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This is what happens when….

…Desk utensils mate.  Dangitt, I Don’t like seeing strange things whenever I look in my desk drawer! I go to another, more comfortable place for that! ANYWAY, Sharpie, the company best known for rawking my socks with pens, has made a pen-pencil combo move. You see, It writes like a pen, and is erasable for three days after ink meets paper. I’d hit that. I’d hit it all the way.

Sharpie’s Liquid Pencil stays erasable for three days before turning permanent

Congraturation! You’ve finally updated!

If you’re wondering why I didn’t post today yesterday (it’s 12:30 you dunderhead!) it’s because I spent most of the day updating the site with new categories tags and such. But that’s not what this post is about! It’s about Google’s new craphical graphical search.

  • Dense tiled layout designed to make it easy to look at lots of images at once. We want to get the app out of the way so you can find what you’re really looking for.
  • Instant scrolling between pages, without letting you get lost in the images. You can now get up to 1,000 images, all in one scrolling page. And we’ll show small, unobtrusive page numbers so you don’t lose track of where you are.
  • Larger thumbnail previews on the results page, designed for modern browsers and high-res screens.
  • A hover pane that appears when you mouse over a given thumbnail image, giving you a larger preview, more info about the image and other image-specific features such as “Similar images.”
  • Once you click on an image, you’re taken to a new landing page that displays a large image in context, with the website it’s hosted on visible right behind it. Click anywhere outside the image, and you’re right in the original page where you can learn more about the source and context.
  • Optimized keyboard navigation for faster scrolling through many pages, taking advantage of standard web keyboard shortcuts such as Page Up / Page Down. It’s all about getting you to the info you need quickly, so you can get on with actually building that treehouse or buying those flowers

Before you call me on how late I am, it’s because I never use Google’s image search – it was truly terrible. With the way it is now, it’s a lot less insufferable, and I may start using it again.