Google Reader just released new features such as people you can now follow, liking a post, grouping of people you follow, finding publicly shared items. Features seems familiar? Yes, you got it right. They’ve been features of FriendFeed for quite some time now.
Your move FriendFeed.
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Adobe BrowserLab is a new cool web service that helps you test your web pages across a different web browsers and operating systems.
Adobe BrowserLab currently supports Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari on both Mac and Windows XP. Just enter the website’s URL and it will take screenshots of your web page on different browsers and platforms. It displays the result using 1-up (on its own screenshot), 2-up (side by side comparison) and my favorite Onion Skin View (as shown below) where you can quickly pinpoint differences.
One awesome feature of the Onion Skin View is you can use the a slider to fade in/out of each browser screenshot. Pretty cool!
Hopefully Adobe will support more browsers and operating systems in the future.
I just read this at Friendfeed. Is this really the new Google favicon?
Wonder why they keep on changing it. But I like this new one better.
msn.com is sporting a new look to promote its “I’m not a PC” ads. Videos on the background can actually be played which is really cool and original.
I love Last.fm but Favtape is really one cool alternative. Favtape can play your “loved” songs at Last.fm in sequence! A feature that is not yet offered at Last.fm free.
So what is Favtape anyway? Favtape is a music sharing and discovery service. You can mix tapes, browse and buy music in a very simple but slick interface. If you’ve been a long time Last.fm user with lots of “loved” songs, Favtape is the best service for you.
Favtape can also search for your bookmarked songs at Pandora (US only).
Here’s my DJ Tiesto mix tape.
Enjoy and have a great weekend!
Yahoo Canada (http://yahoo.ca) now sports the new (old) logo. But still no sign of the new look and feel.
Here are some options for minor improvements for the Cleaner FriendFeed Beta stylish style.
Here they are:
Extends the left sidebar’s width to fit your rooms:
#sidebar
{
width:160px !important;
}Make changes to the font size of your rooms, friend grouping links to your preference:
#sidebar a:link, #sidebar a:visited
{
font-size: 12px !important;
}
Highlights the likes background to light pink
.likes
{
background-color: #FFEFE8 !important;
}
A screenshot of how a post item should look like after the update:
* Highlights likes with light yellow
* Highlights friends comments with light yellow
* Highlights your comments with powder blue
* Regular font color (gray) on comments from non-friends
jQuery.com pulled the Javascript Rockstar graphic responding quickly to user feedback.
The jQuery team left an Easter egg on the website as a token of appreciation. Just enter the famous Konami code to view it.
Hint, it’s really cool!
Personally, I say it looks good. Not great, but good. Some jQuery users however don’t like the redesign. Get the scoop on jQuery’s blog.
Yahoo! Argentina is now sporting a new (old) logo on it’s homepage.
Yahoo! has been using the purple logo ever since on some of their corporate websites and campus but never on any of it’s homepage.
Personally, I like it better than the red one. It’s consistent to their offline branding.
