Remember Google’s fun animated particles doodle from yesterday? Today, Google has done it again with yet another interesting logo. At first, it just looks like a gray version of the Google logo. But try typing into the search box. You may notice that the colors start to fill in as you type. After 5 characters, the full Google logo is shown.Yesterday’s logo was a “kinetic logo”, which was fast, fun, and interactive and according to Google, it’s how search should be. Both [...]

Google has had countless beautiful and fun logos (known as doodles) in the past to celebrate special occasions, from Newton’s Apple to Pac-man, but today’s logo is by far one of the most interesting. The logo is animated and reacts based on the mouse pointer. Try moving your mouse closer to it and you will notice that the colorful particles will disperse and move away from the pointer.It is notable that this doodle is not clickable, unlike most of Google’s other doodles. It’s [...]

Are you receiving far too many emails? Is managing them all getting to be extremely difficult? The Gmail Team has recently started to roll out a new feature called Gmail Priority Inbox. While Gmail does an excellent job filtering out spam, we all sometimes find ourselves receiving emails that aren’t spam, but they’re not really important. Take notifications from Facebook or a product newsletter. Sure, they aren’t spam because you actually signed up for them, but are they as important [...]

Ever wanted to share a YouTube video with someone but want to share just a certain part of it without having them start from the beginning? Need to have a video automatically loop? YouTube URLs can be modified with various query string parameters to change certain features and how to video player works. In most cases, parameters follow the video URL with an ampersand (&). The most commonly seen parameter is probably &feature=related which shows that the video was found through clicking on [...]

What do you think of Gmail’s recent layout update? From the comments everyone left, it’s clear that many of you dislike it and want Google to revert the changes they made. Unfortunately, we all know that’s probably not going to happen.Many of you missed the Gmail selection links that got merged into one dropdown menu. Fortunately, there’s a user script available for Greasemonkey that brings these links back with their original functions.To start, you need to be running [...]

Do you own multiple Google accounts? This is becoming very common and signing in to each one individually can get pretty difficult. Fortunately, Google has recently allowed accounts to link multiple Google accounts with an option to quickly switch between each without having to sign out and back in. To start, visit your Google Account settings. Look for an option under Personal Settings named Multiple Sign-in. If you don’t see this option yet, don’t worry, Google is slowly rolling this [...]

Do you use Gmail? If you’ve been checking your inbox from the online interface today, you may have noticed a slightly redesigned look, but the new features aren’t in the looks. In a blog post this morning, Google has announced new features to Gmail, mostly in contacts management. First, let’s start with the minor layout change. The first thing you’ll notice is that links for Mail, Contacts, and Tasks have all been moved all the way to the top of the sidebar. The Mail link [...]

Remember Google Wave? Yes, that social collaboration product introduced last year and everyone wanted an invite but wasn’t fully launched to the general public until May 2010.Just last week, the Google Wave blog was promoting some time-related extensions for Google Wave. Earlier today, Google has just announced in a blog post that it was pulling the plug on this product. They mention that they don’t plan on continuing to develop Wave as a standalone product. We don’t plan to continue [...]