Filed under: Fun, Games, Internet, Macintosh, Freeware
It's time to slay dragons
by Ted Wallingford Mar 22nd 2006 at 7:45PM
If you've been playing World of Warcraft for any length of time, then you know that there are just some
quests you can't do every day. They're too special, too "l33t" to happen all the time. Like slaying the great
dragon Onyxia. Or trauling through the menacing dungeon Zul Gurub in search of really rare treasure. But, if you're not
paying attention to the spawn schedule of these quests, then you may miss your chance to go on them! And what fun is
that?Fortunately, there's a great widget for OS X's Dashboard called World of Warcraft Raid Calendar that will remind you when a periodic instance raid is about to spawn. It will even display a countdown timer for the most sought-after raids. It works with any Warcraft realm server, and is available as a free download. Windows users, well, no OS X, no Dashboard. No Dashboard, no Raid Calendar Widget.
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 ...
