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Google had launched a hidden feature a while back ,which allows you to search an image based on a specific colors . You could search for an image by appending the colors you want appending the colors to the URL (&imgcolor=red,blue)

They have officially added the option of allowing you to search by a specific color.
I'm not sure why they haven't added the option to allow searching by two colors. It does come really handy at times.

I was playing around with this feature today by appending the extra colors in the URL. I accidentally added an extra color and Google actually did a search based on 3 different colors. I'm not sure when they added this.. cos as far as i rememember it only worked for two colors.

You can see the results

When I add two colors blue & black .. This is what i get.
http://images.google.com/images?imgcolor=%2C%2C&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=background&aq=f&oq=background&aqi=&imgcolor=black%2Cblue

and when I specify three colors,blue, black and purple look at the result.

http://images.google.com/images?imgcolor=black%2Cblue&gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=background&aq=f&oq=background&aqi=&imgcolor=blue%2Cblack%2Cpurple

But specifying three colors gives very few or no results most of the time.

I had written a greasemonkey script which allows you to do a multi color search by selecting the colors from a drop down.

I've updated the script to embed these option on the left hand options bar.

You can install the script from here. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56631

A couple of days a go when i opened deviantart.com I found that none of the images or stylesheets were loading. After going through the page source I realized that my ISP Etisalat was blocking deviantart.net and I have no clue why. Etisalat had blocked deviantart.com in the past and then unblocked it.


Anyway for you deviantart users who are stuck with Etisalat, i've written a small greasemonkey script which replaces deviantart.net with deviantart.com (Yeah the same resources are available on deviantart.com) . I'm no good with javascript and the drop down beside search doesn't seem to be working. If anyone could fix that i would be really glad.


You can download the script here..

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56418

Twitter seems to have become the definitive source for latest news. By tracking conversations we can get news from various different sources. Mashable has an interesting article which points out that twitter search results are even better than google news.

Using http://notify.me/ and twitter you can get alerts of conversations on particular topics delivered right to your email or your IM.

For example. I always wanted to register at demonoid . But the registrations are open just for a limited period of time every month. I always ended up forgetting to register.

Then i went over to Twitter Search and typed in demonoid registration. The results showed me various different tweets informing that registrations for demonoid was open. However these were a couple of days old.

Thats where notify.me helped me out. On twitter search you get a feed for all you search results. Copy the feed address, open a new account at notify.me, select your destination for receiving the alerts, and paste the feed address where it asks for the source.

Now whenever someone posts anything with your query in it you will get instant notifications.

I've been looking around for ways to change Chrome's Useragent String. Many Posts suggest modifying the dll using a hex editor.

There is a simpler to change the useragent string .

Just create a Chrome shortcut. Right-click, select properties, at the end of Target leave a space and append the switch:

-user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 0.5; en-us) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"

So if you Target was originally:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"


Your new Target would be:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 0.5; en-us) AppleWebKit/522+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"

Click apply and close the properties window.

Now open the shortcut and type in "about:" without the quotes in a new tab. You should see the useragent changed.






The above changes the useragent to that of Android.

The following is tested on Chrome developer version. I haven't tested it out on the other versions.

Ever felt like you were limited with the fonts you could on a webpage?
Worry not Cufon has a solution for your problem.
Nettuts+ has a tutorial on how to embed custom font's on your webpage. You can access the tutorial here.

Here i will show you how to use these custom fonts for your blogger post titles.

Follow the tutorial from Nettuts+ till you get your generated font.js file and save the file to your desktop.

Now go to your blogger dashboard , select layout and you should come to the "page elements" page.

Click on "Add a gadget" and the select HTML/Javascript..

Paste the following lines in the editor which opens up..

<script src="http://cufon.shoqolate.com/js/cufon-yui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
Cufon.replace('h2');

</script>


Now open the ..font.js file you saved on your desktop with a text editor and copy the entire text.
Go back to your blogger gadget editor and paste this text right after where it says
Cufon.replace('h2');


Save your changes.

Now you you should be able to see the font of the post titles changed to you custom font.

Google recently added a secret feature to search images by a specific color.

You can access this feature by adding &imgcolor=[color] at the end of the url.

eg.http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=lion&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&aq=f&imgcolor=black

You can read more about it here..

I've written a greasemonkey script which allows you to have the option accessible via the image search page..

You can install the script from here...

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45544

I've written this script for greasemonkey to change the gmail logo to your own custom logo. You can install the script from here.