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Google Mac Developer Playground

Welcome

Many developers at Google work on interesting open-source projects, some full time, some in their 20% time. This page is a collection of several such Mac-related projects.

Some of these projects, like MacFUSE, are mature and supported. Others are unsupported technology demos that we provide solely for experimentation and entertainment.

For the latest news, visit our blog. If you are looking for more Mac software from Google, check out www.google.com/mac.

Recent Changes

Tools & Demos

Vidnik New!
Record video segments using your iSight camera and upload them to YouTube.
Visigami New!
An image search application and screen-saver that uses Google Images, Picasa, and Flickr.
AppMenuBoy New!
Creates a hierarchical menu in the dock of all your applications.
CoverStory Updated!
UI for analyzing files using gcov on the Mac.
GData Updated!
Write Objective-C applications that talk to Google's services through GData APIs.
Statz
Update your status across multiple IM and chat networks.
MacFUSE
MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X.
Quartz Composer Patches
A collection of Quartz Composer patches for Leopard that work with the ambient light and motion sensors.
Accessibility File System for MacFUSE
AccessibilityFS is a demonstration MacFUSE filesystem that exposes all of the applications that you are running from an accessibility perspective.
Google Toolbox for Mac
A collection of source from different Google projects that may be of use to developers working other Mac projects.

Of course, there is a huge open source Mac community out there that is unrelated to Google, and you can see some of the Mac related open source projects on Google Code project hosting.

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