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Yet another video tutorial created by yours truly. In case you are wondering, yes, that is my voice Please pass along any comments that you have:

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Want to have your own video content featured on our new You Tube channel? Here are the details, as posted on the Google Earth Help groups:
“We’ve seen some of your videos on YouTube that are educational or just plain cool uses of Google Earth and think they’re great!
In honor of that, we’re going [...]

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Yet another new video tutorial. Please post any feedback you have:
 

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From a fellow Googler: you can hide the text description of a placemark in the Places pane in Google Earth by using the <Snippet> element of KML. Read more in the KML documentation.
This <Snippet> element allows you to control how many lines of the text in a placemark description box is displayed in [...]

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Here is our latest video tutorial. Please post any feedback you have:
 

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Somehow I managed to let the first anniversary of this blog pass by without some kind of acknowledgment. But to make up for this, here is a re-run post from October of last year.
This tip is one that always fascinates users who have not heard of this functionality:
Perhaps the most overlooked method of [...]

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In case you have not noticed, Google Earth offers a new Weather layer that allows you to see cloud formations, radar depiction of precipitation, current conditions and even forecasts. To view all this, in the Layers panel, check Weather.
If you turn on the Clouds sub folder, navigate to ground level and tilt up, [...]

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You can remove the history/autofill of your search terms at anytime by clicking Edit > Clear Search History.
Once you have searched for a place or business, you can edit your search results. This is handy if you want to save or edit search results for another purpose. For example, if you wanted to [...]

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With help with my fellow Googlers, I’ve created the following video tutorial. Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions:
 

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One of the most fulfilling things about working on a widely-used product is seeing what users do with it. A colleague of mine created this amazing account of his multi-night hiking adventure in the Sierra Nevada. He used a number of tools to document this trip, including Google Earth, topographic software, a digital [...]

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