Take a look at the slightly refreshed Google homepage with larger buttons and a larger search box. I like it!
Multicolr Search Lab lets you navigate Flickr photos by color combination
May 1, 2009 @ 3:03 am
There are tons of custom Flickr search options out there, but this one from Idee Labs is certainly one of the best. It’s called Multicolr Search Lab and it allows you to pick any combination of colors (see the right-hand side of the image above) and it will reveal all of the photos on Flickr — licensed under Creative Commons — that have those color combinations in it.
You can add or remove any number of colors as you wish which sort of make discovering new images on Flickr fun. It works surprisingly well. Go ahead and give it a spin.
Time Machine running smoothly
March 7, 2009 @ 8:27 pm
Wow, that initial backup took forever. But after that first one, all of the subsequent backups get finished in no time! I’m really like this Time Machine backup utility. Not only does it do the job it’s supposed to automatically, it also makes the restoring and searching aspect of data recovery fun with its graphical user interface.
If there’s one thing done incredibly well in Leopard, I’d say it’s this. I won’t bother posting a video because YouTube is already chock-full of video demonstrations of the product, so if you really want to see it in action, I suggest you head over there.
That’s my penis
January 31, 2009 @ 4:27 pm
This police officer mistakenly grabs a hold of this person’s penis while doing a body search. I love how the guy being searched is so calm about it. Here’s hoping that you never find yourself in this situation — either as the cop or the person being searched.
Thanks Catelyn!
Visualize your search with Viewzi
October 22, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
It takes quite a lot for any search engine to drag me away from Google’s precise and clean-cut interface. But somehow, Viewzi seems to be the one lately to do exactly that.
You see, Viewzi isn’t really a search engine, but rather a search aggregator that has found a clever way to present search results to you in several different forms (depending on what your search query is). Let’s say you’re doing a standard web search for information, Viewzi will offer you a selection of ways to view the search results. You can see them by page screenshot, standard text view, image-grid format, Google timeline view (helpful in visualizing what’s new and what’s old), and site information view (for a more in-depth look at the site you’re viewing).
And if you’re looking for photos, you can see the results in a tag cloud format or a grid format.
There are different views for books, music, weather, shopping, and even celebrities. I’m not saying that Viewzi is replacing Google, but it sure is supplementing the results by offering me a better grasp of where the search results are coming from as well as how to see them visually in a new light.
Search Google like it’s 2001
September 30, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
Google is celebrating 10 years of their search technology by allowing people to search their oldest Google index, which dates back to 2001.
As many of you know, the web changes drastically from day to day, so going back to a complete snapshot of the “web that Google knew” from all the way in 2001 is certainly telling. I did a search for ‘doobybrain’ to see what I was up to back in 2001 and it definitely rang true to my habits back then — music and application customization.
Back in 2001, I often frequented sites like Dmusic.net, Deskmod.com, Deviantart.com, and Customize.org. Those sites were very different than they are today and Google’s 2001 search index brought me back to a time when all I went online for was to download new themes and skins for WinAMP and to participate in forums on Dmusic about the rapidly changing digital music scene.
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