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Title: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: blobrana on December 09, 2005, 10:00:58 PM

Hum,
i noticed there was a reversed engineered Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/) For Mac OS X!

(very Beta)

http://rapidshare.de/files/8860896/Google_Earth.zip.html (http://rapidshare.de/files/8860896/Google_Earth.zip.html)

It may be possible to port it to a linux version...

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: Doobrey on December 09, 2005, 10:40:46 PM

Woohoo :-)
Ta for the link Blobrana, now I can finally see if my ego is visible from space.

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: TjLaZer on December 09, 2005, 10:44:55 PM

Could not download, have another link?

-edit-

Try here! (http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=01H260IZ43WTZ3OTEBSWPXG48L)

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: Doobrey on December 09, 2005, 11:02:03 PM

Are you using a download accelerator or browsing with javascript disabled, cos it's a link to a rapidshare page that forces you to wait 30s before you can grab the file :pissed:

Anyway, bad news for me at least, it appears to be Tiger only (I'm running 10.3.9)..just bombs out straight away , the only clue being an entry in the crash.log shows it fails to find quartz.framework.

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: blobrana on December 10, 2005, 12:00:02 AM

Hum,
Im sure that some mac fiend will recompile it, before very long.
(Much to the annoyance of the google people who only officially produce a windows version)

Watch this space.

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: TjLaZer on December 10, 2005, 01:42:42 AM

OK I found another link with a smaller Zip download and I got it working!  Works great on my iMac G5 1.8GHz 2GB with Tiger.  :)

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: amigadave on December 10, 2005, 02:16:56 AM

Off Topic, but since all you Mac users are here .....

My Powerbook display died a couple months ago.  I asked for help and was advised to replace the inverter board, which I did and it worked for about a week before the same problem coming back.  I have checked and found out that the S-Video out is still working and am about to check tonight to see if the DVI w/DVI to VGA adapter will display too.

Any ideas of what could be killing the inverter board, or do you think I just got a bad one that only worked for a week and should try to return it?  It may be too late already, but I will check.

Thanks

Title: Re: Google Earth for OSX
Post by: blobrana on December 10, 2005, 02:53:46 AM

@amigadave

Hum,
Yeah, i remember...

Yeah, it's possible that you got a refurbished board (from mac) and you just got a bad one.

@TjLaZer
You`re not going to post  that link....?

BTW here is a link to a forum (http://www.googleearthhacks.com/) to get some .kml files
(a tip is to first increase your cache size to 400Mb or larger)