Explore, Search n Discover

New! Explore sky in Google Earth

Google Earth | Free

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

• Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in.
• Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
• Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, or look up to explore the sky
• Save and share your searches and favorites.
  

Since Google Earth was launched, users have been exploring our world and creating content overlays (KML files) to share their explorations with others. We're now highlighting user-created KML files each week in the new Google Earth Gallery. You can also choose to add the gallery's Google Gadget to your iGoogle page.

View a world full of 3D content Google Earth gives you a wealth of imagery, and geographic and astronomical information. Explore destinations like Maui, Paris and the Milky Way, or browse content from Wikipedia, National Geographic, the Hubble Telescope, and more. Learn More

KML Gallery View some of the most popular Google Earth content, published by many organizations and millions of users around the world. Open the files and browse them just like a document, but in a visually intuitive and interactive interface. Google Earth Gallery

Google Earth Plus | $20* Upgrade to Google Earth Plus to add GPS device support, faster performance, the ability to import spreadsheets, and higher resolution printing. Learn More | Buy

Google Earth Pro | $400* Need Google Earth for your organization? Google Earth Pro is the ultimate research, presentation, and collaboration tool for location-specific information. Learn More | Industry Uses | Buy | 7-day free trial

Google Earth Enterprise Solutions

Google Earth Enterprise Solutions are also available for on-site deployment of custom Google Earth databases within your enterprise. Learn more - Have a salesperson contact me

* subscription based annual fee

Google Earth Outreach

The Google Earth Outreach program supports everyone from passionate individuals to public benefit organizations who use Google Earth and KML to make the world a better place. Find out more and get started on the Google Earth Outreach website.

Flash Player

Experience Flash content and applications across desktops and devices

Strategic

• ActionScript 3.0
• New virtual machine
• New H.264/HE-AAC options
• Flash Player Cache
• Increased performance
• Enhanced security

Innovative

• Display API
• File upload/download
• Enhanced expressiveness
• External API
• Asynchronous communication model

Universal

• Consistent experiences
• Express Install
• Input Method Editor (IME) support
• Lightweight footprint
• Accessibility support

Strategic

ActionScript 3.0

ActionScript is the powerful object-oriented programming language of the Adobe® Flash® Player runtime environment. Based on ECMAScript, the international standardized programming language for scripting, ActionScript 3.0 further advances the language to offer developers a robust programming model for rich Internet applications (RIAs). Developers can achieve superb performance and ease of development to facilitate highly complex applications, large datasets, and object-oriented, reusable code bases. Executed within the new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2) in Flash Player 9, ActionScript 3.0 delivers breakthrough performance for the next generation of RIAs. To accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications, Adobe has contributed source code behind AVM2 to the Mozilla Foundation who hosts the open source project, called Tamarin.

ActionScript 3.0 is compliant with the ECMAScript Edition 3 (ECMA-262) standard.

• ECMAScript for XML (E4X) enables easy manipulation of XML documents using a familiar syntax.
• Regular Expressions save coding time for string search and manipulation procedures.
• DOM Level 3 Events help developers maintain better object-oriented code using the standard W3C event model.
• Namespaces and Packages improve code organization and encourage logical application structure.
• Enhanced debugging and profiling data reduce testing time and facilitate integrating Flash applications into automated testing environments.
• Improved error handling and exceptions enable the development of more secure, robust applications.

New virtual machine

Flash Player 9 includes a new, highly optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) known as AVM2. Built from the ground up to work with the next generation of ActionScript, the new virtual machine is designed to deliver the performance and features to support the needs of rich Internet application developers. AVM2 supports full runtime error reporting, built-in debugging, and binary socket support so developers can extend the player to work with any binary protocol. Flash Player 9 also contains AVM1, which executes legacy ActionScript for maintaining backward compatibility with existing content.

New H.264/HE-AAC options

Flash Player 9 includes H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec support that opens up a broad ecosystem and selection of standards-based video — up to HD quality — that developers can leverage in their applications. Supporting a subset of MPEG-4 Part 12 (container) and Part 14 (H.264), including baseline, main and high profiles, Flash Player can play back existing MP4, M4A, MOV, MP4V, 3GP and 3G2 content.

Flash Player Cache

The Flash Player cache enables common components, such as the Flex Framework, to be cached locally and then used by any SWF from any domain. Use of the Flash Player cache can significantly reduce SWF file sizes and speed application download times.

Increased performance

Flash Player 9 builds on improvements in Flash Player 8 to execute content and applications faster than ever before with a number of performance improvements:

• Experience up to ten times faster ActionScript 3.0 execution with the new virtual machine and optimized compiler.
• Increase content and application speeds through faster application startup times and a 50% reduction in memory footprint.
• Accelerate rendering performance through more efficient, cached vector graphics.
• Improve text readability and get faster, smoother scrolling of large text blocks with optimized text rendering routines.
• Speed the rendering of vectors, bitmaps, filters and video, including true 1080p video, with new multi-core support that takes advantage of up to 4 CPUs.
• Improve the performance and quality of full-screen video through the use of hardware scaling.
• Enhance the quality and rendering performance of downscaled images using a new algorithm for scaling bitmap images.

