Join the Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype
October 8, 2009 on 9:55 am | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off
You might have heard of the new experiment Google is running for its homepage, showing only logo and search box (and apparently search buttons, at times) unless your mouse moves over the page. To join this prototype, you can go to google.com and type the following into the address bar, then hit return and reload the page:
I'm making this my Google homepage for now to see how it goes, I kinda like it (in my browser I often hit Ctrl + N, type google, hit Ctrl + return, then enter some search string, and hit return again).
Kudos go to JEShack for tracking this cookie!
Please comment in the existing thread.
Update: And thanks to Techcrunch, here's the bit needed to trigger the version that doesn't have search buttons, either:
[Thanks Luke!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Join the Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype]
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Google Street View for Canada, Czech Republic
October 7, 2009 on 3:06 pm | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments Off
Google has launched Street View imagery for Canada and the Czech Republic. Above are snapshots from Montreal and Prague.
[Thanks TomHTML and Jeffrey!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Street View for Canada, Czech Republic | Comments]
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Bookmarklet Converts PDF Links to Be Viewed With Google Docs PDF Reader
October 7, 2009 on 3:42 am | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments OffJoen created a JavaScript bookmark snippet that turns any normal links to PDF files into links that will point to Google’s online PDF viewer. Adobe’s PDF viewer tends to freeze browsing, and Joen finds Google’s viewer “far outshines” it. (Would it make sense to turn this into a Greasemonkey script, too? This would help with the occasional surprise effect when you click on PDF links.)
On a related note, in the Blogoscoped forum when you post a link to a PDF, it will automatically be turned into an embedded, expandable Google Docs PDF viewer gadget (with a secondary link to the actual PDF source). You can give it a try by adding a comment if you like.
[Thanks Joen!]
Update: Turns out there is indeed a Greasemonkey script to do this. [Thanks Branco!]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Bookmarklet Converts PDF Links to Be Viewed W ... | Comments]
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A Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype
October 6, 2009 on 10:14 am | In Technology, Internet, Google, Search | Comments OffTechCrunch is reporting that people see a Google homepage experiment in which everything but the logo and search box have been removed. When you move your mouse, though, certain elements fade back in, as the video shows.
[Thanks David and Jérôme! Linked image by Techcrunch.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: A Minimalist Google Homepage Prototype | Comments]
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Icons Set Licensed Under Creative Commons
October 6, 2009 on 8:30 am | In Technology, Internet | Comments Off
FatCow offers a nice, CC-licensed icons set for you, with 1000 images in 16x16/ 32x32. These should come in handy if you’re creating an app. I reordered the files a bit as they were in many different numbered folders in the original zip.
[Via Reddit. Reordered zip is CC.]
[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Icons Set Licensed Under Creative Commons | Comments]
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