I recently wrote about BitBQ’s acquisition of LittleSnapper for iPhone, now Cinder, that was originally developed by Realmac software. Being a very light LittleSnapper user myself, I was interested in who had taken interest in the application and wanted to get to know Patrick just a little better. He agreed to answer some questions I put together, [...]
I’d like to first thank everyone who has purchased a copy of That’s What She Said Jokes from the iTunes App Store this week, it’s been a great launch week. And an even bigger thanks to those who have registered and submitted their own jokes!
Version 1.0.1 is now available in the iTunes App Store and [...]
EMKeychain is a Cocoa class-wrapper for viewing and modifying the Mac OS X Keychain.
Very simple interface and would be a great addition to any developer’s toolkit. From ExtendedMac Software:
EMKeychain v1.0 is now available. With it comes the following changes:
Re-written for Objective-C 2.0 features, like properties.
Ability to remove a keychain item.
Streamlined design — no more proxy!
Fixes [...]
If you’ve ever used NSAlert in your Cocoa application and wondered why NSInformationalAlertStyle and NSWarningAlertStyle looked exactly the same when using NSAlert, you’re not the only one. CLAlert has been released (MIT license) that uses an information bubble for NSInformationalAlertStyle, caution icon (currently NSCriticalAlertStyle) for NSWarningAlertStyle, and a red stop sign for NSCriticalAlertStyle.
Makes much more sense from [...]
Continuing with providing useful Cocoa snippets, I have posted a few NSFileManager category methods to help easily determine the file size of a single file, directory, or quickly hide a file/directory using the invisibility bit (like using /usr/bin/setfile, ie: setfile -a V somefile).
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@interface NSFileManager (MacFanatic)
- (unsigned long) sizeOfDirectory:(NSString*)dir; // Bytes
- (unsigned long) sizeOfFile:(NSString*)file; // Bytes
- (BOOL)setInvisibilityFlag:(BOOL)invisible [...]
The need to quickly add my application to a user’s Dock arose while working on a project for a client a few months back. I was intrigued by the code (first encounter with NSAppleScript as the big one) and took some time to sit down and refine what I had originally pieced together into something [...]
Grand Central Dispatch, introduced in Snow Leopard, brings a C API for effectively managing concurrency in your applications. Apple has now posted the code for the user space implementation online at MacOSForge. The kernel optimizations are linked in the project page, but the API only requires a C compiler supporting Blocks, such as [...]
Just to save someone 3-5 minutes of time, if you install the 10.4u SDK to target Tiger machines with Xcode 3.2 (Snow Leopard), you will have to change a build setting to get Xcode to compile.
In the settings for your target, change the compiler option from “System Default – GCC 4.2″ to “GCC 4.0″. [...]
I thought I would highlight what I found to be the most interesting points from the Snow Leopard Ars Technica review, for those who couldn’t make it through the 23 page review and provide a few thoughts on the OS overall.
Read after the break for a list of UI and usability changes as well as [...]
Here’s a little snippet of code for placing anything (or your application) in a user’s Dock. Wrote it for a project I’m working on which prompts the user on first launch to place in Dock for them. I know many people disagree with this (as do I), but it’s what the client is [...]