Filed under: Macintosh, Google
Google Mac Downloads
by Chris Gilmer Oct 11th 2006 at 12:20PM
Google is sometimes a little slow at releasing Mac compatible applications. They are getting better, and have hired on some additional Mac guys and girls to do the development work. So, now its time to show off the fact that they really do support Mac's.
Google has put together a nice little page for Mac users, which shows their collection of software downloads specifically for Mac users. This list of software includes:
- Google Notifier
- Google Toolbar
- Google SketchUp
- Picasa Web Albums Uploader
- Google Earth
- Google Widgets
Software might take a little longer to develop for the Mac, so we can only hope that Google, and other companies shorten the dev time, and realize that Mac users have been patient long enough.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mac-loan said 10:02PM on 10-11-2006
nothing really new here other than that they are making a mac centralized area... If you haven't tried google earth yet its a real hoot....
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Patrik Wallstrm said 3:29AM on 10-12-2006
I set up to offer some information on Google Linux applications. Since they won't to it themselves...
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Patrik Wallstrm said 3:30AM on 10-12-2006
That is http://googlelinux.blogspot.com/
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Dempsey said 4:36AM on 10-12-2006
This is looking good, hopefully it means in the future Mac users won't have to wait quite as long for versions of popular Google downloads.
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Michael Quinn said 9:44AM on 10-12-2006
Too bad about the new Google Docs - doesn't work in Safari. The old Spreadsheets did and now I can't access my work without going to another browser.
This Mac page has been around for ages - hardly news. They used to have mac.google.com as well but dumped that a while ago.
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Geoff Livingston said 12:11PM on 10-12-2006
Different Google topic (there are so many of them, it's firghtening), but I thought you'd be interested in this unbelievably data-rich Google Earth mash-up that FortiusOne is developing. I don't think they've released it yet, but their blog has some interesting visuals... http://blog.fortiusone.com/.
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Aaron said 12:01PM on 10-22-2006
At least giving Mac Users the same advantage as PC users have is a good thing. Each have their own pros and cons for sure. But to try and level things out is a good idea. I hope the new Mac team google got will improve its compatibility with each other. More power to google and Mac!
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