FSX. More previews of Diamond Point, the next Orbx scenery for NA BLUE Pacific Northwest.
Seasonal vegetation is directly controlled by Orbx ObjectFlow module. The scenery is probably to be released in a few days.
More screens on Diamond Point.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Diamond Point in winter
Seasonal vegetation is directly controlled by Orbx ObjectFlow module. The scenery is probably to be released in a few days.
Beyond PageRank: Graduating to actionable metrics
Webmaster level: Beginner
Like any curious netizen, I have a Google Alert set up to email me whenever my name is mentioned online. Usually I get a slow trickle of my forum posts, blog posts, and tweets. But by far the most popular topic of these alerts over the past couple years has been my off-handed mention that we removed PageRank distribution data from Webmaster Tools in one of our 2009 releases.
The fact that people are still writing about this almost two years later—usually in the context of “Startling news from Susan Moskwa: ...”—really drives home how much PageRank has become a go-to statistic for some webmasters. Even the most inexperienced site owners I talk with have often heard about, and want to know more about, PageRank (“PR”) and what it means for their site. However, as I said in my fateful forum post, the Webmaster Central team has been telling webmasters for years that they shouldn't focus so much on PageRank as a metric for representing the success of one’s website. Today I’d like to explain this position in more detail and give you some relevant, actionable options to fill your time once you stop tracking your PR!
Why PageRank?
In 2008 Udi Manber, VP of engineering at Google, wrote on the Official Google Blog:
If you look at Google’s Technology Overview, you’ll notice that it calls out relevance as one of the top ingredients in our search results. So why hasn’t as much ink been spilled over relevance as has been over PageRank? I believe it’s because PageRank comes in a number, and relevance doesn’t. Both relevance and PageRank include a lot of complex factors—context, searcher intent, popularity, reliability—but it’s easy to graph your PageRank over time and present it to your CEO in five minutes; not so with relevance. I believe the succinctness of PageRank is why it’s become such a go-to metric for webmasters over the years; but just because something is easy to track doesn’t mean it accurately represents what’s going on on your website.
What do we really want?
I posit that none of us truly care about PageRank as an end goal. PageRank is just a stand-in for what we really want: for our websites to make more money, attract more readers, generate more leads, more newsletter sign-ups, etc. The focus on PageRank as a success metric only works if you assume that a higher PageRank results in better ranking, then assume that that will drive more traffic to your site, then assume that that will lead to more people doing-whatever-you-want-them-to-do on your site. On top of these assumptions, remember that we only update the PageRank displayed on the Google Toolbar a few times a year, and we may lower the PageRank displayed for some sites if we believe they’re engaging in spammy practices. So the PR you see publicly is different from the number our algorithm actually uses for ranking. Why bother with a number that’s at best three steps removed from your actual goal, when you could instead directly measure what you want to achieve? Finding metrics that are directly related to your business goals allows you to spend your time furthering those goals.
If I don’t track my PageRank, what should I be tracking?
Take a look at metrics that correspond directly to meaningful gains for your website or business, rather than just focusing on ranking signals. Also consider metrics that are updated daily or weekly, rather than numbers (like PageRank) that only change a few times a year; the latter is far too slow for you to reliably understand which of your changes resulted in the number going up or down (assuming you update your site more than a few times a year). Here are three suggestions to get you started, all of which you can track using services like Google Analytics or Webmaster Tools:
A “conversion” is when a visitor does what you want them to do on your website. A conversion might be completing a purchase, signing up for a mailing list, or downloading a white paper. Your conversion rate is the percentage of visitors to your site who convert (perform a conversion). This is a perfect example of a metric that, unlike PageRank, is directly tied to your business goals. When users convert they’re doing something that directly benefits your organization in a measurable way! Whereas your PageRank is both difficult to measure accurately (see above), and can go up or down without having any direct effect on your business.
Bounce rate
A “bounce” is when someone comes to your website and then leaves without visiting any other pages on your site. Your bounce rate is the percentage of visits to your site where the visitor bounces. A high bounce rate may indicate that users don’t find your site compelling, because they come, take a look, and leave directly. Looking at the bounce rates of different pages across your site can help you identify content that’s underperforming and point you to areas of your site that may need work. After all, it doesn’t matter how well your site ranks if most searchers are bouncing off of it as soon as they visit.
