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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. 
 

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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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