can continue to play as usual. The different is, you can get exactly where the mines is by paying attention to a single pixel on top left corner of your desktop. Everytime you hover your mouse on a mines, the white pixel will disappear and when there is no mines under your mouse pointer, the white pixel will appear. You can even show off this to someone who starring at you playing this game and they'll amazed. Have fun!!


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Laptop batterySince my post on How to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life, I got some traffic from google on laptop tips and tricks. I don't want these readers to get disappointed and didn't get anything from my blog. So, I decided to add a section called Computer Power User in this blog and I will add more tips and tricks about computer and laptop in it. Now, let's get back to the topic. Recently I found this cool video on how you can save money with this simple laptop battery hack.

Before you try this, please be careful on what you are going to do. Be sure that you know exactly what you are doing as this video is just giving you idea on how to do it. This hack is done by a knowledgeable, technical person who have the basic of electronics. Enjoy the video and try it at your own risk.


IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE!
You should never replace li-ion cells with cells that have a lower capacity rating, or charge/discharge rate rating. The electronics in laptop batteries are programmed to prevent the cells from overheating and catching fire, and do a very good job as long as the replacement cells in the battery are of equal or higher rating than the original cells.


For those who really interested in doing this hack, I found another detail explanation on how to do this trick on Summet.com's Laptop Battery Refill. Happy hacking!


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Make your mobile world free from the power outlet when you are on-the-go with your laptop by keeping your battery healthy with this Friedbeef's Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life. Believe it or not, one of the tips to extend your laptop's battery life is by regularly Defrag your hard rive. Logically, because when your hard drive can work fast, it consume less power. So, remember to make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.


Another great tips I would like to highlight is to Hibernate your laptop rather than to put it on Standby. Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.

How to Hibernate Windows XP

Here's my quick tip for Windows XP users to hibernate your laptop/PC:
  1. Click On Start > Turn Off Computer
  2. When the Turn Off Computer window appear, you should notice there is three button. Orange for Stand By, Red for Turn Off and Green for Restart. Now press Shift Key on your keyboard and notice the Stand By Button turn to Hibernate.
  3. While keeping your Shift pressed, click on the Hibernate Button.

Most of the other tips involve smart power economy, like quitting running programs and disabling hardware you aren't using. If you do much work unplugged, following a few of these tips could help improve your battery life significantly.

Check out Top 15 Ways to Extend Your Laptop's Battery Life on Friedbeef's Tech.


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