How to Install Google Earth on Mac OS X

[Akiraa]

Google Earth has released its version for the operating system of Apple's Macintosh (Mac for short) in January 2006. Finally, Mac users can enjoy a customized version of Google Earth to your operating system, cost them a lot of pressure on the developers of Google, but they have succeeded. In this section we will address the main REQUIREMENTS for Google Earth program, a computer, to install the program guarantees.

Requirements for Mac OS

Your system must meet the following requirements for the program Google-Earth to be installed properly on your Mac computer Failure to meet these requirements the program may malfunction or not work.

Minimum configuration for Mac:

• Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
• CPU: 500 MHz
• RAM: 256 MB
• Hard disk space: 400 MB
• Gáfica card charging 3D with 16 MB VRAM
• Screen: 1024x768, 32-bit true color screen
• Network Connection: 128 kbps ("ADSL / Broadband / Cable")

Recommended configuration for Mac:

• Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
• CPU Speed: 1.5GHz +
• RAM: 512M (or higher)
• Free Hard Disk Space: 2 GB
• 3D capable video card with 32 MB of VRAM or more
• Screen: 1280x1024, "32-bit True Color"
• Network Connection: 768 Kbits / sec or better (DSL / Cable)

Failure to meet these requirements the program may malfunction or not work. You can download Google earth for MAC OS X 10.4. The tenacity of the demand for MAC users to get the image display program has forced Google to respond. After downloading the program file, you should continue with the installation and the installation procedure is similar to other application which you install on Mac. You need to drag the downloaded files into the Application folder and that’s it. The Google earth icon will appear on Dock.

Installing Google Earth Plugin

If you want to install the Google Earth Plugin on Safari or Firefox, you must open the Finder, then the Macintosh HD, Library, and eventually the Internet Plug-ins and copying, dragging the icon Google Earth Plug-in Web.

Note that, in doing so, the system must authenticate the software you want installed in the system library for security reasons. You must click on the Authenticate button, another window opens asking the user password used to access the system (here are certainly not always be so because I suspect should be included in the credentials of the Administrator - UNIX-style - which, in my case where I am the only user, are the same user base).

If all goes well you should find the icon of the Google Earth Plugin Web in the folder mentioned above. It may be necessary to restart the browser (It worked with both Safari and Firefox) before the feature is available.

[Jacques25]

Google does not leave things to chance. Proof of this is the famous search engine has wisely waited for the announcements of MacWorld 06 to unveil Mac OS X version of its software become inescapable: Google Earth. As a reminder, Google Earth is a free application of "advanced geographic viewing." This software can actually visualize in 3D, the planet and entire cities from every angle. This little program is quite impressive and we quickly took the game to display on his computer screen the house or the building of his apartment, before traveling to other countries much more distant. The use of Google Earth is very simple; you just go with your imagination. For example, enter an address and click Search, Google Earth will do the rest and will start to zoom in on the specified destination as soon as he has located. Tilt the view and rotate it to see the buildings and 3D terrain, or refer it up to examine the sky. Finally, note that Google Earth is available in Professional version pay. This version of Google Earth Pro is ideal for companies who may use it as a collaborative tool very useful for research and presentation of geographic data.

[Planetty]

Google makes available an update of Google Earth for Mac OS X, which fixes some bugs and supports Mac OS X 10.3.9, previously only users of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and above, had the possibility of using this excellent program. This Google tool used for viewing the world from satellite images in Mac OS X. Now Google includes maps for most regions of Europe, before only offered the ability to view satellite photographs and now we can see streets and driving directions from one place to another.