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Make Firefox a better fit for your Mac

Firefox on your MacA complaint about FIrefox I hear often from Mac users is that it doesn't really "fit" Mac OS X. Its default theme isn't very "Mac-ish," the default form widgets are fugly, and so on. Some Mac users live with it, others use Camino, the Firefox-based Mac-native browser, and some of them just stick with Safari. There are a few things a Firefox-on-Mac user can do to feel more at home, though, and Ronald Heft, Jr. has collected them and written a short tutorial on his blog. Though it's a partial solution at best, Heft does point out that Firefox 3.0 for Mac will be a native Cocoa app and much of this will be but a hazy memory.

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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 ...

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