SCRABBLE was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect in New York, in an attempt to make a word game that combined anagrams and crosswords, which involved chance, luck and a great degree of skill. Together, Butts and game-loving entrepreneur James Brunot, refined the game and made the games by hand, stamping letters on wooden tiles on at a time. They eventually came up with the name SCRABBLE, which means "to grope frantically."
Working with people in different time zones can be difficult when scheduling a time to meet up virtually, whether it's on Zoom, FaceTime, another video chatting app, or just a good old-fashioned phone call. The time needs to be good for all parties, and trying to remember UTC offsets and doing mental math isn't easy. Luckily, there's an easier way to deal with time zones on your iPhone.
If you're looking for your gaming fix and nothing on the App Store is piquing your interest, you should give soft-launched games a try. These are games that haven't been released in the US yet because they're getting tested in smaller markets first. Using a simple workaround, you can install them on your iPhone in any country.
Rising on the world stage, dengue fever is transmitted by mosquitoes — and apparently air travel too.
Flu vaccines can help prevent us from getting or suffering the most severe effects of the flu. But, each vaccine only protects us from three different strains of the flu. If we don't have a vaccine against all types of flu, it leaves us open for an epidemic with a flu virus we didn't expect.
Malaria is a massive worldwide health problem. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 212 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide in 2015 and 429,000 of the infected people died.
Over the past week, companies took a variety of approaches to investing in augmented reality. Lampix is backing its own effort to build an ecosystem for augmented reality platforms. Nokia and Xiaomi are teaming up on numerous fronts, potentially including augmented reality.
The noses of kids who live in areas of intense pig farming may harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria, presumably acquired from the animals, according to a new study by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Statens Serum Institut in Denmark, published in Environmental Health Perspectives.
Well, well, well. Uber, we knew you were investing a ton of money into creating self-driving taxis and flying cars, but what we didn't know is that you were already testing out your driverless vehicles on the streets of New York City.
Our quest to find novel compounds in nature that we can use against human diseases —a process called bioprospecting — has led a research team to a small frog found in India. From the skin slime of the colorful Hydrophylax bahuvistara, researchers reported finding a peptide — a small piece of protein — that can destroy many strains of human flu and can even protect mice against the flu.
Cholera is rapidly spreading in Mozambique, with over 1,200 people infected. Since the outset of 2017, cholera has spread from the capital city of Maputo (pictured above) to three of its ten provinces. Health officials report other areas in the country are seeing case counts rise, and two deaths have been logged so far.
Welcome back, my novice hackers! You have probably heard of the Panama Papers hack by now. This was a hack of the servers at Mossack Fonseca, a major law firm in Panama. This law firm specializes in assisting the rich and powerful to hide their wealth from taxes and scrutiny by creating tax havens overseas.
The second chapter of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, you've crash landed into the depths of the ruins in New York City and a strange, mysterious woman, has put a slaver head band on you to force you into helping her go to the West, to get back home. And here's the full walkthrough of the entire second chapter of Enslaved: Odyssey to the West on the Xbox 360 on the Hard difficulty.
This video tutorial shows how to create hay bale art in FarmVille (10/22/09). Are you a jaded FarmVille player? Do the joys of harvesting just not do it for you like they used to? Why don't you start using FarmVille as an artistic medium? This video will teach you how to use Excel to plot out images which you can then create out of hay bales! The options are limited only by your creativity, now open up Microsoft Office and start creating!
This video tutorial shows how to use the biplane to increase your mastery in FarmVille (06/07/10). The biplane is one of the most fun tools available to the FarmVille player, causing all of your crops to become ready for harvesting instantly. This video will teach you how to use it in conjunction with your Farmer's Market to increase your mastery substantially.
This video tutorial shows how to stuff your nursery barn in FarmVille (06/07/10). If you don't want to cheat at FarmVille, or already have and are just trying to manage your massive herd of livestock, this video is here to help! It will teach you how to stuff your nursery barn in the most efficient way for removing the animals later. Now get back on Facebook and farm more productively than ever!
Looking for a way to generate an unlimited amount of Pet Society coins? Look no further. This hacker's how-to will show you how to hack Pet Society's frisbee & ball games to generate more digital cash money than you could ever spend.
