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For now, you're limited to reading the feeds Spreed provides. Fear not, most of your favorites are likely included in the list: BoingBoing, CNet, GigaOm, Slashdot, TUAW, and yes, even Downloadsquad are available. Sign up for an account and select your favorites, find an item, and click the play button. The display speed can be adjusted, and buttons are provided to share news items with friends, post to Facebook, and give a thumbs up or down to the article you're reading. A link is provided to the oringinal URL as well - handy if a post references an image.
There's also a mobile version that looks and works great on the iPhone (and likely on Android as well, though I don't have a handset to test it).
Spreed is an interesting service, and the technology definitely works. The plain black reading window and intelligent text display certainly made it easier for me to focus on and retain information.
For now, you're limited to reading the feeds Spreed provides. Fear not, most of your favorites are likely included in the list: BoingBoing, CNet, GigaOm, Slashdot, TUAW, and yes, even Downloadsquad are available. Sign up for an account and select your favorites, find an item, and click the play button. The display speed can be adjusted, and buttons are provided to share news items with friends, post to Facebook, and give a thumbs up or down to the article you're reading. A link is provided to the oringinal URL as well - handy if a post references an image.
There's also a mobile version that looks and works great on the iPhone (and likely on Android as well, though I don't have a handset to test it).
Spreed is an interesting service, and the technology definitely works. The plain black reading window and intelligent text display certainly made it easier for me to focus on and retain information.
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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, ...
