Experimental Search views from Google

Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take one for a spin and let us know what you think.

See results on a timeline, map, or in context of other information types. With these views, Google's technology extracts key dates, locations, measurements, and more from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension. Timeline and map views work best for searches related to people, companies, events and places. Info view shows all the data found for each result, to help you select the best choice.

Try different keywords to improve your search results. As you type your search, Google's technology provides alternative suggestions to your queries in real time. This feature is also available on Google Labs as Google Suggest.

Visit google experimentas search for more details.

Adobe Air (formerly code-named Apollo)

With the note of the divide between browser-based and desktop applications is quickly disappearing, Adobe has released its new Adobe Integrated Runtime ( Previously known as Apollo).

Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that allows developer's existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

While Expertise and geeks experimenting on AIR, Adobe has given an article on "Must see Air Sample". Comparing the three applications that support open-source scripting languages, (Silverlight, JavaFX and AIR) developers now have more options left for thier choice. The best of the lot will be know soon.

Also Check
1. http://www.adobe.com/products/air
2. http://www.adobe.com/devnet/articles/air_sample_apps.html
3. http://labs.adobe.com/showcase/air/

Turbomilk- Providing true stories of Creating ICONS

Turbomilk is a Russian company that does visual interface design. Thier recent redesigned website brings the real essence out to visitors. Well, we get inspired to Icons by their colors, 3d effect, details etc more than that you would recreate icons same as that. Visiting turbo milk will give you a great insight about the art of Icon Design.

The case studies pages has sketches that inspires you to create ideas for Icons. Thier latest autokadabra case study is a delight to watch. They have more case studies in their Casestudy section. Apart from this there are some really valuable tips and tricks for icon design. So get inspired with highly creative and sensible Icons from Turbomilk!

XHTML Character Entity Reference

This is a useful and interesting reference tool developed by Jim Rutherford. Jim is a User Exerience engineer with domain expertise in HTML, XHTML, CSS and XML technology.

Now for the reference tool, it contains 252 entities in HTML 4 and XHML 1.0. Check Digital Media Minute for more.

USB Battery Charger

image source: crazyaboutgadgets.com

The USB Battery Charger is a must have device which lets you charge your batteries off your PC or Laptop's USB port. A very compact charger and accomodates 4 X AA and AAA Ni-Cd batteries. The charger comes along with a 40cm USB cable, DC input DC5v/500mA and LED lights to indicate the charging status. Retails for about $16.06.

Camcorder goes Blue-ray

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Hitachi launch the DZ-BD9H camcorder which writes on Blue-ray discs. Its not just one product but two of them and one of them is a Hybrid which stores on a built in 30GB HDD and Blue0ray as well and the other without the HDD. The camcorder supports full HD at 1920x1080 quality video with a 5.3MP CMOS image sensor.

WYMstyle: a CSS framework

WYM is a set of modular CSS files, that can be used for quick and fast designing of web sites. Also alternatively it aims to supress the tedious compatibility testing across browsers for each created website, by providing CSS modules which are reliable and well-tested.

Harmony 800 from Logitech

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A new product from Logitech and its a sleek universal remote, the Harmony 800. The remote has a touch sensitive screen with backlit controls and supports one touch control and has the ability to control over 15 devices once the remote is programmed. The remote charges itself on a charging station.

jQuery UI

jQuery UI is a set of jQuery Javascript Library such as different mouse interactions, namely Drag and Drop, Sorting, Selecting, and Eesizing, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications. On top of the core interactions there are number of reusable widgets such as Accordions, Date Pickers, Dialogs, Sliders, Table Sorters, and Tabs.

Also check: Killerstartups

Zcubes

ZCubes is a unique web application which lets one to handle and execute most of the common tasks we come across on a daily or routine basis. To name a few features are Calculate, Document(edit, create, edit), Paint, Publish, Network and many more. The ZCubes website has more to talk about, please visit their website for more insight.

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Copy CD/DVDs on the go

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DVD Coach Single Target is a portable and slim CD and DVD cd copier. Its a simple to use device connect it to the computer or use it as a standalone unit. IT writes a DVD at 8x and a CD at 16x and features an external USB 2.0 and also plays Audio CDs with repeat mode and finally wth the a one year warranty and technical support.

Flickr Groups on UI Design

Flickr Groups are becoming a source of inspiration among Creative Professionals/Designers and not restricted to just being another photo sharing application. Listed below are a few notable Flickr groups that are contributing to the UI design and Web Design trends.

Design Patterns:
factoryjoe collections
jibbajabba

Web2.0 Interface:
webui

Interaction Designers:
Interaction Designers

Web design:
web_design
webdesign-inspiration

Design:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/brushfruit

Adobe’s 25 years of innovation

Adobe’s commitment to revolutionizing how the world engages with ideas and information is as strong today as it was when the company was founded in 1982. Over the years, Adobe has helped to re-define industries with revolutionary technologies and products, such as:

• PostScript and PDF for the print industry
• Dreamweaver and Flash for the web
• Premiere and After Effects for film and TV
• LiveCycle and Flex for the enterprise
• Adobe AIR for extending rich Internet applications to the desktop, and award-winning software applications like Photoshop and Acrobat that span all industries, serving customers of every size.

Visit Adobe for more details.

Blog : 10 years and going strong

The word "weblog" or popularly known as “blog” celebrates the 10th anniversary of it being coined on 17 December 1997. While many people maintained regular journals or diaries before the word was coined, 1997 marked the point when they started to become a particular online pursuit.

The word was created by Jorn Barger to describe what he was doing with his pioneering Robot Wisdom web page. For some time after Mr Barger coined the term, the numbers of people who could be said to be actually writing one was small.

Official numbers are hard to find but some estimate that the size of the blogosphere in late 1998 encompassed only 23 sites.

In 1999 the phenomenon took off as easy to use tools started to appear which made it much easier to write and maintain these sorts of websites. Also in 1999 the word "blog" was coined as a shortened form of the original term.

The word was an abbreviation for the "logging" of interesting "web" sites that Mr Barger featured on his regularly updated journal.