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How to find any email with Gmail search
via Official Gmail Blog by Gmail Blog on May 06, 2008
Posted by Arielle Reinstein, Product Marketing ManagerThe sight of someone scrolling through hundreds of email messages trying to find a specific one is like fingers on a chalkboard for me. With a few tricks, you can use Gmail to find the exact message you're looking for, without all the scrolling.If you don't get a ton of mail, just typing in the words you're looking for usually does...
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U.K. Releases Secret UFOs File
via Danger Room by Sharon Weinberger on May 14, 2008
It's the day we've all be dreaming of. Well, at least some of us. The United Kingdom has followed in the footsteps of the United States and France by releasing their secret trove of UFO files. "The documents, which can be downloaded from the National Archives website, cover the period from 1978 to 1987," reports the BBC. "They include accounts of strange lights in the sky and unexplained...
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Microsoft Gives You The Sky With WorldWide Telescope
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 13, 2008
First of all, if you want to try this baby for yourself, go get it here; the installation might take a while because you need .NET Framework 2.0 SDKs and DirectX (which I didn’t have on my office computer). And if you can’t remember what the hell WorldWide Telescope is, just remember that it was the thing that made Scoble cry. And we love things that make Scoble cry.On a more serious note,...
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Chaitén Volcano, Chile - John Seach
via Volcano Live News - John Seach by John Seach on May 14, 2008
On Monday 12th May, emissions from Chaitén volcano in Chile reached an altitude of 8 km. Pyroclastic flows have burned several hectares of forest. A vertical dome is located in a 1 km wide crater. The Chaitén River has overflowed due to silting up from ash and pumice, and lahars extended 200 m either side of the river. About 40 buildings, and many vehicles, were buried by the lahars. Lahars
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Google Maps and Rumsey Historical Maps
via Google Maps Mania by Keir Clarke on May 12, 2008
David Rumsey's amazing collection of historical maps has been available as a layer on Google Earth since 2006. Now they are available on Google Maps!The David Rumsey Google Map Collection contains an amazing 120 historical maps overlaid on Google Maps. For, example, the screen shot above shows an 1832 map of London overlaid on the current Google Map of London (it also reveals that my house...
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Browse the Sky with WorldWide Telescope from Microsoft Research
via Windows Vista Team Blog by Brandon LeBlanc on May 13, 2008
Want to try out for yourself what made Robert Scoble cry? Tonight, Microsoft Research has made available the Spring Beta of WorldWide Telescope. Download: WorldWide Telescope Spring ReleaseWorldWide Telescope is an application designed to turn your PC into a "virtual telescope" by stitching together terabytes (soon to be petabytes) of high-resolution images of the universe. Massive amounts of...
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Worldwide Telescope Now Available!
via Virtual Earth,An Evangelist's Blog by veblog on May 13, 2008
... user's collections; explore the galaxies; search for stars; view some of the most beautiful images of space available online. And, you simply can't beat the user interface and experience. Tons of cool features you just have to explore and experience for yourself. If you don't know what Worldwide Telescope is, here's the excerpt from the web site:"The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) ...
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WorldWide Telescope: The Universe at Your Fingertips
via Microsoft Research News and Headlines by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
WorldWide Telescope, a public beta from Microsoft Research brings a seamless, immersive view of the entire known universe to your desktop.
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IOTD: Typhoon Rammasun
via MODIS Web Site by (author unknown) on May 13, 2008
The MODIS Web site Image of the Day for May 13, 2008
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New Rumsey Historical Maps and new ways to view them
via Google LatLong by elaine on May 12, 2008
Posted by David Rumsey, Founder, David Rumsey Map CollectionWith the recent addition of over 100 new historical maps, there are now 120 maps in the Rumsey Historical Map layer in Gallery layer in Google Earth, and these maps can now be seen in a new layer in Google Maps. The original 16 historical maps, launched in November of 2006, have been augmented by adding many more maps of cities,...
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