Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better for Google Street View in South Africa, Google added a nice to have extra for those 3D fanatics.

Time to get out that 3D glasses and start exploring South Africa in 3D, just like those movies you are watching nowadays at the cinemas.

If you are in Street View mode right clicking on the images will bring up a menu where you can toggle 3D mode on or off on the images.

Check out the shot above from inside Newlands Rugby Stadium in 3D mode, awesome isn’t it?

This morning Google launched their long awaited Street View for South Africa just ahead of the World Cup, and since then just about everybody has been playing around with it and visiting places they wish they could really visit.

With every new service launched a new opportunity opens up for someone else, and this is where Marc Forrest took initiative by launching a site called StreetViewSA.

StreetViewSA allows users to submit any local street view images they found for others to see, anything from outrageous to people waving, to accidents or fires of images taken by the Streetview Cars around South Africa.

The idea is brilliant and I already submitted a Street View of Newlands Stadium.

So next time you see something funny, interesting or bizarre on Google Street View South Africa be sure to submit it the the StreetViewSA directory.

Google launched Street View for South Africa this morning that allows you to view streets as if you are driving around in them.

Google Street View come just in time for the Fifa World Cup 2010, where visitors can now view certain places in our beautiful country without actually traveling there.

Getting with the spirit of the 2010 Fifa World Cup, Google also added a Street View tour to the Soccer City Stadium in Gauteng. The Street View of Soccer City where the opening and final matches of the World Cup will be played, allows you to walk around inside the stadium and on the pitch. Doesn’t look like there is one for the Cape Town stadium as this was the first thing I checked this morning.

Go check it out Street View of Soccer City.

South African geeks have been waiting a long time for this, and then when Google was set to launch Street View for South Africa they decided to postpone it a bit. Finally Google Street View for South Africa is live and I must say it is amazing.

Google Street View for South Africa allows you to visit places in our beautiful country as if you were traveling by car, I have been playing around with it a bit this morning and I am hooked.

I first tried to visit the new Cape Town stadium but unfortunately there was no tour of the stadium, but I must admit coverage of Cape Town and its surrounding suburbs are really good.

Image visiting a place in our beautiful country without the need to travel? Now you can, check out how easy it was for me to visit Rhodes Memorial in Cape Town.

Go ahead and start exploring South Africa with Google Street View.

Last week I got the news that I was eligible for an upgrade, at first I wanted to port to Vodacom to get the iPhone as I have played around with a few of them and love it, but after some consideration and a hefty price tag my attention turned toward the HTC Hero or iPhone killer as some say.

It was a mission to get hold of one, as everybody is either out of stock and only expects new stock in the next year or does not get the phone until next year. Lucky for me the guys at Durbanville MTN shop got hold of an HTC Hero in only one day, great service from them, and I picked up my Hero yesterday.

The phone is absolutely superb, I’m loving every aspect of it and can see why people are saying that it’s the iPhone killer. The HTC hero is lightning fast with applications and menus opening instant without any sign of hesitation. A nice feature is the Accelerometer, one example I tested was with Google Maps in street view. Enabling the digital compass feature and physically moving around with the phone in your hand made the street-view move around as if you where standing in the street and looking up, down, left or right.

Out of the box the Android operating system asks you for login details to social networking sites like Facebook, twitter and Flicker and integrates it into your home screens if you would like to. Importing contacts was a breeze specially since I had all my contacts in Gmail, Android just asked me to sync with my GMail account and voila there all my contacts was imported.

The Android market place is also a breeze to operate with all the apps you can think of, 99% of the kind of apps I searched for where free.

The 5 mega-pixel camera of the HTC Hero is also very nice, it takes very high quality images that is sharp and crisp. One downside of the camera is I would have liked a flash, but its not the end of the world.

I’m definitely a Android fan now, and won’t turn back anytime soon. The Hero is sure to give Apple iPhone a run for its money.

If you are due for an upgrade have a look at the Hero, I’m sure you’d like it. I’ll be writing more about Android and Tips and Tricks for the HTC Hero and Android marketplace from now on here.