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Google Earth – Getting Better Day By Day

Using Google’s popular navigational tool, Google Earth, it’s possible to explore the far corners of the earth while relaxing in the comfort of your home. You can explore both familiar and exotic locales, zoom in from space to a street view of your or any other town, and make detailed plans for travelling – including hotels and restaurants! Now, with the newly released Google 5.0, Google Inc has expanded its horizons – and yours as well. The abundant new, fun features include Google Ocean View, Historic Map Imagery, and even the capability for conducting guided tours of the planet.

Google Earth 5.0
Google Earth

Oceans cover most of the earth. These large areas have remain unseen and largely unmapped for centuries. Google Ocean View is changing all that! What more fun way to spend an afternoon than to explore remote depths at incredible speed? Some shipwrecks are even reproduced in 3D, just like the 3D buildings on land.

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Gmail Keeper Backs Up Your Gmail Locally

All companies, even the largest, are at risk of outages, and access to the Internet is never guaranteed. For those who store vital data using the cloud system instead of locally, this is always a potential problem. Gmail is the most popular mail system, but anyone using it for vital data flow can be concerned about outages and connection failures. Gmail Keeper offers peace of mind by regularly downloading your mail from Gmail, and storing it locally in compressed files.

Gmail Keeper
Gmail Keeper

Gmail Keeper is not an email client; it just downloads Gmail per your instructions. Mail downloads can be filtered in a number of ways, including by label, mailbox, date or time periods. You can use a number of different profiles in order to back up multiple Gmail accounts, or do a monthly ‘major backup’ and a daily ‘vital backup’.

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How To Enable Or Disable Core Features In Windows 7?

With the new version of Windows 7 which is a Microsoft product, it is now possible to disable core features which can be Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player. You can easily access these features in the options named “Turn Windows Features On or off”. You can get this option in the control panel. For enabling or disabling the Windows features it is necessary that you bring up the “Windows Features” window on the screen. For doing this you must follow the steps given below:

  1. Switch to the control panel of the computer. For this click on the Start button and choose the control panel from the rightmost column.
  2. On the screen you will see several options in the control panel. Click on the heading named programs located at the bottom of the left column.

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Use Free Open Source CAD Software For your Designing Work

CAD Design software are most widely used software when we talk about creating model diagrams, whether it’s  2D or 3D diagram. It has been utilized by a wide variety of professionals. Interior designer, Home architects, Chip designers, Hardware engineer , mechanical engineer, Fashion designer and many other Engineering professional and art specialist use CAD software.

Paid software like Adobe Illustrator and AutoCAD licenses cost up to thousands of US dollar and if you are working with a team of designer it will multiply by number of professionals you have in team. Bearing this cost by startups or small business is not possible and if you are freelancer then it is next to impossible. Then what is the solution for a freelancer or individual who have the capability but not the design software. Answer to this problem is Open Source application.

There are number of Open Source Software’s available for CAD and most of them free for commercial usage as well. Just search the Internet and you will find list of endless software, you can choose best one based on your need and what kind of design you want to prepare, its 2D or 3D etc..

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