Filed under: Utilities, Social Software
WeatherPoke gives you weather alerts via Facebook
There are a lot of pointless apps on Facebook, but occasionally some useful information turns up on the site. WeatherPoke is one app that might actually tell you something you want to know, instead of more quizzes and top five lists. You can use it to display a local weather forecast on your page, publish the weather to your profile, or get alerts when the weather in your area turns bad. If you're a Facebook junkie, it'll save you a trip to a separate weather site every morning.
WeatherPoke gets its info from The Weather Channel's Weather.com, and constantly polls the weather, even when you aren't logged in. It's a useful app, but it's got a couple of bad habits that disappoint me in a Facebook app. The button to invite your friends is much, much larger than the tiny "skip" link underneath it, and there are a couple of Facebook dialog boxes trying to get you to publish weather info to your profile. These aren't dealbreakers, though, and WeatherPoke is a very usable, perfectly decent app that adds something constructive to the Facebook experience.
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 ...
