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Google Image Search Hack: Full size images, No Thumbnails

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Category : google, how to

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Google Image Hack

Google Image search is one of the most visited search engines. Be it searching for normal images we want for a project, or something we want to grace our desktop/laptop as a wallpaper. And more often than not, it is the latter. So, it is quite cumbersome when it comes to searching on Google Images for the appropriate sized – or in other words, wallpaper sized images from the huge list of thumbnails. It is a further pain to sort out by clicking on each of them to verify if they are indeed good looking images in the full size, and if they are not pixelised.

The solution: a Google Image Search hack which allows Full size image results, no thumbnails whatsoever, for your full viewing pleasure. [ as shown in the pic above]

The link is here:

Google Image Ripper » Dear Computer,.

Enter your search keyword, choose your size – which ranges from icon to xxlarge to huge. Press “Rip Google” and voila. Just be prepared to be hit by a massive wall of wallpapers. And just for your viewing pleasure, I’ll attach a massive High Definition wallpaper of Inception. Of course, this one’s a thumbnail, so do click on it to enjoy it in full HD glory. [ The image below might take a while to load ]

Inception High Definition Movie Still

Awesome Browser Share Flash Infographic

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Category : web 2.0

Axis Browser Share

Now it is not a secret anymore that Firefox rules the Browser pie.

And Axiis have produced an awesome flash interactive pie chart of the browser share of Firefox, Chrome, IE 6/7 and all the other browsers from Jan 2002 onwards. You just need to move over your mouse to see the respective browser share from Jan 2002 to Aug 2009. Go to the link below and have a go.

Axiis – Browser Share Pie

Compare the UK iPhone Price War: O2 vs Orange vs Tesco

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Category : apple, review

Right, so here we are with not one, but three official carriers who are providing the iPhone in the UK [ unlike the US, where AT&T still has the exclusive rights]. We had O2 originally who were the sole carriers in the UK, but when the contract between O2 and Apple expired this year in November, Orange sprung into action. Yet, the rate and plans revealed by Orange for the iPhone were of no noticeable change than the ones of O2.

And now, UK’s biggest retail supermarket – Tesco – in partnership with O2, is posing as the third official carrier of the iPhone in the UK. The rate plans were released today [ visit: Tesco iPhone website]

So which one of the three is actually the one to look out, or has anything changed at all? Has the addition of 2 more players in the iPhone market brought any real value addition for the customer. We’ll try to answer that question with comparative spreadsheets of the various rate plans. Hit the jump to view the spreadsheet.

Bring Everything To Your Homepage: 44tips.com Review

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Category : review, web 2.0

So we do have our own daily visited websites. I can’t live without my daily dose of Techcrunch and Lifehacker. And then, there are the usual ones – Facebook, Twitter, GMail etc. Now, although browsers like Chrome, Opera and Firefox with addons do allow users to have a start up Fast-Dial page which has links to those highly visited links, there is still a big link missing in the amount of stuff we want. Of course, that void has been filled to some extent by the father of all start-up pages – iGoogle. iGoogle is highly customisable, with gadgets, widgets and feeds. You can add a lot of stuff to keep your iGoolge engaging, but again, adding too much stuff makes it cluttered and takes ages to load. And not to forget, you have Themes on iGoogle.

Enter a new alternative to iGoogle – 44tips.com, a website run by some awesome developers at picturesque Amsterdam [ I am imagining that they have an awesome view in their office :) ] The first thing you notice about the UI [user interface] on 44tips is that the site design is simplistic, clutter-free and quite minimal – yet, pretty. The colours are basic dark grey and Orange with a twang. Both remind me of Firefox somehow, which means-it works for me. Let’s explore the usability and the features on this website, and if it is worth making it your homepage. Shall we?