Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more.
Pros: Google Earth makes the entire globe searchable by addresses or keywords with high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery, 3D terrain, 3D buildings in select cities, points of interest (such as hotels, gas stations, restaurants, schools, and parks), and the ability to view and print driving directions. Google Earth is a cross-platform application for Mac and Windows.
Cons: None significant.
In this week’s Freeloader Friday, Brian presents us with a few useful and free alternatives to Microsoft’s discontinued Windows Media Player for Mac users. If you enjoyed this week’s Freeloader Friday, then you may also be interested in a few reruns, such as Alternative Office and Best of 2005.
Gimp.app has been updated to v2.2.10-svg. This update includes Gimp v2.2.10 and adds support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The release notes are available here. Read the Favored Freeware entry for Gimp.app here.
Here are the highlights from today’s Blogroll dive:
Camino combines the awesome visual and behavioral experience that has been central to the Macintosh philosophy with powerful web-browsing capabilities such as the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Built and tested by thousands of volunteers, the Gecko rendering engine brings cutting-edge innovations and capabilities to users in a standards-friendly and socially responsible form.
Pros: Camino “looks and feels like a Mac OS X application should because it was designed exclusively for Mac OS X and the high standards set by its users.”
Cons: None significant.
