google-earth
Home Office Tour in Google SketchUp
Jack has been a busy little bee. He’s been playing around with Google SketchUp, and managed to create a fairly decent sketch of my home office. According to McCall and Associates, “SketchUp is the finest (and most innovative) tool available for anyone designing anything from coffee pots to skyscrapers.” Use it to redecorate a room [...]
Was Atlantis Found via Google Ocean?
Google Ocean is a fantastic way to live out your dreams under the sea. Launched just weeks ago, the service lets users swim around underwater volcanoes, watch videos about marine life, read about shipwrecks and watch footage of historic ocean expeditions. What no one expected, though, was a discovery of the city Plato once described [...]
Don’t Put Your Phone in Your Pocket!
Our good friends over at CNET recently had the misfortune of having the screen on their gorgeous Nexus One review unit crack for no apparent reason. The phone was sent to the folks at HTC Support to be tested and looked at. The result was a flippant “We’re as mystified as you are”. The support [...]
Augmented Reality Software
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed When you look at the paper I’m holding, what do you see? Can you tell it’s the Statue of Liberty? Even when I move the paper all around you cannot tell what it is.. until I drop it in front of [...]
New Google Earth Beta
It’s out, but I’m very sad to report that the new version of Google Earth is still calling on Arial as the default Window UI font (not the internal 3D mapping font, which is fine). Why do developers insist on using this instead of Tahoma (or Segoe UI, in the case of Windows Vista)?! Sorry, [...]
