I installed Google Desktop Search 2. The best part is “search as you type”. It also introduces a sidebar showing e-mail, RSS feeds, news, photos, popular searches, etc. The indexing is much faster too. (I take that back. Indexing is as slow as ever.)
A9.com Maps. Provides photos of building elevations of location!
Download Squad. A bunch of free (or cheap) software that will give you many of the tools used by special effects houses.
Top 500 blogs. Each month, Feedster brings you a list of 500 of the most interesting and important blogs. Enjoy browsing to see what people are reading, to find feeds that will bring topics of interest to you… and to discover new voices in the Blogosphere.
Don’t click it. An interface where you navigate completely without clicks.
Aamir Khan’s blog? Is it really him?
The authors of Freakonomics visited Google, and were asked “What would you do with our data?”
BTW, there is a regular Freakonomics column on the Times.
Flickr has introduced a set of new exploration features. You can view interesting photos, tag clusters, and Flickr’s favourite sets / groups.
I’ve typed up a some Calvin and Hobbes quotations
