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CantYouSeeImBusy: Games That Look Like You’re Working

jpot — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:01:47 +0000

Games can be good for productivity: they give you a chance to slow down, reflect on what needs doing and relax for a few moments. If your boss sees you playing a game instead of working however, all of these benefits are made irrelevant quite quickly.

Enter CantYouSeeImBusy.com, a website which features three games that look like you’re working. Guide a small rocket through a graph, play a game of breakout on a text document or enjoy an elimination game on a bar graph.

These games not only resemble the office product they emulate quite closely; they’re also really fun. If you’re looking for a diversion you can enjoy right out in the open, check this site out right now. You’ll enjoy them, and they won’t get you fired.

Best of all: you just might earn the ultimate procrastination prize: a spot on the coveted high score list.

Features

Games designed to look like work.
Guide a small rocket through graphs.
Play elimination on a bar graph.
Play breakout on a text document.
More games to come.
Similar tools: SpreadTweet and also see 5 Cool Websites To Procrastinate At Work Like a PRO.

Check out CantYouSeeImBusy @ wwww.antyouseeimbusy.com

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CantYouSeeImBusy: Games That Look Like You’re Working

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Video Game History TimeLine

Sharninder — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:01:17 +0000

With the advent of next generation gaming consoles such as the XBox and PS3, a lot of people seem to have forgotten all about the wonderful video games of yore. Contra, Mario Brothers, Prince of Persia and the like have entertained millions of people across different generations and still hold a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts.

A group of such enthusiasts have come together to create a database of all the video games that they could find and have put that up on a website depicting a timeline of their glorious past.

The website lists not only the release dates of a number of games, but also information about their creators, the plot summary, a screenshot of the game (wherever available) and a link to a source website with more information on the game.

The timeline also captures information on gaming technologies, businesses, accessories and also significant cultural landmarks that influenced gaming in any way.

Features:

Video game history timeline.
No need to register to view information on any gaming title.
Comprehensive database of game titles.
Includes information (wherever available) on game designers and businesses.
Includes links to more information available online.
Timeline view makes it easy to grasp the huge amount of data available.

Check out the Videogame timeline @ www.mauriciogiraldo.com/vgline/beta/#/291

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Video Game History TimeLine

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GameScootch: Aggregates eBay Console & Game Auctions in One Palce

TehseenBaweja — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:01:13 +0000

eBay runs thousands of auctions related to video games and gaming consoles everyday. Due to the sheer number of auctions, they are scattered over a lot of categories and it is hard to keep an eye on them. GameScootch helps you with that by consolidating all of these game auctions on a single platform.

The GameScootch website has 3 main windows. The 2 right windows display popular auction stats for different gaming systems and video games. This information also includes the lowest, highest and average price for each item and the maximum number of bids a single auction in that category has received.

Clicking on any of these would display a detailed list of these auctions in the left window. For example, clicking on Microsoft Xbox would display all the running auctions for Xbox including price, bids, shipping and time information.

Features:

Consolidated auctions for games and gaming consoles.
See auction statistics for any game or console.
Click on any auction link to go to the actual eBay page.
Information updated every 30 seconds.
No registration required.

Visit GameScootch @ www.gamescootch.com

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GameScootch: Aggregates eBay Console & Game Auctions in One Palce

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Nonoba: Create, Play & Share Flash Games

TehseenBaweja — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:01:59 +0000

There are literally thousands of websites that allow you to play flash games for free. However, Nonoba clearly stands out due to the variety of features that it offers. Nonoba has over 3,400 flash games that you can play for free with your friends, compete for scores and rewards, rate the games and chat about them with your friends.

Nonoba is an interactive community not only for games but also for flash developers. Nonoba allows you to upload and share any flash game that you have developed so other users can play it and rate it. The sleek and graphically appealing interface also adds up to making Nonoba a great gaming portal.

Features:

Choose from over 3,400 free flash games.
Browse through any of the 18 categories to find the games you like.
Search for games by name, creation date and activity.
Upload games developed by you for others to play.
Create flash games or in-game features and earn money.
Chat and discuss any game with your friends.
A discussion forum specially designed for flash game developers.
Similar tools: PlaySEGA, GameCurry and Kongregate.

