Posted by David Griswold, Google Blog Team… something Googley this way comes.It s that time of year, when ghouls, goblins, and Zeitghosts roam Google in search of fresh human bandwidth. We hope you enjoy these Halloween photos from several of our off…
Jeff Little Worship Arts Pastor The High Desert Harvest Church Apple Valley, CA 92308 I am the Worship Arts Pastor for our church in Southern California. We ve been using Snap Shots on our website for a couple months now. In that time, I ve gotten many comments on how much the site is improved and how cool it …
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Posted by Pamela Fox, Maps API Team It s that time of year again: the leaves turn orange and fall off the trees, and I can no longer turn on the TV without fear of stumbling upon a trailer for some ridiculously gory horror movie sequel. The TV used t…
Jay Z s been counted out a few times, particularly after his disappointing return from retirement. Regardless, the King of New York is once again sitting pretty thanks to his upcoming album inspired by the movie American Gangster. As the story goes, the iconic rapper was so moved by a September screening of the Denzel Washington movie, he set out to put his feelings to music. Jay Z s aural interpretation of the Frank Lucas story Hollywood style may be the most important rap concept album of the year or the only rap concept album of the year. Regardless of its place in the canon, advance reviews of Jay Z s quick turnaround project are hailing it as a return to his original sound.New Yorker critic David Denby may lament the deification of a gangster in the Ridley Scott directed film, yet we think both Jay Z and Frank Lucas are street antiheros that even the New Yorker can t depose. Searches for jay z american gangster album surged 177 over the past week, a sign the King may soon be back on his throne.
Posted by Dan Abbe, Book Search Support TeamIt s the last day of October, which means that here in America, it s time to celebrate Halloween although we re not the only country joining the fun! . I have fond childhood memories of dressing up as …
Over the last few days, we ve been rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. We appreciate your feedback on this, so please keep it coming. Priyank Garg Yahoo! Search
One of our favorite internal discussions right up there with the true cause of global warming and why folks can t seem to park in one space concerns the best way to do rounded corners, drop shadows, translucent backgrounds, and other tasty browser candy. Here are techniques from three of Yahoo! s finest front end engineers, Scott Schiller, Leslie Sommer, and Hedger Wang: Even More Rounded Corners with CSS Scott s work showed throughout Yahoo! Photos, and is starting to be seen here and there on Flickr. Examples here are single image, PNG based, fluid rounded corner dialogs with support for borders, alpha transparency, gradients, patterns, and more. CSS Mojo: Adding Visual Polish To Your Pages Leslie s presentation for Web Design World 2007. Four examples, including rounded corners with solid background and image free pointy tail, two sided translucent drop shadows with and without translucent content areas and gradients, and four sided glowy shadows. Leslie s technique is easy on the markup, uses no Javascript, and is mostly semantically valid; currently it s being used in Mash, 360, and other places. Single Image Backgrounds Hedger s examples stretch and apply translucency to a single image, to achieve maximum flexibility with minimum markup and server load. Look for Hedger s magic boxes in a future version of Yahoo! Groups. If you re feeling overwhelmed, remember that your voice counts. Ask questions, especially when a decoration heavy design flies over the wall between design and engineering and lands on your desk. Is all that really necessary? Does it add meaning to the page, or is it just really pretty? And if you re tired of the wall, try a few of these suggestions: Tearing Down the Wall between Design and Front End Engineering Show up early. If possible, get to that very first meeting, when everything is still up in the air. By doing so you will make clear to your product manager, your designer, and your back end support that front end engineering is a discipline at least as important as any of theirs. Make your presence known. Contribute bright ideas, and ask hard questions. If your designer is asking for something that s only going to make sense in Safari, be loud and clear when you point out that most of your audience is still using IE, and deserves the full experience. Understand the tools available to you; there are a ton upstairs in the Yahoo! User Interface section. First time visitors should pay special attention to the Grids, Reset, and Fonts sections. Be a champion of the New. Prototype those sweet new approaches; make sure your designer knows you are actually interested in building the new stuff, not just thinking up reasons why the old stuff is sufficient and should not be changed. And, speaking of which: Release the Old. This is especially important if you had anything to do with the previous version s design or implementation; your designer is dealing with enough stress as it is without having to worry about potential foot dragging from you. Make a special point yes, say it out loud, or in an e mail of telling the rest of your team that you are ready, willing, and able to move things along to the next level. Just say Yes. Remember the first rule of improvisational comedy: no suggestion, no matter how bizarre, can ever be met with resistance. This is especially true during those early brainstorming meetings; whatever it is, take it, run with it, make it even crazier, and toss it back. Designers love this; it takes away their chief source of anxiety, the possibility that they re promising something that you can t deliver. Are we overstepping? Did we miss anything? Got a hot tip for rounded corners? Please leave us a comment and let us know. Kent Brewster
Our goal: to get more people to use Ask UK s Maps service. Our solution: introduce a new version, with new features. Now, thanks to a joint effort across several Ask.com offices, we ve succeeded in delivering an Ask Maps service well…
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