Filed under: Developer, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Google
Google Airbag
by Chris Gilmer Jan 10th 2007
What the heck is Google Airbag? We missed it's release back in late December, but first off, it's a developer tool. The Google Code website describes it as an open-source multi-platform crash reporting system. What it basically does is identify to the developer why the program that is being developed is crashing and help them understand more quickly what, exactly, is going wrong. A lot of the time it's difficult to reproduce crashes, but with this little piece of magic, developers can basically watch their applications crash, and understand what's necessary in order to fix them.If you want to learn more about Airbag, download the code and join in on some discussions, check out its home on the Google Code website. Airbag currently works in Mac and Windows, and will be released for Linux developers in the neat future.
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 ...
