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Another API enters Google's roster, this time it's Picasa
Google is full of API's, allowing users to hook up pieces of information and build their own tools and applications that access Google's services.Google has publicly opened access to Picasa Web Albums via the Picasa Web Albums data API. What does this mean to you? Well, if you've been thinking about a way to integrate photos and tags into some kind of network or application, show photos together with comments on a website, or generating automatic tags based on a photo description, you can now access your albums, photos, comments and tags through the GData API.
A great use of the Picasa Web integration can be found at Picnik, the online photo editing tool. The team there has integrated in the new Google API so that users can load and save photos to and from a Google Picasa Web albums account, in addition to Flickr.
If you come across any other online location that has integrated Picasa into their tool, or if you have, drop us a line and let us know about it.
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 ...
