Monday, April 21, 2008

Google Earth 4.3 is available

Google Earth the 3D global mapping program that combines satellite imagery, aerial photography and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips, has been updated a several days ago.
The new version of the program includes several new and interesting features. First of all Google Earth 4.3 has improved navigation tools, which Google hopes users will find to be more intuitively operable.
The zoom control was modified. Now, when you zoom closer to the ground, your view slowly tilts, as if you are parachuting onto the ground. When the zoom level reaches ground, you are surrounded by the 3D landscape in a view similar to that of a 3D game.

Google Earth zoom feature


In addition, the Google Earth has received new control called “look” joystick. This special joystick lets you to look around and change your viewpoint. It is very handy tool. You can look up at the sky and down at the ground, or over the horizon.

Google Earth good view


Photorealistic 3D-structures finally appeared on Google Earth. The new version of the program, has added a lot of the 3D content. New version lets you view higher quality 3D Buildings - many of which are photo-textured.

Google Earth 3D buildings


Another addition to Google Earth application is Street View feature. It gives Google Earth users an on-the-ground 360-degree view that users may recognize from Google Maps.

Google Earth Street View feature


Lastly, the new sunlight button will give you the ability to see the sunrise and sunset anywhere in the world.

Google Earth sun circle


Google Earth 4.3 is now available for download.

Monday, April 07, 2008

WinRAR 3.71 – One of the Most Popular Archiver in the World

There are many excellent compression utilities to choose from, but this software application offers the features and flexibility that could place it at the top of its category. WinRar is very easy to use and powerful archiver and archive manager. That is why it became one of the most popular archiver in the world.
WinRAR have some advantages over others programs of its kind. It can usually compress content more effectively and it is often faster than the competitors.
The good designed interface gives you quick access to all main features of the program. I like this easy to use and understand interface with its candy-coated appearance but if you don’t, you can always choose another theme at the developer’s site.



The Wizards that are included in WinRAR will help beginners compress and unpack files, while advanced users have access to lots of features like authenticity verification, programmable self-extracting archives, command line interface and importing or exporting of file settings.
WinRAR provides full support for RAR and ZIP archive formats, and it is able to process all other popular compression formats, including ACE, CAB, GZ, JAR, ISO, BZ2, and 7-Zip.
WinRAR integrates into Windows Explorer's context menu, so you can compress and extract files even without launching the application.
WinRAR has damaged archive repair feature that allows corrupt files to be accessed in order to salvage damaged data. The support of multi-volume compression gives the ability to split of a large file.



With Unicode support for international formatting, archive locking, integrated virus scan, strong AES encryption, theme support, folder tree panel, multithread support, Windows x64 shell integration and all others features WinRAR becomes one of the best programs of its kind.
Anyone looking for solid archiving solution should try this excellent program.

You can download the latest version of WinRar here.