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World White Web project wants to make Google’s search results more diverse

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 10:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Shareables

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When you search on Google for the term “hand” or “leg,” the results you get back rarely feature a person of color. It was this particular search result that led Swedish design student Johanna Burai to launch the World White Web campaign. I was looking for an image of a black hand, and I expected to find one simply by searching for ‘hand’. A Google image search for the term “hand” gives you about 800 hits, but they are all white. You need to perform a more detailed search if you want to find non-white hands. The World White Web project…

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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 9:33 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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If you’re not living in one of the countries where today is a public holiday – that’ll be the UK, the Netherlands and the US – then today is just like any old Monday, that is, the worst first day of the working week. To get you up to speed, we’ve put together a list of everything that happened in tech land this weekend while you were doing other things. All you need to do is make yourself a drink, clear ten minutes in your schedule and check out the links below. News Xbox Live is down right now Instagram’s cool…

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The anatomy of the Apple Watch font dissected

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 8:30 am
Posted In: Apple watch, Around the Web, design, fonts, San Francisco, typefaces

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If you’re a fan of fonts and getting into the detail of what makes different typefaces work (or not), here’s a great project: Designer Wenting Zhang’s Type Detail is dedicated to dissecting a different font every day. His latest analysis focuses on Apple’s new favorite font, San Francisco: The typeface was designed for the Apple Watch but soon made its way onto the new MacBook with signs that it’ll soon colonise all of iOS and OS X. Zhang says Type Detail is inspired by Stephen Coles’ book The Anatomy of Type. It’s beautifully executed and if you’re fascinated by fonts, it’s definitely worth adding…

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How to set up a personalized start page on your own domain that works everywhere

May25
by on May 25, 2015 at 7:45 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, free, Self-hosted, Start page

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There are several browser add-ons to add frequently visited sites and other features to your blank New Tab page, but I prefer using a custom start page hosted on my domain instead. It’s a simple page that just contains a bunch of links in columns, along with a clock and a Google search box. I run mine as a pinned tab in Chrome so it doesn’t take up much room and is always easy to reach with Ctrl/Cmd+1. Plus, my start page resides on my personal domain. That makes it easy to load on any browser, on any device, with an…

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