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Twittercal connects Twitter to your Google Calendar

send updates to your google calendar with twittercalIf you're a Twitter user we have yet another Twitter tool for you to use, the Twittercal.

Twittercal connects your Twitter account to your Google Calendar through the power of Ruby on Rails and Java. The tool will automatically pick up and add events from your Twitter client, whether its web or desktop based and drop them onto your Calendar.

To start things off you must have a Twitter account. Then by adding 'gcal' as a friend and granting access to your Google Calendar, a bot will forward messages to your Calendar. So for instance, if you type in "d gcal meet Britney at Starbucks today at 9pm", the event will get directly added to your schedule.

In order for everything to completely work, Twittercal does require you to grant access to your Google Calendar account. There could also be a slight delay of a few minutes in messages sent to your calendar, and you can revoke access to your calendar anytime if you aren't impressed with the service.

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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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