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Link Alert: Identify PDF links, downloads in Firefox
by Jordan Running Aug 28th 2006
There's a lot of extensions for Firefox that do something similar, but I like Link Alert's style. Link Alert is a Firefox add-on that changes your cursor depending on what kind of link you're about to click on. If it's a link to a PDF file, a PDF icon is shown next to your cursor. If it's a Word file, likewise. If the link opens in a new window, a new window symbol is shown, and so on. It works for a ton of different types of links, too: new windows, secure sites, email links, JavaScript files, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDF documents, Zip files, applications, text files, images, RSS feeds, and AIM links, among others. Very handy and nicely unobtrusive.
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, ...
