Filed under: Text, Utilities, Windows, Productivity, Open Source
JediWPMConcentrate
by Jordan Running Oct 5th 2006
We've been following "Software Jedi" Dana Hanna's An App A Day for a couple months with much enthusiasm. Two interesting side-effects of his project to write a program every day for a month is that he's releasing a lot of open source code and inspiring a lot of people to make their own apps. One such person recently created a cool mash-up of two of Hanna's best apps, JediConcentrate, which darkens the screen outside of whatever app you're currently using, and WPM Tray, which monitors how fast you type. The mash-up, called JediWPMConcentrate combines the two by darkening the screen around the active window whenever you typing speed passes a certain threshold. That way, if you really get in "the zone" writing or coding or whathaveyou, all other distractions will fade out of view. Very cool. Like its parents, JediWPMConcentrate is an open source download for Windows.
WPM Tray
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, ...
