Diamond Hunter For iTouch

If you are itching to own a diamond, you can enjoy one by playing Diamond Hunters for the iTouch. Created by Alcomi, it is a physics based strategy that is very entertaining game filled with puzzles that lets you do the mechanisms. You have walls, springs, teleports and conveyors among others which you can drag. The diamond must collect icons and get into the basket. Small diamonds are also at your disposal. With these, you can create and get to own the largest diamond. There is no game over per level. If you cannot solve it, then you are stuck with it. The level however, restarts back or you can manually restart the level if you do so wish. The game features great graphics (which I am a sucker of) and cute music and sound effects. The game starts with simple harmless tinks. But as the game progresses and you go deeper into the game, you will meet whirling circular saws which you have to watch out. Check out the screen shots below.

Azkend For iTouch

When I saw a screenshot of this game, I thought it was pretty interesting. I am a sucker for great graphics anyway. Once I started to check on it, I immediately went to the help section to know how to play the game because the last game I played that looked the same as Azkend, Treasures of Montezuma had me stuck at a certain level where the only thing that helped me finished that level and its succeeding ones was after reading the help section. After reading Azkend’s help I proceeded to play the game and here is what I can say. Its game play is the same as that of Jewel Quest, where matching tiles of the same type will have its background colored and you also have a story to follow (though not interactively).

The object of the game is to have all the tile’ background be turned to blue and the layout looks like a beehive. To match the tiles, you would have to connect them much like you do the same way in Bookworm’s iTouch version. When the entire board is blue, a broken piece of a talisman appears at the top of the game board. Before time runs out, you have to clear all the tiles below the talisman piece and have it reach to the bottom of the board. There is a timer clock on the lower right side of the screen which you must beat, else you would have to restart the level.

The game has a distinct feature such that if your match includes at least a tile that has not been covered blue, your lightning meter will increase. Once the lightning meter is full, lightning eradicates uncolored tiles for you and turns them blue. But if your match does not contain an uncolored background in any of the tiles, then your lightning meter will go empty and you will have to restart. Tiles also vary such that others can be steel tiles where you have to break an an item on it to turn it into a basic tile, an iced tile where you have to break a string of items next to it to defrost it, the tar Tile where the tile is covered with spreading tar and you would have to break a string next to it in order to remove it and a wildcard which can be used to string together any two types of tiles.

Overall, a good game for me and like other matching games that I played for the iTouch is pretty addictive.

Java: Get Local Time Of Website’s Server

If you want to get the date and time of a website’s server and if it is not displayed within the website, you can do so by getting the headers that are returned. In Java, you would use the URL and HttpURLConnection classes to meet this objective. You can then loop through the HttpURLConnection object’s headers and see what the header name for the date and time is. One site that I accessed had the header name “Date” so you may want to try this out. If you know the header name you do not have to loop through each header but just call the getHeaderField(String name) method of the HttpURLConnection object.

See sample code below

URL url = new URL(PUT_YOUR_URL_HERE);
HttpURLConnection httpcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
System.out.println(httpcon.getHeaderField("Date"));
httpcon.disconnect();

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