When I was in 5th grade, Rubik’s Cube was all the rage. Everyone had one and many had various sizes and even shapes. I had the original cube, a key chain cube, the ball, and even the pyramid. I played with mine, messed it up, and then busted it apart and put it back together correctly. My Lego experience came in handy.

I wanted to be able to solve it the right way, though. So I purchased some quick guide book that showed how to solve it in like 2 minute or less. I took my skills and competed against Shimmon Pital in Mr. Low’s class and we both feverishly did our work. I was first up and completed it in about a minute and thirty seconds. I thought I had it. Shimmon dusted nearly thirty seconds off of my time and won the competition. Just like new in about a minute. Wow!

Well if you still have a cube around that needs some fixing and you don’t feel like bustin’ it apart to put the pieces all back were they go, then you may want to take a look at the Doing The Cube site. Like the little book I had oh too many years ago, you can now learn how to solve any messed up cube. Since it’s all math here, as Professor Rubik himself intended the teaching instrument to be about, the method works on any combination of “mess up”. Practice, practice, and you may be able to beat my 1:30 time like Shimmon Pital did.

Ever need to hard reset your iPod and you fumbled through that little manual that came with your DAP or better yet, you Googled for the solution? Google and fumble no more because Command-Tab has got you covered with an easy to use guide. Simply select your desired action — hard reset, diagnostic mode, or disk mode — and every hard drive-based generation iPod wheel highlights the buttons you need to depress to enable the task you seek. Easy, fast, done. Nothing better than that, aye?

We’re sure Command-Tab will update this very quickly when the full-screen iPod video releases.