The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick
Posted: Sun 01/20/2008 by ramiroPay attention!
Ecologically Sustainable Search
Posted: Tue 06/26/2007 by ramiroSometime ago I read that it would save quite a lot of energy if Google was using black as the background color of it's search page instead of white. Today I stumbled upon blackgoogle.com. I was looking for an alternative to Google anyway, so I may start with this one.
As an ecologically conscious person I somehow have a better feeling though still using Google. Here are some numbers I found on the ecoIron Blog that legitimate using Black Google as long as there is no better search engine:
Website Accessibility Testing with GrayBit
Posted: Sat 10/21/2006 by ramiroGrayBit offers a tool for converting the colors of your website to their grayscale equivalents, so you can test the visual contrast of your website. Like most other Web 2.0 application GrayBit has it's limitations and works best on websites that make use of cascading style sheets and a standardized markup. Nonetheless it's well worth trying this on your website as an additional tool to test this aspect of accessibility.
