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.
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, ...
