Designing gardens with Google Sketchup

Designing gardens with Google SketchupIf you posses a creative mind and you feel capable of designing your own garden then Google may have something that you might find useful. The Google Sketchup software is free to download and according to Google, very easy to use.

It gives you the ability to plan and build several combinations of terrace or pergola and be able to save the file to your computer.

Check out some examples from other users

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Plant a tree? There's an App for that!

A new iPhone app launched yesterday called iPhorest, an app that lets you plant trees, both physically and virtually.

iPhorest is a $4.99 app that was created in a collaboration between iPhactory, Ecolife and The Conservation Fund. Basically, when you download the app, you dig a hole, plant the seedling, shake your phone to create a rain storm, and your seedling will then start to grow. You keep repeating this until your tree is full sized.

Sounds like a small novelty app so far, but wait, there's more...

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