Filed under: Macintosh, Commercial, Social Software
Clean up MySpace with Spyder
by Ted Wallingford Sep 25th 2007
One application for Mac OS X solves all these problems and more. Spyder, a $35 shareware piece, does almost everything you can do on MySpace--browsing profile information, sending and receiving mail messages, adding comments, handling and sending friend requests, and downloading other users' friend lists. It does all of this in a nice, neat desktop environment that looks suspiciously like iTunes. Last time we looked at Spyder, it had some stability issues, but these have been ironed out handily.
Spyder will even do a couple of things MySpace alone won't--like show you the display name of a user who has left a comment or message but who has since deleted their account. Nifty stuff. And like more expensive tools such as EekAdder, Spyder supports bulk comments and messages. The program will even warn you if you're approaching the MySpace-imposed daily limit of 400 comments and allow you to handle Captcha codes in the Spyder interface. If you use MySpace frequently, we can't think of a better add-on for you to check out. The time saved on logging in alone is worth the thirty-five bucks.
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 ...