Clickthrough rate (CTR)
In the context of organic search results, your clickthrough rate is how often people click on your site out of all the times your site gets shown in search results. A low CTR means that, no matter how well your site is ranking, users aren’t clicking through to it. This may indicate that they don’t think your site will meet their needs, or that some other site looks better. One way to improve your CTR is to look at your site’s titles and snippets in our search results: are they compelling? Do they accurately represent the content of each URL? Do they give searchers a reason to click on them? Here’s some advice for improving your snippets; the HTML suggestions section of Webmaster Tools can also point you to pages that may need help. Again, remember that it doesn’t matter how well your site ranks if searchers don’t want to click on it.
Entire blogs and books have been dedicated to explaining and exploring web metrics, so you’ll excuse me if my explanations just scrape the surface; analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik’s site is a great place to start if you want to dig deeper into these topics. But hopefully I’ve at least convinced you that there are more direct, effective and controllable ways to measure your site’s success than PageRank.
One final note: Some site owners are interested in their site’s PR because people won’t buy links from their site unless they have a high PageRank. Buying or selling links for the purpose of passing PageRank violates our Webmaster Guidelines and is very likely to have negative consequences for your website, so a) I strongly recommend against it, and b) don’t be surprised if we aren’t interested in helping you raise your PageRank or improve your website when this is your stated goal.
We’d love to hear what metrics you’ve found useful and actionable for your website! Feel free to share your success stories with us in the comments here or in our Webmaster Help Forum.
Like any curious netizen, I have a Google Alert set up to email me whenever my name is mentioned online. Usually I get a slow trickle of my forum posts, blog posts, and tweets. But by far the most popular topic of these alerts over the past couple years has been my off-handed mention that we removed PageRank distribution data from Webmaster Tools in one of our 2009 releases.
The fact that people are still writing about this almost two years later—usually in the context of “Startling news from Susan Moskwa: ...”—really drives home how much PageRank has become a go-to statistic for some webmasters. Even the most inexperienced site owners I talk with have often heard about, and want to know more about, PageRank (“PR”) and what it means for their site. However, as I said in my fateful forum post, the Webmaster Central team has been telling webmasters for years that they shouldn't focus so much on PageRank as a metric for representing the success of one’s website. Today I’d like to explain this position in more detail and give you some relevant, actionable options to fill your time once you stop tracking your PR!
Why PageRank?
In 2008 Udi Manber, VP of engineering at Google, wrote on the Official Google Blog:
“The most famous part of our ranking algorithm is PageRank, an algorithm developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who founded Google. PageRank is still in use today, but it is now a part of a much larger system.”PageRank may have distinguished Google as a search engine when it was founded in 1998; but given the rate of change Manber describes—launching “about 9 [improvements] per week on the average”—we’ve had a lot of opportunity to augment and refine our ranking systems over the last decade. PageRank is no longer—if it ever was—the be-all and end-all of ranking.
If you look at Google’s Technology Overview, you’ll notice that it calls out relevance as one of the top ingredients in our search results. So why hasn’t as much ink been spilled over relevance as has been over PageRank? I believe it’s because PageRank comes in a number, and relevance doesn’t. Both relevance and PageRank include a lot of complex factors—context, searcher intent, popularity, reliability—but it’s easy to graph your PageRank over time and present it to your CEO in five minutes; not so with relevance. I believe the succinctness of PageRank is why it’s become such a go-to metric for webmasters over the years; but just because something is easy to track doesn’t mean it accurately represents what’s going on on your website.
What do we really want?
I posit that none of us truly care about PageRank as an end goal. PageRank is just a stand-in for what we really want: for our websites to make more money, attract more readers, generate more leads, more newsletter sign-ups, etc. The focus on PageRank as a success metric only works if you assume that a higher PageRank results in better ranking, then assume that that will drive more traffic to your site, then assume that that will lead to more people doing-whatever-you-want-them-to-do on your site. On top of these assumptions, remember that we only update the PageRank displayed on the Google Toolbar a few times a year, and we may lower the PageRank displayed for some sites if we believe they’re engaging in spammy practices. So the PR you see publicly is different from the number our algorithm actually uses for ranking. Why bother with a number that’s at best three steps removed from your actual goal, when you could instead directly measure what you want to achieve? Finding metrics that are directly related to your business goals allows you to spend your time furthering those goals.