Want to generate experience and level up your Pet Society character the easy way? Watch this cheater's guide, which will show you how to hack Pet Society for all the EXP you could ever want.
If you're not sure how to share links to your building expansions or golden eggs in FarmVille, to others, you have to watch this. To get the link to publish it, all you have to do is watch and learn. Share your mystery eggs or barn raising links in FarmVille with everyone! This also works with adoptable animals and much more in FarmVille.
You can speed up productivity in FarmVille with a simple glitch that everybody knows about by now. Somehow, someway, boxing yourself in on FarmVille allows you to speed up the process, because you don't have to walk around to complete each task at hand. Watch and see how to speed productivity in FarmVille with a "boxed in" glitch (12/13/09).
Has Zynga changed the way you get mystery eggs from chicken coops? There's only one way to find out—by trying out and seeing for yourself, but this video does it all for you, plus shows some tips on chicken coops and eggs. See how to get mystery eggs from chicken coops in FarmVille (12/22/09).
Harvesting your crops taking too long? Use this quick trick to make your life easier! This video tutorial shows how to save time harvesting in FarmVille (12/08/09). Instead of waiting for your little farmer to walk all the way across your farm to harvest that last crop, why not have him do it instantly? By creating a mini-prison for your farmer, you will be able to harvest anything, anywhere, right away. Watch the video for details.
Like most living things, your plants in FarmVille will always enjoy a good meal. Understanding the types and effects of fertilizer will help you level up quicker!
This is a great level hack for Pet Society, using, none other than, Cheat Engine. Try this out for yourself and see your levels rise like tides during a full moon close to an equinox.
Here's a good way to do the rope coin cheat on Pet Society using Cheat Engine. Cheat Engine never fails to amaze, so download it, use it, and enjoy.
Stitching in Wizard101. You're going to need some new gear for you wizard, and the only possible way is to start stitching away.
The Wizard101 Test Realm. You can play in it, but beware of scammers, beggars, and spammers! There's nothing worse than getting bombarded with these annoying requests.
FarmVille hacks, cheats, glitches! FarmVille is the hottest application on Facebook which lets members manage a virtual farm by planting, growing, and harvesting crops, trees, and livestock. Grow delicious fruits and vegetables and raise adorable animals on your very own farm!
Systm is the Do It Yourself show designed for the common geek who wants to quickly and easily learn how to dive into the latest and hottest tech projects. We will help you avoid pitfalls and get your project up and running fast.
Restaurant City is a Facebook game that allows you to create your own restaurant. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to cheat money in Restaurant City (09/30/09).
This video shows you how to create a Charlotte York from Sex and the City. This is a great neutral, bronzy look.
This video shows you how to create a Carrie Bradshaw Sex and the City makeup inspired look. This is a great light pink look, try it and hit the town tonight.
For those of us living in any of the 49 states other than New York on Thanksgiving Day, checking out the famous Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade at New York is more a dream than reality. While the parade airs every Thanksgiving on television, it's also possible to catch the festivities online.
Dead Rising 2 for the Xbox 360, stuck in Fortune City, your task is to survive and help other people survive, well, among other things anyway. If you're up to Case 2 and are looking for a way to finish it, or are looking for some Zombrex, then check out this video! You will get a full walkthrough of Case 2 in Dead Rising 2.
Want to get started playing FarmVille? Signing up is easy! And this gamer's guide will show you precisely how it's done.
Need to know how to plow a field in FarmVille on Facebook? It's easy! And this gamer's guide will show you precisely how it's done.
Want to know how to earn digital coins when playing FarmVille on Facebook? It's easy! And this gamer's guide will show you precisely how it's done.
This video tutorial shows how to use arborists and farmhands in FarmVille (07/02/10). Farmhands and arborists are two of the most powerful helper tools that you can employ on a large FarmVille farm, allowing you to take care of all of your plants of a particular type with a single mouse click! That beats clicking all over your whole dang farm right? This video will show you how to use farmhands and arborists properly to achieve maximum FarmVille success.
This video tutorial shows how to cheat at FarmVille (11/01/09).
This video tutorial shows how to hack FarmVille (12/23/10). Are you tired of using Cheat Engine to hack FarmVille? Well now there's another way. This video will teach you how to use a Firefox entension called Greasemonkey and this script to cheat in FarmVille. Try it out!