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Google Earth 5 – Now with ocean view and time travel!

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Google has recently launched the brand new version 5 of the popular Google Earth.

New features include a brand new oceanic view, which means you can dive into the oceans as wel as use the land view. On top of that, you can go “back in time” and see the historical changes of places over time.

A lot of new content has been added, including useful resources from companies like National Geograhpic and the BBC.

You can even record yourself touring around the world of Google Earth.

Sadly, I can’t install it at the moment becuase the Google Updater/installer refuses to cooperate and running the actual Google Earth installer just brings up an error, so that’s not a great kick off for me. I’ll try and get it running in XP or on another PC sometime so I can write a quick review.

While you’re waiting, head over to http://earth.google.com to grab a copy for yourself.

Google goes mad!

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Earlier today I was horrified when Google had decided that every website on the internet was a malware risk and “may harm your computer”.

Google mistaked the whole of the internet for a malware risk.

For most of the afternoon I had to manually enter Google search links into my browser as Google just said I would have to manually go to the site.

According to a report here, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/31/google_malware_snafu/, it was a nationwide issue and my computer wasn’t insane (as I thought).

As far as I am aware, I found the problem fixed by 4.30pm UK time.

The problem has now been fixed, but what the hell caused it?!

Feedburner transferring to Google

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Feedburner, which was acquired by Google in 2007, is in the process of moving to google.com and at the end of February they plan to have all accounts hosted on Google instead of Feedburner.

If you have a Feedburner account, you can log onto feedburner.com and transfer your account now. I did it yesterday and it took about 3 hours to move 80 posts. But you can just set it and leave it.

Once you transfer it, you have to log in via your Google Account. You can do this by going to www.google.com and then My Account. It’s all relatively easy, but just takes a while.

The interface on feedburner.google.com is much the same as the original feedburner.com – in fact very little has changed.

So get in asap if you have a blog or site that uses Feedburner – I wouldn’t want to be in the last minute rush to move over.

What do you think about Google Chrome?

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As I mentioned in the post Is Internet Explorer 8 worth it?, I love Google Chrome. It’s such a fast browser, only crashes in rare occasions (despite the fact it’s in BETA) and I love the new tab management.

There are things Google could do to improve it, of course. But that’s the same with most software. I rarely find any program that is absolutely perfect for me.

What are your thoughts on it, could it be improved?