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Finding images of a specific size

Published on February 3, 2009 in Internet Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I always tease my wife if she’s typing something up. She spends 5 minutes doing the typing and an hour on Google Images looking for good clipart to go with what she is typing. I’m sure many of you are the same. I recently heard about a “hidden” feature of Google Images that might help. It let’s you search for specific sizes of images. For a while now there has been a drop down list where you could choose between small, medium, large, and extra large. Well, along with your search term, if you put in imagesize:1024×768 (or whatever size you want, you’ll only see results of that size. This is particularly useful for finding desktop wallpaper.

For instance, doing a search for…

imagesize:1024×768 Niagara Falls

…brings up hundreds of pictures of Niagara Falls that are that size.

google_image_search_imagesize_example

Along with 1024×758, other common desktop wallpaper image sizes are 1680×1050 (widescreen), 1440×900 (laptop widescreen), 1280×1024, and 800×600. Also, icons are generally 32×32 or 64×64. Unfortunately, clipart could be any size, but you might try a small/medium size of 400×400 or 400×300 and see what you get.

Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck

Published on October 6, 2008 in Computer News, Computer Security News, Email Tips and Internet Tips. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

From the New York Times:

Logging on to Gmail or other e-mail service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password do not match”?

If you’re a Gmail user, what you’ll want to do after a few more unsuccessful, increasingly frantic attempts is to speak with a Google customer support representative, post haste. But that’s not an option. Google doesn’t offer a toll-free number and a live person to resolve the ordinary user’s problems.

Discussion forums abound with tales of woe from Gmail customers who have found themselves locked out of their account for days or even weeks.

AOL’s Luddites Love Their E-Mail More than Google’s Geeks

Published on September 15, 2008 in Computer News. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

From the New York Times:

If you read the comments on our post asking who uses AOL, you would think that a big number of the company’s users simply keep their AOL.com e-mail address to hear from long-lost correspondents who haven’t heard they have moved on to Gmail.

I checked with comScore to see how they measure AOL’s audience, and the perception that Gmail is trouncing AOL mail simply isn’t true. Yahoo’s mail service is the king of the hill, towering over everyone else.

AOL’s e-mail seems to be a big and engaging service that is holding its own with users. Gmail, by contrast, is growing in the number of users, but is far behind the other big Web mail providers in how often users check their mail and how much time they spend on the site. That would imply that it is Gmail, far more than AOL, that is being used as the supplemental throwaway e-mail address.

Google’s Services Converge in the New iGoogle

Published on July 19, 2008 in Internet Tips. 0 Comments Tags: .

Google Operating System has a great post about a new layout to iGoogle, the customizable Google portal:

The new version of iGoogle, currently available for a small number of randomly-selected users and for developers, will bring together all the Google services in a single fluid interface. At some point, iGoogle was a part of an initiative called Fusion that allowed users to combine content from across the web. The next major iteration of iGoogle goes further and it lets you actually access the full content, monitor the updates and share them with your friends.

I followed the instructions at the end of that post to use the new interface, and I love the new look!