Funny Easter Egg In Moon Module Of Google Earth

Moon module on Google Earth is a blessing for scientists and researchers to study and explore Apollo mission history and moon surface. Google has however included some hidden Easter eggs to popularize it in general public.
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Chrome Shortcut Keys and Hidden/Special Pages

Most people love the fact that Chrome is faster and lighter than any other browser. Infact it takes 1/4th memory than Firefox on my machine. Use these tips to save time and amuse yourself on Google’s browser.

List Of Special about: Pages In Google Chrome


about:memoryMeasures and compares memory used by all the active browsers and by Google Chrome’s tabs.
about:statsLists internal counters and timers with amusing subtitle “”Shhh! This page is secret!”
about:networkTo track current network
about:internetsEaster Egg. Displays 3D pipes screensaver
about:histogramsLists Chrome’s Internal Histograms
about:dnsPrefetched DNS records for most visited pages
about:cacheLists the web pages that are cached by chrome
about:crashTo crash current tab
about:pluginsList of installed plugins
about:versionShows version number of browser, WebKit, V8 (JavaScript engine) and User-Agent
about:creditsShows various authors and their licenses who have helped in Chrome development

More hidden menu pages here.

Window And Tab Shortcuts


Ctrl+NOpen a new window
Ctrl+TOpen a new tab
Ctrl+Shift+NOpen a new window in incognito mode
Ctrl+O, then select fileOpen a file from your computer in Google Chrome
Press Ctrl, and click a linkOpen link in a new tab in the background while remaining on the current tab
Press Ctrl+Shift, and click a linkOpen link in a new tab and switch to the newly opened tab
Press Shift, and click a linkOpen link in a new window
Alt+F4 Close current window
Ctrl+Shift+TReopen the last tab you’ve closed. Google Chrome remembers the last 10 tabs you’ve closed.
Drag link to tabOpen link in specified tab
Drag link to space between tabsOpen link in a new tab in the specified position on the tab strip
Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+8 Switch to the tab at the specified position number. The number you press represents the position of the tab on the tab strip.
Ctrl+9 Switch to the last tab
Ctrl+Tab or Ctrl+PgDownSwitch to the next tab
Ctrl+Shift+Tab or Ctrl+PgUpSwitch to the previous tab
Ctrl+W or Ctrl+F4Close current tab or pop-up
Alt+HomeOpen your homepage


Address bar shortcuts


Type a search termPerform a search using your default search engine
Type the part of the web address that’s between ‘www.’ and ‘.com’, then press Ctrl+EnterAdd www.and .com to your input in the address bar and open the web address
Type a search engine keyword or URL, press Tab, then type a search termPerform a search using the search engine associated with the keyword or the URL. Google Chrome prompts you to press Tab if it recognizes the search engine you’re trying to use.
F6 or Ctrl+L or Alt+DHighlight content in the web address area
Type a web address, then press Alt+EnterOpen your web address in a new tab


Shortcuts To Open Google Chrome Features


Ctrl+B Toggle bookmarks bar on and off
Ctrl+Shift+B Open the Bookmark manager
Ctrl+H View the History page
Ctrl+J View the Downloads page
Shift+Escape View the Task manager
Shift+Alt+TSet focus on the toolbar. Use right and left arrows on the keyboard to navigate to different buttons on the toolbar.


Webpage shortcuts


Ctrl+P Print your current page
Ctrl+S Save your current page
F5 Reload current page
EscStop the loading of current page
Ctrl+F Open find-in-page box
Click the middle button or mousewheel on the mouseActivate auto-scrolling. As you move your mouse, the page automatically scrolls according to the direction of the mouse.
Ctrl+F5 or Shift+F5 Reload current page, ignoring cached content
Press Alt and click a linkDownload link
Ctrl+G or F3 Find next match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+Shift+G or Shift+F3 Find previous match for your input in the find-in-page box
Ctrl+U View source
Drag link to bookmarks barBookmark the link
Ctrl+D Bookmark your current webpage
F11Go full-screen. Press F11 again to exit full-screen.
Ctrl++, or press Ctrl and scroll mousewheel upEnlarge everything on the page
Ctrl+-, or oress Ctrl and scroll mousewheel downMake everything on the page smaller
Ctrl+0 Return everything on the page to normal size


