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Making Sense of Color Codes [Nettuts+]

Making Sense of Color Codes [Nettuts+]

HTML color codes are a common and crucial piece of modern web design. While most sites nowadays are designed largely in part with images, colors are particularly important when you need to come up with a color hex value on the fly while coding. In this guide, we will learn the fundamentals behind color coding, ultimately providing you the power to come up with colors without the use of a color picker.

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Google Specialized Search Features

Google Specialized Search Features

Lifehacker posts about a Google page that summarizes some of the many Google Onebox search features:

Most of you are probably familiar with some of the more common Google OneBox tricks—-searching for “weather cityname” to get local weather or using the search box for basic calculations—but Google has dozens more OneBox tricks up its sleeve.

What else can you do with Google’s query box? You probably know several of them, but just for example, you can use a tilde to search for synonymous words (like ~fast food), track package shipments, check patent numbers, and even find the nearest local poison control number just by typing in poison control. Many of these tips we’ve highlighted individually as they were introduced over the years, but the Google Search features page is a great reminder of all the neat ways you can make your daily visits to Google even more effective.