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Flurry: free mobile email and RSS access

FlurryNow that Download Squad is accessible via mobile device, I thought I would start bringing you more downloads for mobile users.

This slick little app will turn your mobile device into an email and RSS powerhouse. You set up an online account with Flurry first with your email accounts and RSS feeds, then you can download mail and RSS feeds from their gateway servers onto your mobile device. They support OPML import for all your news feeds, and POP3 or IMAP for your email accounts. The service is currently available on many carriers including T-Mobile, Cingular, Verizon, U.S. Cellular, Nextel, Sprint, Virgin Mobile, Boost, Edge and others. You need a phone that supports J2ME (Java) and MIDP protocols (most newer devices do support both) and a wap-enabled browser to download the app. Get this download (direct download for your mobile) of Flurry. Then set your Gmail or other POP3/IMAP service to allow access, and you're golden! If you can't download the app via your phone, it is also available to download onto your PC (JAD edition or JAR edition) then transfer using blue-tooth or a cable. Drop me a line below or send me a tip if there are sweet mobile apps you want me to cover in the future. The read link below is a PC-viewable version of the download page. Enjoy!

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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