Saturday, January 19, 2013

Address Bar Commands in Google Chrome

Here are some useful address bar commands in Google Chrome:

chrome://plugins - Here you can enable/disable flash, java etc
chrome://extensions - All your installed extensions
chrome://history - Your browsing log
chrome://bookmarks – Your bookmark manager. Easier to sort things here...
chrome://version – Display version of chrome, webkit etc.
chrome://memory – Detailed memory consumption used by tabs and extensions.
chrome://cache – All stuff that is cached
chrome://dns – Overview over connected dns
chrome://settings – Your setting page

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Trustworthy-Looking Face Meets Brown Eyes

This study is interesting to me because I have blue eyes:

We tested whether eye color influences perception of trustworthiness. Facial photographs of 40 female and 40 male students were rated for perceived trustworthiness. Eye color had a significant effect, the brown-eyed faces being perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones. Geometric morphometrics, however, revealed significant correlations between eye color and face shape. Thus, face shape likewise had a significant effect on perceived trustworthiness but only for male faces, the effect for female faces not being significant. To determine whether perception of trustworthiness was being influenced primarily by eye color or by face shape, we recolored the eyes on the same male facial photos and repeated the test procedure. Eye color now had no effect on perceived trustworthiness. We concluded that although the brown-eyed faces were perceived as more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones, it was not brown eye color per se that caused the stronger perception of trustworthiness but rather the facial features associated with brown eyes

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0053285