Visit Nonoba @ www.nonoba.com (by Tehseen Baweja from RechargeYourMind.com)

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GadgetTeardowns: How To Disassemble Popular Gadgets

azim — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:45:48 +0000

iFixit is a do-it-yourself repair guide for Apple products. While site is mostly Apple-centric, it has a “Gadget Teardowns” section, which shows you how to disassemble popular tech gadgets. Here you can find, how to disassemble an iPhone, how to disassemble PSP and many other popular gadgets including iPods, smartphones (Blackberries etc), notebooks and gaming consoles through step-by-step instructions with photos.

Browse popular gadget teardowns and follow the detailed instructions on how to correctly disassemble your gadget. You can also submit a gadget teardown of your own and get it published online for all the others to see and use.

Features:

How To disassemble iPhones, PSP consoles and other popular electronic gadgets.
Disassemble gudeis include step-by-step instructions with photos.
Browse popular teardowns or submit your own gadget teardown online.

Checkout GadgetTeardowns @ www.ifixit.com/Teardown

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SpeedSudoku: Play Sudoku Against Others

abhijeet — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:37:16 +0000

If you love solving those newspaper sudoku puzzles then you would also love playing the fast paced version of the game online at SpeedSudoku. It is a new site dedicated to Sudoku fans where they can play sudoku against others online. Users could also interact with various sudoku players around the world, participate in the forums and shop for cool sudoku goodies.

This is also a good site to understand Sudoku and how it is played. The Instructions page at SpeedSudoku has elaborate instructions on playing the game and various techniques associated with it. It also contains a series of videos which explain the game in detail. Below is the first video in the series.

Check out SpeedSudoku@ www.speedsudoku.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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Friv: Free Collection Of Flash Games

azim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:34:14 +0000

Friv is a nice collection of flash games, all free and displayed on one page. Choose among 250 game titles. Unlike other similar gaming sites like Miniclip or Yahoo! Games, you don’t have to browse by categories and popularity. Just rollover with your mouse on a game icon to view the title. Click on the game and start playing.

Features:

Online flash games directory.
250 games, all displayed on one page.
Rollover with your mouse on icons to view game titles.
Click on the game icon to start playing.
Similar sites: Miniclip.

Check out Friv @ www.friv.com (via Orangelinks)

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Voxli: Group Voice Chatting Made Really Simple

kaly — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:27:55 +0000

Voxli is a new group voice chat service that makes large group voice chatting simple. The service is useful for making voice chat while playing group games or simply engaging in conversations as large groups. Unlike other group chatting services that require confusing manual setting of port numbers and server addresses Voxli simply creates static URL that can be shared with all members of group.

All that user has to do is quickly install browser client and then assign a hot key which he presses whenever he wants to speak. (the hot key works regardless of which application is open).

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The application allows 200 people per chat room and there is no limit on the number of chat rooms created (each room can be assigned separate hot key).

Features:

Free online group voice chat for gamers and groups.
Allows 200 people per chat room.
No limit on the number of rooms.
Invite others by forwarding a URL, (URL can also be customized).
Requires quick installation of browser add-on.
Voxli works on IE and Firefox (both Mac and Windows) support for other browsers is on the way.
No registration and free for all group sizes during open beta.

Check out Voxli @ www.voxli.com (via TechCrunch)

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Miniclip – Free Online Casual Games

azim — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 05:20:39 +0000

If you like playing casual games you should check out Miniclip. It claims to be the biggest free online gaming site online with around 49 million monthly visitors, available in more than 15 languages. It includes every imaginable game genre: Flash games, puzzles, action, racing, multi player, sports games etc., and even categories like Election 2008.

All the games can be played within the browser, with no downloads required. So as long as you have Internet, you can play those games via computer or any hand held device (you can even download those flash games to your PC). It has a vibrant user community, where registered users can challenge each other to play their favorite games, send messages and build their own game avatars.

One of the biggest free casual gaming sites.
Various game categories.
Total 450 games. 2 new games every week.
Available in 15 languages.
Register to save game scores, message other users, get awards etc.
All games are free.

Check out Miniclip @ www.miniclip.com

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GotGame: Social Site For Gamers

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:36:56 +0000

GotGame is one-stop destination if you are looking for anything related to video games. It is a social site for gamers with tons of gaming videos and provides latest news from the gaming industry. You can search for videos or browse gaming videos by category such as Action, Sports, Strategy… etc.

Apart from browsing gaming videos by category and searching by title users can also check videos by user activity. Viewers may leave comments on videos and even share them on major social networks.

