Skip to Content

Submit your nominations for the Luxist Awards' Best in Decor
AOL Tech

Filed under: Design, Macintosh, Google, Freeware

SketchUp 5 released for Mac OS X

SketchUp 5 for MacThat didn't take long. Yesterday in our post about the release of Google Earth for Mac and Linux commenter Tim wrote, "Now they just need to make sketchup for Mac and Linux." You wish has come at least half true, Tim, because today Google released SketchUp 5 for Mac OS X (sorry, Linux users, maybe next time). It's a direct port of the Windows 3D modeling app and has all of the same features, and its hardware requirements are fairly modest. I'm disappointed to report that SketchUp 5 for Mac is PowerPC-only, but it can't be long before a universal binary comes along-can it? Head over to the Google SketchUp site to download the standard version for free.

[Via TUAW]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio

Joystiq

TUAW

Daily Finance

Autoblog

Urlesque

Engadget

WoW

Switched.com

FanHouse