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Google Docs "hidden" viewer feature coming to Chrome OS
Interestingly enough, the viewer has also made its way into some recent changes to the Chromium source code. If Chrome detects that it is running on Chrome OS, the --enable-viewer switch turns on viewer integration. After that, Chrome will "intercept HTTP requests for documents that GView is capable of displaying and redirect the user to the appropriate URL for viewing."
It's a logical step, since you'd presumably be online surfing with Chrome anyway. Don't want to be redirected to Google's Viewer whenever you click on a supported document type? You'll no doubt be able to disable the feature with a command line switch as well, or at least hack together a Userscript to retool things.
Heck, it may even be added to the Personal Stuff screen in Chrome's options panel. It's all speculation at this point, unless someone else comes up with some new, blurry digital photos.
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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