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Unusual Google Logos

Throughout Google’s existence, they have featured several logos commemorating events and holidays. Some of them you have recently seen like the Laser logo, Mother’s day logo and their Earth day logo. In most occasions, the events and holiday logos doesn’t stray far from the original. Some have minimal tweaks like the mother’s day logo while others like the laser and earth day logo are more unique. However, there are rare occasions where Google displayed entirely unusual logos in their website. Check them out below.

125th Birthday of Walter Gropius – May 18 2008

Louis Braille’s Birthday – January 4, 2006

The Dilbert Google Doodle ran for an entire week. Check out the whole week Google Doodle here. – May 20, 2002

A rare animated logo Created by Google’s guest illustrator Lorie Loeb Halloween of 2000 – October 31, 2000

Google’s Easter egg hunt on the results page logo- April 15, 2001

Google April Fool’s Logos

Google opens lunar office – April 1, 2004

For April Fool’s Day (April 1, 2000), Google “launched” MentalPlex technology:

Instructions:

• Remove hat and glasses.
• Peer into MentalPlex circle. DO NOT MOVE YOUR HEAD.
• Project mental image of what you want to find.
• Click or visualize clicking within the MentalPlex circle.

See the FAQ and illustrations for correct usage.

Google reveals PigeonRank technology – April 1, 2002

Some artistic birthday logos for the masters.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday – April 15, 2005

Michelangelo’s Birthday – March 6, 2003

Edvard Munch’s Birthday – December 12, 2006

You can check out their full list (with images of course) of the different holiday logos they used throughout the years here.

Tags: Design, designs, events, Google, holidays, logo

Editing With Curves in Photoshop

This video will teach you to edit colors in an image using curves.

Tags: curves, edit, photo, Photoshop, tutorial

Scoutle: The Automated Social Networking Site for Bloggers and Website Owners

Scoutle is a social networking site which targets website owners, bloggers and other social networking site users. One might ask what this particular social networking site has to offer. There are already numerous social sites out there aimed to connect bloggers together not including niche social sites where other bloggers use to promote their websites on. With so many out there the only thing missing is a social networking site for social networks.

So what makes Scoutle unique? What Scoutle does is automatically do the networking for you. They described Automated Social Networking as networking without doing anything, without knowing each other and without the need of communication. All of this is done by web crawlers called Scouts. A scout contains information about the website which is created by the owner. After a Scout is created, and embed code will be given to the owner to be placed in his (her) blog or website. As far as finding networks that suites your blog depending on your given category and the value of your blog, that is all you need to do. The scout will crawl or as they say “walk the internet” to meet other scouts. The meeting will take place on a “stage.” The stage is the widget placed in your blog where other scouts meet and say hi to each other. The number of meetings that your scout makes with other scouts affects the way your site is rated in Scoutle.

Behind the names of Scouts you see the amount of points that Scout has. This actually is a rating. The higher your points, the higher your website is rated. A high rating will be given to Scouts (websites) with high traffic and lots of connections. Connections are made when two site owners agrees to approve each other’s connection requests. A higher rating will give your profile more visibility in your category.

Scoutle is a new and interesting way to promote and get visitors for your blogs. You get to meet other bloggers without actually meeting them, weird but interesting.

Tags: Blog, scoutle, social network, social network service, website

RaiseCapital.com: Get Investors for your Great Ideas

A few days ago, actually a week ago, Simon of Vivid Lamp discussed a topic about creating Ideas and how to be “Remakable”. Simon quoted: “Don’t disregard any bad or bizarre ideas, these are probably the ones that others have also rejected because they were too hard or too risky.” Creating a good or great idea is sometimes the easy part. The implementation of that idea(s) is the most challenging of all. You can never find out if your idea will succeed of fail without implementation. When it comes to implementation, funding is required in most cases. When it comes to funding, we can turn to our own wallets or get investors. When it comes to getting investors, RaiseCapital might be able to help.

RaiseCapital.com is an online community where you can promote your business ideas and capital needs to investors. You can showcase your venture whether it is a startup, or an existing business. As a member seeking capital, you can market your venture or ideas to investors using text descriptions, pictures and/or streaming video. You will also be given your own posting blog, a counter that allows you to see how many people viewed your post and a unique URL for your venture. All of these for free.

Investors are everywhere and are always looking for a new business. They can browse RaiseCapital for business ventures that will interest them. Free registration will allow investors to directly contact entrepreneurs via email. In addition, registered investors can set up industry email alerts, create a watch list and use their search technology to find local, regional or nationwide (and Canada) investment opportunities.

Coming up with a great idea is only the beginning. There are lots of opportunities out there waiting to give you a chance and RaiseCapital is just one of them. Give your great idea a test drive and see how it goes.

Tags: business, financing, investor, raisecapital, raisecapital.com, Social Networking, venture capital

Help Find Cure for Diseases by Playing Foldit

Foldit is an online game that enables you to contribute data for medical scientific research by playing it. Foldit attempts to predict the structure of a protein by taking advantage of people’s puzzle-solving skills and having people play competitively to fold the best proteins.

Since proteins are part of many diseases, they can also be part of the cure. Foldit will basically collect game data and use it to predict protein structures. The more knowledge they have about protein folding, the better they can design new proteins to combat the disease-related proteins and eventually find cure for diseases.

We’re collecting data to find out if humans’ pattern-recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more efficient than existing computer programs at pattern-folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins faster than ever!

The game play is quite simple but can be very addictive and challenging. You will be given a 3D model of a protein and your job is to find the most stable structure to prevent Amino Acids from clashing. In order to complete a puzzle you must achieve or go beyond the target score. Check out the demo video below to see the game in action.

Foldit will give everyone a chance to contribute in discovering cure of HIV, Cancer and other diseases. If you want to try out the game, head over to their site, register and download the game client which supports both Windows and Mac OS-X operating systems. Who knows, you might be the key to finding cure for diseases which continually kills millions of people.

Tags: biology, foldit, game, mac os-x, medical research, online game, protein folding, puzzle solving, video games, Windows

Mento: A Fresh New Bookmarking Service

There are lots of link sharing sites out there but Mento thinks that it could be better and simpler for users. Mento provides a lightweight, non-intrusive solution for easy bookmarking, sharing and tagging.

To use Mento, just register and download the Firefox or Internet Explorer extensions, or use their bookmarklet which works on all browsers. When you click the bookmarklet or Mento button, a small popup window will appear asking which Mento service you would like to use. The send feature will allow you to send the links (along with images and comments) to your Mento friends, groups, tags or email buddies. The save feature will generally save the link to your mento profile allowing you to place tags, images and notes along with the link. The reply feature will allow you to comment on the link(s) provided that it has already been saved by somebody in your network. This will also keep track of the linking activities of your Mento friends whether they have previously saved a particular link which will prevent duplicate link sharing in your network. The site also keeps track on how many times a link you’ve shared has been clicked, and which members have clicked it.

Mento also offers outside link sharing by allowing you to publish links to del.icio.us, FriendFeed, Magnolia, Tumblr, and Twitter. They also have a Facebook app that allows friends to view and comment on your links without having to install the application themselves. You can also use the AddThis widget to publish your links on other bookmarking sites. Talk about not being selfish.

Mento is another addition to the numerous social bookmarking services in the internet. The site is fresh looking and packed with sharing features which are also user friendly. If you are in the market for an alternative bookmarking service, Mento is definitely worth checking out.

Tags: bookmark, bookmarking service, Facebook, Firefox, internet explorer, magnolia, mento, social bookmaring, twitter