Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

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Google Gets Serious About Open Source Mac Projects

Saturday, 07 June 2008

In the "20 percent time" that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their beloved Macs.

Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows.

Here are a few of the best open-source Mac projects from Google:
* AppMenuBoy: Easily add hierarchical menus in the dock of applications.
* MacFuse: "Implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user space program on Mac OS X...(that) opens up a whole new set of opportunities for Macintosh developers, who can now put intuitive and innovative interfaces around all kinds of information."
* Statz: Ever want to update your status in Skype, Adium, etc. all at the same time, from one user interface? Well, here you go.
* Vidnik: "Record video segments using your iSight camera, and upload them to YouTube." Makes the Mac-to-YouTube process even easier (if that was possible).