Archive for the ‘Google Mac’ Category
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
The most wonderful time of the year
By Scott Knaster, Mac Team2007 has been an amazing year for Apple users, beginning with the iPhone announcement and culminating in the highly anticipated release of Mac OS X Leopard in October. The Google Mac team has been busy too, starting with the MacFUSE ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Mac OS X Dashboard widget security issue
By Scott Knaster, Mac TeamIf you've used our Gmail, Blogger, or Search History widgets recently, you might have noticed they're displaying a message asking you to download new versions. Here's why: Thomas Roessler of the W3C let us know about a security vulnerability in ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Statz 0.8.5
By Dave MacLachlan, Mac TeamIt's barely been a week since we launched Statz on the Google Mac Developer Playground, and it's already seen a couple of major updates. The new version now supports Ircle, Snak, Conversation, Twitter and Tumblr on top of the already-supported Adium, Colloquy, iChat ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Google.com gets better on your iPhone
By Scott Knaster, Mac TeamIf you have an iPhone, be sure to visit google.com today. We've launched a new iPhone application that gives you single-screen access to a bunch of Google services, including search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, and more. Check it out!
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Welcome to the Playground!
by Amit Singh, Engineering Manager, and Karen Grünberg, Product ManagerYou won't be surprised to learn that we like to mix a healthy dose of fun into work. Our Mac team engineers spend their 20% time developing interesting experiments, useful tools, and just-for-fun software.We've always had a place ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Google Gadgets for the Mac
By Mike Pinkerton, Software EngineerEarlier this year, I posted here to introduce Google Desktop for Mac OS X. Today, on behalf of my team, I'm happy to unveil the latest feature of Desktop: Google Gadgets for Mac OS X Beta.This feature brings hundreds of existing Google ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
DTrace demystified
by Scott Knaster, Mac TeamNow that Leopard is sweeping the planet, you might have heard about its cool new developer technologies, including DTrace, a great tool for observing and debugging software as it's running. If you're interested in learning more about DTrace, check out this terrific MacTech article written ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Google Desktop update for Leopard
By Mark Sabec, Associate Product Marketing Manager, and Mike Pinkerton, Software EngineerThis Friday is a big day in the Mac world: Apple is releasing Leopard, its new operating system. And that means we've been working hard to ensure that all Google products for the Mac work ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
An Uploader Update
by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerToday's release of version 1.1 of the Picasa Web Albums Uploaders adds support for Apple's new iPhoto '08. But under the covers, the new uploaders reflect some of the other ongoing work in Google's Mac team. For starters, this release installs and updates via ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Adventures in the culinary arts
Posted by Dave MacLachlan, Mac Software EngineerHow often do you get to cook fine cuisine for 800 people -- especially while learning from some of the finest chefs in the business? Our Google chefs offer a limited number of culinary internships, and I was lucky enough ...
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