Filed under: Internet, Windows, E-mail, Google, Freeware
iContact: Desktop manager for your Google address book
Here's how it works. Install or run the application and enter your Gmail username and password. iContact will download your address book and allow you to instantly search by name, email address, or other field. If you occassionally need to look up a phone number to call in Skype or send a message to using a service beside Gmail, iContact could come in handy.
The program leaves a copy of all your contacts on the server so you can still access them from any computer. And you can add contacts to your Gmail address book using the desktop client as well.
[via MakeUseOf]

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.
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