Enhanced security

Flash Player enforces security sandboxes for applications, content, data, and URLs to safeguard sensitive data and help ensure safe browsing for end users.

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Innovative

Display API

Flash Player 9 introduces powerful ActionScript 3.0 methods for manipulating raw graphics and creating custom effects. Create, manipulate, and remove objects from the display list on-the-fly.

File upload/download

Flash Player enables the creation of sophisticated client-server applications using file upload and download APIs.

Enhanced expressiveness

Flash Player 9 includes the expressiveness enhancements added in Flash Player 8 that enable developers and designers to create breakthrough experiences.

• Design immersive experiences for Flash video, content and applications with full-screen, hardware accelerated mode.
• Deliver low-bandwidth, high-quality video with advanced compression technology.
• Create high-fidelity text using the advanced text rendering engine.
• Add real-time dynamic effects with filters for Blur, DropShadow, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel, Displacement Map, Convolution, and Color Matrix.
• Create innovative media compositions with 8-bit video alpha channels.
• Expand your creative options with blend modes, radial gradient, and stroke enhancements.
• Dynamically import additional image formats: GIF, Progressive JPEG, and PNG.

External API

Flash Player supports integration with HTML, DHTML, and Ajax applications through the External API.

Asynchronous communication model

Flash Player is based on an asynchronous client-server communication model, enabling rapid client interactivity without web page refresh.

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Universal

Consistent experiences

Flash Player delivers consistent content and application experiences across a range of web browsers and platforms, including full-screen support with hardware scaling now on Linux.

Express Install

Flash Player enables a smooth, in-context upgrade experience using Express Install and improved Auto-Update functionality.

Input Method Editor (IME) support

Flash Player supports expanded integration with Input Method Editors (IMEs) for Asian-language Flash applications.

Lightweight footprint

Flash Player boasts a lightweight footprint of 1MB, enabling the adoption rate of new versions to consistently reach over 600 million Internet users within 12 months of release.

Accessibility support

Flash Player provides support for accessibility through support for Microsoft’s Active Accessibility (MSAA) API and by enabling developers to provide support for keyboard users, deaf and hard of hearing users, and users with other disabilities.

Adobe Reader

Free Adobe® Reader® 8 software can help you more securely communicate and collaborate. Reader 8 includes a new interface, new tools, more document viewing options, online meeting capabilities, support for more secure workflows, and a host of other new features to help you save time and money.

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Leverage a simplified user interface

View information more precisely and efficiently with the redesigned, easier to use Reader 8 interface. Choose the reading mode to fit more content on the screen or the two-up mode to view page spreads without excess space in the middle. Zoom in, pan over, or leverage the loupe feature in Reader 8 to take a closer look.

Hold online meetings

Instantly collaborate with virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time. Use the Start Meeting button in Reader 8 to access Adobe Acrobat® Connect™ software and deliver online training and support or communicate with remote audiences in real time. Accelerate approvals with new Reader 8 features that include shared document reviews, a streamlined review tracker, and a simple RSS reader.

Realize more secure document workflows

Better protect documents, forms, and drawings by leveraging Adobe LiveCycle® Policy Server and the new Adobe Online Services Document Center. For the first time, use Reader 8 to digitally sign Adobe PDF documents, allowing recipients to more confidently view and verify the authenticity of PDF files. Learn more.

Save trees and time

For large volumes of information, such as technical manuals, use Reader 8 to condense any type of PDF file into a single booklet for printing. Print only the desired pages on two sides of paper or in a smaller type size to save time and natural resources.

Access learning resources

Immediately access help and product information. Use the new Beyond Adobe Reader start center in Reader 8 to review information, on demand, about how to use Adobe Reader more effectively. Also view regularly updated information about other Adobe products and services.

Search single or multiple PDF files

Find and retrieve any PDF document or a phrase in a document within a matter of seconds. Search for words in page content, annotations, bookmarks, form fields, or document metadata within any PDF file on a local machine.

Complete forms online as well as offline

Enable customers to confidently act on information: filling, saving, and electronically submitting forms. You can also verify document authenticity and reliability when this capability is enabled by the document author in Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional or Adobe LiveCycle software.

Enjoy support for 3D graphics

Accelerate design reviews. View and rotate 3D images within Reader 8.

Additional features for IT managers, architects, and developers

Deploy Adobe Reader using industry-standard tools

Quickly manage and control Reader 8 deployments using the Adobe Customization Wizard 8, IBM Tivoli, Microsoft Systems Management Server, Windows Group Policy Objects, or Active Directory. Centrally host Reader 8 using Citrix Metaframe Presentation Server or Microsoft Windows Terminal Server.

Support extended teams across operating systems

Deliver a reliable experience across operating systems. Reader 8 is supported on Microsoft® Windows® Vista; Windows XP Professional, Home Edition, or Tablet PC Edition with Service Pack 2; Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows 2003 Server; Mac OS X 10.4.3 to 10.4.9. Future versions of Reader 8 will also work on Linux, Solaris™ 10, HP-UX and AIX.

