Google Search App For iOS Gets Push Notifications And New Card-Based Interface

The iOS version of the Google Search app has been updated with new features and a fresh design. Google’s 15th anniversary was probably a red-letter day for the company as it invigorates things with a few design and functional changes. Tablet and mobile users will now see a new card-based user interface with their search results. The card-based UI is more in line with the consistent design seen first in Google services like Google Now and later adopted by Google+. The objective behind the design changes in the iOS app remains the same – a more unified design that’s cleaner...

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4 Methods For Dota 2 Players To Keep Track Of Stats

In the world of Dota 2, stats are incredibly important. Players obsess over numbers, both their own and those of the pros. Valve offers the ability to view your recent games and your wins, losses, and abandons in the client, but for most players, this just is not enough information. Thankfully, plenty of third-parties have stepped up to the plate to provide users with the detailed statistics they crave. Whether you are looking for information about your own games, or you prefer to check out the stats of the professional players in recent tournaments, these websites have you covered. Perhaps...

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What Is Tumblr? [MakeUseOf Explains]

You may have heard of Tumblr before, but it’s difficult to figure out what it really is without first using the service. In the simplest terms, it’s a social network and a microblogging site; kind of like a mixture between Blogger and Twitter. It’s populated by a wide range of content, ranging from Doctor Who and Sherlock fandoms to funny pictures of cats to nature photography. Its simplistic interface makes it appealing to a younger audience, giving them the freedom of a blog along with the content curation of a social network, all in an easy-to-use package. But what began...

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How To Install Windows 8.1 On Mac Without Boot Camp

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Mac users have a couple of options when it comes to installing and running Windows on Mac. One can install Windows 8.1 on Mac with the help of Boot Camp software, use virtualization software like VirtualBox to install Windows 8.1 inside Mac, or manually create a new partition and then install Windows 8.1 without the […]

How To Create Windows 8.1 Bootable USB On Mac

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There are a couple of reasons why you would want to create Windows 8.1 bootable USB flash drive on your Mac. Maybe you’ve decided to install Windows 8.1 on Mac without Boot Camp; or maybe your PC is unbootable and you want to prepare a bootable USB using the ISO file that you have on […]

Chrome Font Finder

You're reading a web page and you're suddenly wondering: what font is that?

You can check the source code or select some text, right-click and pick "inspect element". You'll probably find a list of fonts and you won't be able to tell which one is actually used.



Chrome added a feature that tells you the name of the font that's used. This feature is available in Chrome 31+, so you can try it if you've switched to the Dev Channel or you use Chrome Canary. Right-click the text, pick "inspect element", switch to the "computed" tab, scroll down and you'll see "a summary of the typeface(s) used for that element". Paul Irish says that it "works great with Google Webfonts, Typekit, local fonts, @font-face typefaces, unicode glyphs, and all other interesting font sources."

As you can see, it's Helvetica, not Arial. No need to use WhatTheFont or WhatFontIs.



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Audio Ammunition: Google’s 5 Part Documentary About The Clash [Stuff to Watch]

The Clash were the English punk band who famously fought the law and lost, and now thanks to Google Play you can relive the band’s story with some exclusive never-before-seen footage. Despite being more commonly associated with searches and apps, Google have turned their attention to the late great Joe Strummer and bandmates in a documentary that explores life in one of the most influential bands of the last century. The Clash first emerged in 1976 during the first wave of the British punk movement but internal struggles put an end to them only ten years later. Even if you’re...

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Google's Music Carousel

Remember the post about Google's new music video results? They're used by a Knowledge Graph carousel that shows a long list of songs when you search for things like [Moby songs], [Michael Jackson music], [Nina Simone list of songs], [Beatles track list].

Click one of the songs and you'll see the search results for that song's name. The top result is a music video from YouTube, which has a huge thumbnail. The video doesn't play inline, the thumbnail only links to a regular YouTube page.

It would be nice to play songs from the Google search results page. Even a short Google Play preview would be pretty useful. If that's not possible, then Google could embed YouTube's player, so you can watch music videos without opening a new page. Another improvement would be to automatically generate a YouTube playlist from all the music videos listed in the carousel, like YouTube does.



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How To Create A Windows 8 Recovery Disk

The days of reinstalling Windows whenever your PC runs into trouble are long since gone. All you need to fix Windows 8 is a recovery disk, either on CD/DVD, USB drive or an external hard disk drive. Whether you’ve upgraded from an old version of Windows or bought a new device, one of the first things that you should do is set up your own recovery disk, a process that basically installs a set of tools onto your chosen media that can then be used to repair issues with Windows 8. These useful tools will enable you to boot your...

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