Jonathan Riggall
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How to manage your social networks and media?
Juggling the ever increasing number of social networks and media sites can be a time consuming pain. Logging into lost of different accounts, you can have a very busy browser before you’ve don anything constructive. I thought I’d look at the current range of solutions to this. I’ll start with some honesty: At the moment there is no one good solution, but there are some which do a reasonable job.
Today’s downloads for Windows, Mac and Mobile
Friday timewaster: Tiny Trials
Friday timewaster: Don’t Look Back!
What a fantastic title for a game! Terry Cavanagh’s new indie game Don’t Look Back! is a hard and atmospheric platform shooter. the basic 8-bit graphics work really well, the colors and sound effect work together to create a great sense of foreboding about… something. You have unlimited lives, and you’ll need nearly enough patience alongside some lightening quick reactions, but it’s worth it. Sign in to the site and you can register your high scores too.
Internet kills the Radio?
OnSoftware Daily Digest
Music concert made of computer bleeps and beeps [silicon.com]
Create 3D galleries of your photos with Sysygy Gallery Creator
Checking out photos with a slide show is getting a bit dull now, so why not liven up your pictures by putting them in a 3D environment?
Touchscreen future?
I think anyone who’s played with an iPhone will agree that it’s a great toy, and has the “I want one” factor. Unsurprisingly, all the major mobile manufacturers are following suit and churning out touchscreen phones.
Friday timewaster: Neverending Light
For anyone afraid of the dark, stop reading now! OK, just don’t play Neverending Light. This is a Flash based browser game which although it can be a cheesy at times, is also a little bit scary due to its good use of light and dark. You begin the game as part of a group on a tourist tour of a mine, then the lights go out…
OnSoftware Daily Digest
Microsoft working on a new web browser called Gazelle [readwriteweb]
Queue for Quake!
Quake is arguably the best 3D shoot em up engine ever built. While there have been plenty of pretenders since, nothing really matches the fun of Quake multiplayer games. The announcement of Quake Live, ID Software’s ad supported free online service, has got lots of people excited. It has just been released as an open beta. Using a downloadable plugin, Quake Live actually plays from your browser (not if you use Chrome, though).