Filed under: Fun, Games, Macintosh, Freeware, Time-Wasters
Liquid Mac - Today's Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Jul 15th 2007
This little Mac application is the definition of a time waster; it performs no real useful function, and yet we can't stop playing with it. It's not a game, as such, in that there is no goal and no score, but it sure is fun to play with. To see what we're talking about, you're going to need to be running a newish MacBook or MacBook Pro with an accelerometer built in. Got that? Good.
So basically, Liquid Mac uses the accelerometer in your laptop to determine whether it is sitting level, or tipped to one side or the other. It then animates "liquid" on screen, pouring side to side as you move your laptop around, much like real liquid would in a real container. Of course, the fun here is the optical illusion.
That's all it does, but it sure does it well.
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, ...
