Google Unveils Website for Mac Developers

Internet search and online advertising company Google has launched the Mac Developer Playground, a website that houses open source code and demos from its Apple-oriented engineers, the InformationWeek has reported.

The site includes a variety of works-in-progress applications for Mac developers and general users. For example, Statz allows users to modify their status such as away and available across multiple instant messenger (IM) applications, including Colloquy, iChat, and Skype. The website also includes an Objective C Client Library for using Google’s data application program interfaces (API). Further, it includes applications such as MacFUSE, an add-on file system for the Mac, and iPhone Disk, an implementation of MacFUSE for reading and writing data on iPhone.

According to InformationWeek, Karen Grunberg, product manager at Google said: “Today, we’re unveiling the Google Mac Developer Playground, a website where the Mac community can look for new and interesting open source projects and demos from our Mac team.”

Other projects on the website include Cover Story, a user interface for a code testing program called gcov; Quartz Composer Patches, which lets programmers to create graphics that interact with ambient and motion sensors on certain Macs; and Telekinesis, which lets users access their Macs through their iPhones.

In a move to attract Apple community, Google released a new iPhone interface in December 2007. It also allowed the ability of Google Gadgets to run as Mac Dashboard widgets.

In December 2006, Google announced a new API for creating chart graphics on any website.

Source: ComputerWire daily updates