Maybe you'd like to see famous monuments or buildings such as the Eiffel Tower or the White House. There are even some fun secrets for you to discover, so get exploring.Īre you trying to locate your house? With a quick search, you'll have a birds or pedestrian's eye view. Google Earth is the world's most detailed globe, giving you a full on view of earth from millions of pictures taken.ĭive down into street view to get a look at the surroundings as if you were there in person. Travel around the world in 80 seconds without even leaving your seat. I know this isn’t particularly new, but seeing some news this morning about potentially more Google Apps coming to the Linux Desktop I thought I’d throw this together.Dive down into street view to get a look at the surroundings as if you were there in person. How to install Google Apps on your Ubuntu Desktop.Ĭurrently the list of applications within the Google repository is Google Desktop and Picasa. We could be seeing some more soon, but we’ll have to wait and see on more details. You’ll want to add the following to your sources.list. This can be done graphically via the System > Admin > Software Sources menu, or via manually editing your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Once you’ve got that you’ll also need Googles package signing key. Try this command to pull down the key file and then we’ll import it to the apt system: This can also be done via the GUI or the command line. If you still have the Software Sources window open switch tabs to Authentication and click Import Key File… Look for the file you just pulled down (probably in your home folder) and click OK. Sudo aptitude install google-desktop-linux picasa We’re now ready to install the Google Desktop or Picasa tool.
You can also install these via your favorite package manager front-end like Synaptic or Adept if you prefer. I should mention that just because these are available for Linux does not mean they are now Free Software or Open Source. They are to be considered non-free so the choice is yours.
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