Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Commercial
Gobe Productive: A lightweight alternative to MS Office
by Ian Dumych Jan 24th 2008
When it comes to office software, these days it seems like the only choice one has is to either buy Microsoft Office or Star Office, or download OpenOffice. While MS Office and Star/Open Office have many features that distinguish them from each other, they also have one thing in common: bloat.Look out for the underdog. At a svelte sixteen megabytes, Gobe Productive can do most anything that the big two can do, but with less of the loading time and lag. As opposed to the common office "suite", Gobe is a single, well integrated application that is capable of dealing with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and drawings. Of course, what good is all that without file compatibility? Worry not, it speaks fluent Microsoft.
Gobe Productive is available for download as a 30 day trial for Windows, and a new version with support for Linux and Mac OS X is in the works.
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, ...
