Google Earth and Google Maps

Google Earth is available on your desktop. Google Earth displays satellite images of the Earth's surface on a virtual globe. Google Maps is a website where you can just access and hover online maps. They both show Satellite images and maps, but there is a difference in how you use them and all the different tools. The basic use of Google Maps is to show map and directions to your destination. Google Earth gives better way to navigate and view earth in 3D. In Google Earth there are alot of tools that can help you to develop geometric features, take measurements, apply overlays, control on layers and make virtual tour on your area of interests.

 Google Earth

Google Maps

Google Earth Tour

Feedly and Digg Reader

Feedly does have an interface which you can import all your feed content directly from Google Reader itself.
With its  iOS and Android apps, Feedly attracted the readers who were desperately looking for a platform to place their feeds. Feedly has a number of color themes; various viewing options like Titles, Magazine, Cards, etc.; other options like Twitter and Facebook newsfeed; a finance module with which you can get live stock quotes on selected shares; a way to save the stories to read later; and absolutely easy to use interface.

After Digg lost, it has been struggling quite a bit to get back into the game. Now, it is trying desperately to get some more users with the help of its new Reader application. This reader also lets you import your feeds from Google Reader.

In comparison to Feedly’s reader, this is how Digg interface looks. It does not have many customization options or viewing options. While Feedly does include the favicons of the particular website being added, Digg Reader simply shows that old, RSS icons for most of the feeds.

The reader allows you to connect to your Facebook and Twitter accounts as well. Digg also has a read later feature like Feedly and it works with Pocket, Readability, or Instapaper to bring this feature.

Comparison of Online Music Players: Spotify, Grooveshark, Slacker Radio, and Pandora

www.spotify.com

Spotify is really cool. There are no limited number of skips like with other music players. With Spotify you actually pick each song out not like say Iheart radio or others where it tries to play songs it thinks is similar. For free you can listen on your computer to millions of songs but there are ads. There are two ways to listen for free on the web player or you can download their desktop player. A unlimited account for $4.99 a month you get no ads. A premium account for $9.99 a month you get to listen to music on all your devices like your Iphone with the Spotify app. With a Premium account you can also download music and listen offline with no ads.

Take your music everywhere.

With Spotify you can follow you Facebook friends and see what they are listening to.

 You can also follow bands and listen to any of there songs or CD's. Also it gives you updates on the band.

 Spotify also has a page for apps.

 Has radio stations based on albums and your songs or you can create a new station.

 
www.grooveshark.com
Grooveshark is OK I guess. I like how you can just drag and drop music to the bottom bar to add it to your playlists.

If you are a singer you can upload your songs to Grooveshark to share with everyone.

For free you can listen on Grooveshark.com or on your mobile browser. 
For $9 dollars a month you can get everything. What sucks is the desktop app is not free you have to have one of the other accounts that you have to pay for.

 With a premium account you can even pick a theme.

Also with Grooveshark you can make a live broadcast and everyone that goes to it can listen live.  How cool is that its like having your own real live radio station. You can also chat with listeners and record you voice and you can play it between songs.

www.slacker.com
I like the way Slacker looks.

 Shows all kinds of genres and pictures with them.

 First thing when signing up they are already trying to get you to pay.

Here is the accounts you can get.

Like I said before I really like how this website looks. It even has Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ integration. Slacker also provides information on the artist and their music.

pandora.com
I made a radio station for the Christian band Big Daddy Weave and it was playing other songs by different people.

 I really enjoy how they show the lyrics for the song your listening to.
The other account option is Pandora One. It cost $36 per year wow.

To Download the desktop app you have to have a stupid Pandora One account.

10 IT Related Halloween Costumes

Here are 10 awesome Halloween Costumes I found that are IT related:

Those are really working Iphone costumes those two guys made. They are really just screens and there Iphones are at the top plugged in to them so whatever they do on there Iphones it shows on the screen.

These awesome costumes you can buy from: 

http://www.morphsuits.com

go to that website and click Digitaldudz to check them out. The first two are just a rubber slot you put your phone in and use the Morphsuit app on your phone and put the rubber piece with your phone under your shirt. The next two are actual Morphsuits. Morphsuits are whole body suits that zip from half way up your back to the top of your head. The material is see through. You can see out but no one can see in and you can easily breath through it. The come in all kinds in ways. You can get just plain colors or they have ones with patterns and one like above and a whole lot more. My brother Hunter has a plain blue one and my dad and I have plain black ones.

 A cool rocket costume.

Turned baby's stroller thing into a Back to the Future car.

 Light up suit.

 This guy in the picture made a real working camera costume.

Mark Pearson's Iron Man armor is actually made from 400 sheets of recyclable cardboard covered in fiberglass.

Here is one of the articles about it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139505/Iron-Man-Mark-Pearson-builds-amazing-replica-suit-fibre-glass-cardboard.html 

Google+, Myspace, Facebook

On Google+ your news stream is very customizable. There are two different layouts to choose from. You can filter posts according to your circles. It’s easy to see how many people already +1 ed it or shared it. Also there are little avatars on each of the post that let you have a glimpse of who the person is.

Google+ hangouts you can live video call with up to 10 friends or simply search for a contact to start a voice call from your computer.

On Facebook there are no different layouts to choose from. Also Facebook ads are very prominent in your new feed. They take up almost a third of your screen.

                                        

Chat bar on side shows who is online.

                                                  

Facebook also has lots of games to play.

Myspace has change a lot. I use to have an account along time ago before Facebook started. With Myspace you can connect with famous singers and more. The new Myspace is more music related website the Google+ or Facebook.

Here is the new Myspace.

You can chose a cover photo that takes up the whole background that's cool. Also what is weird is you scroll to the side instead of up and down like you do on every other website.

Also you can choice a profile song.

No matter what page you on if you want to search something just start typing and it takes you here as your typing.