Google Data » Rose https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:49:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 Google Desktop for the Mac in 9 more languages https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-desktop-for-the-mac-in-9-more-languages/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-desktop-for-the-mac-in-9-more-languages https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-desktop-for-the-mac-in-9-more-languages/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:35:00 +0000 Google Desktop and Updater for the Mac in 9 more languages today: Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Dutch, UK English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. For those of you who haven't tried Google Desktop yet, you can get the latest build at http://desktop.google.com/mac. All our current users will be updated to the latest and greatest automatically.

Internationalization is more than just great translations. Google Desktop for the Mac gives users fast, easy, and comprehensive search. So with this launch, we worked side by side with Googlers in Japan, France, Germany, and many other countries to make sure the product meets that goal in each of the 9 new languages. Part of that work was improving search and indexing support for non-Roman languages such as Chinese and Japanese. For our existing English users, this build also includes a lot of bug fixes (see release notes).

We're really excited to hear feedback from users all around the world about Google Desktop for the Mac. Thanks for all the comments you've sent us on previous versions.

Note: This update will most likely require a reboot and will create a new index of the information on your computer, to improve the quality of searches across all languages.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-desktop-for-the-mac-in-9-more-languages/feed/ 0 Congratulations Amit, the Mac team is proud of you! https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/congratulations-amit-the-mac-team-is-proud-of-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=congratulations-amit-the-mac-team-is-proud-of-you https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/congratulations-amit-the-mac-team-is-proud-of-you/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:31:00 +0000
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Just wanted to let everyone know about a new update for Google Desktop for the Mac. We've been reading your emails, blogs, and comments, so we focused this update on making Google Desktop faster and fixing the bugs that we hear the most about. We have also updated Google Updater in this release with a lot of great bug fixes. You can check out our release notes for more details. If you have Google Desktop installed, you don't need to do anything to get the update, we'll deliver it to you automatically. If you want to try the latest version of Google Desktop, go to desktop.google.com/mac.

P.S. For all the Mac developers out there, we've also added a new XML based query API that is supported on the PC and the Mac. Learn more about it!
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I remember sitting in front of my Power Mac G5 reading about Google Web Toolkit in May of last year and thinking about how cool it was. It's such a great idea for AJAX development: use a language with unequalled tool support to write your code and then compile it into compact, highly optimized JavaScript which automatically works around all manner of browser quirkiness. I was eager to try it but very disappointed to find that it was only available for Linux and Windows. So I bookmarked the site and decided to check back later.

In a strange turn of events, as I watched GWT develop, I somehow came to work for Google ... on the GWT team, no less. So when I got the opportunity to participate in the recent addition of OS X support, I was thrilled. The previous versions of the toolkit had made debugging possible by hooking directly into the JavaScript engines of Internet Explorer and Firefox, which helps our Windows and Linux users. A few weeks back, we started down a similar route with Webkit/Safari, and today that version showed up on the GWT download page. So for all the other Mac folks who have been checking in on GWT hoping to find a Mac download, voila. And for those of you who have no earthly idea what I'm talking about, let me just give you a very quick intro.

What is Google Web Toolkit?
Ever wonder how killer applications like Gmail, Google Calendar, and JotSpot are built? It's not enough to have a great idea; you need to know how each browser deals with JavaScript, CSS and HTML. You know, things like how element prototypes are shared across iframes on Internet Explorer and Firefox, but not Safari. Or that Opera's scrollTop values often give you non-zero values even when there isn't a scrollbar anywhere in sight. If you still have no earthly idea what I'm talking about, let me just assure you that there are many such things that make development of AJAX applications error-prone and just plain painful. And I haven't even mentioned the pain of managing a large codebase using a language that gives you as much freedom as JavaScript does.

Instead, GWT takes a different tack: write your AJAX code in Java, leveraging concepts and patterns that have become very familiar to UI developers; develop using proven development environments that include good code completion and refactoring tools like Eclipse; debug your apps by running them in a real browser, using a solid debugger; then use a compiler to translate all that Java code to tiny, high-performance JavaScript that automatically works around most browser quirks without so much as a nod from the developer. And of course, make it possible to slip seamlessly into JavaScript when the need arises to do things we never even anticipated.

But there's one more thing...

OK, you have to promise not to tell our Windows and Linux users, but we were able to slip a little something extra into the OS X version. One item that has been on our nice-to-have list for some time has been a quality DOM inspector to allow developers to take a look under the hood at the dynamically created tags you find in AJAX applications. On the other platforms, it's still in the to-be-scheduled stage. But on OS X, right-clicking on the page you're debugging reveals an interesting option: "Inspect Element." Select that, and a window appears that should be familiar to you WebKit hackers. Yes, we enabled a feature that is part of WebKit but not turned on in Safari, which enables you to inspect DOM elements in the debuggable browser. But please, whatever you do, don't tell the Windows or Linux folks about it.
]]> https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-web-toolkit-gwt-for-the-mac/feed/ 0 Google and your Mac https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-and-your-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-and-your-mac https://googledata.org/google-mac-blog/google-and-your-mac/#comments Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:23:00 +0000 Posted by: Scott Knaster, Technical Writer, and Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager

If you sit down at your Mac, start up your browser, and search for "Google mission statement", this is what you'll see:

" Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

We're pretty serious about that mission, including the "universally accessible" part. It means making products that everyone can use – including Mac users. We want to provide great products and services to the tens of millions of Mac users around the world, because it's the right thing to do, and because Mac users inside and outside Google demand it. That's why we've recruited some of the best, most passionate Mac people out there for a Mac Engineering team. You can already check out the first results of their efforts at www.google.com/mac :

In addition to these, you might have noticed some other Mac goodness showing up in Google products such as Safari support for Google Calendar , full Mac support for Google Video, and the Mac version of Google Earth. These upgrades are the result of more work by Google's Mac Engineering team and friends.


We're thrilled to have our Mac team in place, and they're just getting started. Watch this blog to keep up with the latest about everything Google is doing to support Mac users.

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