Google Search Engine is a constant changing one.. Recently after the successful internal testing of Caffeine, Google has decided to deploy it in the wild starting next year. But these are under the hood changes that most of us may not notice.
But over the past few months, Google has also been secretly testing a new UI and look for the Google Search engine, which has essentially not changed much since its inception. Do you want to be one among the secret testers, to have a sneak peak of the new design?
To get this Hack Attack to work for you, you need to be using the international version of Google i.e. http://google.com/ncr and not the localized version that you are redirected to usually.
Once you are at the Google Homepage, copy the following text and paste it in the address bar as it is’ Continue Reading…
Microsoft has always been loathed for creating User Interfaces with Windows, that aren’t much effective. And in that regard OSX has always come out on top for superior UI and usability. Well Microsoft did work hard with Vista, but the Usability of Vista has only gone from bad to worst compared to Windows XP. A bunch of developers are working on a Windows Shell Replacement called Cairo, that aims to provide a superior UI and rich usability compared to OSX.
Cairo has been in stealth development for quite sometime now, and it has gone much beyond a Windows taskbar replacement. But it’s since evolved into a complete replacement for the Windows shell, with a custom file explorer, favorites manager, and live file previews and more…
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If you are a sucker for beautiful and organized desktop, then I’m sure you love the all new UI that Microsoft brought with Windows Vista. But I know a lot of you might not want to install Vista just for its looks, if you are one of those people who love the stability and features that Windows XP offers, but you want to have the Vista look, then Vista Transformation Pack is for you.
The Developers of Vista Transformation Pack have just released the latest in the series of the Transformation packs and this time, it makes your Windows XP install look like a complete ditto of Windows Vista Ultimate, with all the drop shadows, reflections, and all the other eye candy that you see in Windows Vista.
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Mozilla continues to innovate with the Firefox browser. I believe that the upcoming version of Firefox will be the best ever release we will see from the Firefox team over at Mozilla. A Lot of new features and enhancements have been added to the core of Firefox 3. One of them happens to be Tab Switching that is gorgeous to look at and it kinda mimics the Alt -Tab feature in Windows. The only question is weather this piece of innovation will make it into the Firefox core.
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The Mozilla team is working really hard to make sure that Firefox 3 will be the best browser we will ever see on this planet. Part of the plan is to enhance the UI of Firefox to make sure it blends with the host OS. Firefox 3 will come out with inbuilt skins that will integrate completely with Windows Vista, OS X and Linux. The Mozilla team posted some screenshots on what we can expect, and here the screenshots of the theme for Vista and OS X in action :
Well that was how Firefox 3 would look on Windows Vista. If you wondering what Firefox would look on Mac OSX then read on….
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