Filed under: Fun, Security, Windows, Open Source
TunnelVision: Security through obscurity
by Jordan Running Jul 31st 2006
Please pardon the pun in the title. TunnelVision is a quirky little privacy app from Winamp creator Justin Frankel's Cockos, Inc. It lets you hide everything on your screen except the space around the cursor. Imagine your desktop is a pitch black room and your cursor the beam of a flashlight and you'll have an idea of what using TunnelVision is like. I honestly can't say whether TunnelVision is actually a useful privacy tool or just a novelty. It could certainly be used as a fun prank to play on co-workers. TunnelVision allows you to configure the size of your "tunnel" (the default is teensy) as well as the color, in case you prefer, say, hot pink over pitch black. TunnelVision is open source and a tiny 30kb download including the source code.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