If I don’t track my PageRank, what should I be tracking?
Take a look at metrics that correspond directly to meaningful gains for your website or business, rather than just focusing on ranking signals. Also consider metrics that are updated daily or weekly, rather than numbers (like PageRank) that only change a few times a year; the latter is far too slow for you to reliably understand which of your changes resulted in the number going up or down (assuming you update your site more than a few times a year). Here are three suggestions to get you started, all of which you can track using services like Google Analytics or Webmaster Tools:
- Conversion rate
- Bounce rate
- Clickthrough rate (CTR)
A “conversion” is when a visitor does what you want them to do on your website. A conversion might be completing a purchase, signing up for a mailing list, or downloading a white paper. Your conversion rate is the percentage of visitors to your site who convert (perform a conversion). This is a perfect example of a metric that, unlike PageRank, is directly tied to your business goals. When users convert they’re doing something that directly benefits your organization in a measurable way! Whereas your PageRank is both difficult to measure accurately (see above), and can go up or down without having any direct effect on your business.
Bounce rate
A “bounce” is when someone comes to your website and then leaves without visiting any other pages on your site. Your bounce rate is the percentage of visits to your site where the visitor bounces. A high bounce rate may indicate that users don’t find your site compelling, because they come, take a look, and leave directly. Looking at the bounce rates of different pages across your site can help you identify content that’s underperforming and point you to areas of your site that may need work. After all, it doesn’t matter how well your site ranks if most searchers are bouncing off of it as soon as they visit.
Clickthrough rate (CTR)
In the context of organic search results, your clickthrough rate is how often people click on your site out of all the times your site gets shown in search results. A low CTR means that, no matter how well your site is ranking, users aren’t clicking through to it. This may indicate that they don’t think your site will meet their needs, or that some other site looks better. One way to improve your CTR is to look at your site’s titles and snippets in our search results: are they compelling? Do they accurately represent the content of each URL? Do they give searchers a reason to click on them? Here’s some advice for improving your snippets; the HTML suggestions section of Webmaster Tools can also point you to pages that may need help. Again, remember that it doesn’t matter how well your site ranks if searchers don’t want to click on it.
Entire blogs and books have been dedicated to explaining and exploring web metrics, so you’ll excuse me if my explanations just scrape the surface; analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik’s site is a great place to start if you want to dig deeper into these topics. But hopefully I’ve at least convinced you that there are more direct, effective and controllable ways to measure your site’s success than PageRank.
One final note: Some site owners are interested in their site’s PR because people won’t buy links from their site unless they have a high PageRank. Buying or selling links for the purpose of passing PageRank violates our Webmaster Guidelines and is very likely to have negative consequences for your website, so a) I strongly recommend against it, and b) don’t be surprised if we aren’t interested in helping you raise your PageRank or improve your website when this is your stated goal.
We’d love to hear what metrics you’ve found useful and actionable for your website! Feel free to share your success stories with us in the comments here or in our Webmaster Help Forum.
Microsoft FLIGHT : the "leak"
Ford island, Hawaï.
FLIGHT. An unknown FLIGHT screenshot has been accidentally (or willingly) leaked on the web. Taken by Lorenzo G., a simmer who captured it on Facebook, this new shot gives some informations, on shadows for instance. More explanations here on these websites :
AVSIM forum, from where the picture has been commented.
http://forum.avsim.net/topic/338486-ms-flight-fail/#entry2007226
And Striking Software, who has developed the famous Water Configurator.
http://www.strikingsoftware.com/forum/index.php?topic=1867.60
The long (and unfinished) story of the Bell 222
Central Rockies : new geographists paradise
FSX. Orbx fires another salvo of previews. This is going to be the first GOLD serie in North America. Here are more shots and an information on the perimeter.
To be released in July, probably in the first two weeks.
This is what Orbx calls a "GOLD" product !
The area is three times larger than NA BLUE PNW.
All available pictures :
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
New Generation Ford Mustang 2012
Ford Mustang brought last year and was one of the best success stories this year. One of the most positive aspects of travel is that although there are some very expensive models are used to horses from whole muscle car, the base model is surprisingly affordable and still a lot of fun in its own right.
The big news for the 2012 Ford Mustang is the revival of the storied high-performance Boss 302 model. Also notable is the introduction of adjustable effort settings for the power steering effort on GT models.
