As many of you know, we’ve been testing a new Yahoo.com homepage since September. We chose a random fraction from our millions of users in four countries to play around with the new homepage and give us feedback on the new features. As expected, we’ve gotten a wide range of reactions from our testers -– the good, the bad, and the ugly. We’ve heard every word and have made some changes accordingly. For example, in the latest version, we’ve added a Mail link to the “Yahoo! Services” area so that people can get to their email faster. We’ll keep making...
Punkky is a watch enthusiast from Japan. On his blog, PIC Microcontroller Note, he's documenting the built of a 7-Segment PIC Digital Clock using the PIC16F628A MCU. It's his first MCU project. After working the kinks out on breadboards, he etched and hand-routed a board (he'll share the Eagle file with others if you ask). Making a Digital Clock Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!...
Filed under: News, WindowsThere's no question that we all want computers that boot up and shut down more quickly. While a fresh install of Windows XP might boot as quickly as 30 seconds on some computers, the more applications you load onto your computer, the slower it will boot. Things get even worse with Windows Vista which loads about as quickly as paint dries. While Microsoft and other OS makers are working to cut boot times, if you're using a current generation operating system, odds are you spend at least a few minutes every day waiting for your computer to...
We’ve recently started using the WordPress plugin Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) by mitcho to show possibly related posts on Laughing Squid blog. It works much better than most of the other related posts plugins we’ve used in the past. You can disallow by category and tag, limit by match threshold using matching scores and it can also add related posts to your RSS feed. This is a blog post from Laughing Squid For more content like this, subscribe to the RSS feed, Twitter & FriendFeed. YARPP, Yet Another Related Posts Plugin For WordPress Related posts:- WordPress Launches New...
A growing number of blogs are now including community news sections, including DesignM.ag. My experience with the news section is that it’s a great way to encourage readers to get involved by submitting items, and it can also reward them with a link and some traffic, not to mention that it gives readers the latest blog posts that might interest them without needing to search through tons of blogs to find them.The community news is especially popular on design and development blogs, but not as much outside of this niche. I also have a blog, Traffikd, where I write about topics...
We believe great ideas can come from anywhere and everyone. And we aspire to be an organization that reflects global diversity, because we know that a world's worth of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services. We have more than a dozen employee-driven resource groups, from Gayglers to GWE (Google Women Engineers), that actively participate around the world in building community and driving policy at Google. The post below kicks off an occasional series, entitled Interface, about valuing people's similarities and differences in the workplace. For more information on how Google fosters an inclusive...
It is hard to believe that this is my 100th post! It seems like it was yesterday when I made my attempt to create a blog, learning how to navigate and set up all the components. I can’t even remember when or why the idea came to me to do this. But it did and I most grateful for it. Not only have I gotten back into cooking, but I have made lots of friends and am grateful for the encouragement by all to follow my dreams. I am still not totally clear as to my calling- but I do...
