PicClick: Visual browser for ebay and Amazon
The new site works reasonably well. You can click on eBay or Amazon and then pick a category to start looking through images. Drag the slider bar at the top right of the screen if you want to make the images larger or smaller. And you can drag your mouse over an image for more details including the price. Clicking an image will take you to the product page.
You can also search for items and set a minimum or maximum price or limit your search by zip code. Those features only work for eBay searches though, not for Amazon. And some of the Amazon prices are a bit inaccurate. For example, when I searched for Amazon MP3 downloads, every song and album had a $0 price tag. I figured maybe there was a huge sale/promotion going on, but when I clicked through to Amazon, the real prices showed up.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Dapxin said 12:30PM on 1-02-2009
This looks good. I am bookmarking it.
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