Category Archives: Diario

Beatport Downloader

The Beatport Downloader allows you to download and organize your recently purchased tracks with one click. No more incomplete or lost music, easily see the status of all your downloads. Organize your music like never before through the Downloader’s folder naming preferences. This feature allows for full control of how you store and search your music library.
Have you ever experienced problems with Beatport and your simultaneous downloads?
The download speed is not yet very impressive on the site, but this download organizer will do the job for you.  Check it out!

Passion of Rubik’s Cube

I’ve been trying to master this piece of coloured toy, which seems to be nerve-racking to solve for most people.

But, there are a number of people around the world competing in “Speed Cubing”; to arrange the cubes in the shortest amount of time. And here comes the interesting part…

A normal (3×3×3) Rubik’s Cube can have (8! × 38−1) × (12! × 212−1)/2 = 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different positions

So, however… I’ve been doing some pretty neat algorithms for the cube, and I finally mastered some of them. My first “total” time from a totally scrambled cube to a solved cube is somewhere around 2 hours. Well, after all…it’s my second day practicing this sport (you should see my sweaty face). Now I need to reduce my time to…say…1 minute… :)

Edit: (September 6, 2007)
I am now solving the first two layers (F2L) in about 10 minutes. That’s progress :D I am trying to learn the corners cases and permutation cases of the last layer. These algorithms are used for efficiency in the time frame.
There are 21 different combinations for the PLL (permuting last layer) and 40 combinations for the COLL (corner orientation of last layer).