The 25 Geekiest Google Doodles

The 25 Geekiest Google Doodles: "

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Google is an undeniably geeky company. So when some of the world’s biggest computer nerds get their geek on, some pretty cool stuff can happen.

Stuff like the “Google Doodle,” aka the stylized home page logo that Google occasionally produces to commemorate a historic day or event. There have been hundreds of Doodles since the company launched in 1998, and Noemi’s post this week about the interactive Les Paul Doodle inspired me to search through the Doodle archives for the 25 geekiest Google Doodles ever.

October 29, 2009: French publisher Asterix Comics got the Doodle treatment for its 50th anniversary.

April 7, 2008. Astro Boy.

October 7, 2009: Made to celebrate the invention of the bar code.

July 23, 2009: DC Comics’ Jim Lee created this Doodle to commemorate Comic-Con International. (Click on the image to make it bigger.)

September 15, 2009: Crop circles.

March 6, 2011: Will Eisner’s 94th birthday.

April 12, 2011: First man in space.

September 10, 2008: Large Hadron Collider.

September 21, 2009: H.G. Wells’ birthday.

June 5, 2010: 110th birthday of Dennis Gabor, the father of holography.

September 6, 2010: This interactive particle logo was used to celebrate the launch of Google Instant.

February 8, 2011: Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday. Interactive.

May 16, 2008: commemorating the invention of the first laser.

January 28, 2008: 50th anniversary of the LEGO brick. Google’s founders are big LEGO fans (as we are).

August 30, 2010: 213th birthday of Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein.

July 20, 2009: 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

May 21, 2010: A fully interactive and playable Doodle in honor of Pac-Man‘s 30th anniversary.

March 14, 2010: Pi Day.

July 4, 2010: Rube Goldberg’s birthday.

April 23, 2004: For a European Catholic holiday (St. George’s Day), that is one geeky logo. Come on, there’s a knight and a dragon!

July 10, 2009: Nikola Tesla’s birthday.

June 6, 2009: 25th anniversary of Tetris.

September 5, 2009: Mulder and Scully would be proud. This one celebrates “unexplained phenomenon.”

May 22, 2006: Let’s hear it for the great detective! Celebrating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday.

October 4, 2004: SpaceShipOne wins the X-Prize.

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ADT Plugin for Eclipse updated with visual layout editor

ADT Plugin for Eclipse updated with visual layout editor: "

The ADT plugin for Eclipse, including the new visual layout editor, was updated and made available today. If you go back about a month or so to Google I/O, one of the most popular developer sessions was given by Tor Norbye and Xavier Ducrohet as they went over all the upcoming improvements to Android development tools, and when they talked about this one, the packed house cheered.

I know most of you aren't Android application developers, and are asking yourself what exactly this is, and what all the fuss is about. ADT (short for Android Development Tools) is a plugin for Eclipse -- an integrated development environment used by many to write and build Android applications. Eclipse is a stand alone program that can be used to write all sorts of applications, and is a very popular tool for Android developers writing apps in Java. Installing the ADT brings the tools needed by Eclipse to make those Android apps, and puts everything together into one happy, geeky program.

In today's update, the visual layout editor is the clear star of the show. In previous versions of the ADT, developers were forced to depend on unofficial (but done well in many cases) layout editors or to hard code the way their application looks by hand. As you can imagine, having a graphical WYSIWYG editor was something everyone wanted, and Google delivered. This does two things -- takes the time needed to hardcode the layout of an application and frees it to be used in better ways, and gives designers a unified set of tools to make beautiful apps. We might not understand all the fuss here, but trust me -- this is something developers have wanted and needed for quite a while, and it's great news for both those who code the apps, and those who use them. After the jump you'll find the ADT developers session video if you're looking for more info.

Source: Android developer website

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ADT Plugin for Eclipse updated with visual layout editor

ADT Plugin for Eclipse updated with visual layout editor: "

The ADT plugin for Eclipse, including the new visual layout editor, was updated and made available today. If you go back about a month or so to Google I/O, one of the most popular developer sessions was given by Tor Norbye and Xavier Ducrohet as they went over all the upcoming improvements to Android development tools, and when they talked about this one, the packed house cheered.

I know most of you aren't Android application developers, and are asking yourself what exactly this is, and what all the fuss is about. ADT (short for Android Development Tools) is a plugin for Eclipse -- an integrated development environment used by many to write and build Android applications. Eclipse is a stand alone program that can be used to write all sorts of applications, and is a very popular tool for Android developers writing apps in Java. Installing the ADT brings the tools needed by Eclipse to make those Android apps, and puts everything together into one happy, geeky program.

In today's update, the visual layout editor is the clear star of the show. In previous versions of the ADT, developers were forced to depend on unofficial (but done well in many cases) layout editors or to hard code the way their application looks by hand. As you can imagine, having a graphical WYSIWYG editor was something everyone wanted, and Google delivered. This does two things -- takes the time needed to hardcode the layout of an application and frees it to be used in better ways, and gives designers a unified set of tools to make beautiful apps. We might not understand all the fuss here, but trust me -- this is something developers have wanted and needed for quite a while, and it's great news for both those who code the apps, and those who use them. After the jump you'll find the ADT developers session video if you're looking for more info.

Source: Android developer website

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Los Beatles

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-The Beatles

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