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Quikmaps Draws Directly onto Google Maps [Google Maps]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 18, 2008
Go beyond simple place markers and draw directly onto a Google Map with Quikmaps, a free mashup service. The site offers tons of distinct icons you can drag and drop onto road or satellite maps, along with scribbling, line tracing (great for giving custom directions when Google's aren't convenient), text labels, and other tools. Drawing and saving a map to your desktop or web site is...
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Google Translator and Barack Obama...
via Google Blogoscoped by Philipp Lenssen on June 17, 2008
Vittorio sent in this Google translator finding:<
>The ways of the Google are long and complicated...[Thanks Vittorio!][By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Translator and Barack Obama... | Comments][Advertisement] Want to advertise here? Your ad will show in the blog and... Shared by: Azeem, Slicer, Edo, Farzin, Dan Russell, Jon, Alex, Chris Schrier, Navid, Maryam,
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Search Read Items in Google Reader
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on June 17, 2008
One of the most useful features that is missing in Google Reader is a way to search the items you've read in the past. This is useful, since Google Reader's search results are sorted by date and it may be difficult to find an article published two years ago.Depending on your preferred view, Google Reader defines read items differently: in the expanded view posts are marked as read when...
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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3 [Firefox 3]
via Lifehacker by Gina Trapani on June 17, 2008
You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3—at 10AM Pacific Time—let's dive in past Firefox 3's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and...
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Big Buck Bunny: CC-licensed animated short made with free/open animation
tool Blendervia Boing Boing by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Chris Schrier I'm really impressed with how well this turned out.Mike sez, "To show off the open-source animation program Blender, a small team just finished a great ten-minute cartoon, 'Big Buck Bunny.' They were funded by foundation support and pre-orders of the DVD by the Blender community. What's more, the whole thing is Creative Commons-licensed, and all the files...
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Find the Font from a Logo
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on May 27, 2008
WhatTheFont is a site that lets you upload a logo or any other image that contains text and shows you a list of fonts that are likely to be used in that image. WhatTheFont supports some common image formats like GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, but you can't upload images bigger than 360 x 275 pixels.After uploading an image, you may need to enter the corresponding letters from the text, since the...
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Louie Mantia - Icons
via louiemantia.com by (author unknown) on June 07, 2008
Shared by Chris Schrier Amazing desktop icons, nice inspiration.
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Icon Design Tutorial: Drawing A Pencil Icon
via Smashing Magazine by Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz on June 06, 2008
by Vu Tran and Min TranNowadays we can see icons everywhere, from a game console to web applications. Icons are getting more and more popular and play an important role, maybe the most important role in user interfaces. However, the resources about icon design are not that popular which is why when we have done our first steps in icon design, it was really hard to find a good starting point.There...
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Goosh: Making Web 2.0 Look Like DOS 2.0
via Mashable! by Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins on June 02, 2008
A lot of hay has been made from the notion that the Web is the new platform, and that at some point we’ll just be booting up our computers to a web interface, and be done with it. The problem with that, or at least one of the problems with that, for old technology veterans like myself is that we’d miss desparately our command line access. Now, thanks to Stefan Grothkopp (and the anonymous...
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Google Doctype, an Encyclopedia for Web Developers
via Google Operating System by (author unknown) on May 14, 2008
Shared by SharonG cool!Google released an encyclopedia of the "open web". "The open web is the web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more. The open web is a beautiful soup of barely compatible clients and servers. It comprises billions of pages, millions of users, and thousands of browser-based applications."Google Doctype is an encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone who has...
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