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Surf the net without a connection - Webaroo

webarooWebaroo is a little software tool that'll grab chunks of the web and download it for you, compacting it into neat little bundles, and placing it onto your PDA for later, unplugged, access. And yes, there are lots of ways to do this. In OSX, you can go to a page and save it as a PDF. You can use wget. You can use about a zillion other little apps out there to grab, compress, and move those electrons around. So what makes Webaroo different (aside from the cute logo)? According to the developers, it's smarter. The idea is, most methods involve a lot of user configuration. Webaroo "scours the internet" and creates "web packs" which you can download onto your mobile devices. It's like iTunes meets AvantGo, kinda. A neat concept, really. The packs are compressed, and most of the links are "live" within the boundaries of what you set. Again, there are lots of ways to do this, but so far Webaroo appears to take some of the drudgery out... But how does it work? Unfortunately I don't have a PocketPC, so anyone out there using this, leave your feedback in the comments. It's a free download for now...

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

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