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• Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
• Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels.
• Get driving directions. Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
• Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your own annotations.

Minimum configuration:

• Operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP
• CPU speed: Intel® Pentium® PIII 500 MHz
• System memory (RAM): 128MB
• 200MB hard-disk space
• 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM
• 1024×768, 32-bit true color screen
• Network speed: 128 kbps (”Broadband/Cable Internet”)

What’s new in Google Earth:

• overview window no longer fuzzy, will fetch as needed
• several rare crashes, mostly with bad graphics drivers
• direct URL links to KMZ files in description balloon now work (KML already did)
• custom icons no longer require the size be input, it defaults to the extents of the image
• IMG SRC local image files were not being zipped into kmz (0464 regression, now fixed)
• balloon now resizes to match image width
• hyperlinks in were misleading and have been disabled
• obscure bug in Intel jpg library failed on some AMD processors, updated library fixes problem (this showed up as “zebra-like stripes”)
• Installing Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer has been added as an option at the end of the Google Earth install or upgrade. You’ll only be asked once and only if IE is your default browser and you don’t already have Toolbar installed.