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Spice up your Linux desktop with AWN

AWNOver the past year or so, there has been an explosion of eye-candy type apps for Linux. With show stoppers such as Compiz Fusion, nerds have plenty to grin about these days.

With Avant Window Navigator, you can have a beautiful dock on your system, similar to the one in Mac OS X. AWN is very themeable and customizable, with many animations and applets available. And hey, it's pretty! Unlike other dock clones, AWN is very simple and intuitive. Users can simply drag-and-drop any application short cut to the dock, just like in OSX.

AWN is a free download, and installs very easily on Ubuntu thanks to this DEB package. AWN is only available for Ubuntu, so users of other distros will need to compile it themselves.

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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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