Google Open Gallery

If you expand the list of services from Google's support page, you'll find an interesting service: Open Gallery. Clicking the link redirects you to the main Google support site.

I tried to find this service and searched for [open gallery]. Most of the results are about art galleries. Google actually has a service that brings museums online: Google Cultural Institute's Art Project. "Museums large and small, classic and modern, world-renowned and community-based from over 40 countries have contributed more than 40,000 high-resolution images of works ranging from oil on canvas to sculpture and furniture. Some paintings are available in 'gigapixel' format, allowing you to zoom in at brushstroke level to examine incredible detail," explains Google.



I've checked the source code of some Art Project pages and found this: "New! Artists, museums, galleries, archives: discover Google Open Gallery, powerful free tools to bring your content online." Google Open Gallery pointed to google.com/opengallery, which shows a 404 error message.

{ Merci, TomHTML. }

Syme – A New Social Network With Encrypted Groups to Prevent Spying

The folks at Canada-based social network startup Syme are hoping that enough people are fed up with the NSA-style spying on citizens around the world, and that it will spark a mess exodus off Facebook and Google+ and onto encrypted alternatives. Syme is precisely that, an ultra-private social network where you can create an encrypted group environment where you can socialize with friends or colleagues inside of an environment that is, according to Syme creators, even hidden from the social network administrators. Further bolstering the claim of ultimate privacy is a message that pops up when you enter your password...

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5 Online Scams To Be Aware Of This Christmas

The holidays are a dangerous time. It’d be nice if the season of cheer was all happiness and joy but, unfortunately, there are malicious people out there who will capitalize on your good spirits to scam you out of a lot of money. If you think you’re safe from scams just because you’re safe at home behind a computer screen, think again. The basic idea of a scam is always the same: trickery and deceit. We’ve covered this topic before with subjects ranging from Craigslist scams to free gift card scams to online marketing scams. The difference here is that...

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Giveaway.Ly - Get Paid for Hosting Giveaways on Your Blog

Many times you feel very happy when some advertiser contacts you for hosting a giveaway on your blog. But you might not be knowing that there are few websites which connect both Publishers and Advertisers for organizing Giveaways. And the best thing is that the Publishers (Bloggers) can make money by hosting a giveaway on their blog. One such site is Giveaway.ly.

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More In-Depth Articles in Google Search

For general queries like [global warming], [love], [Mandela], [China], Google shows some in-depth news articles at the bottom of the first page of results. Until now, Google only included 3 articles, but this has changed: you can click "more in-depth articles" and get 5 more articles.

Google also added some related queries you can explore to find other related articles. Clicking the "explore" links sends you to a page that places in-depth articles at the top, but also shows regular search results. Google adds &ida_m=1 to the search URL.

{ Thanks, Rubén. }

Enjoy Curated Music Mixes And Discover Great Artists On 8tracks

Unlimited streaming music, for free, legally available all over the world, and with no audio ads. Have I got your attention yet? That’s just what 8tracks offers. One of the oldest and best music websites in existence, we mentioned 8tracks way back in 2008, and far more recently as one of several great tools for creating digital mixtapes. Most recently, I’ve shown you how to enjoy 8track on the go with the amazing third-party client InifiTracks. But interestingly enough, we’ve never taken an in-depth look at the 8tracks website itself and all that it offers. That is about to change....

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Google's Mobile Image Search Adds Menu

Google has another mobile interface for Image Search. I've only noticed it in Chrome and Safari for iPhone and it doesn't seem to be an experiment. Google now shows a three-dot menu with options like "visit page", "view image", "send feedback" and "search by image". You can still use swipes to go to the next or previous image result and tapping the image sends you to the page that includes it.

Government Surveillance, Xbox One Backwards Compatibility, Game of Thrones Game [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, a coalition of Internet companies is formed to fight government surveillance, Windows 7 is declared dead, Xbox One users are tricked into bricking their consoles, a Game Of Thrones video game is announced, Creative Commons 4.0 arrives, Google News on iOS and Android is improved, and SpaghettiOs has a Twitter nightmare. Reform Government Surveillance Coalition There's something very symbolic about the tech firms' surveillance reform website not using HTTPS. http://t.co/WpCrPwEnaY — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) December 9, 2013 A coalition of seven Internet companies has been formed to fight back against government surveillance. Google, Microsoft, Facebook,...

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Government Surveillance, Xbox One Backwards Compatibility, Game of Thrones Game [Tech News Digest]

Today in Tech News Digest, a coalition of Internet companies is formed to fight government surveillance, Windows 7 is declared dead, Xbox One users are tricked into bricking their consoles, a Game Of Thrones video game is announced, Creative Commons 4.0 arrives, Google News on iOS and Android is improved, and SpaghettiOs has a Twitter nightmare. Reform Government Surveillance Coalition There's something very symbolic about the tech firms' surveillance reform website not using HTTPS. http://t.co/WpCrPwEnaY — Christopher Soghoian (@csoghoian) December 9, 2013 A coalition of seven Internet companies has been formed to fight back against government surveillance. Google, Microsoft, Facebook,...

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How To Reset Windows 8.1 Start Screen To Its Default

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The Start screen, Start menu replacement introduced with Windows 8, has been enhanced in many ways in the recently released Windows 8.1 update. In addition to new tile sizes, Bing search, personalization options, the Start screen in Windows 8.1 doesn’t get cluttered, as Windows 8.1 doesn’t automatically pin all installed apps and desktop programs to […]