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Googleholic for June 20, 2008



Welcome to Googleholic, your bi-weekly fix of everything Google!

In this edition:

  • Upcoming AdWords system maintenance
  • Sites gets new features
  • YouTube tries long-form
  • YouTube introduces Screening Room
  • Google Docs on ultraportables
  • Google Finance adds cash tracking

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Filed under: Weekend Review

Download Squad Week in Review

Fun, fortune, adventure and excitement; You'll find them all in Download Squad's week in review. Ok, so we're lying about the fortune and excitement is a highly subjective term. Still, there's fun, and adventure afoot so kick back and catch up.

Squander that extra hour you're getting this weekend and let's take a look at this week on Download Squad.

The Asus Eee PC
Our own Brad Linder gave in to temptation and dropped a not-so-small chunk of change for Asus' new Linux based eee PC. After an impatient wait for the battery to fully charge, he filed these two video posts on the wonders of a simplified Linux desktop on a 2lb ultra-sub-mini notebook.

Up close with the Eee PC part 1, the user interface
Up close with the Eee PC part 2, installing unsupported applications

Free (legal) movie downloads

Resident smarty-pants Lisa Hoover went download mad in this look at free and legal movie downloads online.

Five places to download free movies (legally!)

Microsoft's newest Google catch-up game
In the never ending quest to do everything Google does with slightly less skill and accuracy, Microsoft launched Project Gatineau. It's new, it's pretty, and it just might give Google's analytics a run for the money.

Microsoft launches Project Gatineau web analytics private beta

I can't understand a word you say

Google Reader Translate is a Firefox add-on that adds a translation feature to Google Reader. It won't translate full feeds for you (that would probably take forever), but it does translate every headline in a given feed. Click on the article and it will open up in a new window using Google Translate. Ich bin ein Impressed!

Automatically translate feeds with Google Reader and Firefox

Other popular stories this week:

Introducing the Meebo platform
Broken Flash uploads in Lepoard
Have you checked the clock on your Windows Mobile Device this week?

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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