Wednesday, April 13, 2011

WebP Home

WebP Home: "WebP is a new image format that provides lossy compression for photographic images. In a large scale study of 900,000 web images, WebP images were 39.8% smaller than jpeg images of similar quality.
A WebP file consists of VP8 image data, and a container based on RIFF. The standalone libwebp library serves as a reference implementation for the WebP specification and is available at this git repository and as a tarball. Webmasters and web developers can use the WebP image format to create smaller and better looking images that can help make the web faster."

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Google's Tilted Easter Egg

Google's Tilted Easter Egg:
"If you search for [tilt], [tilted] or [askew] on a smartphone using Google, you might notice a strange special effect: Google's search results page is tilted to the right. It's an Easter Egg, just like the 'did you mean' link displayed when you search for [recursion]."

Friday, April 1, 2011

Google April Fools' Day 2011

Google April Fools' Day 2011: "Google April Fools' Day 2011

This year, Google's hoaxes are less inspired and some of them aren't original either, but they're still funny. Here are some of them:"