The Emperor instructed the gardener to set up the new court's garden. "I want you to plant five trees growing the Crataan fruit," the Emperor said, "Because we asked people what fruit they like best, and most named the Crataan fruit!" The gardener replied, "Emperor, that is excellent thinking! But let me make some suggestions: First, how about we make one of the five trees bear the Muran fruit. Only one out of ten citizens loves it,

For those of you who've been wondering whether I had turned to stone, fallen into a bottomless pit, or been climbing the Himalaya... no, none of that is true, even though you probably did notice I'm not actively blogging about Google here anymore*! Just now, a new iPad app I've been working on called Color Sound Machine went live, and this - and all the other apps and games at Versus Pad ** - are actually what I am doing while not blogoscoping.

One of the earliest specialist services provided by Google was reverse phone number lookup. If you used the "phonebook:" or "rphonebook:" operators together with a 10-digit US phone number, Google would show you the owner of that phone number, unless the number was unlisted. Google no longer provides that service. Not surprisingly, there was no press release marking the closure,

This website would take the top headlines from a tech site for that day - at first just from Reddit )you gotta start somewhere(, but later, from other sites too, in aggregated form, similar to Techmeme, but across different topics you can navigate to from the frontpage )entertainment, politics, technology etc.(. It would present them in some sort of list of headlines with a link to the discussion source.

Two groups have a text chat using a web interface, arguing about a certain topic. For Group B to reply to what Group A says, each member of Group A proposes a sentence. Then, each member of Group B quickly votes on which sentence of another member of their group they like best. )You don't have to propose a sentence, and you don't have to vote on one; both proposing a sentence as well as voting on one are time-limited to just a certain amount of seconds, though.( Then,

If you're using the Google Chrome developer channel )or Firefox 4 Beta( have a look at the new Body Browser to explore a body in 3D. [Via Google OS .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Body Browser | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters.

MBegin in the forum writes: I ran home for lunch today and was VERY pleasantly surprised to find a Cr-48 Chrome OS Notebook at my doorstep!! -Thanks Google! I took a few quick pics and I'll post more about my experiences later... Feel free to bug MBegin with questions in this post's comments, just in case he finds time to get around answering them! I read that 60,000 of these were manufactured, guess there's more out there if you applied.

Using open source technologies from Google, could someone create a tablet that would let you add both Chrome Web Store apps/ web apps in general, as well as Android Market place apps, and you as user wouldn't even need to bother much about which comes from where as you'd only see a single merged Store, and apps would all be added to a nice homescreen with icons like on the iPad, and apps would always open full-screen no matter if the app maker made it that way or not,

Watching evolution is fun, especially when it happens right around you, and happens so fast. A mutation we saw yesterday was a new animal scientists gave the name "Chrome OS Notebook", but it's surrounded by other smart animals of all kinds and shapes. What do they fight for? Their nature are our offices, living rooms, cafes and parks; their food are our individual interests. Computing devices: the more we have, the less we notice them. Sneaky things,

If you find Google's Instant Previews feature as useless as I do - you know, those images popping up when you hover over search results, often similarly unwanted )when triggered by a wrong click( as Snap site previews - maybe this User script is for you. I use several machines and browsers, though, so always installing add-ons when Google rolls out something unwanted is suboptimal in the long run )opening links in a new window is something else I don't like,

Google's newest Question and Answer service is Google baraza beta , launched on 25 October 2010. Baraza is offered in English and French, although Google's links to the French questions aren't working for me. Baraza operates on a Points basis. You get 20 points for signing up, and 4 points each day you log in. If you are already logged into your Google account, there isn't actually any signup process. Your name and photo from your Google profile are automatically used,

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Here's a fully playable web demo of my new free iPad two-player game Knights vs Knightesses... it runs in Google Chrome and Safari. Note the graphics load much slower than the iPad app because it's online. If you're interested, the full source is viewable. It's all JavaScript because I'm using the PhoneGap wrapper for this one. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Playable JavaScript app of my new iPad game K .

The release of a massive but not complete Geocities archive made me wonder about all the past stuff we probably can't recover anymore )and the usage of stylesheets over time makes design changes so easy that they're also easily undocumented( - so my question: Which of your lost websites would you most love to get back? [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Which of your websites, deleted or lost years ... | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website?

Click the MapCrunch Go button and you'll be transported to a random )Google Street View covered( place in the world. [Via Reddit .] [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: See a Random Street View Location | Comments ] [Advertisement] Want to make money with your website? AllPosters.

Creator & creation contexts could be Single creator, team, crowdmade, automatically generated, indie publisher vs big studio etc. Consumer & usage contexts could be single player game, two-player game, app which needs a certain setting to work and so on. Let's give two specific examples. One is for one of the two-player iPad games which I recently do at VersusPad.com . The other will be for the fictional game Flora vs Corpses. Then we'll look at a music file.

Corona is a development framework for creating apps for iPhone, Android and iPad, and from the first glance over the site I had just now it looks terrific. You will find API references, YouTube tutorial videos, Lua code samples download, a help forum, developer interviews, trial downloads and more at the site. [By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Corona, framework for creating iPhone/ Androi .

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KurzweilAI writes : Researchers at Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany have developed "diminished reality" software that can delete an object from live, full-motion video. The software first reduces the resolution of the object, removes the image, and improves the result )similar to using a smudge tool in Photoshop(, then incrementally increases the resolution, improving the result, until the original resolution is restored.

When I ask a question in a Google Groups forum, how can I subscribe to replies immediately? Right now, after posting, the message "disappears" into the queue and won't show immediately. After some time )a minute or two I guess, during which you unfortunately also won't know the permalink(, it will show, upon which you can go to the message and edit your options to "Email updates to me". Is there a way to do this immediately?