Filed under: Audio, Utilities, Windows, Freeware
LAUNCHcast AdMute shuts up the ads
by Jordan Running May 24th 2006
If only there was something like this for my car stereo: LAUNCHcast AdMute is a free Windows app by Brad Wheeler that keeps an eye on LAUNCHcast's streaming radio player and automatically mutes the feed whenever an ad comes on. Discussions of ethics aside, we're all about taking control of your computing experience here at Download Squad, and if LAUNCHcast's ads irk you as much as they do Brad, AdMute might be just what you're looking for. It lets you specify a maximum mute period for when the LAUNCHcast player fails to update and has a button for muting the current song or ad. AdMute will also automatically refresh the player when that obnoxious "Are You Still There?" message pops up, and lets you minimize the player to the system tray.
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, ...
