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Google images search gets swanky!
Google Search for Hackers, Pirates and Klingons
How to hide a file or folder in Linux?

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 12:30 PM PDT

Google Search is fast becoming a favorite place for internet users to look up images online. Often we bloggers use Google image search for looking up cool images. For some reason as all things Google, its image search layout of images is quite basic and functional. Seriously Google should have a cooler way of showing images.

Well Google has now introduced a new way to look at Google images. I must admit it is quite attractive. It is now only available on Google.com and not with Google.co.in.

New Features of Google Image Search

Browsing can be done quickly with the keyboard to scroll up and down faster and as the images are a larger its easier to zone into what you might be really looking for.
Also a great feature is when you hover the mouse over an image it gets highlighted and slightly zoomed version of it shows up.
The great part is the you can keep scrolling downwards and it shows up to a 1000 images on the single page showing image results.
The landing page is also new. The image is highlighted with the webpage behind it giving a good idea of the webpage you are visiting.

This is quite a nifty feature and one of the best way to look up images online and is quite inline with YouTube’s leanback feature. It also is coolest way to look up images after the Cooliris extension with Chrome.

Do you use Google Image search? Do let us know about your views on this new feature through your comments.

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Google Search for Hackers, Pirates and Klingons

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 05:53 AM PDT

Are you a hacker? If you are geek then chances are you have searched Google for hacking tools. Chances are most geeks do not end up being Hackers but only fantasizing about it. Code is very important to geeks who are programmers and Google is full of them.

To show their appreciation for the Geek community Google has come up with a Google Search specially for hackers. Just visit http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

This is like a easter egg with Google and in case you get inspired by Johnny Depp after watching Pirates of the Carribean then try using http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate and it will display Google Search page with a pirate lingo.

Not, satisfied as yet? Want to be an alien from Star Trek called Klingon. Just visit http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-klingon for Google Search in this alien Klingon language from Star Trek.

Another great Easter egg is just search for “find Chuck Norris” without the quotes and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky“. The answer is pretty hilarious.

So do you like Google and its tribute to all things geek? Do let me know through your comments.

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How to hide a file or folder in Linux?

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 12:51 AM PDT

Hiding a folder is a simple way of keeping prying eyes away from your private documents. From a human point of view it’s a good solution; what you can’t see, you don’t know you want. Encrypting a folder can have the opposite effect. The folder is visible and if access is attempted, the need to enter a password positively shouts the message that someone is trying to hide something. This probably explains why there are so many commercial utilities that claim they can securely hide folders.

Hiding a file is pretty simple in Linux ! Its just one step away

Steps to hide a folder :

Select the folder you wish to hide and rename it by either clicking F2 in keyboard or by a right click -> Rename..
Add a ‘. ‘ (dot) in front of the name of the folder and press Enter
Press F5 and now you cannot view that folder!

You are done !

Steps to view Hidden Folder :

The following step is used to Show/View the Hidden files.

Just Open the desired directory and press Ctrl+H or Click View->Show Hidden files to view all the hidden files
You can test to see if hidden files are being displayed by navigating to other folders
You can Rename the folder anytime by removing ‘.’ from the folder name to revert it back to a normal one !