Work with 2D GPU acceleration

Work faster with Reader 8 using the most popular graphics processing units (GPUs), which enhance scrolling and zooming for the rendering of 2D graphics.

Automate digital certificate administration

Reader 8 automatically validates certificates through its Certified Document Service to reduce IT time and costs.

Leverage existing security infrastructure

Enable fine-grained control of signature authority using the Reader 8 Roaming ID web service. Leverage your existing identity management infrastructure with Reader 8 and Adobe LiveCycle Pluggable Authentication.

Enjoy support for security standards

Reader 8 supports leading security standards, including SOAP/WSDL, XSD, Kerberos, W3C XML digital signatures, 128 bit AES, OASIS WS-Security, HTTP/HTTPS, RSA, XML encryption, and ECMAScript for XML (E4X) in the JavaScript interpreter. Reader 8 is also NIST PKI test-suite compliant.

Develop new capabilities

Extend the functionality of Adobe Reader using the Acrobat 8 SDK, now available free of charge from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/reader/.

Use improved accessibility features

Reader 8 helps meet the accessibility requirements mandated by Section 508 of the amended U.S. Rehabilitation Act. Try the improved read out loud capabilities in Reader 8 or change the reading order of pages or columns after PDF files are tagged to accommodate preferences.

Support international standards

Reader 8 adds support for PDF/A, the ISO-approved standard for the long-term preservation of electronic documents. Adobe Reader already supports PDF/X (printing), PDF/H, PDF/E (engineering), XMP/RDF, and ODBC.

Free Download Manager

What is Free Download Manager? It is a powerful, easy-to-use and absolutely free download accelerator and manager. Moreover, FDM is 100% safe, open-source software distributed under GPL license.
Increase your download speed and resume broken downloads FDM accelerates downloads by splitting files into sections and then downloading them simultaneously. As a result download speed increases up to 600%, or even more! FDM can also resume broken downloads so you needn`t start downloading from the beginning after casual interruption.	HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent support FDM lets you download files and whole web sites from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS and FTP. You can also download files using BitTorrent protocol.
Flash video download Download video from video sites, such as Youtube, Google Video, etc. The video can then be saved in native .flv format or converted to one of more popular video formats.	GNU General Public License Free download manager is now open source software released under GNU GPL.
Enjoy easy file sharing A built-in Upload Manager lets you upload your files easily to share them with other people. Upload manager can be easily integrated with your system (Windows Explorer, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express).	Enjoy safer and more rewarding downloading You can read what other community members say about the file you are going to download, and also leave your own opinion about the file you downloaded. In this way FDM users are always warned against useless or malicious files.
More In addition, Free Download Manager allows you to: adjust traffic usage; to organize and schedule downloads; download video from video sites; download whole web sites with HTML Spider; operate the program remotely, via the internet, and more! For full features list, see the features section.

THREAT FIRE

"ThreatFire 3's ability to block installation of malware strictly by identifying bad behavior is phenomenal. It did a better (and faster) job than Norton AntiBot and even beat out Spy Sweeper, our current Editors' Choice for signature-based anti-spyware. This free tool is an excellent addition to your security arsenal." - www.pcmag.com, October 2, 2007*

Traditional antivirus protection fails you when you need it most - That's when you need ThreatFire

Consumers spend over a billion dollars a year on security software to keep their PCs safe. Every month they spend countless hours configuring and updating their software. And yet every week millions of users are infected by new threats that their traditional antivirus does not stop.

Why? Traditional antivirus solutions cannot protect you until after they've discovered a new threat and produced a signature to counter it.

ThreatFire is different. It does not rely on signatures, but instead constantly analyzes your computer's behavior to detect and block any malicious activity. ThreatFire protects immediately so you know your PC and your valuable data is always secure.

ThreatFire Highlights

Persistent zero-day threat protection made easy for everyone - even novice users!	Perpetually ready for the next malware outbreak, with no signature updates required.	Runs in background without impacting system performance.
NEW! ThreatFire now includes advanced protection features including malware quarantine and removal, rootkit scanner and custom rules settings in both the Free and Pro versions.	Patent-pending ActiveDefense technology intelligently scans and analyzes computer processes to detect and block any malicious activity - without false positives!	Highest level of out-of-the-box accuracy. No need to configure baffling, technical security settings: just turn ThreatFire on and start blocking malware.
Protects against both known and zero-day viruses, worms, trojans, buffer overflows, rootkits and even some spyware.	Works alongside your current security programs - there is no need to uninstall your antivirus, anti-spyware, firewall or other security program before installing ThreatFire.	NEW! ThreatFire Pro includes PC Tools AntiVirus's on-demand AV scanner, giving you added peace of mind so you can quickly and easily scan your PC for known threats.

Protection Coverage

Traditional Security Product Solo vs. Tranditional Product with ThreatFire

*Results produced by testing over 1300 malware threats collected from the ThreatFire Security Community and secured from other 3rd party sources. Competitor products tested were Trend Micro Internet Security 2007, Webroot Spy Sweeper with Antivirus v. 5, CA Internet Security 2007, Norton Internet Security 2007, and McAfee Internet Security 2007, all with the latest available updates as of the date of test.