Everyone knows that Google Image Search sports a drop-down menu for filtering results by small, medium, large, and extra large sizes. You can eliminate this image size drop down. You can now search for images using exact dimension you want to have.

Just use the imagesize operator followed by the Width x Height in pixels, like so:

Here’s an example: [imagesize:640x480 muffin] finds 640px x 480px images related to muffins.

As the post points out, the imagesize operator is perfect for finding wallpapers that are the perfect fit for your screen.

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Google Redesigned is a Mozilla Firefox extension designed by Globex Designs that aims to fully redesign the look and feel of popular Google services.

This is achieved with Cascading StyleSheet (CSS) files which are loaded on the client’s browser. The extension simplifies the use of these styles by providing auto-updates, easy management and notifications of changes.

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Hidetext lets you convert text to an image. This means you can hide passwords, personal messages, pieces of code, or any kind of private information on forums, blogposts, emails, irc, msn-aim chats,….

There seems to be some confusion what this site is really about.. here’s some blurb to enlighten you a little bit.

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OpenLayers makes it easy to put a dynamic map in any web page. It can display map tiles and markers loaded from any source. MetaCarta developed the initial version of OpenLayers and gave it to the public to further the use of geographic information of all kinds. OpenLayers is completely free, Open Source JavaScript, released under a BSD-style License.

OpenLayers is a pure JavaScript library for displaying map data in most modern web browsers, with no server-side dependencies. OpenLayers implements a JavaScript API for building rich web-based geographic applications, similar to the Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth APIs, with one important difference – OpenLayers is Free Software, developed for and by the Open Source software community.

As a framework, OpenLayers is intended to separate map tools from map data so that all the tools can operate on all the data sources.

Website: http://www.openlayers.org/

Download: http://www.openlayers.org/download/

Google today released a new tool that will make learning and testing code for Google’s Javascript APIs a lot easier. Google’s interactive AJAX API Playground gives developers an easy to use interface to write some basic Javascript code for Google’s eight Javascript APIs.

Google Javascript APIs:

• Maps
• Search
• Feeds
• Calendar
• Visualization
• Language
• Blogger
• Libraries
• Earth

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Mapeed.AddressChooser is a Javascript script to create a nice address form for any websites that need to collect addresses. For example getting user’s address, place’s location or anything that can be localized on a map.

This script just add behavior on HTML form, it does’nt geerate HTML markup and can be plugged on any existing forms.

Features:

• Javascript Framework-Agnostic
• IndependentMapping System
• Interactive Map
• Fully customizable
• and above all Open source

Checkout this demo that uses Mapeed.AddressChooser with Prototype/Scriptaculous framework. Address is an autocomplete field filled by placemarks return by Google Map.

Website: http://addresschooser.mapeed.com/doc/

Demo: http://addresschooser.mapeed.com/example/with_prototype.html

GoogieSpell is a spell checker that you can use in your own web-application.

GoogieSpell features:

• Support for around 27 languages
• Well tested and works on IE 5.5, IE 6.0, IE 7, FF 1.0+, Safari, Opera etc.
• Generic, extendable and easy to install
• AJAX based (without page-reloading)
• Used over 500.000 times on Orangoo Spell
• Lightweight (around 50 KB)
• Well documented
• With GoogieSpell Multiple it’s possible to spell check multiple text fields at once

Website: http://orangoo.com/labs/Main/

Demo: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/

Download: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/Download/

Documentation: http://orangoo.com/labs/GoogieSpell/Documentation/

What was once considered as impossible is now a very real probability. Yes, your website can be indexed in Google’s database within a week’s time after it goes live! How are you supposed to do this?

Google said that you should not bother to submit your website to them. They will find your website, and once they do, they’ll index your web pages. The reason behind this is quite simple. Google uses links to hop from one website to another. If they arrive at a page that is unfamiliar to their database, they will index it… and thus is the method by which your very own website can be a part of their database.

The problem is, there are literally billions of web pages out there. Even with the mechanical precision by which it operates, it will take weeks, if not months, before Google can stumble upon your website for proper indexing. The trick is in expediting this process. And how are you supposed to do that?

Let’s put it this way. If only one website is linking to yours, Google has to crawl through that site before it could discover yours. 1 in 1,000,000,000 is not a favorable ratio. But what if you have 1,000 websites linking to yours? Alas! Your website would have better chances of getting indexed fast!

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Exactfactor is a free web based service that enables you to analyze the positions of keywords of a website in major search engines.

It lets you to add competitors & compare your website’s results with a competitor.

Another nice feature is the ability to add alerts. You can get alerts when:

• keywords you mentioned become the top 1, top5, etc. in the search engines
• your website beats a competitor for the given keywords

Exactfactor is very easy to use with a clean interface & considering search engines are the most important “factors” of traffic, the service is definitely helpful.