Archive for the 'Google' Category
Save Electricity by using black – Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Here’s an interesting article I found from ecoIron
Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift [...]
Steve Fossett missing – millionaire adventurer with life experience degree
Monday, September 10th, 2007Record breaking millionaire (billionaire ?) adventurer Steve Fossett has been missing for a few days now. (Its not Fosett or Fosset – Google corrected me)
Fossett, a Stanford University graduate with a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, went to Chicago to work in the securities business and ultimately founded his [...]
Marco Gallotta discovers Flight Simulator mode in Google Earth
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007The Internet has given credit to University of Cape Town student Marco Gallotta, a computer science major, with discovering that by pressing the right keys while checking out Google Sky (they’re totally different keys for OS X) users are given a choice of flying an F-16 Viper, for those that like to boogie, or a [...]
Google Earth Flight Simulator Keyboard controls on Windows/Macintosh
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Google Earth Flight Simulator
Google has integrated a secret flight simulator into the latest version of Google Earth – allowing you to fly an F-16 jet Viper fighter plane or an SR22 propellor plane .
But do you have Google Earth 4.2 yet ???
If not, download the latest Google Earth with the Flight Simulator game (not a [...]