For quite a while now, we've been making efforts to start up a playground section on our site, a place where we can gather all the things that we create just for the fun of it and share it publicly, a place that can inspire and educate ourselves and the people that come to our site.

Dear friends,

With what do you associate November? For us it's not the changing of seasons, or streets full of yellow-brownish leaves, for us November has one significance only- the birth of DryIcons!
We are delighted to say that today is DryIcons' 3rd birthday!

Finally, after months of hard work, we are very excited to announce that the third edition of the DryIcons website is here!

The 2nd Anniversary celebration is over as of today, when we're announcing the winners. Honestly, we expected a lot more comments, more users, eager to get a free extended license for our Coquettes...Anyway, we are very thankful to all our users that had the time to leave a comment, and those who were too lazy to do that :)

Post update:

As of right now, DryIcons' 2nd Anniversary Giveaway is over! The comments will be temporary disables and the winners will be announced at our Blog tomorrow!
All winners will be notified by email.

Dear friends of DryIcons,

We are very happy to share with you that DryIcons has turned 2 years! This joyous occasion is to be celebrated with some cake, so please have some.

I first came in contact with Sudoku a few years ago, back when I was a student. I traveled a lot, about three hours one-way at least twice a month, and it was a real pleasure "not" to waste my time just staring in the moving environment, although even that can be fun sometimes, but it gets a bit dull after the first couple of trips and then it simply makes you asleep :)
Few months ago I got obsessed with it, again, I've started solving Sudoku puzzles in a specialized Sudoku magazines (daily newspapers puzzles weren't enough anymore), and it's become a real office mind-stimulating treatment... Try making a short Sudoku-solving break every time you're coding something, in a short time you'll find algorithms leaking out of your brains, and coding faster than you've ever had :)... No, seriously, it has some strange positive influence on your (or mine at least) logic, maybe because there is so much logic in it... even though it's so simple game.
I wanted to go deeper this time... you know "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", find out more about it, reach for its "essence", build an algorithm or two and then do a bit of coding. It sounds like a story so far ain't it :), yet this post is intended to be a showcase of some approaches and algorithms for creating a Sudoku puzzles and games. So let's get technical...

A music video from the premiere mini album "Water Flavor EP", from the Japanese band "Sour", for the song "Hibi no Neiro" (Tone of everyday). The video was shot with webcams only, and the main protagonists are Sour fans from around the world.

"Hibi no Neiro" (Tone of everyday) Video