Jan 21st, 2013 at 10:00AM: Parenting is a tough job. It's even tougher if you have to travel a lot for work. Being away form home doesn't mean that you have to be away from your child's life, however. Here are eight tips on how to keep connected to the rugrats while you're on the road.
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Parenting On The Road: How To Connect With Your Kids When You're Traveling
Jan 21st, 2013 at 10:00AM: Parenting is a tough job. It's even tougher if you have to travel a lot for work. Being away form home doesn't mean that you have to be away from your child's life, however. Here are eight tips on how to keep connected to the rugrats while you're on the road.
Skype. The greatest aid for the wandering parent ever invented. Why miss story time when you can pack a few of their favorite books and ...New stretch of Great Wall of China found using Google Earth
Mar 3rd, 2012 at 1:00PM:
A British researcher scanning through images from Google Earth has discovered a new section of the Great Wall of China.
Surprisingly, this part of the famous wall isn't in China, but rather Mongolia. The Great Wall is actually comprised of several walls built in various centuries by several different rulers starting in the fifth century B.C., or perhaps earlier.
When Great Wall expert ...Track Santa's progress tonight courtesy of Google and NORAD
Dec 24th, 2010 at 9:30AM: Once again this year, Google and NORAD (North American Aerospace Defense Command) have teamed up to help eager girls and boys the world over track Santa's progress throughout the day. What is new this year is that you'll also be able to follow jolly St. Nick using Google Maps and Google Earth, as well as your mobile phone.
As you read this, Santa has already set off on his appointed rounds and ...Ayn Rand fanatic travels to send GPS message
Aug 16th, 2010 at 2:30PM:
In today's politically polarized climate, die-hards will do anything to get a leg up in the battle for communication. Larger crowds are sought, along with bigger signs, louder voices and greater media play. The days of slapping bumper stickers on random cars are giving way to more sophisticated stunts, and Nick Newcomen just set the bar higher with an unusual road trip.
Newcomen put 12,328 ...Track Santa's Ride Tonight!
Dec 24th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Tonight's the night that every kid, big or small, has been waiting for since this time last year. It's the night that Santa takes to the skies and delivers toys to the world, and this being the 21st Century, it is now easier than ever to track the jolly man in the red suit. A host of high tech gadgets will be employed to make sure you know exactly when he'll be paying a visit to your neighborhood. ...Corn mazes, garden mazes and more via Google Earth
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Once a person has seen a video of Sarah Palin's face in a corn maze, it's hard to imagine what might top it. This Google Earth video "Amazed" has a response. These mazes aren't all corn related, however. Some, like the Hampton Court Maze in London, are hedge ...
Inspired by Google Earth - teenager paints 60ft penis on his roof
Mar 25th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Easily offended readers move along - this story involves juvenile humor and a massive painting of a penis. When 18 year old Roy McInnes watched a TV show about Google Earth, he decided to play a little prank on the photo snapping satellites. See, these camera satellites pass overhead, and take shots of your area. They don't care what they see, unless it is something deemed classified, in which ...
GeoEye-1 satellite takes its first photos for Google
Oct 11th, 2008 at 11:00AM: The photo you see above, is the first shot taken by the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The image is of the university campus in Kutztown, PA. The reason this is so interesting? GeoEye has sold all the rights of their commercial images taken on this new satellite, to Google. Google laid down some serious cash to get sole access to these images, and I'm sure we'll be seeing the results of this contract ...Create high resolution maps of all your trips with Flightmap
Jul 19th, 2008 at 11:30AM: It's raining outside, so this morning was the perfect opportunity to sit down, browse through all my boarding pass stubs and enter them in a new application I'm testing. Flightmap is a flight logging program that keeps track of every flight you have taken. You can log the flight number, aircraft type, airline and geeky things like the aircraft registration number and your seat number. Frequent ...Why pay to travel when you have Google Earth?
Jan 20th, 2008 at 3:00PM: A quirky media dust-up this week brought a lot of attention to one mom 'n pop website: Google Sightseeing. Their motto is "why bother seeing the world for real?". What they've done is managed to collect a huge database of sights that you can actually see from Google Earth. But one sight you won't be seeing (or at least in anything more than a super blurry blob) is the world's largest palm tree, ...Google and YouTube Take Video Watching to Different Level
Oct 14th, 2007 at 7:01AM: Since online monopolizing giant Google bought YouTube last year, it's not surprising to see them incorporate YouTube into their Google Earth program. I'm yet undecided as to my privacy concerns when it comes to Google Earth, since I love zooming and peering into friend's homes, hotel rooms, offices and other random spots -- (yeah, and you don't? -- admit it!). I think the ability to be able to ...Google now Tracks Flights
Oct 8th, 2007 at 7:00PM: In this week's creepy chapter of Big Brother Watching You, Google has just started supporting searches for airplanes. Not carriers websites or airplane photos, airplanes currently up in the sky. I suppose the technology has been around for a while; flightaware has semi-accurate flight routes if you ever want to see how you got from point A to B. It's just that Google has now made checking the ...Swastika Navy Building via Google Earth
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Oct 1st, 2007 at 7:45AM: Google Earth has changed the way we go about observing our world.
Occasionally the satellite photos reveal some very cool new areas to explore. Other times they reveal oddities not visible from the ground.
This was the recent case with the Naval Base Coronado near San Diego, California. The building, constructed in 1967, happens to be in the exact shape of a swastika. Navy officials admitted to ...Google Earth Arrives in Russia: Detailed Satellite Imagery of Secret Soviet Cities now Available
Jul 7th, 2007 at 7:34AM: In their most paranoid state, the Soviets outlawed detailed maps of their country during the Cold War. As if this wasn't bad enough, the maps that they did produce for Soviet citizens were purposely wrong--entire cities were often left off the map or strategically relocated in the interests of national security.
The Cold War has been over for a long time now and the Soviet Union no longer ...Listen to the World with Google Earth
May 10th, 2007 at 5:45PM: Following the Where 2.0 conference (bringing together "the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry") on May 29th, an enhancement to Google Earth will be available for download which enables binary sound files to be linked to geo-coordinates within the program. This means that along with all of the other cool features ...Trackstick II & Google Earth: Plot Your Travels Precisely, Follow Your Ex Surreptitiously
May 10th, 2007 at 3:15PM: Designed specifically for integration with Google Earth, Trackstick II is a GPS device that lets you "keep a satellite scrapbook of all your travels and record your explorations." With Trackstick II, anglers can mark bountiful catch-spots. Campers can remember how to reach hidden gems. Globe-trekkers can let friends and family follow them as they wander through, for example, Amsterdam's Red Light ...Planning a Trip Using Google Books
Mar 14th, 2007 at 12:22PM: Google Book Search has begun to animate the information found in books by organizing the locations mentioned in them on Google Maps. Complemented by snippets of text from the book, Book Search links to the actual pages where the locations are mentioned. For example, in David Foster Wallace's excellent Girl With Curious Hair you can see that he seems to have fondness for the South and the East ...Faster Maps Through Technology
Jan 17th, 2007 at 8:03PM: The great duo of Lewis and Clark trekked across unexplored territory without the aid of GPS, satellite radio, and No Doz. Suckers, indeed! Thankfully, it's the 21st century, and your roadtrips can be just as productive with less effort. These days, the savvy traveler doesn't need to track his movements across these great United States in a leather-bound journal. All one needs is a GPS receiver ...
