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29th

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The Creepy-ish Google Latitude Makes Good I wrote in an earlier blog post about the new Google Latitude, Google’s newest location-based service which allows you to locate anyone who is using Latitude, and conversely allows anyone to…

Swine Flu + Google Earth = More To Be Alarmed About Ok, between me and you and the internets, I just have to say that I am a bit of a conspiracy theorist and giant skeptic when it comes to news and the media in general. And this “Swine Flu” I have…

Apr
24th

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The First Google Earth Alphabet

Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia.

Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer in Australis, with clearly a lot of time on his hands, has just put together the first official alphabet using…

Apr
23rd

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Google: More than Just a Giant Conglomerate Google is just everywhere. We all know it. Some love Google’s everywhereness. Some definitely do not. It’s clear that they own a lot of businesses and they’re buying more all the time. So when…

Satellite Maps May Save the Reindeer The European Space Agency (ESA) sponsors a program called “Polar View”. Polar View is a satellite program which concentrates on the Arctic and Antarctic for public good. One way this global…

Watch the Earth on TV In case watching the earth on your computer isn’t enough for you, as of yesterday the Dish Network is offering 24 hour live viewing of satellite imagery of the earth on their new channel called “…

Apr
22nd

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Google Earth Thief Busted Tom Berge, a known thief in London, was just busted AGAIN…just three weeks after his last arrest. His MO was to search Google Earth for historic buildings in the London area, scale up them, steal…

Apr
15th

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Snoop Around Under Water with Google Earth As you probably already know, Google Earth 5.0 has now added features which allow you to look at the world UNDER the water, using the flight simulator, as well as above it. This is really fun and…

Mar
31st

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How Does Google Earth Get its Imagery? Over the years I’ve read countless complaints about imagery that’s years old in various locations on the Earth when viewed in Google Earth. While Google Earth is always working to update its…

Cheating Spouses on Google Street View The technological advances in finding out if your significant other is being faithful have changed and evolved a lot over the years. Used to be people would hire a private investigator to watch…