Filed under: Audio, Internet, Video, Windows, E-mail, Freeware
AOL OpenRide: All-in-one broadband browser
by Jordan Running Oct 4th 2006
AOL (this blog's parent company) is beta-testing a new Windows app called OpenRide, formerly Streamliner, which is basically a single app that consolidates e-mail, IM, web browsing, and media into a paned interface. The target market here, as Om Malik observes, seems to people who are used to AOL's well-worn walled garden but are ready to jump into the broader world of broadband. OpenRide is free and has a few useful features, including multiple e-mail account handling (including non-AOL accounts), tabbed browsing, and a built-in AOL search box. The panes automatically resize themselves depending on the current task, or the user can take control with something unfortunately dubbed the "Dynasizer." While advanced users probably won't be too enamored by OpenRide, it seems like a good app for those fledgling multitaskers who want to do more than one thing online but still compulsively maximize every window. OpenRide is a free download, and you can find more info at AOL Beta Central.
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, ...
