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Meteorologist makes checking the weather a breeze

Here in the rust belt, we often jump on our PCs to check the weather before a surfing trip (yeah, we surf out on Lake Erie, believe it or not), a barbeque, or a Tribe game. After all, we only get 66 sunny days per year and we need to make every one of them count. Problem is, surfing to Accuweather.com or Weather.com forces you to sit through page loads and advertising, and hey, if you're in a hurry, that just doesn't work.

Enter Meteorologist. This is a really simple, free user interface for weather.com that circumvents all the advertising and gives you a convenient consolidated weather report, forecast, and radar image all in your OS X menu bar or dock. If you don't like widgets you'll find Meteorologist indispensable. Only 26 sunny days left this year and we don't plan on wasting them.

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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 ...

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