Google themes now available
Google have finally gone and gotten themselves a web designer. Now you can choose from a variety of themes for your google homepage to take away that bare white look. There are as yet 7 themes you can choose from including the original. most are quite well thought out although I found some of them lacked the contrast that the original had making picking out relevant news stories such a breeze. I eventually settled on the ‘bus stop’ theme despite this.
The first cool thing about is that it changes to coincide with the weather conditions and time in your local area. Well! If you live in the US it does.
I think I’m the guy in the red tracksuit…but trying to become the guy in the suit beside him…haha!
I’ve found a rather useful page detailing the different states for each theme.
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Google mobile phone anyone?
Rumours are abound that google is dipping its sticky fingers into the mobile phone market with a google mobile set for retail.
They have recently filed for a patent on predictive mobile location-based search technology. A BlackBerry-like gadget is apparently in the pipeline that may be Google-made or run a Google OS. At the very least I would expect to see it optimised for gmail. There are also recent reports of a partnership between operator Orange and Google with a view to producing a branded device.
Conspiracy theorists should have a field day as further evidence begins to gather.