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NYC Google Earth Mega Pack
Over 8 million people live in New York City, and for those of them who use Google Earth, things just got a whole lot easier. The NYC Google Earth Mega Pack adds a boatload of new layers to enhance the Google Earth experience, including complete ...
Google Earth now available for Mac and Linux
Despite being mostly a Windows boy myself, I'm really glad to see Google moving some of its apps to other platforms. Today Google announced the availability of Google Earth 4 Beta, which is a free download not just for Windows, but also for Mac OS X ...
Drawing Tools now available in Google Earth
The latest release of Google Earth comes packaged with a surprise: drawing tools. They were previously only available in the paid upgrades of the applications used by professionals. This newly added feature adds path and polygon drawing tools to ...
Google Earth for iPhone gets an update to 2.0
When Google brought its amazing global map application, Google Earth, to the iPhone, it was a match made in heaven. (Okay, it was match made on Earth, but bear with with me, here.) The pinching and rotating gestures on the iPhone made exploring the ...
Local ads in Google Earth
Taking a cue from Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3D, Google has been dishing out some local ads in Google Earth. The ads are sponsored listings from Google Local advertisers and it is not clear how long they have been appearing in Google Earth. A reader ...
Google Sky
Forget about going to a planetarium, Google Earth has expanded its view and is starting to focus on the stars. Sky in Google Earth has launched. This new addition to Earth enables viewers to check out different areas in the universe, from distant ...
Google Earth's Election Tools
Who says software and politics don't mix? Google has released an update to Google Earth that adds a "2006 US Election Guide" layer to the cross-platform mapping app. The new layer includes two sub-layers: a "US Election Guide," which adds useful ...
Multiuser Google Earth with Skype = Unype
What happens when you mix up the ever popular Skype, with Google Earth? Well, you get Unype, an interesting virtual world mashup application. With Unype, users can utilize Skype's chatting and VoiP with Google Earth to chat and share Google Earth ...
Google Earth for Mac arrives
Good news for Mac-heads and
geographiles: Yesterday Google finally released a version of Google Earth
that's available for both Mac and PC. Well, what are you
waiting for? Check it out! ...
Poly9 FreeEarth: It's like Google Earth, but Flash-based, and slower
We can't count the number of times we've wished we could embed an interactive globe on our web sites. That's probably because it's hard to figure out how to count to zero. But if you really want a Google Earth-like globe on your page, Poly9's got you ...
Google releases Google Earth API, browser plugin
Google has released a browser plugin that lets you access most of the key features of Google Earth in your web browser. No need to download and install the standalone Google Earth application. Google Earth provides more detailed imagery and ...
Create Google Earth overlays on a Mac
A while ago there was a writeup on using CommunityWalk to make Google Earth overlays on machines that can't run Google Earth. Now Software4free.org shows us a direct method for Mac users to create overlays, which use that KML stuff. The overlays can ...
View KML overlays on Google Maps
Previously KML files were exclusively the domain of Google Earth, but a part of the Google Earth 4 announcement the other day that I missed was that Google Maps now supports KML files, too. KML, in case you're not up on your acronyms, is an XML ...
Architects partner with Google Earth
Architecture just got a little closer with the virtual world. The American Institute of Architects has formed a partnership with Google Earth that will allow users to explore popular structures and possibly enhance the communities we live in. 3D ...
Google Earth, now with National Geographic Layer
Google just keeps making Google Earth better. This time, they've added a National Geographic layer, which enables a whole bunch of cool new stuff:"Have you ever dreamed of Africa while reading National Geographic? The exotic photographs and ...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
