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Download Squad Week in Review
Been so busy waiting for your American Airlines flight to actually take off that you haven't had time to catch up on the week's other news? Wait, that doesn't make sense. You've had nothing but time on your hands. Aww, whatever. Here are some of our favorite stories from the past week. No excuses necessary.Flickr launches video uploads
We've been expecting Flickr to add a video upload feature to the online photo sharing site for some time now. But we never would have guessed that when it finally arrived, Flickr users would be limited to uploading videos of 90 seconds or less. Flickr's justifying the move by saying the clips should be seen as long photos, not YouTube-style content. But that hasn't stopped Flickr traditionalists from forming and anti-video group and starting a petition asking Flickr to withdraw the feature.
Organize your music collection with TagScanner
Have a few thousand music files scattered around your hard drive and need a good way to organize them? While iTunes, Windows Media Player, and several other music players will help you edit your music's metadata to add things like artist names and song and album titles, TagScanner is probably the easiest music tagger for Windows we've ever seen. And it's free to boot.
Should software be native or web-based?
A few years ago we would have laughed if someone told us that in 2008 we'd spend more time using web-based applications for our calendars, to-do lists, image editing, and other day to day tasks. But there's no disputing the fact that some of the coolest applications around now are web-based. And of course, we'd be lost without our web browser, RSS reader, and web-based email clients. But just because we want to access online data like news and email, does that mean we should be using our web browser all day? Or is there a case to be made for native desktop apps?
HuddleChat is Dead, long live Campfire
Google launched its App Engine this week, allowing developers to write applications and host them on Google's servers. And one of the first applications to go live was HuddleChat, a web-based multi-user chat service that bore a striking resemblance to Campfire from 37signals. The primary difference? Campfire is a freemium service while HuddleChat is completely free. Way to annoy the type of developers you're hoping to attract, Google! HuddleChat was removed shortly after it launched, which then annoyed all the non-developers who loved the idea of a free version of Campfire.
Some more of our top stories:
- Triggit: Place ads, rich media on your blog with browser-based tools
- SMSOfficer: Send SMS with Microsoft Outlook 2007
- The Mets have been Rickrolled, fans not particularly happy
- ThinkFree Office: Powerful, familiar office suite for Windows, Mac, and Linux
- Yahoo! "Unlimited" email has a limit after all
- Amic Email Backup: Free backup for your email account
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, ...
