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Friday Fun! Expand Your Gaming Horizons With ‘The Day’
This week’s edition of Friday Fun is a bit of a departure from the usual games we feature. While it’s still technically a Flash game, The Day is more interactive fiction than it is an addictive time waster like most Flash games. Gameplay is incredibly simple, and much greater emphasis is placed on atmosphere and…
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HP and Hynix are Creating the Next Generation of Memory
HP is currently working with Hynix Semiconductor to develop the next generation of computer memory. This new non-volatile memory, dubbed Resistive Random Access Memory, or ReRAM for short, will be built upon memristor technology. Memristor technology has been considered only theoretical since 1971, but changed in 2006 when HP Labs was able to develop the…
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Friday Fun! Why Do Homework When You Can Procrastinate With Liferaft: Zero?
With school starting for many of our readers (myself included), what better way to celebrate than with another edition of Friday Fun? After all, Flash games are the ultimate procrastination tool! Liferaft: Zero is a devious blend of the setting from Portal, the acrobatics of N, and the frustrating difficulty of Jumper. You play the…
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Friday Fun! Get That Fake Sense of Accomplishment In Achievement Unlocked 2
If you’ve played a game on a major gaming platform in the past few years, chances are you’re familiar with achievements. Games on the Xbox 360 have them in the form of a Gamerscore, where certain actions in games gain you points that are displayed in your profile. The Playstation 3 has platinum, gold, silver,…
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Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks Soon, Find the Best Time to Watch Where You Live
Depending on where you live, the Perseids meteor shower will be reaching its peak sometime during the night of August 12th and the morning of August 13th. Since many factors can impact the visibility of astronomical events like meteor showers, NASA provides a great Java applet called the Fluxtimator that can show you the best…
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How Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel Can Help You Pretend to Work
Procrastinating at work. We’ve all done it at some point during the five day work week. Whether it be surfing the blogs, catching up on favorite shows, or playing the unprecedented amount of free online games out there, we have all found different ways to break from the insanity called the eight hour workday. Subsequently, it is a known fact that when…
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Songbird Media Player: Still Available For Linux
Back in April, the developers of the open-source application Songbird announced that they would be dropping official support for the Linux version of the media player. This was a huge shock to the open-source community. When version 1.7 of Songbird was released, only Windows and Mac versions were available for download. To my surprise, Sondbird…
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Steam Offers Up Alien Swarm (PC Game) Free for the Masses
Dear Steam Users: It is a known fact that Steam offers the occasional free game embedded inside their vast library of adventure, action, and sports games. From action to racing to just plain awesome, Steam’s free games can provide some good time fun. Heck, even Portal has been offered for free. But last week a…
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Friday Fun! Get Your RTS On In Pixel Legions
In this week’s Friday Fun, I bring you a Flash game with a bit more depth than previous entries. Pixel Legions takes the complexity of most modern real-time strategy games and boils it down into its most basic form, perfect for the Flash game format. In Pixel Legions there is only one unit type, the…