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GooPs brings real-time tracking to Google Earth


GooPs lets you follow live GPS data from your personal tracking device navigation gadget live in Google Earth. We'll admit, that's a neat trick, but it's not really newsworthy. What makes GooPs interesting is the ability to connect multiple GooPs users together and watch each other move in real-time.

By color coding tracked objects, you can instantly get a feel not only for where your friends are but how fast they're moving. We didn't immediately have access to a GPS device but, the developer promises easy install and configuration. It's like a 3D Twitter for your GPS!

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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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