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ajaxXLS: Web-based spreadsheet from ajaxLaunch
Michael Robertson's
ajaxLaunch is trying hard to keep up the buzz from the launches of its web-based word processor ajaxWrite and drawing app ajaxSketch, and today it's launched ajaxXLS, a web-based spreadsheet app. ajaxXLS looks promising, and
will no doubt look familiar to Excel users, but having spent a few minutes with it I can already tell ajaxXLS is far
from finished. In fact, it's downright hard to use and seems like it would be infuriating to anyone trying to switch
from Excel. Some of its issues might just be due to high opening day user load, but much of it just seems buggy or
incomplete. Here's hoping Robertson can turn ajaxXLS into something usable; at present it's uninspiring.
The criticisms are, in part, the same problems you find with any web-based application. Namely, keyboard shortcuts
don't always work (or get implemented), browser-specific technology (in this case, Firefox 1.5), and of course some
folks raise security issues with the whole ajax thing... But Extremetech gets very specific in 
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, ...
