Filed under: Audio, Fun, Kids, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Adobe, Freeware, Time-Wasters
Neave Audio / Visual - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke May 8th 2007
This time waster isn't a game... it's more like a web toy. Neave Audio / Visual is a web-based audio visualizer, using Flash to access either your microphone or wave-in port. The visualizations are simple, but effective. They're not going to win any awards for being super flashy, but unlike many other audio visualizations, these ones very obviously react to sound. It's particularly enjoyable to get some young children in front of the computer screen, and turn on a microphone. Once they start to see how the sounds they make are interpreted on-screen, you'll start hearing all sorts of interesting stuff. Keep some ear plugs handy, if you're going to follow this advice.
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, ...
