10 Google Easter Eggs

1. Do a Barrel Roll
you start to type this in and it does a barrel roll. Simple yet awesome.

2. Askew
if you ever need to search this word you'll find a very good example in the screen suddenly.

3.What is the loneliest number?
1 of course!

4. Zerg rush

Just type this in to be attacked by a bunch of little O's. kill them before they eat your search results!

5.I'm feeling...

Artistic, Hungry, Trendy...
just hover over the "i'm feeling lucky" button and see...

6. Festivus
Happy Festivus! those familiar with the show "Sienfeld" will probably get this one.

7. how many horns are on a unicorn?

Oh. well there ya go.

8. The answer to everything:

9. Faces of Pegman
On google maps, the little yellow Pegman can change based on where you put him! here he is in legoland!

10. Calculator heart

just type in:

sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5

 if you want to see this yourself.

 

Firefox Persona

I love this idea.

I'm a huge fan of customization already, be it with my clothing or I-pad or anything, anyway i can make something more mine I'm all for. Plus i love the variety available in getting to select from a bank of skins "personas" that other people have made. I'm artistically talented (or at least i'd like to think so) but if your good at something then theirs always a thousand more people out there that make yours look like crap. and that's definately the case here as well, some of the options are just beautiful! far prettier than anything i could ever create.

Feedjit

Another thing that we had to get and add to our blogger pages was feedjit.

It shows who visits your page, but it doesn't give specifics. It'll just say "a visitor from ___ looked at your page ___ ___ ago". Its alright. I'm not sure of the point of it really, but I'm honestly not very interested in that sort of thing. The number of people viewing my page is tracked in stats and that's what i care about, I don't really need a catalog of visitors. I'm not that obsessive.

Remember the Milk

A site to remind you of things. You make lists of things you don't want to forget, and it notifies you of them via email, SMS, and IMs. Also it can even show you where your tasks are located in real life and time, and lets you publish them too. Although I can see why it'd be helpful if other people got to view your errands, to avoid confusion, but it seems like your trusting people a bit to much with that.

Del.icio.us

This ones actually pretty cool. you can pretty much collect links to all the stuff you like from all over the internet. It has a social-media site feel to it, because you can brows links other people have liked and shared, as well as connect with people who like the same stuff as you via your links.  Additionally it could prove helpful for keeping track of all the random sites and information you find on a web. ever found a site, left it, then completely forget what it was/how to get to it? problem solved.

App vs. Site

This post is being written on the blogger app. The assignment being to write a comparison of the two. I'm leaning towards the website, mostly because I can't edit the blog here like I can on the website, or view stats or even the blogs I'm following.

But it's a good tool for making and managing posts it seems, since this is my first post on it this is pure speculation.

They each have their perks. I would rather make posts here, and do absolutely everything else on the website.

Symbaloo

Today we explored a website called Symbaloo, and now are to examine it. This is a screenshot of my Symbaloo. Its pretty empty. it only contains a few webcomics i'm following.

On to the actual analysis. The whole site's pretty much a bookmarks bar, but its a website. You can make any website into a tile. It seems like a good idea. i;m not sure if its more convenient since bookmarks are in that little bar at the top of the screen and are pretty much instantly accessible, and this is a website you have to go to, but hey, you could always just bookmark it! instead of making folders for different categories you make sharable "web mixes". Which is kind of neat.

I dont think its more convenient, but its a good idea and i'll definitely be using it to manage my websites.