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Google Earth in the works for Mac OS X?
According to AppleInsider, Google has a beta of the satellite mapping application in the works for us Mac users. Google Earth allows a user to enter a residential or business address, and then "travels" to that location, starting from outer space via a series of satellite images. One of my PC-using friends loves to tell me how cool Google Earth is. Come on, Google. Let me answer back with, "Yeah, I was using it earlier today..."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
ongnoi said 11:02PM on 12-08-2005
http://uploadhut.com/view.php/458988.dmg
msjstw
Happy navigating!
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oogley said 11:24PM on 12-08-2005
the above file, when opened, is 'not recognized' by the default DMG mounter in OSX and Toast Titanium makes it into an audio file.
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Bill said 11:31PM on 12-08-2005
The above file worked for me. Just download and use msjstw when keychain pops up and asks you for a password. I am on os x 10.4.3 if that has anything to do with it.
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Chris said 11:34PM on 12-08-2005
I got the not recognized error as well
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Kurt Vander Bogart said 11:36PM on 12-08-2005
Very Cool. Thanks ongnoi. Were not in Kansas anymore...
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Josh said 11:41PM on 12-08-2005
Worked for me with the password in #3. Works pretty well on my iBook. Not as smooth as my Windows box with a 128MB graphics card, but good enough. Thanks for the link.
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Steven said 12:43AM on 12-09-2005
If you install google earth in windows you can see from the files it installs that it uses cross platform opengl and cross platform Qt for the GUI...I'm just surprised it's taking them so long to get non-windows versions out, the hard parts have been done for a long time.
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JoeBob said 1:56AM on 12-09-2005
Works fine for me, though the age of my system is showing. (1 ghz iMac G4)
Thanks for sharing!
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Ricky said 2:03AM on 12-09-2005
thank you, it works perfectly for my iBook 12", 1.33ghz, 1GB ram
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Magne said 2:54AM on 12-09-2005
Dang! "not recognized error" on my iBook. Anybody knows what this is?
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Clark Kent said 4:02AM on 12-09-2005
In case of dmg unrecognized error: Just re-download the file again - I had the same problem with the download untill I checked the file size: it was only 29MB instead of ca.48MB
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cyberdork said 4:26AM on 12-09-2005
I think you can remove the questionmark from the headline of this story.
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shrimp said 5:25AM on 12-09-2005
There was a download link on digg.com
Google Earth is so cool. I found my house, and my collage, and my roomate's house in Tokyo.
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Michael said 5:32AM on 12-09-2005
Where do I enter this keychain code?
The file I have is 48mb
I double click on it and it just says not reqignised it does not ask for a keychain password.
Same in Disk Utilty
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JasonK said 6:08AM on 12-09-2005
I'm running 10.4.3 and after I downloaded, keychain asked me for a password and when I entered it, the image mounted just fine. Works perfectly on my 1.42ghz iBook with 1.5GB ram.
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Simone Gambirasio said 7:47AM on 12-09-2005
You find it here: http://www.melablog.it/post/1196/download-google-earth-per-mac-os-e-gia-online
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the oxymormon said 8:01AM on 12-09-2005
Here's another link from HappyPig, on digg
http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01H260IZ43WTZ3OTEBSWPXG48L
Its a much smaller download ~ 12 megs no keychain problem- just unzip and go
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Greg said 8:01AM on 12-09-2005
Works just fine, pretty smooth, in fact on my 12" 867MgHz Powerbook.
Goodbye sleep, hello Earth.
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adam Jackson said 8:34AM on 12-09-2005
I got mine at http://mypersonalgetaway.com
they are not going to cap your download rates at 20 k like the others
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Christian said 9:14AM on 12-09-2005
This is good, but what I REALLY want to see is Picasa for OS X. Either that, or have Apple bring iPhoto into line with Picasa. If you've used both programs (and even if you really love Apple), you have to admit that Picasa mops the floor with iPhoto.
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