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Stupid google images background?
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J Hill Designs
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am I missing something?
James Burke
Being a grandpa is more fun than working
All I see is a white Google logo that appears to be impressed into the page. Very plain, yet quite appealing.
Well, crap...two minutes later the photo appeared. The options at the bottom only let you select more photos. Looks like Google has been hijacked by some artists guild.
JB
Well, crap...two minutes later the photo appeared. The options at the bottom only let you select more photos. Looks like Google has been hijacked by some artists guild.
JB
tintguy31794
New Member
I'm using google chrome and it has text at the lower left saying "remove background image"
omgsideburns
New Member
yep.
TheSellOut
New Member
"Bing" must be putting a hurting on the old Google monster!
J Hill Designs
New Member
I use the iGoogle homepage these days...weather, news, calendar, etc
rm25x
New Member
There's always www.blackle.com
Which is their energy saving page. Its what I use.
Which is their energy saving page. Its what I use.
WhiskeyDreamer
Professional Snow Ninja
yea...but google doesn't have the cute little boxes that give interesting little facts about the background like bing does.....
i actually switched to using bing just because i like seeing the new image every day....
Bing's canceling their cashback program at the end of July, I imagine its popularity will plummet shortly thereafter, guess we'll see though!
J Hill Designs
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The notion that black screens save electricity certainly makes sense when you're talking about cathode-ray tube, or CRT, technology that works by moving an electron beam back and forth across the back of the screen. "The front screen is covered with red, blue and green phosphors," says Bill Schindler, vice president of electrical engineering for Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory of America. To produce white, the electron beam is directed at the phosphors. However, "when the screen is black, you don't have to fire the beam," he adds.
CRT monitors, which until a few years ago were the predominant models among PC users, consume more power when a computer screen is white. To confirm this, Schindler measured the energy output of an 18-inch (45.7-centimeter) CRT monitor and found it used 102 watts when the screen was white but only 79 watts when the display was black.
This is not the case, however, with LCD monitors, which have no phosphors and represent the lion's share of every new monitored purchased in the developed world, including those used by laptops. Instead, LCD displays rely on an array of thin-tube fluorescent bulbs that provide a constant source of light to create a white screen. To make it black, LCDs rely on a diffuser to block this light. As a result, LCDs use more energy than CRTs to display a black screen. Measuring a 17-inch (43-centimeter) LCD monitor, Schindler found that white required 22.6 watts, while black came in a tad higher at 23.2 watts. With a 20-inch (50.8-centimeter) LCD, black required 6 percent more energy than white.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-black-is
Pat Whatley
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Really, if that's the biggest thing you've got to bitch about you're doing pretty damn good for yourself! :ROFLMAO: