Here’s a quirky re-design of the Google homepage, it has the original first impression and colour scheme but is a lot more modern and sophisticated. It only works with google.com, this took me a while to get to as it kept redirecting me back to google.co.uk just to warn you. Here are some screenshots:

To get this simply paste the code below into the address bar while at google.com.

Code:

I was surfing the net today when I came across this on Google Maps, does Google not support Chrome with Maps? I was using the ‘basic html’ version because our internet was slow, if you want to see this go to:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&t=h&output=html&mid=1254836062

http://local.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=16532&topic=1499

I downloaded version 4.0 of Google Chrome for Ubuntu a few days ago and found it brilliant. It’s available in 32bit and 64bit and best of all everything I tried worked, Flash, Chrome themes, downloads, fonts, extensions… The list is endless. It doesn’t use wine either which means that it looks a whole lot better.

This is a demonstration on how in 5 minutes (or less) you can turn the default Firefox layout into a space-saving one, perfect for netbooks, small screens or heck any Firefox layout!

The Original

Ubuntu’s File Manager, Nautilus, has the option of using custom made scripts to carry out specific functions. Examples of what you can so with these custom made scripts are functions like making an image your desktop background, or setting a file to read-only. Today we’ll be looking at how to mount and unmount an iso image in gnome.

You’ll need to download two files, mount.sh and unmount.sh

Personally I find this new look, planned to be released in 2010, an amazing new look. It’s only a mock up, a brainstorm of sorts, but this look could bring Firefox up to scratch with other browsers in the user interface category. My only worry is that they will lose some customizability with this change, will you still be able to move buttons and toolbars around to where you wish?

DaFont.com is an amazing free font resource with thousands of different fonts in all sorts of styles, ranging from fancy to foreign look and from gothic to basic. It is full of great fonts and I find it to be my favorite.

Google have announced their new operating system, named Chrome OS. It has been said to include a range of features and due for release mid way through 2010.

Unlike most OSs, Chrome OS like most Google products is very much web-based using online apps like GMail etc.

“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.” Officical Google Blog

Google are going to be facing tough competition with Windows XP holding the majority of netbook OSs and Intel developing their own lightweight OS. I know I am looking forward to seeing what Google can make of it, tell me what you think with a comment below.

These are just a hand-full of all the great addons available for the Firefox browser by Mozilla, whether it’s web development or social networking you’re interested in these have all helped me at one point.

Web Development

• 1. Colorzilla
  
  Colorzilla is a tiny addon which allows you hover over any web page and find the hex code of the colour. Extremely handy when you love a color on a different website.
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Dropbox is the ultimate in file synchronisation over the internet. It is a small running, multi-platform program which keeps a folder between multiple computers the same so that you can access your work from which ever computer you’re in front.

I personally use it all the time so that all my website work is kept up to date on my different computers. It’s also very handy keeping a current version of your work between your desktop your laptop.