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WoW Watcher - is your World of Warcraft server up?

Here's one for all the hardcore World of Warcraft players out there. If you play WoW on a Mac, and you need to know at a glance whether your favorite server is up, WoW Watcher is for you. Not only does it do a great job of displaying the server lists, it also includes a menubar item and Growl support. That way, you can get notifications instantly, without ever having to switch focus to the app.

The server list is searchable, and sortable by name and type (normal, PVP, etc.). WoW Watcher will also automatically launch WoW and log you in when your server is up. For the true WoW addict, this app might prove indispensible to avoid missing a minute of gaming. Just as a side note, this app is not to be confused with another, unrelated WoW Watcher that tracks in-game item prices.

Filed under: Fun, Internet

HD wallpaper from NerdBusiness

pixel monsterThat picture of Fluffy is never quite the same once you blow it up on your big, HD monitor. Fluffy looks less cute and much more pixilated than in real life. In fact, a lot of pictures and wallpapers just don't look the same.

The folks over at NerdBusiness have just the solution. They have assembled 218 HD wallpapers for your viewing pleasure. Everything from mint leaves to scenic photos to otherworldly Photoshop environs and Mario Party 8 shots. Our favorite? Digg-er from mandolux.com

Check it out and see what looks good on your big screen.

Filed under: Design, Developer, Fun, Games, Web services

Mapping WoW with Google's API


World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massive multiplayer online game (as if you hadn't heard about it already), one that has such vast landscapes for players to traverse, it really needs its own map or something. Among the many add-ons available for WoW, I have yet to find a mapping add-on that I actually like. Being an early adopter is hard when the rest of the world doesn't understand. I would love it if there was a resource for WoW that was up to my chronic downloader's standard, using something like Google's map API.

Alas, there is such a resource (many in fact, but few that use Google technology), called MapWoW.com. Long time players have known about it for ages (and are probably asking why I just found it now), but it does in fact use Google's API to create some of the best WoW maps available. There are resource overlays so a player can view graphics where and what things are with the check of a box, overlayed on the map. You won't be able to find your local burger joint on this map, but it is a very creative and well put-together use of the wildly popular Google Maps API.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Macintosh, Freeware

It's time to slay dragons

If you've been playing World of Warcraft for any length of time, then you know that there are just some quests you can't do every day. They're too special, too "l33t" to happen all the time. Like slaying the great dragon Onyxia. Or trauling through the menacing dungeon Zul Gurub in search of really rare treasure. But, if you're not paying attention to the spawn schedule of these quests, then you may miss your chance to go on them! And what fun is that?

Fortunately, there's a great widget for OS X's Dashboard called World of Warcraft Raid Calendar that will remind you when a periodic instance raid is about to spawn. It will even display a countdown timer for the most sought-after raids. It works with any Warcraft realm server, and is available as a free download.  Windows users, well, no OS X, no Dashboard. No Dashboard, no Raid Calendar Widget. 

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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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