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Keyboard optimized for Google Reader - Flickr mockup
Enthusiastic users of an app or web service typically come to wish for some form of UI optimization or another. That near-vaporware Optimus keyboard that Engadget has been covering is a great example, but so is this Photoshopped mockup of a Google Reader-optimized keyboard from Flickr user paolovalde. For those who don't use Google's suddenly dominant newsreader, J is the key used to scroll through headlines in reverse (much like scrolling back through Gmail messages), which explains why paolovalde might be jonesing for a much larger and easier target to strike.
Who knows - with a rumored Google phone on the way, what's to stop the big G from cranking out an innovative keyboard?
[via Chris Wetherell of the Google Reader team]
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, ...