After numerous improvements to the Mustang lineup last year, we wouldn't have been surprised this year to see Ford's engineers just sit back and watch their winning horse run circles around its competition. As it turns out, though, they've been busily creating yet another highly desirable model to join the stable.
For 2012, Ford reintroduces the Mustang Boss 302, a nameplate that recalls the Boss 302 of 1969. Just as before, the new Boss 302 is a track-tuned beast, and it should also be both great to drive and even potentially collectible. Numerous engine enhancements kick output up to 444 horsepower, and the Boss receives a host of other hardware upgrades to handle the extra fury under the hood.
The 2012 Ford Mustang is available as a coupe or convertible and is offered in five trim levels: V6, V6 Premium, GT, GT Premium and Boss 302. (The Shelby GT500 is reviewed separately.)
The base V6 starts with 17-inch alloy wheels, a limited-slip rear differential, keyless entry, integrated blind-spot mirrors, cruise control, air-conditioning, full power accessories, a tilt-only steering wheel and a four-speaker sound system with a CD player and auxiliary audio jack.
The V6 Premium adds upgraded 17-inch wheels, leather upholstery, a power driver seat, Ford's Sync system, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, color-adjustable gauges, ambient lighting, upgraded interior trim and an upgraded eight-speaker sound system with satellite radio and an iPod/USB audio interface. The V8-powered GT comes with the base V6's features plus 18-inch alloys, automatic headlights, a rear spoiler, adjustable steering effort and foglamps. The GT Premium is essentially a GT with different 18-inch wheels and the V6 Premium's roster of features.
Options on Mustang V6 models include an exterior appearance package that adds bodywork graphics and a rear spoiler. Bundled with the optional rear parking sensors are an anti-theft system and wheel locks. Also available is a V6 Performance package (for coupes with manual transmissions) that includes 19-inch wheels with summer tires, numerous suspension and brake upgrades, a recalibrated stability control system and a 3.31 rear axle ratio.
The V6 Premium unlocks a slew of packages and options in addition to those available on the base model. These include: the Pony package and the Mustang Club of America Special Edition (both consist of 18-inch wheels and various exterior styling enhancements); the Comfort Group package (a power passenger seat and heated front seats); and the Electronics package (automatic climate control, HD radio and a voice-activated navigation system with real-time traffic and other information). Also available are remote ignition, xenon headlamps, a glass roof, a tonneau cover for convertible models and a back-up camera.
The Mustang GT can be outfitted with upgraded Brembo brakes, 19-inch wheels, summer tires and the recalibrated stability control system. Two performance axles for quicker acceleration are available: 3.55:1 and 3.73:1. The GT Premium can be had with all the options of the V6 Premium and GT packages plus a selection from an array of 18-inch and 19-inch wheels, the California Special package (more exterior styling variations) and a more powerful 10-speaker sound system (not available with the Electronics package).
The new high-performance Boss 302 is only available as a coupe and adds a more powerful V8 engine, 19-inch wheels, quad exhaust tips, special exterior trim and aerodynamic elements, a 3.73:1 rear-axle ratio, Brembo brakes, adjustable shock absorbers, unique interior trim, a suede-wrapped steering wheel, alloy pedals, cloth seats and the base audio system. Recaro front seats (from the GT500) and a Torsen limited-slip rear differential are optional.
The limited-edition Boss 302 Laguna Seca model goes even further with track-ready aerodynamic enhancements, race-compound tires, a stiffer suspension, unique gauges and standardization of the Recaro seats and Torsen differential, plus the deletion of the rear seat.
The 2012 Ford Mustang V6 powered by a 3.7-liter engine that produces 305 hp and 280 pound-feet of torque. Mustang GT steps up to 5.0-liter V8 good for 412 hp and 390 lb-ft of torque. Both have six-speed manual transmission standard, while a six-speed automatic is optional. As if this was not enough, 5.0-liter V8 302 Boss up power output 444 hp and 380 lb-ft of torque. (An automatic transmission is available for 302 Boss, however.)
Mustang V6 coupe getting the EPA estimated fuel economy is 19 mpg city/31 mpg highway and 23 mpg in combined driving with automatic transmission, while the manually estimated 19/29/22 mpg. GT is rated 18/25/21 mpg with the automatic, and 17/26/20 mpg with the manual. Opting for the rear differential gear ratio is a more aggressive would further drop in fuel economy.
