The Jewish year 5767 begins on Friday night, which according to biblical reckoning is the first day of the seventh month, the Feast of Trumpets. Google has gotten into the spirit with a cool graphic on the Google Israel page.
Elsewhere, I found a page that makes it easy to search Google’s various categories. It’s always frustrated me that Google has such a limited selection on its homepage, and this “Simply Google” page fulfills the desire for something faster.
And I just learned about, but haven’t yet tried, a new tool from Microsoft that allows you to take multiple photos and blend them together. So, for instance, in a picture of our kids (or the students), there always seems to be one head turned or one set of eyes closed (we have a GREAT example of this with Luke yawning in a family portrait, but my wife won’t let me share it lest it cause our son lasting psychological damage). So you can take multiple pictures and pick the best parts of them and merge it into a single photo. You can download the Microsoft Research Group Shot and try it yourself.