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Mini Map Sidebar - Firefox add-on of the day
Mini Map Sidebar opens up Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local in your Firefox Sidebar. That's not particularly impressive in its own right. But the extension includes some useful features like the ability to drag and drop addresses from your main browser window. Just highlight an address and then click and drag the highlighted text over to the gray box in the sidebar and the location will pop up in a map.
Of course, you can do all your usual mapping tricks as well, like searching, getting directions, finding latitude and longitude or e-mailing a map.
The extension also adds a Firefox toolbar item that lets you launch the sidebar. If you're tired of squinting at the sidebar, you can also open the same mapping tools in a full browser tab.
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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, ...
