Filed under: Audio, Podcasting, Web services
Listen to your blogs as podcasts with VocalFruits
VocalFruits is a new service from xFruits that will read out loud to you. It takes a few dozen steps to sign up for the free service. But once you do, you can listen to a mildly annoying computerized voice read your feeds on a website or save the feed as a podcast.
The idea is great, and the execution is... decent. The digitized voice does a pretty good job with punctuation, pausing and stopping at most of the right points. But it also voices the "read," "permalink," "email this," and "comments" section at the bottom of each Download Squad post. These sort of programs haven't yet figured out the difference between the body of a blog post and the extra data that most blogs and news websites include.
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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, ...
