New Google AdWords interface

Announced today some hours ago, Google  has updated their AdWords interface. Just checked it out and it seems that the search engine try to standardize its product interfaces goes on well. Still a bit awkward Google Analytics-like chart but the design is all right and nice. It’s a nice update from the old-google-like interface style to a new flashy user experience. While in Google Analytics they successfully implemented flash charts to glitter your eyes, AdWords Beta comes with an image based chart. No bubbles at dates, only a straightforward vertical line to show you what you campaign has reached at a time. Interesting to see the same concept in a rather CSS-like design. It seems though that the Ajax sidebar yet needs some correction as it strangely stretches while scrolling up and down. Usability 5*, Accessibility 5*  User Experience 4* Design 4*. FULL ARTICLE +

YouTube turns to green for St Patrick’s day

St Patrick’s day is everything Irsih and everything green and YouTube to it’s common habit changed it’s logo to reflect that idea. I don’t like this catholic stupidism, but I understand now why the logo turned to green (See YouTube logo turns to green – fool me once).

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or simply Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in New Zealand, Australia, and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Irish stout, Irish Whiskey or Irish Cream) and attending parades. – Wikipedia

That’s the common culture, the common devil. Just check YouTube.com and you’ll see.

YouTube logo turns to green – fool me once

I thought it’s just because of the video content I was watching: “Bush’s ten top moments”… Shame on you… But then the second video did not fool me so no shame on me please. This YouTube logo is really green and I don’t know why. Is someone out there who knows why?

Anyways, shame on YouTube because it’s really fool to have a green logo and a red favicon. Webmaster at youtube.com? Hope they change it because it really bugs me. It’s awful to see.

I wanted to check if there is a “green day” today or something but I rather gave up remembering the band Green Day. So I just googled “earth day”, which query gave me the date 22 April but no 17 March.

So dear and clever designers prompt me what on earth is going on on the earth because I don’t get it.

Carol Bartz to replace Jerry Yang Yahoo! CEO

I just read this on wired and I wanted to promptly makes some not about the possible transformation. Jerry Yang’s Yahoo! did not make me and I think other to be enjoy any flavour of the search eangine. There was the Microsoft issue to give over the company, the Google deal and so on.

Well, enough for me Yahoo is enough bitter all the time I hear or meet it. Not only their design makes me mad but their stupid emoticons, wide-mouth-smile messenger, their widget, email account with tons of ads. It’s just makes me crazy. Why on earth would anyone use any of Yahoo’s services while there are many and much better services to be found elsewhere, like at Google (Gmail, Google search, Gtalk etc.)

If it is true what the rumours say that Carol Bartz will replace the current CEO I think it will drive Yahoo! to total bankcrupcy. Yang kept the yahoo-smile profile while being a man, so what can we expect from a woman?! A woman would be sitting on Yahoo throne, that’s the horror.

Ok, I’ll write something else, or I rather go to retirement…

MTV’s big socially free movement for music videos – hack inside

I was really pleased reading on Current that MTV puts every videos online. Yep, so I voted it up and got to play the music in the comment section. Hey, but none!!! Restricted to US users!!! Losers. We are here in EU and just because we live somewhere else than obama we are the sick youtubers and illegal downloaders. I’d stop the world for a second and take some minute finding to figure out who is the CEO chair in MTV, I could actually google it out within a sec but I don’t care. But I would tell him some words, I’m a polite guy so just like a polite guy.

So I assume that I’m not the only hack who finds this hack in the whole story and still sticks you youtube and joost rather than FULL ARTICLE +

What if a nuclear bomb is dropped in your city, will you feel it?

I found this great google map where you can try out which bomb would which kind of damage. There is 2 more App where you can calculate the damage one is built by FAS: link, the other one is by the CSS expert Eric Meyer: link – this one is quite advanced. But the Carlos Labs Ground Zero production was the ultimate source I was stucked by so here it is:

iframe has gone… bug of WP, let the 2 link be enough FULL ARTICLE +

Which is the best way to increase your blog’s traffic?

It’s a common cliche question and the answer seems to be quite diverse and at the end of all somehow missing… I try to redefine the whole thing, because bloggers out there who give such advices are addicted to the money they get from you by reading their articles. So they tell you the same increasing game over and over again not telling you their real secrets. They just feed you bits by bits so that they can write about it again and again. Finally they go to bloggers Expo’s and tell the great deal. Not like that. I’m somehow unsatisfied with the cake I get.

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The best 8 thing pick for ‘08

It seems to be a trend to pick your 8 thing you really liked in 2008. So here is my pick.

My 8 words most used:

1. aztadurva (a hungarian expression literally “such tough”)
2. such stuff
3. yeah
4. no
5. online
6. internet
7. business
8. sick

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The ugliest google logo ever made in history

Now, as I launched google, the day dec 5 (xmas) welcomed me with this logo. I don’t only think it’s the worst google-made logo ever, but probably one of the worst in history as well. It really makes me rethink what kind of designers are working over there in Google inc. I saw some good ideas and some moderate ones from the top search engine but this one really rocks them all. For one day I try not to say that google is the top-search engine. Most probably I’m not gonna even use it today. It’s ugly, without good idea and sense. I hope it will be tomorrow soon in order that I can use my usual helpful google. Happy holidays! FULL ARTICLE +