SketchUp is Free!
YES!
Google just announced that they are releasing a limited version of SketchUp for free! Meanwhile, you can visit the 3D Warehouse to find everyone else’s (geographically-tagged) creations.
SketchUp is really easy to use. I suggest watching a few of the videos to get started and then dive right in. I made a Sonic Screwdriver 3D model in a few hours last month.
SketchUp (now a Google company)
I played with Google’s new property, SketchUp, tonight. After watching a couple of the videos, it’s easy to use. I hope they release a free version. [More on SketchUp over at Make.]
Anyway, I grabbed an image of the Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver (the Eccleston version) from Henriks, imported it as a texture and then reshaped a rectangle to fit its outline. Then I used the follow tool to wrap that outline around a circle, made a few adjustments and put some color on it. I’m pretty happy with it! The SketchUp file is here. Now where did I put that 3D printer…..
Render from SketchUp:
Henriks image:
My PageRank is wonky
blog.tokash.org and all it’s children currently have a PR of 0. It looks like I’m being penalized. For what, though? Is it just a wierd hiccup at Google? When I looked 2 days ago, most of my pages had a PR of 4 or 5.
Update: I just checked the PR of my old blog (blog.ronin64.com) which 301 redirects to this one. It’s PR is 0, also.
Update: The problem seems to be intermittent. Sometimes the rank is 3-5 for child pages and sometimes it’s 0. I’ll chalk it up as a false alarm for now. 🙂
Om’s on fire
Paul Stone found a reference to Google Calendar and Om has more info.
The Origami plot thickens with the found video and Om chastizes Palm for not doing it first (I totally agree).
Comprehensive Look at Stats Packages
This is a very comprehensive look at currently available visitor statistics solutions. I currently use Mint, Google Analytics, Analog and MeasureMap on this site and I’ve been thinking about doing an in depth comparison. Looks like I don’t need to anymore, conversionrater did the job for me.
The article missed PHPMyVisites, a pretty mature system which I just heard about yesterday.
John Tokash 