Friedbeef’s Tech

Imagery is a user interface built on top of the Google Image search engine, which adds a whole slew of extra features and makes the task of searching for pictures much easier and faster.

One of my favourite features is the ability to clip and collect the images from all your different searches so you can pick the best pictures once you’re done. (Just click on any thumbnail to ‘clip’ it).

Certainly an extremely usable, user-friendly and feature rich of image upgrade to Google Image Search, Imagery shows Google how it should have been done in the first place. Jakob Nielsen would be proud.

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Other features of Imagery include tabbed searching and zooming. You can find a full list of Imagery’s features here. Also, you can read more about Microsoft’s Live’s ‘never ending scrollbar’ feature - another good way to search images.

Note: Imagery is only compatible with Firefox 1.5+ at the moment (Internet Explorer compatibility coming soon)

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Simple to learn, difficult to master, and fun to play.These are the hallmarks of a good online flash game, and ‘Levers‘ gets a thumbs up on all three fronts.

The object of this game is to arrange and evenly hang and balance items which fall from the sky — which is strangely addictive, and you’ll find yourself spending an absurd amount of time trying all sorts of combinations trying to beat it.

I gave up after 4 hangers and 6 items (see pic above)… can you do better?

Updated: 12th July 2006 : I’ve beaten the game!
See this link for the solution…

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What’s the fun of drawing something and keeping it to yourself?

Share your art skills using Sketch Swap, which uses this simple concept…

• Draw something for the world
• Get someone else’s drawing in return

No Photoshop skills needed. All the tools you need are on the site itself — A simple sketchpad for you to go crazy on.

Finally, as an added bonus, you don’t just get the finished picture — you get to see how the person on the other end actually drew it as the sketch process is animated right before your very eyes.

Perhaps you’ll discover the next Picasso in the making? Or probably not — either way it’s good fun.

Update 10th July 2006: Here’s one of my pieces:

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