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Vitrite: Lightweight window transparency for Windows

VitriteThere's a lot of apps out there that will let you control your windows' levels of transparency in, er, Windows. Vitrite's snappy tagline is "useless window transparency since 2002," and it does two things: Lets you change a window's transparency by holding Ctrl and pressing the number keys, and toggle the "Always on Top" mode with another keypress. What's it have to recommend it over other such apps? Well, not a lot, really, but it is lightweight (a 43kb download) and open source, which are two things we're big fans of here at Download Squad.

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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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