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Ninjawords: "Fast like a ninja" dictionary
I like ninjas. That being said, I don't really associate ninjas with dictionaries. However, Ninjawords aims to change that. Or something. Ninjawords is a simple Ajax dictionary that aspires to be like a ninja: smart, accurate, and really fast. Type in your word, smack the enter key, and you definition pops up. That's it! Yes, a very simple tool, and a pretty obvious use of Ajax at that, but I enjoy Ninjawords' clean, uncluttered interface. It also has a couple extra features, like the ability to look up multiple words at once (just separate them with commas) and easy URL-based lookup (just type ninjawords.com/yourwordhere). It will also make spelling suggestions. While I still love the venerable Dictionary.com, Ninjawords is a great alternative, though I wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alley.Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Freeware
GoogleFill fills your address book automatically
by Jordan Running May 24th 2006
GoogleFill's author poses the following scenario: Say you make some new business contacts and punch their numbers into your cell phone, then get home and sync it up with your address book. Now you've got a bunch of numbers, but none of their other information. GoogleFill attempts to solve this by running a reverse phone number search on all of those new contacts and, if it finds a match, it'll grab their full names and addresses. All of this seems a little bit creepy, but whenever I have a missed call from a number I don't know, the first thing I do is run it through Google--all GoogleFill really does is automate that process. Unfortunately GoogleFill is Mac OS X-only, but the good news for those Mac users is it's completely free.[Via TUAW]
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, ...
