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Ear-Drum.org has 15 Beta Invites Available!!

Monday, January 25th, 2010

This is straight from the Ear-Drum.org Blog, we have 15 beta slots available. Edit, Collaborate, and Remix music, improve your technique or just learn how to play with the ultimate community in a desktop app.

Go download the app right now at Ear-Drum.org

We're currently looking for 15 more beta testers. Spread the word,request an invite.

ThenĀ Download Ear-Drum.org Desktop

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Google Experimental Search

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Plenty of pepicture-45ople are already familiar with SearchWiki; where you get to rearrange search results in your google searches, and even remove 'incorrect' results.

Well when using SearchWiki you have an option down at the bottom of the page to try more experimental searches. You can only activate one experimental search feature at a time. Here's what's out now.

SearchWiki with sound

Do you like SearchWiki? Do you enjoy having the power to remove results from your search results pages? Now you can do so in style by having a sound effect play along with the animation whenever you remove a result.

Recorded by our co-founder Sergey Brin himself, this sound effect is sure to please!

search wiki

I tried in a bunch of different browsers and couldn't hear anything..

Alternate views for search results

See results on a timeline, map, or in context of other information types. With these views, Google's technology extracts key dates, locations, measurements, and more from select search results so you can view the information in a different dimension. Timeline and map views work best for searches related to people, companies, events and places. Info view shows all the data found for each result, to help you select the best choice.

picture-49click to zoom

In Timeline view you can click on the timeline to narrow down your search, Map view just takes you to Google Maps. Info view shows a box on the sidebar that lets you change the descriptions in your search results. Here are some screenshots for a search for 'tomato' where I'm using the Dates Info option.

Info Box

Google Info View

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigate search results quickly and easily, minimizing use of your mouse. Current keyboard shortcuts include:

Key Action
J Selects the next result.
K Selects the previous result.
O Opens the selected result.
<Enter> Opens the selected result.
/ Puts the cursor in the search box.
<Esc> Removes the cursor from the search box.

Accessible View

Navigate search results quickly and easily, with just your keyboard. As you navigate, items are magnified for easier viewing. If you use a screen reader or talking browser, the relevant information is spoken automatically as you navigate. Current keyboard shortcuts include:

Key Action
j or DOWN Selects the next item.
k or UP Selects the previous item.
l or RIGHT Moves to the next category (results, sponsored links, refinements).
h or LEFT Moves to the previous category (results, sponsored links, refinements).
<Enter> Opens the selected result.
/ Puts the cursor in the search box.
n Moves to the next result, and fetches more results if necessary.
p Moves to the previous result, reloading earlier results if necessary.
= Magnifies current item
- Shrinks current item
A Switches to Accessible Search Results
W Switches to regular Web Search Results
For now, you need to use the Firefox 3 web browser with this experiment. This note will be updated as other browsers are added. Magnification already works with Google Chrome and Apple's Safari.