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Exotic palm tree forest image

Described by the photographer as: “View on vast exotic Asian tropical palm tree forests from the slope of a hill, with banana tree leaves in the foreground”

FeaturePics has been offering a “free for blog use” license for a long time, but you might not have found those free images.

Now the images that carry this type of license should show up in a Google search because they have been submitted to Google with that designation. Just search using FeaturePics.com and “Free for Blog Use” as search attributes. Of course, you can use other search attributes as well to narrow the search.

Once you have found the image to meet your needs, it could not be easier. Just follow the “Blog this for free” link, copy the supplied code, and paste it into your page.

Today Scott Hanselman posted about Adding Custom Search Providers, and it reminded me that FeaturePics has had this capability for a long time. But how many people know how to use it? Possibly everyone but me? I never noticed how it works with modern browsers until today after reading Scott's piece. I wrote the FeaturePics opensearch provider about a year ago for use with Amazon's A9, and then thought no more about it. It seems to work just fine in this context also.

Point your browser at http://www.featurePics.com.

Notice the orange drop down button to the right of the Google search box. Go ahead and click the drop down.

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Wolfram Alpha is finally available.

From the LA Times:

How long does it take to get to Saturn at, say, the speed of light?
With Wolfram Alpha, the online "computational knowledge engine" that launched Monday, the answer -- 75 minutes -- can be found in a fraction of a second.