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Free, open-source application Vistumbler scans wireless networks within range of your Wi-Fi antenna, tracks signal strength over time, and handles pretty much everything else that other apps of this kind do.

What sets Vistumbler apart from the rest is its support for GPS and live Google Earth tracking, which plots hotspots on a map. The whole thing is really cool. Still, Vistumbler is an excellent tool even without without the GPS to Google Earth mapping.

Vistumbler is free download, Windows Vista only.

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Someone has spotted what looks like some hookers on a street corner in Berkley, CA.

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Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. The new Google Earth 4.3 promises photo-realistic buildings from cities around the world, dawn to dusk views with the Sunlight feature and swoop navigation from outer space to street-level.

You can now enjoy the photo-textured cities and towns, and thousands of user-contributed buildings around the world with greatly improve performance and realism of 3D data. The amazing as well as controversial Street View, a well-known Google Maps feature is now part of Google Earth with version 4.3 and will let you easily find, discover, and plan activities relevant to a location.

Understand more about Street Views in this video

Play with the Sunlight feature and control the sun’s location relative to the Earth. While zoomed into a given city, you can watch the sunrise and sunset! This video explores the amazing new features of Google Earth 4.3.

A police patrol car arrests a man in Tampa, Florida and that scene is caught on tape live by Google Maps camera.

The cause of the arrest is unknown, but seated behind the patrol car are two white sacks which clearly weren’t there when the police officers arrived!

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