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Graham and I have both posted about Google Maps and their satellite imaging system. Using Google Maps it is also possible to get directions. Like other mapping sites, ater you put your search terms in, your receive turn by turn directions with an overall picture of the route. You can also get a satellite image …
As found on the SearchEngineWatch web site: With all of the interest in satellite and aerial images these days I thought TerraFly, a service from Florida Int. University (with support from IBM), was worthy of another mention on the blog. Terrafly not only offers interactive satellite/aerial images but also provides local info for most of …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Mcrosoft has published Microsoft Time Zone, which is free, installs via an .MSI install file. It’s handy when needing to keep track of time in more than one time zone. It sits in the tray, and displays the time in up to five cities when (left) clicking on the …
From TechRepublic: Desktop publishing specialist Adobe Systems is buying multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal geared toward building a software powerhouse. The all-stock deal, announced Monday, is designed to create a better-stocked source of tools for building and distributing multimedia content across a range of operating systems and devices, the companies said. …
From New York Times: here are about 10 million blogs out there, give or take, including one belonging to Niall Kennedy, an employee at Technorati, a small San Francisco-based company that, yes, tracks blogs. Like many employees at many companies, Mr. Kennedy has opinions, even when he is not working. One evening last month, he …
From eWeek: As Apple Computer Inc. prepares to release its latest operating system at the end of the month, the same Web sites that the company is suing for publishing details of its products are continuing to reveal more of its upcoming product plans. The company is currently embroiled in two cases against several Mac …
From MSNBC: It happens all the time: You read an entry in an encyclopedia or other reputable source and think, “That’s not right” or “They forgot this!” Microsoft Corp.’s Encarta encyclopedia is testing a system that lets everyone be an editor — in theory at least. Readers can suggest edits or additions to entries, although …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Getting SPAM from a person in a foreign language? Always wanted to know what your friends at work say in a language you don’t know? OK, here’s the scoop on translation. http://www.mezzofanti.org/ has links to translator sites for almost every language you might imagine. I found Polish, Arabic, Slovenian, …
From itWorldCanada: Each computer his company purchases may be as much as $30 more expensive today than they were this time last year, but you won’t hear Darren Ruhr complaining about the premium. Ruhr, IT director at Precision Drilling Corp., a Calgary-based contract drilling supplier servicing the oil and gas industry, figures it’s money well …
Subscriber John Mood sent me this: I just found a very neat program that lets you toggle between two desktops, you can put a different BMP as the wallpaper on the secondary desktop. It’s at http://www.fatfreesoft.com/ and it’s called Double Desktop. It’s easy, low memory loading, and free to download and keep. There are several …