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Yahoo! Local gets a makeover
Yahoo has dished out a fresh new look for their Local website portal. The design is clean, and the site is extremely user friendly with useful local content. Upon entry into the new Yahoo Local, users are asked for the zip code in which they would like to search. This builds a personalized page with the specific areas hot spots, reviews as well as the extended weather forecast. Yahoo Local lists off four top categories for main information straight away at the top of the results. Most Popular lists a few of the hot restaurants and local services. The Events section has upcoming performances and sporting events. Maps lists the areas traffic and WiFi locations, as well as a search function to plot business, hotels, ATM's among others on a map. And Buzz drops the week's popular neighborhood searches.
Local searches can be browsed by categories, as well as with recent reviews which is extremely helpful when looking for advice on what to check out in new areas. In all, Yahoo has just raised the local search game, watch out Google.
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 ...
