August 17th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
by Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamEvery year, Google engineer Mike Morton becomes intrepid reporter Mike Morton as he ventures to Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference. Apple doesn’t allow attendees to disclose the technical bits of the conference, so he…
Google Latitude for iPhone
July 23rd, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
If you’re an iPhone user, you might have been waiting for Google Latitude, our service that lets you see where your friends are, which has not been available on iPhone. Well, today we’re releasing Google Latitude for iPhone and iPod touch as a web app…
June 18th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Greg Robbins, Software EngineerIn December, the Picasa Web Albums Uploader added support for downloading a photo album to your Mac. We’ve recently updated the Uploader to include the ability to download all photos from all albums in your account. To…
June 9th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
When most people think of Google, search comes to mind – and rightly so! Hundreds of millions of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet. About 2 years ago, we introduced Google Desktop to exte…
June 4th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Avi Drissman, Google Chrome Team(Note: this is another of our occasional extra-geeky technical posts. If this isn’t your thing, don’t worry; our usual non-technical stuff will be back soon.)Welcome back. In our last post we went through a simple fun…
June 2nd, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Scott Knaster, Google Mac TeamInterested in news about Google Chrome for Mac OS X? Google Chrome for the Mac is coming along fine, and for the technically inclined, Jeremy Moskovich of the Google Chrome team has written a blog post explaining how th…
May 26th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Avi Drissman, Google Chrome Team(Note: this is one of our occasional extra-geeky technical posts. If this isn’t your thing, don’t worry; our usual non-technical stuff will be back soon.)If you’re a programmer, there are many reasons why you might wa…
May 23rd, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
Guest post by Mike MacDonald, Founder and CTO, gWhiz LLCgFlashPro, the first offering in the iPhone App Store from our company, gWhiz, is a popular mobile flashcards application used by students of all ages to study on the go. Google Spreadsheets provi…
April 7th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
Today I’m happy to announce that we’ve updated Gmail and Calendar for the iPhone. We’ve completely re-architected the code so you get more consistent performance, refreshed the user interface so it’s easier to perform batch actions, and most important…
March 25th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
Guest post by Tom Saxton, Idle Loop Software DesignIn September, my small software company shipped our first iPhone app, a grocery list program called Grocophile. One of the most common requests from our users was the ability to exchange data over the …
Health and Vigor in a Google Data APIs Library Update
March 17th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
Posted by Greg Robbins, Software EngineerIf there’s a hole in my memory, it’s right where the date of my last tetanus shot should be stored. Luckily, Google Health promises to help us keep track of the many medical details in our lives that would other…
What’s New for iPhone
February 17th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
By Jason Toff, Google Mac TeamOver the past few weeks, a number of enhancements have been made to Google’s offerings for the iPhone. We wanted to highlight some of those improvements here.Google Sync BetaGoogle Sync allows you to get your Gmail C…
Search Without Effort: The Quick Search Box
January 12th, 2009 | by Scott Knaster | published in Google Mac Blog
By Nicholas Jitkoff and Dave MacLachlan, Google Mac TeamOne of our goals at Google is to make your search experience as fluid as possible. While much of our work is focused on Google.com, we’re trying to make it just as easy to search outside your brow…
YouTube Upload Booth
January 9th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
By Jason Toff, Google Mac TeamIn addition to the Earth Surfer application, our Macworld booth also features a YouTube Upload Booth this year. Several famed YouTubers stopped in the booth and used Quick Capture to upload their videos to the web.&n…
Surf Through Google Earth
January 8th, 2009 | by Jason Toff | published in Google Mac Blog
By Jason Toff, Google Mac TeamThis year for Macworld a Google engineer, David Phillip Oster, wrote a fun application that allows you to surf through Google earth. Watch the video below and read more about it on the Google Lat Long blog.