Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware
Use Google gadgets in the OS X Dashboard
by Jordan Running Oct 6th 2006
The other day Chris Gilmer reported that it's now possible to embed Google gadgets intended for Google Personalized Home on any web page. A company called Mesa Dynamics has capitalized on this ability with a free utility called Amnesty Generator, which lets you use any Google web gadget on Apple's Dashboard. All you have to do is copy the gadget's HTML code from Google and paste it into the program, and a brand new widget is created for you. Hooray for wrappers. Mesa also makes a couple other free Dashboard-related apps that let you run Dashboard widgets as stand-alone apps or a screen saver.
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 ...
