Technology & Pop Culture

OFFICIAL: Google Fiber Coming To Kansas City, Missouri

Posted by Bradley under BREAKING, Internets, Kansas City

Hello Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO!

http://www.google.com/fiber/kansascity/index.html

Tags: Fiber, Google, Kansas City, Missouri

Google Gets Enhanced Search Options, Wonder Wheel Included

Posted by Bradley under Internets, Technology

Google just added new search options that let you drill down your search results by:

• Videos
• Forums
• Reviews
• Recent results
• Past 24 hours
• Past week
• Past year
• Images from the page
• More text
• Related searches
• Wonder wheel
• Timeline

Including the new interactive Wonder Wheel which is really fun way to visualize your search results as seen here:

Just search as usual and then click “Show Options” on the results page:

Viola!

You’re a search superstar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtirDMfcOKE

Tags: Enhancement, Google, Internets, Search, Search Options, Search Results, Wonder Wheel

Give Firefox Personality With Personas For Firefox

Posted by Bradley under Internets, Technology

Firefox is a great web browser but its default looks can be uninspiring.

Personas For Firefox from Mozilla Labs lets you customize Firefox with themes Personas that fit your personality.  I went with the gray and white diagonal lines Persona in the pic above.

Even create your own or set it up to randomize a Persona from your favorite category.

A great way to spice up my most frequently used application.

http://www.getpersonas.com/

Tags: Firefox, Mozilla Labs, Personas, Personas For Firefox, Themes, Web Browser

Free Pixlr Plugin Turns Firefox Into Photoshop

Posted by Bradley under Art, Internets

If you ever need to Photoshop something on the fly or require more advanced photo editing than MS Paint can offer, Firefox and web-based editing software pixlr can help you out in a pinch.

The functionality is robust — allowing you to open and save images in popular JPG, PNG or BMP file formats, use layers and define custom brushes.  Pretty much any basic to intermediate Photoshop task can be accomplished with ease.

And best of all there is no installation necessary — it’s 100% web based and 100% free.

http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Also go grab the plugin for Firefox which saves time when editing images from the web by adding right click “Edit image in Pixlr” menu integration.

A welcome time-saver for bloggers!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9924

[via Firefox Facts via Download Squad]

Tags: Firefiox, Photoshop, pixlr, Plugin

Celebrate Friday The 13th With Bacon!

Posted by Bradley under Internets, Technology

Bacolicio.us does one thing very effectively.

It puts bacon on webpages.

From Bacolicio.us:

Need a side of bacon on your web site. Just put it at the end of http://bacolicio.us/

Here’s this very post on bacon.

Tasty!

(Psst, there’s also cornify.com for some extra time wasting fun.)

http://bacolicio.us/

Tags: Bacolicio.us, Bacon, Friday The 13th, Internets, Jason