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Keyboard optimized for Google Reader - Flickr mockup
Enthusiastic users of an app or web service typically come to wish for some form of UI optimization or another. That near-vaporware Optimus keyboard that Engadget has been covering is a great example, but so is this Photoshopped mockup of a Google Reader-optimized keyboard from Flickr user paolovalde. For those who don't use Google's suddenly dominant newsreader, J is the key used to scroll through headlines in reverse (much like scrolling back through Gmail messages), which explains why paolovalde might be jonesing for a much larger and easier target to strike.
Who knows - with a rumored Google phone on the way, what's to stop the big G from cranking out an innovative keyboard?
[via Chris Wetherell of the Google Reader team]
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 ...
