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Automator Automation podcast available
by David Chartier Aug 16th 2005 at 6:35PM
Tech columnist and author David Pogue has released a short podcast (4 MB) covering tips and techniques for using Mac OSX Tiger's Automator application to - you guessed it - automate such tasks as backups, zipping up applications (say for email or ftp transfer) and even setting alarms for automation processes. It's pretty interesting and touches on the raw drag-and-drop-programming muscle that Automator can flex.Via MacMinute.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
