Go under sea with Google Earth 5.0

Posted by Laxman Kudva in

With the latest release of Google Earth, yes the version number has also changed to 5.0, there are a lot of changes and additions which adds more value and quality to the already superb globe browsing experience Google Earth provides and the most important addition is the ability to go undersea.

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Yes the ocean can now be explored with tons of informational media and in 3D as well. From the official Google blog

We were joined at the Academy by many of the dozens of ocean scientists and advocates who helped make this project a reality: friends from National Geographic, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, the US Navy, Scripps Oceanography, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, to name just a few.

Edit: Update (Found the video from LifeHacker)

Download Google earth from http://earth.google.com which will download Google updater and will update your earth installation to latest one or if you have problem installing through Google updater try downloading Earth installer from http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthWin.exe and update through it.

[FireFox] Save images from all opened tabs at once

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Save images is a firefox add-on which allows you to save all the images in the opened tabs of your firefox browser at once with the help of few clicks.

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Simply install this add-on and a new sub menu “Save Images” will appear in the tools menu and the right click menu of firefox, from there you are given quite a few options to save opened images accordingly. You can

  1. Save all images from current tab
  2. Save images from the left side or right side tabs of the current tab
  3. Save images from all the opened tabs
  4. Open all image links or regular links in a single tab or separate tabs. This is particularly handy when say you are browsing a site with the links of images or link of sub pages where there are more images of your favorite celebrity or porn star and you want to save all photos to your hard drive. Just open all the image and sub pages links in a tab and use “Save images” to save all.
  5. Set size limit of the images to prevent downloading of unwanted images.
  6. And more
Download “Save Images”

Minimize Firefox Window to Tray using Add-on! [Firefox Tip]

Posted by Laxman Kudva in

Many a times, I thought how wonderful it would be if there was an option in Firefox to minimize the window to tray icon as in some other applications like Gtalk, Yahoo Messenger, etc. But I forgot it then, thinking it may not be possible to do so.

But I was really happy to know that there is an add-on for tweaking firefox this way. :-) MinimizeToTray add-on for Firefox 3 is an add-on which would help you minimize your browser window to the tray icon. Not only Firefox, it will also help you to do this for Mozilla thunder bird as well.

But it is an experimental plugin and is kept under observation, so you need to have an account in Mozilla before you can install it.

Links: Firefox | MinimizeToTray add-on