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BSOD Dashboard Widget
by David Chartier Aug 9th 2005 at 12:58PM
This is pretty darn funny: I found a 0.1pr version of a BSOD widget for OSX Tiger's Dashboard that - you guessed it, displays a spot-on fatal exception BSOD on the Dashboard. Since it's just a .1 release it's definitely in its infant stages. For now it's not resizable, although that is on the todo list, so it takes up my 12" powerbook's entire display, but isn't large enough for my 17" studio display here at work.Definitely a pretty silly widget - I'll give that to those of you shaking your heads right now. But it's already given a good laugh to a few in the office here so maybe you can file this one under "fun" instead of "useful".
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, ...
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Nick Burns said 10:44PM on 8-10-2005
I guess this is to make the Mac more "enterprise friendly":
http://www.bbspot.com/News/2005/08/apple_bsod.html
:lol:
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David Chartier said 10:59PM on 8-10-2005
You're not kidding. There were two or three PC users in our overtly-Mac office who breathed a sigh of relief when I enabled this widget; it was pretty funny.
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