Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Office, Freeware
Fifth Element: All-in-one office suite, no flying taxi cabs
by Brad Linder Mar 14th 2008
If you're looking for a robust office suite, you're not going to find anything here that you won't find in OpenOffice.org. While there are tools to create and modify spreadsheets and text-based documents, Fifth Element does a pretty poor job of importing documents created with newer versions of Microsoft Office. For example, the SpreadForm application will let you open XLS files, but good luck opening anything newer than an Excel 5 spreadsheet.
But if compatibility with Microsoft Office doesn't matter to you, Fifth Element does provides a ton of useful applications, including a system monitor, address book, image editing software, an envelope printing utility, and even a chess game.
[via GoOrange and PC World]
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, ...
