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Jam Legend is like free Guitar Hero in your browser - Time Waster


Your office might not be the ideal place to whip out a USB guitar and start wailing away at Guitar Hero. Jam Legend, however, is a bit more subtle and can be just as much fun.
You've got two options for controls - tap only or tap and strum. If you're into a more relaxed gaming experience, forgo the enter-key strumming. You can also choose wield your keyboard like an instrument and utilize keytar-like controls, which is either cooler or colossally more nerdy depending on your perspective.

If you want to show off your chops head-to-head, click over to Showdowns and test your skills against another Jam Legend player. Perform well, and your name could wind up on the Legends list.

I'd highly recommend not playing JamLegend on a netbook - the Atom processor had its share of trouble handling the Flash goodness, and my score (as you can see) took quite a nosedive from my earlier round on a Core2-powered notebook.

JamLegend is a ton of fun, and who knows - you might find some great new music to listen to while you're playing.

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SXSW iF! Trade Show Floor




SXSW is a junction of film, music and interactive folks with the iF! trade show floor reflecting that eclectic mix. We found a healthy smattering of music booths, some film schools and lots of web app companies. Big booths included Sony, Mapquest, Opera, Yahoo and O'Reilly while smaller booths from Axiom, Kyte and AIM provided a smorgasbord of interactive wares. You can see the full list on the SXSW site or just peep our gallery for a virtual tour.

Trade show floors often take on a circus-like atmosphere, with booths doing what they can to lure you to their wares. At iF! the "cool thing" was Guitar Hero. We counted no less than four booths with the ubiquitous guitar controllers and LCD screens (even if they were often unmanned). One booth broke with tradition and had Rock Band. Brave, no?

Our money for Most Fun Demo is on Bitstrips, a killer app for making your own comic strips online. Imagine mixing Mii-creation tools with Comic Life and you get the idea. Lots of fun, diverse and powerful, and stupid simple to use. Most boring? Well, hard to say because by the time we hit the floor a few booth attendees had left, leaving their booths sitting there, dejected and stickerless.

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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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