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Hey Kids!
This just in - Google maps street view is now active in Minneapolis/St. Paul
Everyone go look at your houses on Google: http://maps.google.com/*edit* The bridge is still up in the Google images - it's a trip to go across the bridge and look at it realizing that it's only a matter of days or weeks (depending when the pics were taken) until it ( Read more... ) -
Yay for easter eggs
Google Earth (download) has a flight simulator. Press Ctrl-Alt-A (on a PC) to bring it up the first time. After that, Ctrl-A or a selection from the "Tools" menu activates it. -
Sturgis Live
We made some really cool banners for Harley, and the cool thing is it features live footage right in the banner. We also made them as a google gadget for websites and/or igoogle pages.
Here is the code for the gadget for a website:
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Eco Friendly (Goth) Google
When your screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when it’s black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views. According to his calculations, 750 mWh per ( Read more... ) -
Stupid LJ
Live journal won't allow the coding for Snap Shot, it's such a cool program, but LJ with their anti java scripting policy won't allow it. Actually It also won't allow me to place Google analytics coding into my blog either. I was able to get Google webmaster tools to work (sort of - LJ also has bot blocking text in all the headers so search ( Read more... ) -
All things Googley
I found a couple of cool Google things.
If you want your own web site, and have it hosted for free, check out Google Pages
Google April Fools Jokes:
Google Gulp
Google Romance
Google easter eggs:
- Searching for "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" will make the Calculator answer "42", a reference to Douglas Adams's novel "The ( Read more... )
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Sunday entertainment for you
Very funny interview with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Ellen Barkin talking about Ocean's 13
The other day I wrote about Googles new Street level feature in Google maps. Well it looks like They may be getting in a bit of trouble because of it. Some highlights include; A picture of a clearly identifiable man standing in front of an ( Read more... ) -
Google is the coolest thing ever.... or really creepy
Google maps launched a new feature this morning. In five cities (Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, New York and San Francisco) you can now have street view.
This is the most coolest ever
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