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Microsoft Live Labs Listas: for making and sharing lists
Microsoft Live Labs has launched a public beta (or "tech preview") of a new web-based application for creating, managing, and sharing lists. Listas offers a WYSIWYG editor for creating lists, tools for tagging lists so you can find them again later, and the ability to make the lists private or public.Lista is a bit wiki-like in that you can grant other users permission to edit your lists. Say you want to create a grocery list with your spouse while you're both at work. Just start writing up your list and let your sweety know when you're out of ideas. They can then login and start crossing out all the chocolate-flavored cereal on your list and replace it with raisin bran.
You can also discover public lists that have been created by other users. Lists can include anything from bookmarks to notes on
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, ...
