Filed under: Fun, Utilities, Windows, Microsoft, Freeware
MSN screensaver displays news headlines, weather, photos
by Marc Perton Sep 1st 2005 at 10:26PM
Remember Pointcast? No? Well, it was a service unveiled in the 90s that provided news, weather and other info via a screensaver. An early entrant into the "push" data field, it was doomed by being too processor and memory intensive to really be useful. But the concept of information being delivered by screensaver lives on, in products like Apple's RSS screensaver, and now in the MSN screensaver, which is available as a free beta download. The screen saver allows you to select from canned feeds, and can also display any RSS feed as a screen saver. You can also use any photos as background graphics. For a beta, this one has a pretty slick look, with feeds appearing in widget-style boxes. Of course, there are plenty of embedded plugs for MSN services, but that's to be expected, right?
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 ...
