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Google AdSense Preview Sandbox 1.0
Getting your website or blog ready for AdSense isn't always a picnic, and trying to peg the right keywords to generate the best ads for your audience can often prove to be a cryptic game of whack-a-mole. Sure, Google offers their own basic sandbox for building your ad units, but they don't really help you with either of the aforementioned tasks.
Thankfully, Amit Agarwal has stepped up to the plate and offered the Adsense Sandbox, a simple tool that allows you to quickly see 20 text ads, as well as Adlinks and Rich Text Ad results (images and videos) for a particular URL or keyword(s). As a particularly nice touch, Amit even included the ability to change your country to ensure the most accurate URL and keyword results for your neck of the woods.
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 ...
