Woke up this morning to upload the theme and noticed a strange new icon in some of the tabs. Didn’t spare a second glance at them till much later.. when I decided to see what lay behind those strange new tabs. To my surprise, they were Google Search results …branded with a new logo. It’s quite a far departure from the earlier blockish icon they had - and it’s going to take some time to get into that familiarity mode with it. This definitely was one of the “lesser” surprise changes on part of Google.
The differences
As you’ll notice from the picture I’ve compiled, while the earlier one had distinctly defined edges with a solid white background, the new one has a hint of gradient in the background with no hard-edges. The icon is also transparent and looks pretty cool on a backdrop of any given colour (except a close shade of blue or course - where it’s rendered almost invisible). This shouldn’t be of any major concern to Google as the icon is supposed to appear only in the browsers address bar, which in 90% of cases sports a white background. Google’s new fancy seems to be rounded-corners and this icon is no exception. The upper-cased “G” has fallen out of favour for it’s lower-cased counterpart - “g”.
Shortly after this I was hunting for any other news articles when I came across one from Google Blogoscoped in my feed reader. They’re wondering if Google is undergoing a large-scale re-branding while sticking to their self-proclaimed core value of Thinking and Acting like an underdog.
Finally got around to doing something that has been pending for ages… i.e. give the site it’s own look & feel.
There are plenty of good WordPress themes around - but almost all are overused. I needed something fresh and unique (if possible). I had contacted a few designers but their starting prices ranged $300 to $400 - something that I …
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A quick note to everyone… I’m coming up with a leaner and meaner theme for Chaos Laboratory. I’m almost done. Should be able to unleash it in a day …or two, at the most. Learnt a hell lot in the process - both CSS and WordPress Theme design wise - not to mention, bending some popular plug-ins to work the …
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While I was away on my sabbatical (read coping with the all-new fatherhood), I occasionally managed to catch a glimpse of the latest action dramas unfolding on the net - primarily because the WordPress dashboard made it a point to present them to me on a daily basis. …
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If you’re an I.T. professional and / or are responsible for purchases in your I.T. department, this online store can prove to be a delight. Discountechnology is a San Diego based reseller of information technology equipment, hardware & systems - who, as of now, are offering quality hardware (especially in the SCSI Drives category) at massively discounted prices.
The discounted …
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Finally… decided to shake off that writer’s block and squeeze some time out of the demands of fatherhood and get back to serious blogging.
Oh Yes ! For those who didn’t know, I was blessed with this beautiful little bundle on the 10th of February, 2008. Life has never been and never will be the same The bundle is a …
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