April 30, 2010
In addition to the views in the form of maps and satellite images, users of Google Maps have now a new option: display images 3D from Earth View.
To enjoy these spectacular images, it is not necessary to install Google Earth. A simple plug-in is now enough to visit the planet in 3D, without leaving your browser. Its installation is also automatically offered when we connect to the mapping service.
Google justified this development by the improving of Web browsers which are now much faster. The plug-in is compatible with Windows operating systems (2000, XP, Vista and 7) and Mac OS X (version 10.4 and later).
It works with common browsers: Google Chrome, of course, but Internet Explorer (version 7 and later), Firefox (version 2.0 and later) and Flock (version 1 and following), and finally Safari (version 3.1 and later).
This new option offers a real advantage for users who can explore places, known or unknown, under a new aspect. The changeover can be done very easily from an arrow navigation placed at the top left of the window. it can be tilted to control the map to discover the effects of terrain.
Navigation in 3D images is extremely fluid, whether when you move, change camera angles or make enlargements.
the terrain modeling of buildings and the spectacular function of overflying the planet when you move from one point to another. In short, this online version of Earth has the same feelings as the software, or almost.
The plug-in in fact isn’t integrating all functions of Google Earth. The historical tours, which help you see the evolution of a neighborhood over time, GPS routes, the flight simulation tool or images of the Moon and Mars are not available in the interface mapping. In these cases, using the software is essential.
April 23, 2010
Still a pretty picture, this time on the history of the estimated value of Twitter, 2007-2010.
Who invested in Twitter (business angels including Marc Andreessen, Naval Ravikant, Dick Costolo, Kevin Rose, Tim Ferris, Ron Conway and Chris Sacca for a total outlay of 162 million in 2010), the rounds, its current value (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars), the economic model and a comparison of recovery with Google, Yahoo, Baidu and Sohu.
April 20, 2010
Journey of the goal Cadiz lies on a peninsula in the south of Spain and accommodates on a surface of approximately twelve square kilometers scarcely 130,000 inhabitants. Cadiz looks to 3000-years history on one scarcely back, and is considered as one of the oldest cities of Western Europe and a popular destination for journeys , because of the Costa de la Luz, the name of the Atlantic coast in the south of Spain colors for the coast of the light off also on the city.Enjoy one vacation with Andalusian flair and maurischen influences.
Fascinatingly also the old part of town with their historical buildings and monuments is the so some small, bent lane seams often at beautiful places/Plazas ends. The sea still determines the life of the 145,000 inhabitants counting province capital. Of the port daily ships drive here to Africa and to the Canary islands; fishery and salt industry is operated and also the tourism became significant. Beside the carnival also the Flamenco has a long tradition and tightens ever more the Spanish and international tourism, because the landscape is very varied and the climate very mild.
Places to see
- Cathedral, from that 18. Jh., in the crypt the grave of the composer Manuel de Falla.
- Church of the holy cross, (Iglesia de Santa Cruz) – old cathedral.
- Oratorium San Felipe Neri, (the place, at which the first Spanish condition was constituted) from that 17. Century
- The holy cave (La Santa Cueva) from that 18. Century (with paintings of Goya)
- Old bath house at the city beach (Baluarte de La Candelaria)
- Torre Tavira with Camera Obscura
- Castellets San Sebastian and Santa Catalina
- Parque Genovés - Flaniermeile and becomes green to lung in the northwest of the old part of town.
April 15, 2010
JSCo unveiled its Noiseless Mouse, a mouse, which, as its name implies, leaves no noise.
Specifically, the noise of clicks made with this mouse is imperceptible to the ear. Impressive. Although I suspect most of you don’t pay more attention to sounds emitted by their (many) clicks.
Finally, then, after reading this note, you are definitely going to notice a little while.
April 12, 2010
The rumors are true then, the NYT reports that at a party, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, confirmed that the U.S. giant was working on its own tablet. The gadget turns under Android OS, and not under chrome OS as previously announced, and would be books, newspapers, and magazines oriented. A prototype has been delivered to some publishers to test the device and making some partnerships
April 8, 2010
Now that iPad tablet has been launched, it is time to compare the application performances of the Apple A4 processors and Qualcomm SnapDragon, the latter being present in many smartphones, including the Nexus One of Google.
The iPad tablet has an applications processor Apple A4 on which very little information has been made public . it’s only known that it’s clocked at 1 GHz and could be fitted with a heart ARM Cortex A8.
This is the same the processor as inside the iPhone 3Gs, but in this case, it is clocked at 600 MHz. For the application processors running at 1 GHz, the platform SnapDragon Qualcomm present in several smartphones, including the Google Nexus One.
The great temptation is to compare their performance. That what pushed to compare the loading times of Web pages on the iPad, iPhone 3Gs and Google Nexus One. The result is what it is worth knowing that this is not the same architecture, the same hardware, same OS …
The results suggest that the iPad tablet displays more quickly (10%) Web pages than Google smartphone Nexus One, which is itself faster than the iPhone 3Gs.
after running the SunSpider benchmark on the three platforms. Again, the advantage is given to the processor Apple iPad A4 tablet compared to the Google SnapDragon Nexus One.
But it is difficult to conclude that the processor Apple A4 is necessarily more efficient. software optimization can be the cause of these differences in addition to the platforms that have a little in common.