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'Maize' mates first-person puzzle gaming with sentient corn
Game developers are no strangers to using wild concepts to catch your attention, but this one might just work. Finish Line Games has revealed Maize, a first-person puzzler that revolves around scientists creating "sentient corn." Yep. And reportedly, that's just the start of the absurdity. On top of what learning what the corn wants (besides fewer crows), you'll deal with a secret underground research facility and a Russian Teddy Ruxpin clone. It's too soon to say whether the underlying gameplay will be as interesting as the premise, but you'll get to find out first hand when the title reaches PCs in the fall.
iCalViewer: This moment in time is the finish line
If you are semi-type-B like me, you may appreciate a new view of your iCal appointments; a view which has your tasks racing towards a finish line on your desktop (red and on the right in the screenshot above). Replete with a hot key for displaying your appointments, iCalViewer is a very handy app.A small word of advice for those wishing to try out this app: disable the "Enable Special Events List" checkbox and the "To do's" "Enable" checkbox or you may have two large annoying white rectangles along with your iCal events. Also, note that iCalViewer is a menubar application. You can quit out of it by choosing it in the menubar and choosing "Quit".If you've been jonesing for a less traditional view of your to-do lists, give iCalViewer a whirl. The app is free for 21 days and $11US thereafter. Version 2.0.5 is a Universal Binary and supports iCal 2.0.1 or later. Race you to the next appointment![via Mad Professor] [Desktop photo courtesy Dan Kaminsky. A Napkin sketch I did at Goldfisch, Berlin 2004]
