I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.
In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.
To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.
Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.
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by Jordan Running Jun 29th 2006
Today saw the release of Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3. This is mostly a security and (one hopes) bug fix release, but the new beta does contain a few new features, including drag-and-drop tab reordering, interface improvements, and some feed-reading improvements. You can download the new beta for XP at Microsoft's IE site. According to IEBlog, this is the last beta release for IE7 and the next version will be Release Candidate.
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Snifer said 6:56PM on 6-29-2006
I think page display is faster than beta 2.
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Nik said 7:42PM on 6-30-2006
I like it!
IE 7 Beta 3 is faster than beta 2 in overall performance.
The Interface is a little bit nicer, too.
It has a more solid feeling.
It is good to see this considering IE7 is still in beta.
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David said 3:35PM on 7-06-2006
I wonder if this version won't get infected by things like Spysheriff and other things like that?
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tedzzz said 2:11PM on 8-10-2006
toolbars are too rigid
"standard button" is no longer a toolbar
and is tied to right of tabs
very awkward - it can not be moved to the "classic location"
concept of homepage needs to be re-invented...
now that you can have many ...there is a big set of implications....
the combination of setting for tabs is going to confuse non technical people to no end. there should be a wizard.
popups open in new window , links open in new tabs.
problem is for common user the resulting page will often seem the same except for content (except for junk adds)
there should be a way for people to test drive features (feature enable until logout and then
user prompted next time if they want to continue with feature)
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