Jul 12
Google Street View has something of a history for catching us in our more—uh, delicate states
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Jul 12
Transit Times in NYC, Visualized
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As cities grow and populations expand, people move further and further away from the center. That’s definitely happened in New York—and this visualization shows how the shift to more distant neighbourhoods affects travel time.
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Jul 11
Following a deluge of complaints about the lack of an offline maps button in the new Maps app for An
Posted in: Today's ChiliFollowing a deluge of complaints about the lack of an offline maps button in the new Maps app
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Jul 05
Take a virtual tour of Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley set on Google Street View
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Google has alohomora’d a way for everyone (even muggles) to visit Diagon Alley without the need for magic wands. You can now explore the famous Harry Potter set at Warner Bros. London studio via Street View, and virtually visit its shops like Ollivander’s or the garishly colored Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes. It’s not the first Street View location within a building — in fact, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence is now open for digital visitors — but movie sets are a rare treat. This is probably the next best thing for those who want to see Diagon Alley in person but can’t fly to London, even though the studio lights and the green screen behind Gringotts could ruin childhoods. Unless, of course, Schmidt, Page and Brin are actually wizards who added those final touches to make a real magical marketplace look fake.
Via: Mashable
Source: Google Maps
Jul 05
We’ve all said it or thought it or joked about it or believed it at one point in our lives. That damn, we were in the middle of nowhere. But that corn field or dark stretch of the highway hardly qualifies as nowhere. True nowhere is actually in Idaho.
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Jul 04
I don’t know which videogame first featured a map of its world, but whoever did that started a wonderful tradition. The in-game map can be one of the most useful and beautiful parts of a game. City Prints is now branching out, and is making minimalist prints of virtual locales as well.
That of course is the map from The Legend of Zelda. Can you name the origins of the other maps in the gallery below?
Pack your bags and head to City Prints to order these maps. They sell for $40 to $180 (USD) depending on the size of the print. If you’re more of a hardware geek, City Prints also has schematics of old computers and videogame consoles.
[via Fab]
Jul 03
Jul 02
With Independence Day right around the corner, there’s no better time to get to know America’s Founding Fathers. And now, Google Street View is taking you into the home of one. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello residence — both the exterior and interior — is now open to visitors who can’t make the trek to the Catskills. Considering Jefferson’s own fascination with cartography, we like to think he’d get a kick out of it. Ready to start your tour? Hop on over to the source link below.
Source: Google
Jul 02
We’ve all been there: finding yourself in a new place—or even one you’ve visited but never lived in—there’s always bound to be the occasional wrong turn. So what tech do you use to make sure you find your way?
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Jul 01
The green is Chrome. The blue is Internet Explorer. The orange-ish color is Firefox. If you can see any red or grey that would be Opera and Safari, respectively. And though I personally believe all browsers have become horrible in their own ways, having Chrome at the top of most country’s usage list according to Statcounter is certainly a lot better than the alternatives ruling the world. Good job world. Enjoy the suffering southern tip of Africa and all of China and Greenland.
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