Posted by Mike Morton, Mac Team Technical StaffMy mother’s parents lived on a farm in New Jersey, or at least it seemed like a farm to me. To a kid from the Boston ’burbs, parking the car in a barn and drinking water from a well seemed very exotic….
Posted by David Phillip Oster, Mac Software EngineerGoogle Notifier is a program I wrote that lets you know when there is new Gmail ready to be read in your inbox and when you have upcoming Google Calendar events. The basic features of Notifier are pre…
Posted by Greg Miller, Software Engineer, Mac Team A little over a week ago, we announced the open-source release of MacFUSE. Since FUSE makes it so easy to slap a file system view on data, I thought it might be neat to give Spotlight a file system in…
Posted by Rose Yao, Mac Product Manager and Mike Pinkerton, Software EngineerRemember when I said I was “new to the Mac”? Well, after camping out the night before Steve Jobs’ keynote speech at Macworld Expo, I now consider myself a Mac veteran. I joine…
Posted by Amit Singh, Mac Engineering ManagerGoogle is a fantastic company to work for. I could cite numerous reasons why. Take the concept of “20 percent time.” Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing projects they’r…
Posted by Mike Morton, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamOne of the nice things about working for Google is that even though we engineers have a lot to do in our day jobs, we’re encouraged to learn new things. We attend “tech talks” (which aren’t …
Posted by Dan Webb, Software Engineer, Google Earth for Mac OS XIf you’re in the U.S. and you have a Mac, try this: Launch Google Earth, wait for the zooming to stop, and then press the + button to zoom closer. You’ll arrive at the small town of Chanut…
Posted by Mark Dalrymple, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamAfter an orchestra rehearsal last month, some of us went to the local Eat-n-Park, a family restaurant chain here in western Pennsylvania. I was decked out in a traditional black Google T-shir…
Posted by: Desmond Elliott, StudentWhat did you do on your summer vacation? Desmond Elliott, a computer science student at Edinburgh University, spent some of his time working on Camino, the Mac-only open source browser, as part of the Google Summer o…
Posted by: Amanda Walker, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamI started my career working on Mac networking products way back in the ’80s and ’90s, well before the Internet was in everybody’s living room. For example, I wrote SLIP and PPP packages to ge…
Posted by: Dave MacLachlan, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamCategories are a really interesting feature of Objective-C, especially for those of us who came from C++. Not only do categories allow you to extend other classes for which you may be lacki…
Posted by: Scott Knaster, Technical WriterThe first time I ever saw the mysterious inscription Woz was while reading the legendary Red Book that came with my Apple ][. I soon found out that Woz was Steve Wozniak, who had designed the Apple ][ and co-fo…
Posted by: John Gardiner, Technical Writer, Google Earth team, and Rose Yao, Mac Product ManagerLate last week, Google released an updated beta version of Google Earth 4 for Mac OS X (and some other platforms). For those of you who love Google Earth, t…
Posted by: Dave MacLachlan, Member of Technical Staff, Mac TeamPreviously we addressed the problem of optimizing around a shared resource. We came up with one solution, but it was kind of messy, and we wondered if there might be a better way. And now: …
Posted by: Dave MacLachlan, Member of Technical Staff, Mac Team(Editor’s note: today’s post is a bit different from our usual fare — it’s aimed at the Mac programmers out there. And if you’re not a programmer, you might want to find one to guide you t…