Filed under: Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Freeware
Pathway: A better way to Wikipedia?
by Jordan Running Sep 27th 2006
Pathway is a cool-looking Mac-only app that aims to be an alternative to a standard web browser for using Wikipedia. It aims to "help you discover Wikipedia without having to worry whether you'll have enough time to read everything you want, or if you'll get lost." That sounds simplistic, but the execution looks great. Pathway draws a map of every Wikipedia page you hit connected to the page you got there from and the page(s) you went to from there. The map also shows all of the pages the current page links to for quick navigation. It also features Safari and Spotlight integration and the ability to export pages, and currently works with the English, French, German, Dutch, and Spanish Wikipedias. Pathway is a free download and requires Mac OS 10.4.
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 ...
