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Google Airbag

google airbagWhat the heck is Google Airbag? We missed it's release back in late December, but first off, it's a developer tool. The Google Code website describes it as an open-source multi-platform crash reporting system. What it basically does is identify to the developer why the program that is being developed is crashing and help them understand more quickly what, exactly, is going wrong. A lot of the time it's difficult to reproduce crashes, but with this little piece of magic, developers can basically watch their applications crash, and understand what's necessary in order to fix them.

If you want to learn more about Airbag, download the code and join in on some discussions, check out its home on the Google Code website. Airbag currently works in Mac and Windows, and will be released for Linux developers in the neat future.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

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