Text Shortcuts


Highlight content, then press Ctrl+CCopy content to the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+V or Shift+InsertPaste current content from the clipboard
Place your cursor in a text field, then press Ctrl+Shift+VPaste current content from the clipboard without formatting
Highlight content in a text field, then press Ctrl+X or Shift+DeleteDelete the content and copy it to the clipboard


Additional Shortcuts for Google Chrome


Backspace, or press Alt and the left arrow togetherGo to the previous page in your browsing history for the tab
Shift+Backspace, or press Alt and the right arrow togetherGo to the next page in your browsing history for the tab
Ctrl+K or Ctrl+EPlaces a ‘?’ in the address bar. Type a search term after the ‘?’ to perform a search using your default search engine.
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the left arrow togetherJump to the previous word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl and the right arrow togetherJump to the next word in the address bar
Place your cursor in the address bar, then press Ctrl+BackspaceDelete the previous word in the address bar
Space barScroll down the web page
HomeGo to the top of the page
EndGo to the bottom of the page
Press Shift and scroll mousewheelScroll horizontally on the page


Source : Google Support

Drop an O from Google

Though this is something useless but hilarious about Google dropping their O when asked results starting from page 990.

Google droping an o


To drop an O you will have to append #=100&start;=990 to the search query.

Example: Normal search query to send free sms would look like:

http://www.google.com/search?q=send+free+sms

After appending:

http://www.google.com/search?q=send+free+sms#=100&start;=990

This might be a CSS flaw in handling a large number of queries. Even the Next button disappears making any further search impossible.

Google Calculator Funny Tricks

Google search box not only analyze our search string and display perfect results but also provide variety of features such as currency conversions, movie timings, weather forecasts, calculator etc.

However, there is something funny about Google Calculator. Look at these screen-shots :

Google funny calcuator 1

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Google funny calcuator 3

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Google funny calcuator 5

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Google funny calcuator 6

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google calculator mistake 7
Google calculator also provides answers to conversations such as :

Google Talk Hidden Emoticons

Google is again playing hide and seek with gtalk emoticons. Last time, I gave you list for Google Talk Secret Emoticons but that was some 8 months ago. Since then, there have been many changes in the system but still few emoticons remains undocumented.

Important Update: More secret emoticon can be found by incrementing the end number by this URL – http://mail.google.com/mail/e/350

http://mail.google.com/mail/e/350 –
http://mail.google.com/mail/e/351 –
http://mail.google.com/mail/e/352 –
And the list goes on …

Here’s a list of utterly new emoticons/smileys:

Classic
Round
Square
Type this

Cowbell

Cowbell

Cowbell
+/’\

Crab

Crab

Crab
V.v.V

Devil

Devil

Devil
}:-)

Equal sad

Equal sad

Equal sad
=(

Equal slant

Equal slant

Equal slant
=/

Equal tongue

Equal tongue

Equal tongue
=P

Nose sad

Nose sad

Nose sad
:-(

Smile

Smile

Smile
:)

Wince

Wince

Wince
>.<

Nose tongue

Nose tongue

Nose tongue
:-P

Pig
Pig

Pig
:(:)

Broken Heart

Broken Heart

Broken Heart
</3

Kiss

Kiss

Kiss
:-x

Kiss

Kiss

Kiss
:*

Mustache

Mustache

Mustache
:{


Beneath are emoticons from my previous post. For reference I am again displaying them here.

Classic
Round
Square
Type this

Heart/Love

Heart/Love

Heart/Love
<3

It’s a monkey!

It’s a monkey!

It’s a monkey!
:(|)

Rock out.

Rock out.

