Filed under: News, Open Source
Free book for open source evangelists
Looking to convince someone that open source is the way to go? You could do worse than to give them a copy of "Free Software for Busy People," available as a free e-book or a $24.99 paperback. The book, by Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, a doctor and programmer, provides tips on using a range of popular open source apps, including OpenOffice.org and Firefox. Along the way, the author introduces a series of characters designed to provide real-world examples of open source usage. It's a cute device that doesn't always work — do we really care that "Dr. Digitalis" was able to open Word docs with OpenOffice? Still, it's an impressive effort, and well worth the download.
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, ...