In recent testing, the Mustang V6 is loaded with performance package and the gear ratio of 3.31 is accelerated from zero to 60 mph in 5.6 seconds. A V8 Mustang with a 3.73 gear is managed the same run in just 4.8 seconds.
Standard safety features for all 2012 Ford Mustang includes antilock brakes, front seat side airbags, side mirrors reconnaissance and stability control. Ford's MyKey system is also standard, which allows owners to limit speed and audio volume level for young drivers.
In Edmunds brake testing, the V6 and V8 Mustangs turned in impressive stopping distance. V6 stops from 60 mph in just 103 meters away, while the V8 is needed only 109. It is important to note, however, that both vehicles benefit from the optional performance package.
Regardless of which 2012 Ford Mustang you choose, you're in for a wild ride. The base V6 makes more than enough power for the average driver and plenty of oomph to satisfy a majority of driving enthusiasts as well. The V8 engines take performance up a few notches with gobs of torque and a glorious exhaust note. Driving enthusiasts will naturally want to select the manual transmission, though the automatic isn't a bad choice; it's prone to early upshifts in order to maximize fuel economy, but there's enough torque to keep the Mustang ably motivated.
About the new french autogen generator
France VFR new autogen generator is operational. More informations on its functionnalities.
- First, of course, the generator can position different size of trees and buildings very fast.
- Trees and buildings size are better shaped according to real imagery.
- Trees and buildings are more precisely positioned.
The next step will be the procedural (or algorythmic) 3D. Among its new benefits :
- Buildings geometry can be more complex and will be shaped according to real imagery.
- Better optimization of abberations.
- New possibilities of customization.
The autogen generator is a professional tool. France VFR will use it for instance to develop his VFR Regional sceneries. Someday, the generator itself might be sold partly as a licence to other professional editors via his Simulation Data branch.
Here are two comparisons :
Although the french team has not fully explained how it works yet, the autogen generator is based on several algorythms. It is interpreting geographical data bases and automatically positioning autogen according to precise coordinates, tile after tile. Ultimately, some minor abberations are fixed with some sub-algorythms.
Until further news about the "How it works", it is interesting to explain the "'What it does".
- Trees and buildings size are better shaped according to real imagery.
- Trees and buildings are more precisely positioned.
The next step will be the procedural (or algorythmic) 3D. Among its new benefits :
- Buildings geometry can be more complex and will be shaped according to real imagery.
- Better optimization of abberations.
- New possibilities of customization.
The autogen generator is a professional tool. France VFR will use it for instance to develop his VFR Regional sceneries. Someday, the generator itself might be sold partly as a licence to other professional editors via his Simulation Data branch.
Here are two comparisons :
Left, screen from Photo range scenery. Right, same scenery with the new generator.
In blue circles, some details showing how they are transformed.
Left, Google imagery. Right, France VFR with autogen generator.
More information on France VFR forum (a login can be requested).
http://www.francevfr.com/forum.asp
http://www.francevfr.com/forum.asp
Toyota 4Runner 2012 Review and Price
The 2012 Toyota 4Runner SUV is best for you if you faithfully reproduce fading body-on-frame SUVs and want the best one.
The 2012 Toyota 4Runner is equipped with four side doors and tailgate are only equipped for all types of media to display the rear window of the SUV off and will continue to fall roughly in the middle SUV. About 50 percent of SUVs have an average capacity of more than five passengers and 2012 Toyota 4 Runner will be among them. It has two front seats, three folding bench in the second row and optional third-row folding seats in the most appropriate size for children.
The 2012 Toyota 4Runner is not appropriate to get a big change compared with the 2011 Toyota 4Runner. It will remain a high-rise wagon with seating for seven and a skill set that runs from off-road on-road crawl for pampering. It's frankly better in the former, and unless you regularly continue driving after the pavement runs out, light-duty crossover may be a better bet in an everyday SUV.
2012 Toyota 4Runner or buy a 2011 Toyota 4Runner SUV is all-new for model year 2010; not changed much for model-year 2011, and it's a little too early in the lifecycle to expect significant changes for model year 2012. So there seems little reason to wait 4Runner 2012. The 2011 4Runner has a brake override Toyota began installing the system after a sudden acceleration-remember safety. 4Runner 2011 Toyota will also launch while still offering cash incentives tempting as part of a campaign-remember safety recovery. Styling of the 2012 4Runner, meanwhile, could have a relatively short shelf life before a small refreshing expected around model year 2013.
