Tag: DOODLE

Since 1998, Google has been creating modifications to its logo, called 'doodles,' to celebrate special occasions, but they've now become spectacles in and of themselves. They range from the subtle festive cheer, through to productivity destroying time-wasters, to the down right computer- and environment-killing ball renders. But now, for the first time, Google doodles are making the leap to the ...

I can't quite believe I'm writing this, but: Google's buckyball doodle probably did enough harm to the planet to counteract every 'carbon offset' initiative the big G has ever been involved in. A plucky investigative journalist over on ZDNet, irked by one of his computers locking up at 100% CPU utilization after loading the Google homepage, decided to do a little research to see just how ...

Maybe in the longer term we'll get to see Google start serving up some serious games, but for now, they give us Pac-Man! You know how Google does these "Google Doodles"? Well, this is the first fully-interactive one I've seen: To celebrate Pac-Man's 30th anniversary, Google has put up a fully playable Pac-Man level right in its image. At first it looks like a regular doodle, but if you wait for a ...

Doodle.ch is a straightforward, highly-usable tool for scheduling events or making decisions with a group. It generates polls that the members of your group can use to fill in their availability for an event, or even simpler polls that let you make a list of options (What should we serve at dinner? Which movie should we see?) and see which ones work for your group members. We last wrote about ...

Sketch 4 Secs is an online Java game that asks you to try to replicate doodles using your mouse in 4 seconds or less. Drawing with the mouse is only ever sort of fun, so this game suffers from that knock right away. But worse, it's actually ridiculously hard. The first two levels aren't too bad, but level 3 asks you to try to doodle a pair of headphones with many lines. Give it a try and let us ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/mods/Make_a_note_on_any_website_with_Firedoodle'; Notes, doodles, marks, comments; They're how we remember things. Firedoodle brings notes right into the browser window, and puts them squarely on top of webpages. Firedoodle, a Firefox extension, will enable any page visited in the Firefox browser to turn into a whiteboard where notes, additions and comments can be ...

Sometimes scheduling meetings and get-togethers sucks. The difficulty of finding a date and time that works best for everyone increases exponentially with the number of people involved. Doodle aims to simplify things. It's a simple web-based polling app that lets you list possible dates and times for an event and then survey all of the interested parties. When you create a poll, you're given a ...

The new beta version of Yahoo! Messenger with Voice (version 8) lets users attach special use plugins. There were several available when the beta version was rolled out and today several more were made available in the Yahoo! Application Gallery. Yahoo! Scribbler - It does just what the name says, it lets you scribble. When you and you chatting friend launch it, you can collaborate on a ...

quickmaps is a cool new Google Maps-based web service (or mashup, if you prefer) that lets you get really creative with your Google Maps. Quickmaps gives you a bunch of tools, including a couple dozen markers, line and doodle tools for drawing, and text labels that you can place anywhere on a Google map. Drawing is done with the mouse, and markers and text labels are conveniently drag-and-drop. ...

Gloodle is s strange little drawing application. You don't really draw with it, you doodle with little globs. It sort of reminds me of a those spirograph toys we played with as children, in that it creates images that are identical in a number of planes. There's nothing really useful you can do with Gloodle other than play with it, but then again that's fine by me. ...