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Google Video Alerts
Google Alerts is a handy service that allows you to get emails for the latest relevant Google results that hit the web or news based on the query of your choice. It's extremely handy when you're trying to stay on top of a subject and want every piece of related news to hit your inbox.
Text is one thing, but what about online video? It is a major part of our lives now. Well, Google has added 'video' to the Alerts dropdown. Allowing users to grab notifications for videos as they happen. As with standard news alerts, videos come from a variety of sources, but and are served with a Google Video frame.
The Google Alerts service is still in Beta format. Users can also choose to receive alerts in HTML format, or plain text to save on data if you choose to grab these alerts with a handheld wherever you are.
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 ...
