So I saw this tweet about the Google homepage from Keith Snyder, a New York City-based writer:
I tried it: "set timer 1 minute." And up pops a handy-dandy countdown timer; not a link to a timer widget (they're everywhere) but an actual timer that immediately begins counting down. You can stop and reset it, as well as change the countdown duration. There's a beeping sound to signal time's up.
Like Snyder, I didn't know Google did that. Nor did a half-dozen or so colleagues. (One reply to my email: "I just held my breath for one minute during a meeting. Finally, something to engage my attention.")
(Geek-Themed Meme of the Week Archive)
Finally, something to enforce a limit on my desktop naps.
Welcome regulars and passersby. Here are a few more recent buzzblog items. And, if you’d like to receive Buzzblog via e-mail newsletter, here’s where to sign up. You can follow me on Twitter here and on Google+ here.
- Fake Seinfeld Twitter account leads to real sitcom job.
- Chambers, Benioff meet "In the way guy."
- “This is a 3D printed jet engine”
- John Malkovich makes Redditor a voicemail greeting.
- Minecraft in Latin? … Perhaps now the pope will play.
- Geek-themed Meme of the Week: No. 5.
- State finds grocery store pricing 100% accurate?
- 1776 “iPhone Liberation Kits” go faster than Paul Revere’s horse.
- Creator of hashtag explains why he didn’t patent it.
- AG wants to autocomplete war on drugs.
- Hey, Cambridge, Netscape 4.0 was released in 1997.
- Torvalds: Stop me before I curse again.
- Nothing says narcissist like wearing Google Glass on a date.
- Will entering your ATM PIN in reverse summon the police?
- 2013’s 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries