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RemoteCalendars: Access iCalendars inside Outlook
If you're like me, you live inside Microsoft Outlook. For maintaining your personal calendar, and company group calendars, Outlook is brilliant. One area where Outlook falls short, however, is accessing iCalendar shared calendars. Since iCalendar is sort of an internet standard, this is a frustrating issue. RemoteCalendars is a free utility that solves that problem. One of the many great open source applications available at Sourceforge.net, RemoteCalendars allows you to gain access to iCalendar based published calendars inside Outlook 2003 (previous versions of Outlook don't seem to work with this utility). With RemoteCalendars installed, you can subscribe to calendars via http or webcal protocols.It's nice to be able to see calendars from buddies who use Macs or Linux.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...