Hypercities Find search engines from across the world with Search Engine Colossus Gmail users can soon use custom themes Gmail users have been able to change the background themes on the Gmail.com webpage for several years now. However, they have always been at the mercy of Google's own choices for colors, designs and pictures. That will all change later this week. The video above gives an example of how custom themes can be put into action on Gmail. You can upload your own images directly, select from your Google+ photos or simply paste any image URL. While this is admittedly a bit of a cosmetic feature, it's one that we know all those millions of Gmail users will welcome. Source: Gmail blog
Tasty Kitchen – Favorite Recipes from Real Kitchens Everywhere! The New York Times Launches NYT Cooking Available as a New App for iPad and on the Web NEW YORK, Sep 17, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The New York Times today announced the launch of NYT Cooking (NYTCooking.com), a dynamic recipe box designed to make cooking easier. NYT Cooking is available as an app on iPad as well as on the web, optimized for desktop, smartphone and tablet browsers. Edited by Food editor Sam Sifton, Cooking features more than 16,000 recipes from The Times archive to browse and search. Highlights include: Recipe Box: Save recipes in one place and access them across platforms. Sam Sifton, Food editor, The New York Times, said: “Cooking streamlines the everyday task of deciding what to cook and how to cook it, serving as the ultimate digital resource to help make cooking easier. Cooking, which has been available in beta on the web since May, will be a free product at launch. Chobani is the official launch sponsor of Cooking. Images are available for download at NYTCO.com. The New York Times Company SOURCE: The New York Times Company Copyright Business Wire 2014
IS Parade TutorGig Encyclopedia John Venn's 180th Birthday John Venn was a logician and philosopher best known for introducing the Venn diagram. In the diagram, circles are used to visually and logically sort groups to illustrate their relationships to each other. For example, one circle may contain things that are mammals. The other circle may contain things that have wings. The overlapping space that both circles occupy would consist of mammals that have wings. With a concept this simple, you would think it was all fun and games to design an interactive doodle for John Venn’s 180th birthday. How did the idea develop? Venn diagrams in general are naturally pretty fun. Early sketches played with a wide range of categories Eventually, I sat down with two of the doodle engineers, Corrie Scalisi (the engineer of this doodle) and Mark Ivey. Figuring out what kinds of things could work as complete sets that could then be mixed and matched to still create logically correct Venn diagrams was trickier yet! What was the hardest combination to come up with?
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