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Figure out when the surf's up with WindGuru

Surfing It's now safe to say, we've found a noble use for Dashboard: figuring out when the surf's up. WindGuru is a widget that offers one-glance reports on wind direction and speed--useful for figuring out when the waves are big and when they're just knee-high. This is particularly true in places where surfing is a twice-a-year luxury like on Lake Erie. Sadly, Lake Erie hasn't hit WindGuru's list of "spots" yet.

Designed by a surfer, WindGuru also offers a five-day wind forecast. Not enough? Try iViewSurf, another widget that lets you check out the live webcams of some surfable beaches (albeit mostly located in France). Oh, and if you can't do Mac widgets, check out Windguru.cz, where you can track the hot spots in your browser instead.

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Web services, Google, Freeware

Google Toolbar 4 beta

On Monday Google released Google Toolbar 4 beta which has a number of cool new features. The biggest new feature, in my opinion, is a bookmarks menu that's accessible from anywhere a la Foxmarks, but some might be uneasy about entrusting their bookmarks to Google's servers. The second big feature is the new custom buttons API that lets developers easily create little buttons on the toolbars that can do things like respond to RSS feeds and do custom searches—think of them as tiny widgets. Also new in Toolbar 4 is a smarter search box that'll suggest searches, alternate spellings, and results from your History as you type, and a new "Send to" menu that automatically drops the current page into Gmail, Blogger, or an SMS message. Google Toolbar 4 looks pretty cool, but there's one big caveat: For now it's only available for Internet Explorer on Windows. Boo.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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