Google Earth thread!

Public Warning...

Steer well clear of Google Earth 6 (beta) for the time being

I've been trying it for a couple of days now, and recommend switching most of the annoying doo-dads off straight away. The "3D" Streetview facility is good, the tilt-and-pan not so.
Sadly, it's not solved the recent problem of the images not fully loading though, even if the blue circle in the corner says otherwise.

PB

Its really very jerky on my system when 'flying' to placemarks, also first time I fired it up it used over 800mb RAM

The worrying thing is I'm using a Core 2 Duo E7500 with 4gb RAM !!

I shall persevere....

Thanks, haven't tried it so I shall give it a miss for now until the bugs are sorted out.

I still find version 5.2.1 not easy to use. There are not enough labels which makes finding villages etc quite difficult. All too often I click on something and find myself in another mode or view - and it's impossible to get back. Once a week or so I visit 'Documents and Settings' and empty the half-a-gig or so of junk it's deposited in there.

Much of the stuff on my PC has come from OldVersions.com or similar sites who declare, 'Often newer versions are more complicated to use and we understand that it is hard to find older, more user-friendly versions of popular software'.

I've just dumped for ever AVG Free as its latest (essential) upgrade to V11 added 350 Meg to my 'C' drive, even though I installed it to the 'E' partition. (Replacing it with Avast saved me almost half a gig of disc space). And my PC is noticeably faster in operation.

Graham

My Avast is in pirate mode on 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' it changed all the messages and verbal announcements into pirate lingo.

buccaneer66;61841 wrote:

My Avast is in pirate mode on 'Talk Like a Pirate Day' it changed all the messages and verbal announcements into pirate lingo.

Absolutely brilliant - just downloaded it. Far far better than the default sounds.

Thanks, made my day - Graham

Any idea what this is at Calvert a few miles north of Westcott (51.44.47 1.00.07) in 1945.?

LatLong (51.54.47 1.00.07)

Graham