2012 Toyota 4Runner interior design should continue to be the character of the street, with lumps and reflects the large buttons. SUVs offer a high drive inside or outside of duty. After 4Runner cabin boat is quite easy when you sit in the first two lines, especially if you order leather seats and the development of many facilities. Expected for 2012 Toyota 4Runner lineup for the return of three models. The basic version is likely to continue SR5 record. 2012 4Runner Road to the visual models are distinguished by front and rear bumper contours for easy off-road obstacles. Stay on top of the line in 2012 Toyota 4Runner Limited model with chrome bar keeper wheels 17 and 20 inch models. See also: 2012 Toyota Camry.
2012 Toyota 4Runner interior design should continue to be the character of the street, with lumps and reflects the large buttons. SUVs offer a high drive inside or outside of duty. After 4Runner cabin boat is quite easy when you sit in the first two lines, especially if you order leather seats and the development of many facilities. Expected for 2012 Toyota 4Runner lineup for the return of three models. The basic version is likely to continue SR5 record. 2012 4Runner Road to the visual models are distinguished by front and rear bumper contours for easy off-road obstacles. Stay on top of the line in 2012 Toyota 4Runner Limited model with chrome bar keeper wheels 17 and 20 inch models. See also: 2012 Toyota Camry.
The 2012 Toyota 4Runner is equipped with a 4.0-liter V-6 and five-speed automatic transmission as a single drive train. Hoping to have up to 270 horsepower and 278 pounds-ft of torque. 4Runner V-6 provides a better life, but not forgotten in the past slower traffic with the authorities or less, is charged with 4.500 to 4.900 pounds of body-frame SUV. Tow rating is expected to continue for 2012 Toyota 4Runner, which averaged 5000 or more. 2012 Toyota 4Runner V-8 key features of an enemy with a minimum of 388 lb-ft of torque for better acceleration and better towing performance in all directions.
Wait for the 2012 Toyota 4Runner road manners to keep making concessions to the traditional design of his SUV. 2012 Toyota 4Runner SR5 model and the road has a few basic 4WD system, where the driver pull the floor lever to engage the front wheels. Part-time 4WD only for the use of off-road or slippery conditions. Regardless of the system to invite all 2012 Toyota 4Runner 4WD again thank you for the real off-road to separate low-range gearbox and Toyota's Active Traction Control (A-TRAC) system.2012 Toyota 4Runner specifications, capabilities, functions and images
The all new 2012 Toyota 4Runner with four-wheel disc brakes and ABS anti-lock system, traction and result in better control of the bus stop, take-offs and bends. Front passenger knee airbags otherwise acquire, and three rows of seats is to get curtain airbags protect the head from the side. Toyota rose stolen vehicles, automatic collision notification and location Reconnect with subscription services. Do you expect to keep all 2012 Toyota 4Runner into tank skid plate. See also: 2010 Toyota Highlander Review.
2012 Toyota 4 Runner Price
The best price for the Toyota 4Runner starting from $ 31,000 - $ 41.500, and 2012 Toyota 4Runner SR5 is $ 31,000 with 2WD and $ 33,000 with 4wd. And 2012 Toyota 4 Runner Trail has some of the price of $ 37,000, and the latest 2012 Toyota 4Runner Limited is $ 39,000 with 2WD and $ 41.500 with 4wd.
C-17 Globemaster Area 51 : new previews
The arrangement
Conclusion of Latin VFR - Intersim affair.
Ricardo Morillo has offered to Junior Puente a final arrangement (and probably a check) to settle their dispute. A new patch has been sent to Fly Tampa so that George and Martin can check everything is right. Inside their respective forums, threads have been removed*.
Despite this sad affair, i can appreciate that both parts have been pragmatic. That was not the case all along. At the beginning, the dispute was just about 250 dollars. If you count all the time taken in emails by both parts, the 250 dollars were lost anyway...
* Not on Airdailyx.
Airdailyx is a flight sim news site. Business men have the ability to make arrangements of any kind.
News men not. My posts will remain on my blog for our memories.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Aerosoft's Vilnius : our test
Vilnius Intl. X EYVI test
Installation : Simple. Aerosoft launcher must be updated. Scenery is added in the library (FSX).
