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Anything iPhone can do, you can do better - Mobile Minute

RE's LauncherCongratulations. You've spent the weekend managing not to buy an iPhone, which is more than we can say for at least two Download Squad writers.

Sure, the new phone is the coolest thing since sliced bread was replaced by low-carb bagels. But aside from an innovative new interface and one of the best web browsers ever to grace a mobile device, does it really do anything new?

Today we'll take a look at some of the features that make the iPhone special -- and show you how your 2 year old Windows Mobile phone or PDA can accomplish most of the same tasks.

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Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware

How to delete and move pesky locked files

UnlockerI've expressed my hostility toward the dreaded "Access Denied" and "Sharing Violation" errors that accompany locked files before, so I'll spare you the tirade, but today I have a couple new solutions. Email Battles has a post about two free Windows utilities that will help you escape the locked file menace and let you get rid of the stupid things and get on with your life. The first is Unlocker, which gives you a context menu item that displays a list of locking processes and lets you kill the process or just unlock the file. The second is MoveOnBoot, which might be handy when you're actually not sure whether you should forcibly delete that locked file. It lets you schedule a move, copy, or delete action for the next time you reboot. I feel better already.

[Via Jeremy Zawodny]

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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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