And the Google parade continues...

Google just released an offline video player that has the following features:

• Watch videos downloaded from Google Video
• Browse scenes within a video using thumbnails
• Skip to anywhere in the video, even if that portion hasn't downloaded yet
• Sit back and watch videos in full screen mode
• Resume video downloads automatically

Get it here.

MTC Take: Of late, it seems only Apple and Google have been taking turns pushing innovation's edge. Must be frustrating for the competition as the two companies keep leapfrogging ahead.

Both companies have *Nix in their DNA (Darwin in OS X, and hundreds of thousands of Linux boxes in Google's datacenters), and you can sense that there's a bit of a lovefest between the two as Google has gone out of its way to support Safari.

Other worthwhile Mac-friendly Google offerings are:

• Google Widgets for Dashboard (Blogger, Gmail & Search History)
• Google Earth for the Mac
• Google Mac Search (Prefiltered Apple-centric searches)
• Google Talk iChat support
• Google Calendar iCal support
• iTunes integration in Google Music Search
• Gmail Notifier for the Mac

And here are some other third-party Google/Mac nuggets:

• Google Spotlight Importer (include Google search results in Spotlight Queries)
• Google Maps Address Book Plug-ins
• Google PageRank widget
• Google News Widget
• Google Image Search Widget
• and the list goes on & on...

If I were Apple, I'd just get out of the .Mac business and fully integrate iSync and iLife with Google. That would be a marriage made in heaven!