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Google Earth just got faster: Version 5.1 released

September 9, 2009

Google has just released Google Earth version 5.1.  According to the LatLong blog, the focus of this update was speed. According to Google: We’ve made a lot of adjustments under the hood, like improving memory utilization so we can show more buildings, layers, and user content. We improved our shaders (that’s graphics-speak for small programs [...]

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Google Chrome and the Google Earth plug-in

September 2, 2008

As you’ve probably heard, Google released “Chrome” today, their new web browser.  Thus far, I am very impressed with it — it’s amazingly fast. However, I can’t get it to work with the Google Earth plug-in.  Considering that the browser is based on Webkit, and Safari didn’t yet work with the plug-in, it’s not a big [...]

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