Archive for November, 2006
Getting Loaded
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006Posted 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…
Rhapsody’s a Raspberry
Monday, November 27th, 2006Interested in subscribing to music instead of buying one song at a time? Unfortunately, RealNetworks’ alternative to iTunes — the Rhapsody subscription service — is not music to the ears. Commentary by Leander Kahney. 
Woz comes to Google
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Posted 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…
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) for the Mac
Thursday, November 16th, 2006Posted by: Kelly Norton, GWT EngineerI remember sitting in front of my Power Mac G5 reading about Google Web Toolkit in May of last year and thinking about how cool it was. It’s such a great idea for AJAX development: use a language with unequalle…
More Earth for the Mac
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006Posted 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…
@synchronized swimming (part 2)
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Posted 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: …