Filed under: Utilities, Features, Windows, Commercial
Real Desktop make your Windows desktop 3D, less useful
by Brad Linder Feb 5th 2008
While the 3D desktop is certainly pretty, we're not sure it's particularly useful. You can move icons around the screen with a left click. Click both of your mouse buttons to "pick up" an icon, or click the edge to rotate it. Probably the most fun you can have is when you highlight a bunch of icons and then drag them into another group of icons and watch them scatter like bowling pins.
The problem is there doesn't appear to be a way to automatically reorganized your icons once you've made a mess of things. Right clicking on the desktop brings up your usual Windows options like "Refresh" and "Arrange Icons By." But when you select those items, nothing happens.
Real Desktop comes in two editions. The free Lite version is sort of a one trick pony, while the $25 standard edition lets you customize your desktop with a variety of colors, themes, and other goodies.
This is hardly the most realistic 3D desktop we've ever seen. But for the life of us, we couldn't figure out how to install the other one.
[via TechnoBuzz]
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, ...
