Archive for December, 2006
Steve Jobs’ Best Year Ever
Monday, December 25th, 2006Apple’s head cheese must surely now be counted as one of America’s great business leaders after his great year. Commentary by Leander Kahney.
Why Chanute?
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006Posted 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…
In Praise of the Zune
Monday, December 11th, 2006After two weeks of hands-on testing, an iPod freak says Microsoft’s music player just might give the Apple gadget a run for its money. Commentary by Leander Kahney. 
A Passion for Music
Monday, December 11th, 2006Posted 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…
Google Summer of Code and Macs
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006Posted 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…
Remote Access
Friday, December 1st, 2006Posted 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…