New PDF Icon for Gmail and Google Drive

Gmail has recently updated the icon for PDF attachments: it no longer uses the Adobe Reader icon and it opted for a basic text icon.

Here's the PDF icon used by Gmail since its release back in 2004:

Google Drive also shows the new icon for PDF files:

Now that browsers like Chrome and Firefox have built-in support for opening PDF files, Gmail and Google Drive let you open PDF files, Adobe Reader is less important and fewer people install Adobe's PDF software. That's probably the reason why Google picked a different icon.



{ Thanks, Joost Honig and Angelo Giuffrida. }

YouTube Autoplay, Ready for Release

I've noticed that YouTube's autoplay experiment shows up more and more often, which usually means that it's ready for release. One of the changes in the latest iteration is that the player has a "next" button, which lets you play the video from the "up next" section. There's no "previous" button, but you can use the browser's "back" button.

"When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next," explains YouTube. If you don't like this feature, you can disable it from the right sidebar or from the player's controls.

{ Thanks, Florian Kiersch. }