San Dimas Project Beta Overview

We first reported on the coming San Dimas project, from eBay, back in April when it was announced at the Web 2.0 Conference. At then we told you about being able to buy the first invite to the beta test. Well we didn't buy the firs invite but we did get an invite to the beta from when we signed up back in April.
Over the weekend we got our invite to the beta testing of the San Dimas project. The application is designed to be a client side interface to eBay. The project is written using the new Adobe AIR platform. So when we went to the download page we were told that the installer would install Adobe AIR as well.

After a few restarts of the installer due to our firewall blocking the installer, we refreshed the page, and was able to start the install of the San Dimas project. When we did we were greeted by the not so comforting screen below saying the Publisher was UNVERIFIED and it was asking for UNRESTRICTED access to our system. We completed the install and you can see some shots from the application itself after the jump.

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, ...
