Google Celebrates Les Paul's 96th Birthday!

Google has come up with an awesome doodle to celebrate the 96th Birthday of guitar genius Les Paul. The co-creator of the Gibson Les Paul guitars. Any guitar enthusiast worth their salt would know Les Paul.

Whats so amazing about this doodle?? You can play it!! Hover the mouse on the strings to make beautiful guitar music.. or something close. I'm still trying to figure out how to play it to make something resemble the Slash's November Rain guitar solo!

Click on the keyboard (highlights to red) to enable you to play from your keyboard.

Update: Here is what Google has to say about its doodle.

Google testing IPv6

The internet is running out of IP address and it seems that Google and Microsoft Bing among others are testing IPv6.

You can test your network's connectivity on IPv6 from here.

Stupid Yahoo!

Don't ask me to upgrade, I'm already using IE9!!

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 Google Motion – a new way to email by just using your body movements? 

YouTube in 1911?

Ernest Hemingway, Albert Einstein, Sherlock Holmes, Groucho Marx and other famous dead people showing up on LinkedIn in people you may know?

Yep. You guessed it. It’s April Fools day; and these are just some of the pranks sprung by Google, YouTube, LinkedIn and others on their unsuspecting and maybe not so unsuspecting users.

 

Holding CTRL when opening Excel

Just came across this – if you hold CTRL while opening MS Excel, it will ask if you want to open it in Safe Mode.

It would seem that when opened in Safe Mode, Excel does not load its files and add-ins.

Details of Excel in safe mode and other ways to open it in safe mode are available at the following links:

http://excel.tips.net/Pages/T003365_Starting_in_Safe_Mode.html

http://www.pcpowerguide.com/windows/office/starting-microsoft-excel-in-safe-mode/

Bing! Bing! Bing!

I love Bing! No more Google for me. One might ask (if one knew that I used Google before), why the sudden change of heart, well dear reader, it’s not so sudden. I have been flirting with Bing for some time now, the occasional search, using its homepage images for wallpapers – some of those images are fantastic. Here’s a sample of today’s image:

(c) Bing.

Bing

 

This here is a Pine Martin. I dint know there was a Pine Martin till I saw one on Bing today. Yes, besides having a totally awesome interface, it is also filling my reservoir of useless trivia. Compared to Bing, Google’s interface is about as interesting as a wet carrot. Having a great interface is all fine and dandy, but how is it in search; I can hear you ask – well my dear readers, it’s fantastic! Bing’s results are much more relevant than Google’s, so much more. And the preview functionality is really sweet too. Bing was already way ahead of Google in Image search. Google’s revamp of its image search to mimic Bing is proof of that – after all “mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery”. So no more Google for me, I’ll be Binging from now on.

Oh and Bing brought up my blog at the first position when I searched “Mindbrations” and Google dint. So, till Google behaves itself; bye bye Google!

MSN.COM - Server Error in '/' Application.

Encountered this error today while logging out of my Windows Live Mail account. Aren't these type of errors supposed to be a security risk or something? Besides being totally confusing to the user.

Error on msn.com.pk