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Google Earth 4 out of beta

by Michael Rose (Jan 10th, 2007)

I suppose the camp of Googlians waiting in line for the Stevenote can be forgiven for fleeing the code mines; they recently put the final touches on Google Earth 4, now out of beta. Shiny new features in the Google Earth revision include: Higher quality terrain and building textures Expanded ...

Google Earth Automator actions

by David Chartier (Nov 11th, 2006)

Nyhthawk at Automator.us has put together two Automator actions for Google Earth. The first is a 'Go To Location' action, while the second is a 'Save Screenshot' action. Since I can't find any version requirements for gEarth, I can only assume for now that they work with any version of the app ...

Google Earth plugin for SketchUp

by Scott McNulty (Jan 12th, 2006)

SketchUp has teamed up with Google to create a beta plugin for SketchUp (a very cool drafting program). Why is this cool? You can create a building in SketchUp and place that drawing in its context in Google Earth. This is a very powerful concept and I'm sure lots of small Mac shops are ...

Google Earth officially available for Mac OS X

by Dave Caolo (Jan 10th, 2006)

With all the cool new goodies from Apple distracting us today, we almost missed the fact that Google has officially made Google Earth for Mac OS X available. After the rumor and then the leaked beta, it sure is cool to see an official version. I played with it only briefly this afternoon (I could ...