Filed under: Audio, Podcasting, Web services
Listen to your blogs as podcasts with VocalFruits
VocalFruits is a new service from xFruits that will read out loud to you. It takes a few dozen steps to sign up for the free service. But once you do, you can listen to a mildly annoying computerized voice read your feeds on a website or save the feed as a podcast.
The idea is great, and the execution is... decent. The digitized voice does a pretty good job with punctuation, pausing and stopping at most of the right points. But it also voices the "read," "permalink," "email this," and "comments" section at the bottom of each Download Squad post. These sort of programs haven't yet figured out the difference between the body of a blog post and the extra data that most blogs and news websites include.
[via StartupSquad]
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 ...
