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Google Talk to work with AIM
It's just one line in a press release about Google's $1 billion
investment in AOL, but it's a good one for anyone who has gotten frustrated with having to run multiple IM clients,
kludge a link to Google Talk via Jabber, or just skip running Google Talk in favor of the dozen or so other IM clients
out there. According to Google, one ramification of the investment will be to allow "Google Talk and AIM instant
messaging users to communicate with each other, provided certain conditions are met." At this point, I have no
idea whether those conditions are technical, financial or both, but it makes perfect sense for the two to combine their
efforts — after all, AOL already has AIM and ICQ under its umbrella and interoperating. There's no reason not to
do the same with Google Talk (and, chances are, it'll make selling ads into the client a little easier as well).
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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 ...
