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Scrybe beta updated - now includes ThoughtPad

Scrybe ThoughtPadScrybe, that web-based PIM I was dying to try, has released a major beta revision which now includes the widely anticipated ThoughtPad functionality.

In Scrybe there is a Planner pane which contains your calendar and tasks, and now the ThoughtPad pane which contains web clippings, or simply text and images as notes. These notes can be organized into different Labels (essentially tags), making it easier to locate relevant information when you're looking for it. Basic formatting like bold, italics and bullet points are included, but this is definitely not a full-featured word processor.

The ThoughtPad includes a browser at the bottom of the window that provides thumbnails of the clippings you have stored. This can be useful when scrolling through a number of related clippings to quickly locate a specific one, particularly if you're like me and your mind works in a particularly visual manner.

Yet again the latest update of Scrybe feels quite polished, and is very much usable. If I have any misgivings about using Scrybe as my productivity application of choice, it would be the user interface decision to confine task management to a relatively small corner of the Planner pane. As much as I need to keep an eye on the hard landscape of appointments I have scheduled, I typically find myself spending more time managing the tasks that need to fit in between those scheduled appointments. Working in a tiny corner of an application 80% of the time feels awkward, and demotes Scrybe (for me, at least) to the status of Worthy Productivity Application, but just not for me.

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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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