Google opens 'Mac Developer Playground'

By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 08 December 2007, 18:01 IST
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Google appears to be paying more attention to the Mac community lately. It recently launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a website that houses open source code and projects from Google's Apple-oriented engineers. As a part of focusing on Mac community, the company also released a new iPhone interface and the new ability of Google Gadgets to run as Mac Dashboard widgets this Wednesday, reported Information Week. There's an Objective C Client Library for using Google's data APIs. One of the new projects the company is highlighting is Stats. The project created by Dave MacLachlan allows the coordination of status messages for those with more than one IM client. Other projects include Cover Story, a UI for a code testing program called gcov, Quartz Composer Patches, which let programmers create graphics that interact with ambient and motion sensors on certain Macs, and Telekinesis, which lets users access their Macs through their iPhones.