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WikiCalc collaborative spreadsheet from Dan Bricklin
by Marc Perton Nov 10th 2005 at 4:34PM
If you want a collaborative spreadsheet, you could try NumSum. Or, you could download and install the alpha of WikiCalc, which was created by none other than spreadsheet pioneer Dan Bricklin, who brought us VisiCalc back when dinosaurs walked the earth. Right now, the only version of WikiCalc is a Windows desktop app, but Bricklin plans on making it cross-platform, and producing both client and server versions, so it shouldn't be long before you can use this on the web. He's also planning to GPL it, so if you want to help out, here's your chance to work with code created by a software legend.
[Via the Office Weblog]
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, ...
