From Gizmodo:

Built by General Dynamics, the GeoEye-1 (satellite) is equipped with a next-generation camera made by ITT. This camera can easily distinguish objects 16 inches long, with 11-bits per pixel color. In other words: this thing can see the color of your shorts. It will be up there, looking at your pants every single day, the time it takes for it to complete one orbit. And it will keep doing that for more than ten years, its expected life.

And Google is the only non-gubernamental entity with the rights to use this information. Now let’s talk about books; how about Nineteen Eighty-Four?

Read the full note about the GeoEye-1.

Hold on, this can be tricky if you use Google’s Jabber service (aka Google Talk) and don’t want to corrupt your Google Talk buddy list and complete address book in one single step.

Apparently, both lists are linked very closely in Google, so the first sync can be disappointing (and more than just that).

If you aren’t an address book freak, you are already on the safe side (not my case).

Via Håvard Sørbø.

Update: Mac OS X Hints has published a hint on this theme.

Sweet. You will need the 10.5.3 update.

Via Official Google Mac Blog

Update: Be careful; read on.