Monthly Archives: February 2009
Google Earth 5 – What’s New?
I hadn’t been using Google earth for a long time. But after considering the lot of fuss being made on twitter and other communities, I thought of trying it out myself. It was, as always, nice.
The new features added to this are
Oceans – Earlier versions of Google Earth of course had oceans but not clear enough. With the new Google earth 5.0, nooks and crannies on the surface of the earth inside the oceans can be viewed. That makes it so good. Now you can dive into the ocean and check out some deeps!
History Imagery – The earlier versions of Google Earth showed pictures of locations which were taken sometime back. Now, Google Earth can take you back in history and show you how the locations looked like.
Recording Tour – Sharing your tour route has always been troublesome while explaining it to others. But not anymore with your Google Earth 5.0. You can now record your tour with a click of button. Click on the record button and fly through the destinations you went by. Click stop and then you can save the tour route. Upload it to YouTube and share it with the world. Simple! Isn’t it?
3D Mars – Now this is my favourite. Google Earth had already released the sky view in its previous versions. The clarity was just quite lousy. Now, Google in collaboration with ‘NASA’ has released this new feature – 3D Mars. By selecting Mars from the Toolbar, the surface of the Mars can be viewed with clarity and resolution high enough. You can see Mons Olympus, the biggest Volcano in the solar system. All those things you read in General Knowledge books can be experienced now. Isn’t that Cool?
Check out this video released by Google through its blog.
1473MP Picture taken during Obama’s swearing-in Ceremony.
Simply awesome!
I had heard that a high-clarity picture was taken during Obama’s swearing-in ceremony. Picture in which you can zoom to see a high clarity picture of a person standing a kilometer away. Considering it as just an hoax, I ignored it. But today, I got a mail. Wow! And that hoax is no more a hoax to me. Its real. I know you people won’t believe. But seeing is believing. So I have the photo for you. Check it out yourselves and zoom in to see some famous personalities. You can see people sleeping, count the stars on the flag, what is in Bush’s hands and anything. The clarity of picture is just superb! No words to describe that. You can see an Exit board which is out of the field. I mean you can read the letters on the board which is more than a km far. You can see every person’s face. So good!
Click on the picture above or just click here to zoom and enjoy the clarity.
Google has answer to life, the universe and everything!
This is funny!
Do you know what is the answer to life, the universe and everything? No?
But Google has. 
Go to Google.com and type in the search field, "answer to life, the universe and everything", without quotes. The answer is ??? Check out yourselves.
The answer is not a philosophical book of 100 pages or anything. Its the Google calculator that calculates your answer. And the answer is very simple if you don’t waste time thinking more about the answer. Now, why is that answer so funny?
Here goes the story: The whole concept is taken from Douglas Adam’s fictional series "Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy". The series was screened into a movie in 2005 by the same name. Researchers, passionate to know the answer to life, the universe and everything construct a super computer called "Deep Thought". Deep thought was questioned this and Deep thought computed for 7 and half million years before the quest ended. The computer provides this answer "Fourty-two". Deep Thought was pretty sure of its answer. To say anything more than this will be called spoiler to the book and movie. But why on the earth did Douglas select 42 of all the numbers? Its his story, his book and HIS CHOICE.
