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 that run [...]
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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 surprise. [...]
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