Google has released basic software called Vidnik that lets Mac OS X users record video with a Webcam or built-in camera, trim its length, add tags and a title, then upload it to YouTube.
Google's Vidnik lets users take videos, trim them, and upload them to YouTube. (Credit: Google)
The software also can be used to upload other videos to the company's video-sharing site, and other editing software can be used on the videos taken by Vidnik, David Phillip Oster of Google's Mac team said in a blog posting.
The software is among a host of Mac applications the company has produced. (Another interesting one is Visigami, which lets people search for images on Flickr, Picasa, and Google Images and use the results as an animated screensaver.)
Google has an increasing stable of software that runs on people's computers — Google Desktop is one good example — and is working on mobile phone applications, too, through its Android project.
But don't be confused by all this attention to what's known as client software: the company's higher priority is to make the Internet the application foundation of choice.
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