Filed under: Design, Macintosh, Google, Freeware
SketchUp 5 released for Mac OS X
by Jordan Running Jun 13th 2006 at 1:20PM
That 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]
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, ...
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Steven said 2:48PM on 6-13-2006
Well, what do you know...it IS powerpc. I wondered why it was so sluggish on my MBP last night.
Pretty interesting, though, while I played around with it.
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