Thu 27 Apr 2006
Google Maps has now been updated in Europe to show street maps in the following countries: France (http://maps.google.fr/) Germany (http://maps.google.de/) Italy (http://maps.google.it/) and Spain (http://maps.google.es/).
Well dont the Google maps team
Thu 13 Apr 2006
Google Calendar has gone live, it seems to be running very slow as I write this, this is probably due to influx of users signing up to it.
The layout is familiar to users of Google products such as Gmail. It has some nice features such as friends invite in which you can either let them invite more people or just let them view the guest list.
Matt Cutts has written a good review with more insight into the Calendar and its features.
Wed 14 Sep 2005
Thu 8 Sep 2005
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With the release of Driv3r last year Reflections sold a bucket load on the back of the previous two games, but unfortunately Driv3r was a flawed game that although made its money in sales has also lost its audience with the series. It seems that by first look Reflections has taken this into account with their next title. Driver : Parallel Lines. |
Driver: Parallel Lines looks to be going back to its roots, with the game being more involved with the driving rather than running around the levels. Reflections also seem to be taking some ideas from Rockstar Games Grand theft Auto series by having a garage to save your cars in as well as some upgrade options. Driver: Parallel Lines is set in New York in the late seventies, a decade that hasn’t been explored in the recent Grand theft auto games, but will it be good enough competition for Rockstar to be worried about?.. (more…)
Mon 5 Sep 2005
An article written in 2001 on ScientificAmerican.com states that New Orleans could get hit by a hurricane and flooded in 20ft of water.
A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city
So my question is with hindsight if there was a select few that could have foreseen what has happened, why wasn’t any extra defence barriers erected or any training of evacuation procedures put into place?
Mon 5 Sep 2005
It seems that the American government feel that the US citizens of New Orleans are 2nd class as the first to be evacuated were foreigners in the cover of darkness.
Since when does it matter what race or country you are from, when there are people dying and sick around you, surely they should have priority.
Sat 3 Sep 2005
I have been using Google Earth for a while now and some of the features are great. The only problem that i have seen with Google Earth is the images are not in real time, but that is where the Google Earth community come in, the members there are constantly looking over Google earth and posting overlays to keep things upto date.
One good and recent example i found on GoogleBlog is the change in New Orleans.
New Orleans Super bowl - before Katrina
New Orleans Super bowl - after Katrina
I will be posting more overlays in the future.
Download Google Earth Download Katrina Overlays
Originally posted at GoogleBlog
Fri 2 Sep 2005
