Earth Posts

Mark O

Google’s love-hate relationship with software

Google has just released a browser plug-in which allows you to view and use Google Earth inside your internet browser, whether it be Mozilla Firefox or ...

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Mark O

Grumpy over Google Earth 4.3

Google released an upgrade to Google Earth the other week and today I finally had a chance to install it and see if it was any ...

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Mark O

Google Earth - the fearless crime fighters

Google Earth is reported to be helping out in an Australian murder investigation after a woman’s body was discovered. In what may be a very lucky break ...

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Mark O

Defense Exhibit A - Google Earth!

Here’s a Wacky Friday story. Google Earth has now found its way into the courtroom. A Pakistani lawyer sprung a novel defense in ...

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Mark O

Don’t believe in global warming? Let Google Earth show you then

As Al Gore would probably confirm, there seems to be a lot of people in denial about global warming. So I was interested to ...

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The Tutor

Google Earth 4.1 locking up or freezing on you?

I was just skimming the comments and noticed on our Google Earth Download page that Tim was having a problem with Google Earth locking up on ...

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Mark O

Google Earth and Sketchup - the perfect pair

By Mark O’Neill Sketchup may have brought out the designer side in everyone with models ranging from the very simple to the very intricate. But ...

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Mark O

The Starship Enterprise appears on Google Earth

By Mark O’Neill It always amazes me how much time some people have on their hands! A very dedicated Star Trek fan has built ...

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Peter Jalbert

Playing With The New Google Moon

Google and NASA have a healthy collaborative relationship that they have mentioned before. In their previous announcement, they mentioned that they will “work together on a ...

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Peter Jalbert

Using The Hidden Flight Simulator in Google Earth

Google has some prominent Engineers with a good background in Flight simulator development, so it’s not surprising that a recent discovery by a blogger named Marco ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Earth and Beyond: Sky in Google Earth

Everyone’s had fun traveling all over the (Google) world. If looking at Earth’s terrain and visiting all cities and towns has grown stale though then things ...

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The Tutor

New ‘My Maps’ feature at Google Maps

Hmm… oddly this also seems to be Google playing a little catch up with Microsoft - Look at Google Maps for a new tab on the left ...

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Peter Jalbert

New Google Earth Features: Wikipedia, Panoramio and Google Earth Community

We think Google Earth is one of the best technologies that Google has come up with so far. Well, of course Google Maps is more accessible ...

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The Tutor

Google Earth Download

I haven’t spent much time with Google Earth yet, but it looks very interesting. Google released beta 4 a few weeks back and I’m downloading it ...

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Peter Jalbert

Explore our Planet from your Home using Google Earth!

I was over at a friend’s house the other day and on his computer he showed me his own house as viewed by a satellite in ...

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