WeWord - Ultimate time-killer word puzzle

WeWord is a word puzzle that's somewhat similar to jewel-type game, where the letters drop from top of the board. Long words enable bonuses, but you will have to decide whether to try to use it or ignore it to save game time.

As you win more games, WeWord will show more and more statistics and you will learn more about your vocabulary skills such as number of words you have used so far, your favorite words, word length distribution, and more.

Download WeWord at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmeta.WeWord

 

Diamond Drift - a sliding match-4 puzzle for Android

Diamond Drift is a new take on a classic jewel-type game.  Instead of swapping gems, you slide them into empty block around the board to connect them to earn points.

If you enjoy game like bejeweled,  give Diamond Drift a try.   Download Diamond Drift for free at Google Play

The Wordest Puzzle

The Wordest Puzzle is a sister game of Word Drift.  It is based on a feedback of friends who has played Word Drift and resulted in a simpler yet more addictive game that can be played anytime.

The player can move the blocks of letter and form words. The longer words activate combo, bonus, cluster bombs, and plasma bombs.

How to play
- Move block of letters to empty space
- Form words that are at least 2 letters long
- Activate combo by submit 4-letter words (or the longer ones)
- Keep combo going by submit words with 3 or more letters (word with 4 letters or more reset combo timer)
- The longer the combo is activated, the more likely bomb and plasma blocks are dropped

Wordest is available at Google Play and at Slide Me store

Word Drift - an exciting new kind of word puzzle game for Android

Word Drift is my newest project for Android.  It combines the game play of the classic puzzle game called 15 puzzle with some elements from modern puzzle games such as Jewel.

Unlike other word games that ask you to find the words on static board, Word Drift lets you shift the letters around to form the words that you want.  There are some sticky letters and some block that can't be moved just to make the game more challenging.  Sometimes the bomb will appear that you can use it to destroy the letters around it.  Useful when you have a letter that you can't seem to find the word for it.  However, there are levels that bombs must be placed in a way that causes chain-reaction to destroy to block that can't be reached otherwise, so you will need to plan how to use the bombs a little bit.

The game was designed to be a time killer.  Each level will win or lost in a couple of minutes.  If you are getting bored of the old word puzzle games, give Word Drift a try.

Design PCB with KiCad and edge it at home

KiCad is an open source cuircuit design and PCB layout program.  At busy.in.th you will see that using KiCad and a well know method for edging PCB (the laser printer method) lets you easily create a PCB prototype at home.

VMPlayer 5.0 Unity mode

I have been running Linux on VMWare products for years.  At work I have WMWare Workstation on my notebook.  At home, it is VMPlayer.

Just a few days ago, VMPlayer notified me that version 5.0, the newest one, is out.  Once I downloaded and installed, I saw new option in the menu called  'Unity'.  When clicked, the windows inside VMWare magically appeared on my Windows desktop.  Nice!

Before VMPlayer 5.0, I would start Xserver on my Windows and export display from Linux within VMPlayer to it.  This mean I have to start X that comes with cygwin, or lately, Xming.  It is working OK, but it is two steps process.  With VMPlayer Unity, it just easier.

It is not without problem though.  When you moving or resizing Unity windows, they will be a bit jumpy.  Sometimes it just won't follow your mouse at all.  Also, VMPlayer Unity does not suport all Window Manager.  While it works fine with Xfce, it refuses to work with Ubuntu Unity, which is a bit disappointing, if you ask me.

open 2 text files side-by-side using notepad++

Notepad++ has been mentioned here before, but one feature not talked about is the ability to open text file side-by-side.

This is great feature now that every bod has wide screen displays and notebooks.  I'm considering buying notebook with 1600x900 display, possibly Samsung Series 9 or Lenovo X1 Carbon, this feature would be very useful...or I can just use emacs for Windows, I guess.  However, I found that synchronize scrolling in Notepad++ is very nice.  Consider that using track pad on the notebooks is not that precise, having two related text to scroll at the same time can save lots of effort and possibly wrist strain.