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Are your fingers itching to sling more items across a field to crush your enemies and get to the next level in a game? If you’ve been playing Angry Birds, I imagine you’re probably either satisfied with that one game (and aren’t looking to play any more), or you’re ready to move on and take on any other physics-based, catapulting games that come your way.
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For years now people have been playing games, recording their efforts and posting the resulting videos online (often with a hilarious voice-over) for the entertainment of others. To many, and for the sake of this week's Stuff to Watch, they're known as Let's Play videos (LPs). Here I'll be highlighting a couple of users who have produced some epic LPs over the years, as well as some hand-picked videos to start you off if you're in unfamiliar territory.
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You wouldn’t use words like snazzy, flashily stylish, or even showy with Google’s almost barebones effectiveness. Recent changes though have helped to dress up Google and readied it for the Web 2.0 party. We have seen that Google and its interlinked maze of products can be whole lot of fun. You can check out the links at the bottom, but right now let’s click on a link that will take us inside Google Search and into the Playground.
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We have already covered at least 5 sites that will change the way you work with digital photos as well as more than 10 sites to add amazing effects to your photos. Today's collection is only about making fun of your face to create cool fake photos and arrange funny pranks or create humorous greeting cards for your friends and relatives.
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Even though I love computer games, there's a very good reason why I'm not keen on trying on new games. It's because I love games too much that it's hard for me to stop once I start playing. That's why I try my best to resist every temptation that comes my way. But if there's a game that can lure me to start playing, it would be Angry Birds.
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I love my iPad. I think I mention this almost every time I write about it. But in all honesty, for me the best part of having an iPad are the games. I have many apps on my iPad, but for every productivity or information app that I have, I probably have 5 games. It’s true. I think the iPad is the ultimate gaming platform, and I simply love the graphics, the feel and the convenience of it all.
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Watching videos is fun. OK, let’s face it, it’s addictive. But unfortunately, there are some other things we have to do. We can’t always watch videos - or can we? What if you could watch videos and work? What if there was some unobtrusive way for you to have videos somewhere on your screen, where they are watchable but still do whatever it is you’re doing?
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Flash sucks in a lot of ways. It's responsible for the vast majority of browser crashes on my Linux computer for one thing. Be that as it may, flash gave us one great thing - HomeStarRunner. Years before YouTube and social networking, all of us could enjoy cartoons online, and it was all thanks to Flash.
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The other day, someone asked "what can I do on the Internet?". The best answer is what can you not do on the Internet? Maybe the Internet is so overwhelming that some people really do need some pointers. If the sheer amount of options is paralyzing to you, I have three very simple suggestions to get you going.
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The other day someone asked what they could do on the Internet other than Facebook or blogging. Well, as someone else put it quite bluntly, what can't you do? However, the key question is, what is the best thing you can do? And while you're busy figuring that out, how about killing some time?
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Whatever your flavor of apocalypse may be, it's always a good idea to remind yourself that it might happen, so you really should ask yourself, "What am I going to do?" Get ready to grab your rad-suit, crank up the chain-saw, or check the batteries of your Geiger counter. MakeUseOf is venturing out into the wastelands with these three sites.
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Who knew that 140 characters could be informative, opinionated, controversial, and hilarious? Well, Twitter is all that and we continue to revel in it. There are lots of Twitter apps out there -some useless; some interesting; and some bit of both. But all in the all, they are fun tools to play around with just your Twitter user name.
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Ultimate Frisbee has been around for years but in the last few years it seems to have been making a serious resurgence. With so many new players out there, it puts a serious burden on the guys who have been around to try and show these new players how the game needs to be played. Thankfully, there are plenty of websites that can handle this load.
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Word games help to continue our love affair with the language. Let’s combine English, learning, fun, and games and go over to Google Chrome’s Web Store to checkout some browser games to pass time and jiggle our brains too. Here are five cool and free word games you can play on Google Chrome.
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The Internet is full of entertainment, but if you're looking for more amusing 'lol' images or other priceless goodies, be ready to unleash your inner procrastinator and check out the following list of websites. They’re bound to entertain you with tons of hilarious pictures for at least a couple of hours.
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