Monday, January 27, 2014

Have Some Fun With Google, Gmail and YouTube

Many of us are aware of search engine giant "Google", email service "Gmail", and video-sharing website "YouTube". Today I am going to write about some of the fun we can do with Google, Gmail and YouTube. As there are lots of fun things we have done with Google and tried with various searches with google but here are some more funny things you probably haven't given a try once. Just try share it with your friends.

Fun with Google
Google has added some Easter eggs to its products and services. Check these out!
  1. Search "Do a barrel roll" or "z or r twice" on only Google and the screen will do a 360 spin.
  2. Searching for "askew" or "tilt" using Google will cause the search results to be displayed at a slight angle.
  3. Searching for "zerg rush" causes a bunch of Google "o"s to attack the result page and eventually destroy it but the user can fight back by clicking them. After destroying the results the "o"s then arrange themselves into two capital 'G's.
  4. Searching for "kerning" will increase the spacing between every letter in the word kerning by 1 pixel whenever it shows up in the search results page. Conversely, searching for "keming" (a common example of unfortunate kerning) will decrease the spacing between letters of the word when it shows up in the search results page.
  5. Type any actor's name followed by "bacon number" to get the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon value.
  6. Searching for "Recursion" will result in Google asking if the user meant "Recursion."
  7. Doing a Google Image search for "Atari Breakout" will launch a playable version of Breakout using the image results.
  8. Searching for "Binary", "Octal", or "Hexadecimal" converts the number of results to binary, octal, or hexadecimal, respectively.
  9. Searching for "Conway's Game of Life" produces the Life simulation described by Conway.
  10. Searching for "How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood" produces a vocal response of another tongue twister "A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood"
  11. Searching for "Christmas" returns a blue, Christmas background.
  12. Searching for "Kwanzaa" returns a green, Kwanzaa background.
  13. Searching for "Festivus" places a Festivus pole in the left side of the window.
  14. Searching for "Santa Claus" or "Christmas decorations" places an animation of a snowy landscape with Santa Claus and his reindeer riding across the top of the search results. On Christmas Eve, a map will appear where Santa is currently located.
  15. Searching for "anagram" results in the search engine asking "Did you mean: nag a ram" ("nag a ram" is an anagram of the word "anagram")
  16. Searching for "Google in 1998" results in a 1998 Google search screen appearing in place of the current Google search screen. Clicking on the first result will bring the user to the Wayback Machine's version of Google from 1998. However, clicking I'm Feeling Lucky will go to a Mashable article about the easter egg.
  17. Searching for "Google Pacman" has a playable version of the game appear on the screen.
  18. Selecting the "I'm Feeling Lucky" without typing anything in, it will display past Google logos.
  19. In Chrome, Google's Web browser, entering "about:internets" into the address bar brings up a copy of the Windows Screen Saver 3D Pipes, with the title "Don't Clog the Tubes". In the event that this does not occur due to the fact that the screensaver file does not exist in the system, the browser will instead display a gray screen with the title "The Tubes are Clogged!" This has been removed as of the 2.0.169.1 release.


Fun with Gmail
  1. On Gmail, if the background is set to "Ninja" press SHIFT+CTRL+F1 and the ninja will send an automatic email saying 'Hello' to everyone in the user's contacts.
  2. You may already know this (I just found out myself) but Gmail supports plus-addressing. In other words, you can send an email to yourusername+anystring@gmail.com and it'll be delivered to yourusername@gmail.com. As it turns out, gmail also ignores any periods in the username so your.username@gmail.com will go to yourusername@gmail.com as will y.ou.ruserna.me@gmail.com.

Fun with YouTube
  1. Holding down the left and up arrow while pausing or watching a video caused a game of Snake to launch. This could also be done by pressing the right arrow instead of the left one. This was actually a result of two steps; pressing the up arrow while a video is loading launches the game, while pressing the left arrow forces the video to rewind and load momentarily, thus allowing the game to launch. Since the 2013 update, this no longer works, and now only works by pressing down while buffering instead.
  2. As of November 2013, searching for "doge meme" on YouTube, changes the font on the search result page to pastel color Comic Sans.
  3. If a user right clicks on a YouTube video it gives one of the options in the Context menu is "stats for nerds".
  4. If you click to the side of a video and type in "1980" and press enter, a game of missile command will begin. If too many meteoroids hit the bottom, the video will "break" and stop playing.
  5. Putting in the search box "do the harlem shake" will cause the page to do the Harlem Shake. It can be muted and paused.
Source: Wikipedia.org

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Copyscape : A Website that Search for copies of your page on the web.


Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense. Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work.

Some of the plagiarism consideration can be of:
  1. turning in someone else's work as your own
  2. copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  3. failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  4. giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  5. changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  6. copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

Content scraping is copying and pasting from websites and blogs. Free online tools are becoming available to help identify plagiarism, and there are a range of approaches that attempt to limit online copying, such as disabling right clicking and placing warning banners regarding copyrights on web pages. Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site.

Most cases of plagiarism can be avoided, however, by citing sources. Simply acknowledging that certain material has been borrowed and providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism. 


Try this Website to check for your copies of pages on the web. Copyscape provides a free plagiarism checker for finding copies of your web pages online. Copyscape uses Google and Yahoo! as search providers, under agreed terms. It provides comprehensive protection for your website by automatically scanning the web daily or weekly and emailing you when new copies of your content are found. It helps in copy-paste originality checks, batch search, private index, case tracking and an API.

Source: http://www.copyscape.com/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/

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