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Google Earth's next step towards reality

Google Earth integrated  Street View  ,  3D trees  and Historic Imagery  in its latest 6th version. In this new version you can explore the streets in 3D. Fly from space to the streets with the Street View. And you can switch to Ground level to see the same location in 3D.  You can see the 3D trees all over the world. And it is easy to know when historical imagery is available in the location you are viewing. Watch more videos Of Google Earth 6 here .  If  you want to get Street View, Just pick up Peg man (docked along side the navigation controls) and drop him on blue roads he will take you to the road. Once you are on road use navigation buttons or your mouse to go around. To experience 3D trees turn on 3D buildings layer on the left side panel, and click Zoom slider which will take you to the ground level navigation there you can walk under the trees. Historic imagery is already in fifth version but in the new version it is expanded to all places and will notify you when Hist

20 things about the Browser and the Web

Chrome team released another book '20 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT THE BROWSER & THE WEB' .  After first   comic book   this new handy book can give you answeres for questions like    “What are plug-ins?,” “What is HTML5?,” or even “Why is it ok for a truck to crush my laptop?,”. You can read this book  at   www.20thingsilearned.com  in Chrome or in any HTML5 compatible browser. You can also read the book offline once the site completely loaded.

Now see the previews for Google search results

Now you will be able to see the preview of the Google search results as Google search is enhanced by  Instant Previews. Just click on the magnifying glass icon next to the each search result and it will show you the snapshot of the site for the quick view of results. You can use your down and right arrows for navigate and to see the preview of the site. Try it yourself  here ( because it was not available to all locations for now, will be available soon to all )or watch the below video.