Monthly Archive for June, 2006

So…is Google SketchUp free?

It appears that [Google](http://www.google.com) has a launch frenzy for Mac OS X these days. Last week they released [Google Video Player](http://video.google.com/playerdownload), a video player for watching videos downloaded from [Google Video](http://video.google.com/). I can't say I have found the great usefulness of this app yet, but maybe it will come to me later. Yesterday, they released a couple of other goodies, including an update to [Google Earth](http://earth.google.com/) for Mac and [Google SketchUp](http://sketchup.google.com/) for Mac. The latest release of Google Earth features integration with SketchUp (which Google purchased a while ago, and this is the first Google branded version of this app since the purchase), and as such I decided to download that too and try it out.

I must say though, is it really necessary to emphasize _(Free)_ as much as they do during installation? Take a look at the screenshot below, and see how many times they actually state that it is free...

![Google SketchUp](http://www.lindsve.net/uploads/2006/06/sketchup.png)

WordPress updated

The publishing platform which I use for this site, [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org), have now been updated to v2.0.3. This is a bug fix and security release, and is recommended for all WordPress users. They’ve also backported a number of security enhancements from 2.1 to further enhance and protect sites using the engine, including small performance enhancements.

Mark Jaquith has [posted a zip-file](http://markjaquith.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/wordpress-203-upgrade-changed-files-zip-changes-diff-changed-files-list/) with changed files only, so that the update process is a lot faster. I have now updated this site, and it took me only a few seconds.

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