Google is running a stealth product or testing a new kind of user interface for searching the web.
SearchMash.com apparently does not represent any link to Google unless you go into there privacy policy which states about its connections with Google.The thing different in search Mash is the user interface and some minor modification & organization of search results.
The user interface is packed with a bunch of smart features like grabbing more then 10 results a page with the help of more results bar which pulls up more results with ajax thus not loading another page and not loosing the previous 10 results. Hiding description of the results further helps in cleaning up the page and finding with the titles of the results only. Sidebar is another addition which instead of Ads shows results from Google Video, Wikipedia, Blogs & Images.
Another interesting feature is a flash based interface for Google search or Search Mas, though the interface is not as flashy and futuristic it should have been but its quite interesting. Take a look here
Well this is interesting, if you are a person who is somehow related to web, who spend ridiculous amount of time fixing CSS & XHTML that should work perfectly in IE6, IE7 then i guess this is an interesting discovery.
Microsoft recently revamped there windows website with a new layout to tell the world “What is windows Live?” so instead of checking out windows live i said why not check out how Microsoft writes its markup and what i found was a bit disturbing, on the top of the page was a css hack to load a separate style sheet for IE7 as the original style sheet was not compatible with IE7.
Radiohead one of my favorite band is always creative with there videos, recently Radiohead came up with a new video ‘House of Cards’ from there new album ‘In Rainbows’. The key point of this video was that it was created without the use of cameras & lights. No its not animated video rather the video was produced by capturing 3D images using two technology companies ‘Geometric Informatics & Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
Its sort of a digital video compromised of digital data manipulate. Even Google loved there idea and some of there data is available on Google’s code website which you can use to incorporate your own visualization.
Finally the day arrived when i received a clear cut warning from a doctor that son its quite early for you to receive this warning and its time you quite smoking. Ah the word ‘quite smoking‘ was more painful then anything else, for years i enjoyed the taste of tobacco and when ever some one argued on smoke free environments i was the first one to protest against it. Sometime i use to be like ‘Nick Naylor‘ from the movie from ‘Thank you for smoking‘. But yes now i have to quite smoking.
So today Firefox sends email to all his members who pledged to download firefox on the Firefox download day and help firefox set a world record and today :
We did it! We set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. With your help we reached 8,002,530 downloads.You are now part of a World Record and the proud owner of the best version of Firefox yet!
