Earlier this week, I told you how the $1000 do-nothing application called I Am Rich had been pulled from the iTunes app store. While I doubt many people miss that particular bit of software, the latest app to be removed from the store was actually kind of fun: it’s PhoneSaber, a lightsaber simulator for your [...]
So here at Download Squad we’ve been into wasting time lately. Here’s another time waster, this time all about physics.
You can visit Phunland and download Phun which is a 2D physics sandbox type game. Basically you have your toolbox of gears, levers, springs, boxes and more to build whatever your heart desires. You can [...]
It looks like Apple has removed one of the most talked-about iPhone apps in its app store. The app doesn’t do chat, it doesn’t connect you to any web services, and it doesn’t even let you enter any text. It’s called I Am Rich, and it does absolutely nothing. The price tag? A reasonable $999.99. [...]
This is a simple and quick time waster for you word nerds from Lunchtimers. Or even for those of you that always like to slip a naughty word into a scrabble game.
Remember those refrigerator magnets you had when you were a kid that were all letters? Letters is the same concept in your browser [...]
Lower your geek radar detector. You got me. I am a tech blogger. I also have a degree in library science. Guilty as charged, just put me on a cell block with wireless and a supply of graphic novels.
I am a librarian who is really okay with wikis. Would I accept every entry in one [...]
Kids get computers. It seems like they take to them almost immediately, once they are big enough to be able to control a mouse. But what about kids that aren’t yet big enough? I know both of my boys wanted to bang away on the keyboard from a very young age.
Rather than opening [...]
Dino Run is an online flash-based time waster with a great classic arcade feel. You play the part of a small dinosaur, and you run. And run.
The premise of the game is that you are running from a “pyroclastic wall of doom”, while trying to find power-ups like eggs, super eggs, bones, critters, birds, [...]
I suffered through two years of physics in high school, and it’s not really a subject that most people would consider an exciting way to waste time on a Friday afternoon. Well, slap me silly, Fantastic Contraption proves that physics can indeed be fun!
The goal is simple: assemble your contraption in the work area (the [...]
Micro Olympics is a simple,yet addictive Flash-based game that brings wasting time and shooting things out of a cannon to a whole new level.
There are three varieties of Micro Olympics, the original, Micro Olympics on Mars and Micro Olympics Christmas. All three have the same guiding principal: shoot your plane, flying saucer or Santa’s sled [...]
Totem Destroyer is a fun little Flash-based physics game that is one part Indiana Jones, and one part Jenga.
The game play is simple; click on blocks to destroy them, while ensuring that the golden idol never touches the ground. There are three types of blocks: brown, green, and black. The brown ones are [...]