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Lightes - worst download ever?
As a teacher, I know teachers are always looking for a good deal. But even as a free download, Lightes is not worth it. Many classrooms have a red/yellow/green system for behavior monitoring. Kind of like a stop light, red means stop, green means go. Pretty basic. The folks over at frontbridge computers made it a little too basic though.
Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off. Press the button labeled red and the rectangle turns red. Press the yellow button and it turns yellow. Same with green. The off button clears the rectangle to gray. That's all it does. There is a timer button but no matter what number I enter, as soon as I press timer I get a window that pops up and says done.
Cnet TV ranked lightes as the number one worst downloads of the summer of 2008. On the frontbridge home page Lightes is called the "star program of all time." Yikes.
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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Jeppe said 4:51PM on 8-26-2008
Oh, I didn't know you are a teacher. I am aswell. Have you guys any plans for perhaps starting a new category for e-learning? I am always on the look out for tools I can use in my work.
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pmow said 6:03PM on 8-26-2008
'Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off.'
After contemplating various responses to the above line, I'll let it stand by itself.
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Matias Korhonen said 6:43PM on 8-26-2008
Hey, let's be fair. Not everybody can cut it in advanced mathematics.
pmow said 6:42PM on 8-26-2008
'Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off.'
After contemplating various responses to the above line, I'll let it stand by itself.
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Tom said 11:03AM on 8-27-2008
Kinda makes you wonder why CNET includes it in their listings... do they have no quality filter whatsoever?
Oh, and I second pmow: 'Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off.' is either very clever... or it's not.
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Edex said 3:19PM on 9-20-2008
'Lightes has three options. Red, yellow, green and off.' LOL
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Dominick said 7:36PM on 11-16-2008
I actually know this guy alright, he's a nice guy but he thinks to highly of himself and he thinks he knows more about programming than my friend who has made far more useful programs than this one. But hey they don't "teaches".
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