Features:

Latest gaming news and videos.
Search for videos or browse by the type of Game.
Vote on a video, email it to a friend or share on social networks.
Read popular columns related to video game news.
Download ‘Rogue’, and surf the web while playing games in your browser.
Listen to gaming radio shows and enter into contests.

Check out GotGame @ GotGame.com (by Tehseen Baweja from Ijaar.com)

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Games For The Brain : Online Puzzle Games

Aibek — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:34:10 +0000

Collection of online puzzle games. This online game site has almost 40 puzzle games and brain teasers, including Sudoku, Solitaire and Mahjong. You don’t need to be a genius to play them, these games are for everyone. If you’re looking for a productive way to kill some time it’s for you. They’re fun for a short while. Puzzles, memory games, word games, math games, and lots of other interesting stuff to challenge your thinking skills. All of them are quick and easy to learn.

Here is a list of available games:

Dragger, Counterfeit, Guess the Colors, Oooze, Rotate, Rotate², Chinese Checkers, Colored Lines, Masterpieces, Mastercards, Sudoku, Reversi, Mastermind, TwinCol, NumberHunt, MineHunter, Crime Scene, Mahjongg Solitaire, What Was There, The Image Quiz, TriviaNut, Guess the Flag, Marsmoney, Memocoly, Checkers, Chess, Word games, Lettermaze, Anagramania, Guess the Place, Letterama, SquareWords, What Word, Spellice, What Did I Search For, The WordHunt Game, SpeedType, and SpeedRead.

There are also a couple games that can be accessed from a mobile phone. These are Anagramania, Letterama, SquareWords, What Word and Spellice.

Some of the games can be embedded onto your blog, social networking profile or even iGoogle startpage.

Check out Games For The Brain @ www.gamesforthebrain.com

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CanYouRunIt: Can Your Computer Run that Game?

kaly — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:07:25 +0000

A must-bookmark website for all gamers. CanYouRunIt is one-click web tool that inspects your computer’s hardware and configuration settings to determine whether or not your system can run a particular game. Basically, it compares your hardware components against the minimum and recommended requirements for any game you choose. If the minimum requirements aren’t met it will make recommendations on what needs to be done to run that game.

How does it work?

Select the game you plan to play and click run.
Wait for about 1-2 minutes until it generates your report.

Features:

Choose from more than 400 popular games. New games are added on a regular basis.
Get custom upgrade recommendations depending on the games you want to play.
Works with: Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Media Center, and Vista.
Supported browsers: Internet Explorer and Firefox.
No registration required.
CanYouRunIt evaluates only your hardware and software settings and does NOT collect any personal information.

Check out CanYouRunIt @ www.canyourunit.com

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SwitchPlanet: Switch CDs, DVDs, Games and Books

Aibek — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:58:16 +0000

SwitchPlanet is a cool marketplace where you can switch (or trade) used DVDs, CDs, Video Games and Books. Unlike Amazon or eBay, SwitchPlanet is totally FREE and has it’s own currency (SwitchBucs). They idea behind SwitchPlanet is to provide a quick way to trade stuff you have to get the stuff you want. You can either exchange items directly or sell it for certain number of SwitchBucs. Once you accumulate some SwitchBucs you can go and get whatever you want from other members.

SwitchPlanet Features

Active user-base and very rich item catalog.
Browse marketplace items by category (Comedy, Animations, Music, Documentary, Cult Movies, etc.)
Browse items by Most Wanted, Most Switched, Most Available, and Newest.
One SwitchBuc is equivalent to 0.60 USD.
Completely FREE: No transaction, sign-up or listing fees.
Need to know more? Check out SwitchPlanet FAQ section, it has everything you may want to know.

SwitchPlanet introduction video

Update: The site is no longer online

Check out SwitchPlanet @ ~~www.switchplanet.com~~

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GameTrailers

Aibek — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:43:33 +0000

Interactive video broadcasting portal for the video game industry and all gamers.

Download high definition previews/reviews/trailers of videogames
Download or upload user contributed gameplays
All videos are user-rated and show number of hits
Search or browse through all videos by gaming platform (PS3, Xbox 360 etc), recent uploads, alphabetical order or top/best rated (top according to media/user rated/GameTrailers tv etc)
Browse through other gaming industry related video’s such as interviews or news articles
Join the GameTrailers community for sharing industry related news/insights/questions with other users

Visit: GameTrailers http://www.gametrailers.com/

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