Similar to the productivity-killing Pac-Man Google Doodle, the Les Paul Guitar Google Doodle I wrote about yesterday has earned itself a permanent home. It can be found at http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html Previously recorded 30-second tunes are already redirecting to the permanent home. For example, check out this rendition of The Beatles Here Comes The … [Read more...]
Strum Some Music With Today’s Google Doodle Celebrating Les Paul’s Birthday
Today's Google Doodle celebrates Les Paul's 96th birthday. Les Paul is a well-known guitar maker and musician. His solid-body electric guitar was the foundation for rock and roll. Google's Doodle today is strummable. By putting your cursor over a string, a tone will play. Comments on the Hacker News story have also mapped the keyboard to the strings, which might help you play … [Read more...]
Netflix Redesigns Site To Focus On Instant Streaming; Users Split But Mostly Dislike
Netflix just announced and activated a redesign to some of their pages that focuses on Instant Streaming content. The movie covers are larger and it's more visually appealing, especially on a large monitor or TV. While the comments that follow any post to the Netflix blog are usually incredibly negative, this change seems to be met with a lot of people disliking the change. … [Read more...]
At Sony’s E3 Keynote Speech, PlayStation Vita Introduced
Beyond a quick apology for the PSN outage and announcing some upcoming game titles, the big part of Sony's E3 Keynote was introducing the PlayStation Vita. While it was previously code-named NGP, Next-Generation Portable, to follow in the steps of the PSP, the specs were detailed in the rest of the keynote and on the PlayStation Blog shortly afterwards. … [Read more...]
Apple’s PhotoStream Match in the iCloud [comic]
At Apple's conference yesterday, Jackie Chan's Uncle's "one more thing" was the $25/year iTunes Match which upgrades music quality and compares your non-iTunes purchased music to hashes of music already on the server, saving you from having to upload the song. The Brads webcomic dares to dream if this is also how photo storage works. Go read the rest of the comic How Photos … [Read more...]