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Twittearth rips off Twittervision, gives it a prettier interface
Twittearth also comes in screensaver form. Windows users can download the screensaver and look at the latest tweets from around the globe when their computer goes idle. Not that you're likely to be sitting in front of your computer and reading the screen when it's idle, but the spinning globe is still pretty, OK? A Mac version of the screen saver is in the works.
There's also a module for Twittearth users to login to their Twitter accounts and post tweets, but we weren't able to actually send a message no matter how many times we hit submit.
[via Mashable]
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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, ...
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Tom said 2:33PM on 4-21-2008
Huh, I tried it earlier and my message went through real quick, showed up in Twitterific.
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moby said 6:43AM on 4-23-2008
Great idea but poorly implemented. Load time is slow even at DSL speeds. Zoom feature is completely inadequate. No search function, no filters, etc. The messages load quickly so there is that.
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