Google World Touristiness Map

This is a cool script (written by www.bluemoon.ee) that determines which areas of the world are more frequently photographed. Based on the photos users have uploaded to Panaramio, the script has colour coded how many photos have been taken in any specific area.

 

Tech Support Care Package

Are you constantly acting as tech support for your parents for all their computer related problems? If so, then you’ll love Google’s new “Tech Support Care Package”. Simply fill out the form by selecting which tasks your loving family needs help with, and Google will send them an email with links to specific self help videos. They even have videos for photography related topics such as resizing a photo, attaching a file to an email, sharing photos & videos, and cropping photos.

 

Google Earth 6 Beta Released

Google Earth 6 (Beta) has been released, and it has among other things, 3 main new features: Better integration with Street View, Updated historical images, and 3 dimensional trees.

 

Google Street View Invades Antarctica

It’s official: you can now see 7 different continents on Google Street View. Google recently updated it’s maps by adding Brazil, Ireland and Antarctica.