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Today Google has blacked-out their logo to protest the SOPA act. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced last year that would expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement and copyright holders to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods. Proponents of the bill say it protects
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Growing up I was a big fan of The Addams Family so when I saw todays Google Doodle, I figured I should blog about it. The Doodle was made to celebrate Charles Adams January 7 birthday. Charles Adams was a cartoonist who created the Addams Family characters which led to two TV shows, cartoons, movies
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In celebration of Gumby creator Art Clokey’s what would have been the 90th birthday, Google today created a doodle that features Gumby and his pals and enemies. I say enemies because the Blockheads which make up Google’s capital ‘G’ and first ‘o’, are always trying to ruin Gumby’s plans on the TV show. And I
about 11 months ago - No comments
Google Chrome has been out for almost three years now and it continues to gain in popularity. Starting about a year ago I started using Chrome exclusively whenever possible. The browser has become so popular that Google has built an operating system with the same name. Here are my top five reasons why I use
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To celebrate Les Paul’s Birthday (Lester William Polsfuss June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), Google created an interactive Doodle logo that lets you strum the guitar with your mouse cursor and create your own music. The Doodle was so popular that Google created a standalone website for it. Les Paul was an American jazz
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I grew up reading The Richard Scarry books about Busytown. Richard Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was a popular American children’s author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide. Today Google celebrated what would have been Scarry’s 92nd birthday with a Google Doodle
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The National Winner of the 2011 Doodle 4 Google contest has been selected and today has their doodle posted on Google’s homepage. The winner is Matteo Lopez, age 7 from San Francisco. The doodle title is “Space Life” and here is Matteo’s description of his doodle: Is become an astronaut and explore space life. I
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As Google continues to make the web an amazing experience, they’ve now created an easy way for web designers and developers to get many different fonts to display on their websites using Google web fonts. You can browse their catalog of available fonts, learn about the font designers who created them, and copy the code required to
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Doodle 4 Google is a competition where K-12 students use their artistic talents to redesign Google’s homepage logo for millions to see. That’s right, the winner’s doodle will be featured on the Google.com homepage on May 20, 2011. There are four levels to the competition: K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12. The doodle on the right is an
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This Year, Google decided to do their annual April Fools Joke about a new feature in Gmail called Gmail Motion. Gmail Motion would let the user use a series of hand movements and gestures that would be seen by their computers camera and then processed and translated into text by Gmail. The first half of
about 3 years ago
Finally, I can make me e mail background purple. Those gmail themes are awesome.