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They say ‘Appearances can be deceitful’ and Hardlywork.in seems to have taken that seriously and bring you Facebook in a format that has all the looks and feel of an excel file and right on your browser! All this just to make sure you do not miss out on the Facebook fun while faking the appearance that may not invoke a second look and give an impression of a Hard(ly) working employee 🙂

Hardlywork.in makes this possible this by neatly integrating the Facebook newsfeed in a format that is very similar to the look and feel of a Microsoft Excel file within your browser (any browser will do). Although you will miss out on the full sized images, videos, sounds, chat windows, blue and white colors of Facebook, you can still catch up with your friends,relatives and others without those glaring glances at your monitor 🙂

But its not that you will not be able to see any images, just hovering over comments and likes in Facebook shows you more information. Hovering over names, photos, videos and links gives you thumbnail previews. If someone comes closer to you, just press space bar to change the excel to a series of boring rows and columns. Formula bar also doubles up in searching friends and followers!

To start using Facebook appear as an excel file, point your browser to http://hardlywork.in/ and authorize access to Facebook when prompted and you are ready to FB!

Download Your Facebook Data In A File

UPDATE [16/11/2011]:

Been a while since I played Angry Birds on my phone and I now see that Rovio have fixed this bug with the latest update to the seasons. Here is a snapshot:

UPDATE [30/09/2011]:

I will take the following snapshot of the tweet from Rovio as a kind of acknowledgement:

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Like most of you, I am also one of those who’s addicted to this game on my android phone. Although I have it installed on chrome browser as well, nothing is as much fun as playing it on the phone.

I had to postpone the scheduled updates on phone as my WiFi router had gone kaput and also never had the chance to get Connectify work seamlessly to create an Access point on the laptop. Updating over the slow EDGE connection was never an option. Anyways, thats a different story.

I finally got the updates to install on all versions of Angry Birds and did play the newer versions. I was more excited for my little kid who also has become a big fan of Angry Birds, and I wanted to show him the newer version of Angry Birds.

But something caught my eye, it wasn’t the new tricks or birds but the exit button. It happened couple of times that I wanted to close the app but ended up continuing, then I observed closely. On closer inspection it appeared that the Yes button to exit out of the game was jumbled! Take a look below:

Is this a design oversight by Rovio Mobile, caused by, perhaps an Angry developer 🙂 or not a big deal for them? Whats your take, let know of your opinion by commenting.