Filed under: Internet, Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Open Source
Democracy Player now better, stabler
by Jordan Running Jun 22nd 2006
I got a little notification in my Inbox today telling me that a new version of Democracy Player is out. Version 0.8.4.1 (note to software developers: when your version numbers start to look like IP addresses, they've gotten out of hand) is available for WIndows, Mac, or Linux. The biggest improvements to the RSS-and-BitTorrent-enabled internet TV viewer from the Participatory Culture FOundation are in the stability department, but it also comes with a few new features. In particular, Democracy now pulls double-duty as a desktop video player, allowing you to play videos from your hard drive and add them to your library. Democracy is free as in speech, so go download it already.
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, ...
