Filed under: Internet, Web services, Microsoft, web 2.0
Microsoft gives Virtual Earth and Live Maps a major overhaul
- Improved 3D cities with higher resolution textures, rendered trees, and thousands of additional buildings. This feature is only available in a handful of cities for now, but more are coming soon
- Export Collections to GPS devices in KML, GPX, and GeoRSS formats
- Improved modeler for adding your own buildings
- Labels added to Birds Eye imagery, letting you figure out what buildings or landmarks you're looking at
- 1-Click Directions maps can now be edited to add hotspots and popups
- MapCruncher integration
- Subscribe to RSS feeds for any neighborhood to keep up to date on activities in that area
- High definition videos in Tours
- Improved display of web-based KML files, including Google maps links.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
