Web Utilities
Google has made available a new set of themes for iGoogle – ‘Travel’ is the new item in the menu. These themes bring beautiful landscapes, historic monuments, stunning beaches, iconic cities and other picturesque sites from all over the globe on your homepage.
To bring you this imagery, we’ve partnered with a few leading organizations including National Geographic Society and LIFE, who photograph some of the most breathtaking destinations on earth. Lonely Planet, UNESCO and visiteurope.com have also shared a selection of incredible images.
via [Google Blog]
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Google has announced the end of hostilities with China, and has stopped censoring its (Google) services in China,
So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over
but this is the state of Google Services in China, many blocked services; YouTube, Sites, Blogger.
More here on the Google blog ~ A new approach to China: an update
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StumbleUpon fans now have an official toolbar for Google Chrome, its more a frame that does not break on frame-breaking web sites. The developers of Chromebar admit that the Chrome extension still has to catch-up feature wise with its Firefox counterpart, but that also depends on the predisposition of the Chrome browser. The blog post that announces the release of the StumbleUpon extension for Chrome, the developers clearly state their wish to bring Chromebar to the level of StumbleUpon add for Firefox. More»
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x.minutes.at is a smart web utility that helps you control the time you spend on a website. In case you want to spend just 4 minutes of your time on Kabatology without exceeding it all you have to do is launch your preferred web browser and add http://4.minutes.at in front of kabatology.com,to get http://4.minutes.at/kabatology.com. The “x” stands for, time in minutes, so you can change that figure each time you visit different web sites, for example http://20.minutes.at/cnn.com. More»
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A simple trick you can quickly deploy to prevent your email addresses from scrappers is use to display them in an image format. That’s exactly how Facebook deals with our email addresses to prevent friends and spambots from scrapping them. So if you need an email image and don’t have time to create one, then just export your Facebook-generated email images. More»
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