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xFruits: Do stuff with RSS
Thanks to a funny name, lack of descriptive text, and somewhat muddled English, it took me awhile to figure out what xFruits is. Basically it's a free web service that lets you do some interesting stuff with RSS feeds. Currently it has four functions: One lets you aggregate multiple RSS feeds into a single one, another (I think) republishes an RSS feed to a blog-like web page, another will take an RSS feed and turn it into a mobile-friendly web page, and the last will publish an RSS feed of all e-mail sent to an @xfruits.com e-mail address. We've seen all of these functions done before, but xFruits has the distinction of rolling them all up into one login. It also has a social aspect: The xFruiters page lists other xFruit users and what xFruits they've set up, along with the obligatory tag cloud. Judging from the front page, xFruit has a lot more functionality coming up, like "RSS to PDF," "RSS to Mail," and "File to RSS."
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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, ...
