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Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services
Ninjawords: "Fast like a ninja" dictionary
I like ninjas. That being said, I don't really associate ninjas with dictionaries. However, Ninjawords aims to change that. Or something. Ninjawords is a simple Ajax dictionary that aspires to be like a ninja: smart, accurate, and really fast. Type in your word, smack the enter key, and you definition pops up. That's it! Yes, a very simple tool, and a pretty obvious use of Ajax at that, but I enjoy Ninjawords' clean, uncluttered interface. It also has a couple extra features, like the ability to look up multiple words at once (just separate them with commas) and easy URL-based lookup (just type ninjawords.com/yourwordhere). It will also make spelling suggestions. While I still love the venerable Dictionary.com, Ninjawords is a great alternative, though I wouldn't want to meet it in a dark alley.Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Freeware
GoogleFill fills your address book automatically
by Jordan Running May 24th 2006
GoogleFill's author poses the following scenario: Say you make some new business contacts and punch their numbers into your cell phone, then get home and sync it up with your address book. Now you've got a bunch of numbers, but none of their other information. GoogleFill attempts to solve this by running a reverse phone number search on all of those new contacts and, if it finds a match, it'll grab their full names and addresses. All of this seems a little bit creepy, but whenever I have a missed call from a number I don't know, the first thing I do is run it through Google--all GoogleFill really does is automate that process. Unfortunately GoogleFill is Mac OS X-only, but the good news for those Mac users is it's completely free.[Via TUAW]
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 ...