File : 421 mb !
File : 421 mb !
Framerate : very friendly.
The developer : Andras Kozma has previously developed Andras Field, Manhattan, Venice, Budapest and even worked on Flight Sim Labs Concorde X for 3D models and virtual cockpit.
* Low quality of the photoreal grounds, especially in the city (that may be a limitation due to unavailable cartography ?).
* Vilnius airport is a very isolated place. A good thing would have been to include a second regional airport, Khkabrovo or Palanga for instance.
The good :
Vilnius Intl. X includes the city of Vilnius and main buildings.
The high quality of the airport.
At last, a lithuanian airport !
Vilnius Tarptautinis VNO / EYVI
A large industrial area, west side of the airport.
Complexe architecture + high definition textures + reflective windows.
Quality of the taxiways ground textures.
Curious "blue" textures at dusk, in winter.
Photoreal textures and reflective light effect on windows.
+1 reporting in Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics
Webmaster level: All
It’s been a busy week for us here at the Googleplex. First we released +1 buttons to Google search sites globally, then we announced the beginning of the Google+ project.
The +1 button and the Google+ project are both about making it easier to connect with the people you trust online. For the +1 button, that means bringing advice from trusted friends and contacts right into Google search, letting the users who love your web content recommend it at the moment of decision.
But when you’re managing a website, it's usually not real until you can measure it. So we’re happy to say we’ve got one more announcement to make -- today we’re releasing reports that show you the value +1 buttons bring to your site.
First, +1 metrics in Google Webmaster Tools can show you how the +1 button affects the traffic coming to your pages:
Finally, you can also see how users share your content using other buttons besides +1 by using Social Plugin Analytics in Google Analytics. Once you configure the JavaScript for Analytics, the Social Engagement reports help you compare the various types of sharing actions that occur on your pages.
Social reporting is just getting started. As people continue to find new ways to interact across the web, we look forward to new reports that help business owners understand the value that social actions are providing to their business. So +1 to data!
UPDATE: 7/11/11 1:44pm PST, corrected references to the social plugin analytics feature.
It’s been a busy week for us here at the Googleplex. First we released +1 buttons to Google search sites globally, then we announced the beginning of the Google+ project.
The +1 button and the Google+ project are both about making it easier to connect with the people you trust online. For the +1 button, that means bringing advice from trusted friends and contacts right into Google search, letting the users who love your web content recommend it at the moment of decision.
But when you’re managing a website, it's usually not real until you can measure it. So we’re happy to say we’ve got one more announcement to make -- today we’re releasing reports that show you the value +1 buttons bring to your site.
First, +1 metrics in Google Webmaster Tools can show you how the +1 button affects the traffic coming to your pages:
- The Search Impact report gives you an idea of how +1‘s affect your organic search traffic. You can find out if your clickthrough rate changes when personalized recommendations help your content stand out. Do this by comparing clicks and impressions on search results with and without +1 annotations. We’ll only show statistics on clickthrough rate changes when you have enough impressions for a meaningful comparison.
- The Activity report shows you how many times your pages have been +1’d, from buttons both on your site and on other pages (such as Google search).
- Finally, the Audience report shows you aggregate geographic and demographic information about the Google users who’ve +1’d your pages. To protect privacy, we’ll only show audience information when a significant number of users have +1’d pages from your site.
Finally, you can also see how users share your content using other buttons besides +1 by using Social Plugin Analytics in Google Analytics. Once you configure the JavaScript for Analytics, the Social Engagement reports help you compare the various types of sharing actions that occur on your pages.
- The Social Engagement report lets you see how site behavior changes for visits that include clicks on +1 buttons or other social actions. This allows you to determine, for example, whether people who +1 your pages during a visit are likely to spend more time on your site than people who don’t.
- The Social Actions report lets you track the number of social actions (+1 clicks, Tweets, etc) taken on your site, all in one place.
- The Social Pages report allows you to compare the pages on your site to see which are driving the highest the number of social actions.
Social reporting is just getting started. As people continue to find new ways to interact across the web, we look forward to new reports that help business owners understand the value that social actions are providing to their business. So +1 to data!
UPDATE: 7/11/11 1:44pm PST, corrected references to the social plugin analytics feature.
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