Rock out.
\m/

Shocked

Shocked

Shocked
:-o

Grin

Grin

Grin
:D

Frown

Frown

Frown
:(

Angry

Angry

Angry
x-(

Cool

Cool

Cool
B-)

Cry

Cry

Cry
:’(

Equal Grin

Equal Grin

Equal Grin
=D

Wink

Wink

Wink
;)

Straight Face

Straight Face

Straight Face
:-|

Equal Smile

Equal Smile

Equal Smile
=)

Nose Grin

Nose Grin

Nose Grin
:-D

Big nose wink

Big nose wink

Big nose wink
;^)

Nose wink

Nose wink

Nose wink
;-)

Nose smile

Nose smile

Nose smile
:-)

Slant

Slant

Slant
:-/

Tongue

Tongue

Tongue
:P



Remember that these secret emoticons works for only following flavors of gtalk:

1) Google talk gadget

2) Gmail integrated chat application

3) Google talk labs edition

You can select either of three Classic, Round or Square shape of the emoticon by clicking the blue smiley-face button at the right side of the text-entry field and selecting the appropriate shape. If you move mouse arrow over them, they again re-animate to create lovely effect.

Update 1: Our loyal reader Jared has left a comment notifying about awesome robot emoticon. Try it out with [:|] robot

Update 2: An Annonymous reader has left a comment with another secret smiley to express something really bad i.e. poo . Try it out with ~@~ poop

Easter Egggs for Firefox 3

First things first. type ‘about:robots’ and ‘about:mozilla’ in FireFox address bar to get some strange pages. Firefox 3 have these two hidden pages and may be more but yet to be discovered.
Firefox 3 also holds the record for 8 million downloads within 24 hours. The total count is now more than 29 million downloads.[source spreadfirefox]

Try typing ‘about:robots’ and you will discover this funny page.

about:robots Easter egg in firefox

This page has got title – Gort! klaatu barada nikto! The title is some old science-fiction movie (view more information). This hidden page has some robotics commandments :

  • Robots may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  • Robots have seen things you people wouldn’t believe.
  • Robots are Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With.

  • Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.

Interestingly, when you press ‘try again’ button you get another button saying, “Please do not press this button again.”I bet even after this warning message, most of you have clicked that button.

Type “about:mozilla” in FireFox address bar and you get to see some writings from Mozilla book.


Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was caught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)

Since Firefox is open source browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation, its contributors must have created these pages for fun. Easter eggs are made intentionally to surprise often containing bonus or hidden feature.


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Text Formatting in Google Talk

Most instant messengers are very user friendly. They have a toolbar to format your text into different fonts, colors and sizes. You can also convert your important text into bold, italicized or underlined.

Google talk provides some basic features but unexpectedly few things are hidden. I have already told you about hidden emoticons (smileys) in Gtalk and now I will tell you about hidden text formatting techniques in Gtalk.

This feature can be used in both google talk and Gmail embedded chat.

- To type your message in bold, encapsulate it in asterisks (*).

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- To italicize any word, write it between two underscores (_).

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- Use combination of asterisk(*) and underscore(_) to create a dual bold italicized effect.

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Unknown Inbuilt Pages for Firefox

These have been around for quite sometime now but you might want to check them out again. For newer Mozilla Firefox users, these are quite interesting. Firefox does actually have these so-called hidden pages or secret inbuilt pages. Call them easter eggs if you want but a bunch of these hidden pages are quite useful.

You can just type these in the address bar and press enter to access the pages. Here are the magnificent seven:

about: – The same as the one under the Help menu. So I’m not sure if this is exactly hidden. Shows the same thing.

about:buildconfig – Shows the build configurations and some parameters.

about:cache – Shows you some detailed stats on your disk and memory cache which includes the directory and the list of files/web pages accessed and stored there.

about:config – Allows you to configure Firefox in-depth.

about:plugins – Lists all the installed plug-ins in your browser.

about:credits – The long-ish list of people who have helped in building our favorite browser.

about:Mozilla – Freaky if you ask me. And very cryptic. It seems to be a quote from a passage in “The Book of Mozilla.” You can’t find that anywhere though. Reads:

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced. But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

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