Google is introducing a new format for images: WEBP
Images on the web in this format — which CNET reports will be officially announced later today — will have smaller file sizes, load faster and relieve a lot of overclocked networks. They won’t necessarily look better — WebP images are as "glossy” as JPEGs — but the files might be around 40% smaller than JPEG files.
And since Google estimates 65% of the bytes on the web are images, that represents a quarter of the total amount of data we access and transmit online. Who wouldn’t change formats for a web that could be 26% faster?
The sticking point is JPEG’s popularity. This format dominates the web and related devices, from Flickr to Twitpic to our mobile phones
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In Columbia Pictures' The Karate Kid, 12-year-old Dre
Parker (Jaden Smith) could've been the most popular kid in Detroit, but
his mother's (Taraji P. Henson) latest career move has landed him in
China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying - and the
feeling is mutual - but cultural differences make such a friendship
impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make an enemy of the class
bully, Cheng. In the land of kung fu, Dre knows only a little karate,
and Cheng puts "the karate kid" on the floor with ease. With no friends
in a strange land, Dre has no
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Recently, Google is celebrating Pac-Man's 30th birthday by honoring Namco's pie shaped hero with a HTML 5 based interactive logo on their main page. What's so special about said interactive logo (or doodle in Google lingo)? Well for starters, if you click Insert Coin (Where I'm "Feeling Lucky usually is") you can actually play the game with Pac-Man evading those multi-colored ghosts within the specially designed Google maze. Isn't that just simply brilliant! Several Pacman lovers spent hours playing the game on the Google search homepage
Millions went crazy over the Google Search home page and finally the search giant decided to dedicate a page to Pacman. So now you can play Pacman game anytime online at this special page - http://www.google.com/pacman. Here's an interestin
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