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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When we posted that the commercial WSIWYG blogging application Post2Blog had gone freeware, one reader pointed out that it looked a lot like Windows Live Writer. 
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Jubei said 8:38AM on 6-01-2007
Downloaded and installed it on top of the old version without any problems. The new Beta looks nice but I have not managed to try using it. Once up and running, the new Beta 2 seems to REALLY eat up CPU cycles on my PC (using XP)and has already frozen my PC twice. Is it just me?
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Jubei said 9:59PM on 6-01-2007
After spending 4+ hours, I discovered that on my PC, Live Writer Beta 2 triggers svchost.exe into running my CPU at 100%. I can't seem to get it back to what it was before. The solution seems to be to turn off windows auto update. So beware.
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awflasher said 8:09AM on 6-26-2007
It seems that the live writer1.0 is still in beta?
is there any stable release of lw1.0?
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