Filed under: Audio, Fun, Macintosh
Krix: great-looking visual music browser
by Jay Hathaway May 26th 2008
Krix is a flashy way to browse, organize and play your music. It relies on album art to visually represent all the albums you've got in your digital collection, and it supports the Apple Remote. We don't think Krix is quite ready for the bigtime yet, though. It has a couple of drawbacks, including its reliance on iTunes for playing music (the controls you see at the top of the Krix window are just an iTunes remote) and the need to create a tiny .krix file for each song, so it knows how to organize and display it. The obvious plus of Krix is that it has big, bright playlist buttons, and features several ways to sort your albums. Although the newest version requires OS X 1.05, Krix was started before Leopard and Coverflow. It still looks nice, but since Krix needs iTunes anyway, and Coverflow does a decent job of displaying album art on its own, we'll pass on this app for now.
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, ...
