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 starte…
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 …
by Greg Robbins, Mac Software EngineerThe collection of Google Data APIs continue to grow, and the Google Data APIs Objective-C Client Library is growing too. If you’re a Mac software developer, you’ll find that today’s release of version 1.2 of the li…
by Mike Morton, Mac Team EngineerEach summer for more than 25 years, thousands of developers have flocked to Northern California to attend Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (which everyone calls WWDC). It’s a week of lectures and labs, schmooz…
Posted by Dave MacLachlan, Mac Software EngineerMost people aren’t aware that Google Desktop has a simple, but powerful, AppleScript interface. You can use this interface to write scripts that search with Google Desktop. The most basic script allo…
Posted by Greg Robbins, Mac Software EngineerMy parents enjoy it when I bring them printouts of my favorite photos, but the rest of my family and friends are happier just to get links to the pictures. With the Mac uploaders for Picasa Web Albums, it’s …
Posted by Dan Waylonis, Mac Software EngineerHave you heard about Google Gears? It’s an extension to your favorite web browser and a new open source project from Google. It adds support for local data storage and helps web application developers manage…
posted by Scott Knaster, Technical WriterSeasoned Mac developers and fans know that Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developer Conference (better known as WWDC) is a highlight of every year. And for the first time this year, we are getting into the developer…
Posted by Mike Morton, Software EngineerOn April 4th, we announced Google Updater. It uses several pieces of software that run in the background, but we knew early on it was important for the one user-visible application to be able to show you what tho…
Posted by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerWhen you trust your personal data to Google, it’s still your data. You’re free to edit it, to share it with others, or to download it and take it somewhere else entirely. The principle is simple: we won’t lock y…
Posted By Mike Pinkerton, Software EngineerPeople have been asking me since I started at Google what I’ve been working on, and until today, I’ve been unable to say. Now is the time to change all that and introduce the newest product from the Google Mac…
Posted by Greg Miller, Mac Team Software Engineer If you’re familiar with Unix or you’ve poked around user accounts and file permissions in Mac OS X, you have probably seen typical user accounts such as root, nobody, and daemon. Mac OS X has an addit…
Posted by Scott Knaster, Mac Team Technical WriterThere are some new developments with MacFUSE, the open source project that makes it easier to bring file systems to Mac OS X, that we want to let you know about: One of the great features of MacFUSE is…
Posted by Mike Pinkerton, Mac Team Software EngineerBack in January, I had the pleasure of speaking at Google as a part of the Open Source Developers @ Google Speaker Series about the past, present and future of Camino. It’s impossible to tell the stor…
Posted by Scott Knaster, Mac Team Technical WriterWhen you start work at Google, you get to choose whether you want a Mac, Windows, or Linux computer. For many new employees who have never used a Mac (or who haven’t used one for a long time), this choi…