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Mirror - OS X Widget of the Day
by Emily Price Feb 13th 2007 at 6:30PM
Do you need to check your hair before a big meeting? Check your teeth after eating a spinach salad for lunch?The Mirror widget made by Baloba Software is exactly what it sounds like, a mirror on your dashboard.
Obviously, the widget requires you to have a webcam connected to your computer. The mirror widget uses QuickTime and QuartzComposer to display an actual image of you, unlike most webcam images that are reversed. It could be a great asset to have on your laptop however when you need to do a quick check of your appearance before stepping away from your computer.
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, ...
