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Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Google

Google Mini plus Analytics

google analytics teams up with miniGoogle has just added an update to its popular small business Mini search tool that lets users plug into Google Analytics for tracking. With this new integration, Google Mini owners can now add Google Analytics tracking codes into data, enabling better tracking and analyzing of search results. This new understanding of what visitors are searching for will allow for the discovery of how little tweaks and changes can be made to satisfy visitors, helping them find the information they have requested faster. I have not had a chance to play with the administrator account on the Mini, but Google does say that it is a simple procedure for administrators to configure the Mini to use Google Analytics. Simply set the Analytics account number inside of the admin interface. The output formats for the search results will supposedly automatically include the JavaScript that Analytics uses.

Filed under: Fun, Games, Kids, Windows, Time-Wasters

Mini Golf Pro - Today's Time Waster

Mini Golf ProWhen my code strikes back, and my head is swimming in meaningless garbled input, I feel this insatiable urge to putt. Mini Golf Pro is my new vice, my new addictive habit that thaws my mind from the chilling code. Mini Golf Pro (a free download) is actually very fun, especially if you like putt-putt. With 27 holes and several other smaller games all in one 7MB package, the fun lasts for hours. This game features multiplayer capabilities either locally or online, a hole-builder for customized putting, and all kinds of wacky gadgets and enhancements to make your small-green golf debut sizzle! Some of my favorite challenges are outside of the championship course of 27 holes, like the Gravity Tower, in which your golf ball must fight gravity to get to the top of the tower. This par 20 hole makes even the toughest "stand-out-in-the-rain-in-the -27-degree-weather" golf psychopath cry like a sissy. Maybe I am a bit over-happy about this game, but it is one of the few that is free, works well, and plays very nicely in the golf or mini-golf category. The graphics are good, and it is worth downloading and playing over and over again. Game on! Only available for Windows (as far as I can tell).


Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Apple, Microsoft

Your PC not Vista-ready? Try a Mac.

Windows on MacLast week Microsoft announced the official hardware requirements for Windows Vista and released an "Upgrade Advisor" tool to tell you how "Vista-ready" your computer is. Ina Fried at the CNet News blog has an interesting anecdote about running the tool on her various machines. The Upgrade Advisor told her that her four-month-old Compaq with 512MB of RAM was not Vista-ready and her laptop would run Vista but not its fancy Aero interface, but the machine that scored the highest was-wait for it-a dual-booting Mac Mini. According to a Microsoft rep the report for the Compaq was likely incorrect (Upgrade Advisor is beta, after all), and the Mini did have twice the RAM, but there's a certain amount of sweet irony in a Mac being more Vista-ready than its PC brethren.

Featured Time Waster

Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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