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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 that run [...]

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Finally! The Google Earth Plug-in now works in Google Chrome

February 20, 2009

It was over five months ago that support for Chrome was “coming soon”, and it’s finally here — the Google Earth plug-in now works in Google Chrome.
You likely need the latest version of Chrome for it to work.  To update, just click the wrench icon and choose “About Google Chrome”.  The bottom line of that [...]

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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 surprise. [...]

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Update to the Google Earth plug-in coming this week?

June 16, 2008

Firefox 3 is set to be released tomorrow, and Mozilla is hoping for five million downloads.  My concerns had been two-fold:  Firefox 3 breaks the Google Toolbar and the Google Earth Plug-in.  However, the toolbar has been updated today to work with FF3, but what about the plug-in?
There has been no word from Google about [...]

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Another cute game using the Google Earth Plug-in

June 4, 2008

Here’s another fun game using the Google Earth plug-in, based heavily off of the Monster Milktruck demo.  It has quite a few limitations (the biggest being no altitude adjustment), but it’s another step in the right direction.
The plane simply hugs the ground, and it runs in a pretty small window.  The small window is an [...]

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Google Earth browser plug-in coming today

May 28, 2008

This sounds great!  Frank Taylor at the Google Earth Blog has just revealed that Google will be releasing a browser plug-in today that will essentially put Google Earth in your browser.
A few notes so far:

Windows only, but it should work on IE, Firefox and others.
Mac/Linux support coming later.
It’s not just Google Earth in a wrapper.  [...]

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