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Google Voice Business Cards: Did you get yours?

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:09:25 +0000

A little while back I got my Google Voice Phone Number. As of this post, you still have to sign up for an invite. I got my invite pretty quick. I think it was about a week wait. If you would like to learn more about Google Voice, click here. Well, after logging in to my Google Voice Account, I noticed this little Icon and link to get free Google Business Cards for the first 25,000 users of Google Voice (they are not giving them out as of now). Well I made the first 25,000 so proceeded to sign up for the cards. This is what they looked like when I received them. Pretty cool. Just thought I would share this image of an actual Google Voice Business Card in the wild. Simple, Clean and oh so Google-ish. Oh yeah, did I say Google Voice is a killer Google Application? It’s like Gmail for your phone! Yeah yeah, you might think I’m nuts showing my name and contact information, well I got’s nuttin’ to hide! Feel free to leave me a message!

Del.icio.us Bookmarklet Tag for Google Chrome

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:00:21 +0000

As designer’s and web heads, I know we are always bookmarking those awesome websites we find with great tools, fonts, ideas, images, etc… (At least I am)… Many of you may use del.icio.us to tag these pages, if not.. try it .. you will LOVE it… The thing is, I had a little problem that I needed to fix to use Delicious Tagging…

Ever since Google released their Chrome Browser I have been wanting to use it but was never happy because I could not use the Del.icio.us Tag add-on for Internet Explorer in the Chrome browser. I do a ton of tagging, so using Chrome was just not possible. There is a fix! I am so happy because I really like the speed and simplicity of the Chrome browser.

Internet Explorer Del.icio.us Tagger I’m Talking About

Here goes.

All you have to do is drag this link –> Delicious Tag to your Bookmarks Bar in the Chrome Browser. This uses Javascript to get the magic done. Make sure your Bookmarks bar is showing first of course. Now all you have to do to tag that awesome web page that you found is to click on that new Delicious Tag Bookmark and it will pop up a new window just like it did before in Internet Explorer! And from there you can also choose to view your bookmarks. So sweet and simple. So.. load up The Chrome browser and give it a whirl!

Google Chrome Delicious Tag Bookmarklet

Google’s Original Doodler – Logo Designer

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:17:50 +0000

I stumbled on this page at Google a while ago. I just remembered it and thought it was pretty interesting. It is part of the Doodle 4 Google project. There is a video of Dennis Hwang (yeah he’s a lefty) putting his power to the pixels on a killer touch screen (I want one bad). But anyway… If you ever wondered who was behind all those cool Google logo’s that you see on the special event days, check this out.

Google’s Original Doodler

Google’s Chrome Browser

Google’s Chrome Browser

admin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:20:22 +0000

From scratch… that’s what Google states. If you have not heard of Google’s new Chrome Web Browser, you really need to pull yourself out from the rock you are under unless you are really comfortable there and like being the last to know everything. Well anyway… the comic book more or less explains it all. Google has built the Chrome Browser from the ground up noting that today’s web is not the same as the old web. Full of web applications and multimedia, our existing pick of browsers were not initially developed for this kind of intense usage. Chrome will solve certain problems with current browser technology — single-threading, inefficient and slow render engines, and slow Javascript among other things. The new browser is fully open source and open to adaption by others. Google has also developed the V8 Javascript engine to speed things up. The V8 engine was created by a team of developers in Denmark.

Me, myself and I can’t wait to give the new browser a whirl.. I do understand that a post about a new browser is not really art or design related unless your thinking GUI development, but do understand that having another browser on the block is something all of us web designers are going to have to deal with. It is one more browser that we are going to have to make sure that our beautiful designs are going to stay lookin’ beautifully rendered within.