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We at Google were shocked and saddened yesterday to hear about the death of Steve Jobs. Steve’s work has inspired and delighted many of us for decades, and we will miss him. Please read Larry and Sergey’s thoughts about Steve Jobs.

GregTomBy Greg Robbins and Tom Van Lenten, Software EngineersCross-posted with the Google Code BlogFour years ago, we introduced an Objective-C library for Google Data APIs. At first, it supported a scant three services – Google Base, Calendar, and Spr…

by Robert Sesek, Software EngineerIn Chrome, have you ever accidentally hit ⌘ + Q when you meant to hit ⌘ + W? It’s both frustrating and a productivity killer to close your entire browser by accident, because you then have to restart and wait for…

by Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamGoogle Engineer Mike Morton is finished with Apple’s 2011 Worldwide Developer Conference. Here’s his final journal entry, written before he hopped a plane for home earlier today, where he’s probably catching up on sleep a…

by Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamEvery June, Mike Morton travels to San Francisco for Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference so you don’t have to. WWDC content is covered by a non-disclosure agreement, so Mike’s observations focus on ambiance, human beha…

By Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamGoogle Engineer Mike Morton continues his nerd’s-eye-view report from the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. Today Mike starts with a festive breakfast and finishes at this year’s edition of the legend…

by Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamGoogle engineer Mike Morton is back with his annual report from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. Today Mike blogs about lines, coffee, a parking garage, and even more lines (or is it the same line?…

by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerIn September, we introduced OAuth 1 sign-in controllers to simplify authenticating users from iOS and Mac applications. As the Internet software industry is converging on a newer standard, Google now offers the Google …

Administration of software packages on the Mac platform can often be daunting. Google’s Mac Operations and Security teams evaluated several solutions for OS X package deployment, but unfortunately none of them met all of our required features. …

Administration of software packages on the Mac platform can often be daunting. Google’s Mac Operations and Security teams evaluated several solutions for OS X package deployment, but unfortunately none of them met all of our required features. …

By Greg Robbins, Software EngineerOur new release of Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac OS X adds some valuable improvements suggested by users. If you share photos and videos on Picasa Web Albums with friends and family, you’ll find this update work…

By Greg Robbins, Software EngineerOur new release of Picasa Web Albums Uploader for Mac OS X adds some valuable improvements suggested by users. If you share photos and videos on Picasa Web Albums with friends and family, you’ll find this update work…

Two months ago, Chrome team members shared a list of their favorite extensions on the Official Google blog. This time around, we asked Mac aficionados on the Chrome team to share with us the extensions they like the most. Below is a list of their favor…

By Greg Robbins, Software Engineer(Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is another cool one for programmers in the audience. Non-developer readers, thanks for bearing with us.)Mac OS X and iOS provide developers with a high-level class, NSURLConnection, th…

By Greg Robbins, Software Engineer(Editor’s note: Today’s blog post is another cool one for programmers in the audience. Non-developer readers, thanks for bearing with us.)Mac OS X and iOS provide developers with a high-level class, NSURLConnection, th…