Google Desktop : On-Screen Ruler

Description :

A ruler gadget that helps you align your on-screen elements, and measure the number of pixels between them. Double-clicking on the solid handle of the ruler rotates it by 90 degrees clockwise.






Options :

• Ruler Thickness - Thickness of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 50 pixels and 150 pixels.

• Ruler Length - Length of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 200 pixels and the screen width.)

• Division Size - Number of pixels between each division marking. (Acceptable values are between 10 and 100.)

• Major Marking Interval - Number of divisions between each major division marking. (Acceptable values are between 5 and 20.)

• Colour - Colour of the ruler and its markings. Select from black or white

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Google Lively is shutdown

from googleblog :

In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off.

That's why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams.

We'd encourage all Lively users to capture your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms.

Spice up your Gmail inbox with colors and themes

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.