Filed under: Utilities, Windows
Monitor Your Adsense Account From Your System Tray
by Jason Clarke Jul 17th 2005 at 11:42AM
I often find myself compulsively logging in to Google's AdSense to see how much I've made today. Given that it's never more than a dollar, I can't really explain my compulsion, but rather than fight it, I decided to find a tool to automate it. When I went looking, what I found was SysSense. SysSense will sit unobtrusivly in your system tray and poll your AdSense account at regularly configured intervals, and pop up a balloon tip with the details of your earnings. The current version of SysSense can handle multiple accounts, and show data by individual ad unit, or by page. It has just been updated to version 1.2.11 to handle recent changes made by Google to AdSense. SysSense is donationware for Windows.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
