Click screen to clear. Use arrow keys to control.
[Arleen wrote about this.]
April 29, 2007
March 21, 2007
Google adds "themes" to your Google homepage
I like plain ol’ vanilla Google. It works. It’s simple. No fuss. But earlier today, I decided to just check out the various themes that Google has developed for its Google homepages and settled on “city.”
Very nice. Mellow. The colors and accoutrements change with the time of day and weather. (You need to give them a ZIP for it to work properly.) Right now it’s shades of purple and blue with stars and a crescent moon. Nice.
My one concern is that the Googlelogo is a single, set color.
What happens when it’s George Orwell’s bday and the Google logomeister comes up with a spiffy logo-for-the-day?
All that remains to be seen, but the cityscape is nice and I’m enjoying it.
January 27, 2007
January 13, 2007
GeoGreetings from the Hill
Click on image for full effect.
GeoGreetings creates custom online greeting cards using building images found with Google Maps. Jesse Vig, the cool app provider, is looking for help finding more buildings that look like letters.
Thanks! to Jesse Vig, cool app provider at GeoGreeting, and to Stacy of She Dreams In Digital for the headzup.
January 6, 2007
January 3, 2007
January 2, 2007
1-Click Answers … sponsored links
Looked up struldbrug with my handy-dandy 1-Click Answers and got some entertaining sponsored links:
[struldbrug — for those who don’t know and really don’t want to check right now — is “The appellation given to the immortals in Gulliver’s Travels who were incapable of dying but continued to exist in a state of miserable decrepitude, regarded as legally dead, and receiving a small pittance from the state — hence in allusive uses.” according to 1-Click Answers, which borrowed the definition from Michael A. Fischer’s Worthless Word For The Day]
The links:
Cirugia Plastica
Cirugía Plástica en Argentina a precios bajos. Excelencia médica.
www.plenitas.com
Low price plastic surgery. Yay!
Fotos De Descuidos
Buy Fotos De Descuidos on eBay Fotos De Descuidos for sale!
www.ebay.com
Photos of negligences? ?
Dr Jorge Vergara Rodgers
Tecnologia Dental Avanzada Odontología Láser Sin Dolor
www.odontosalud.com
I like dentists who are sin dolor.
8¢ Photos, No Minimum
Wholesale Professional Printing Lab Studio, Wedding, Poster, Ad Prints
www.bestcolorphoto.com
pictures. OK.
Tienda de Diego Maradona
Tenemos jerseys, camisetas y otros productos de Diego Maradona.
www.TodoFut.com
I’m not quite sure why a struldbrug might be interested in a Diego Maradona jersey. I’d be more interested in piccies of certain hunky Argentine polo players.
Why are so many of the links en español?
January 1, 2007
Nifty widget: Snap Preview Anywhere
Snap Preview Anywhere is a nifty widget from snap.com
Want to see how it works? Hold your cursor over any hotlink on this page that doesn’t reference a page on towse.com.
Like this one or this one or even this one, which is where I espied the gizmo this morning.
Nifty. Keeno.
The thought behind it is that it gives your readers a glimpse at where an “away” link will take them allowing them to make a semi-informed choice as to whether that’s where they’d be interested going.
Thanks, Halsted!
December 30, 2006
[URL] Brilliant app: Montage-a-google
Brilliant app: Montage-a-google.
Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google’s image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user.
A click on any image (max 20 images, scattered with dups over a 9×12 grid) takes you to the source of the image.
The grid size can be fiddled with, as can other features using the “advanced” mode.
You’ll need Flash player version 8 (or up) to run the app.
If you want to save your results, use [alt][print scrn] (if you use a PC — don’t talk to me about Mac stuff) to copy the image. Then pop the image into your photo app with ^V and clear the bits you don’t want before printing.
You’ll wind up with something like this [click image to enlarge]:
Not bad for a first try. I could’ve trimmed the edges better but I won’t go back and fiddle some more because at some point conscientiousness veers into compulsiveness and we’re not exactly creating lasting art here.
Google search for “bixby creek” “big sur”
Coolio.
Over 2.5m Montage-a-googles served.
Check out the photos tagged with “montage-a-google” on Flickr.