Tag Archives: Mac OS X

Flash video gets dramatically more efficient

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Steven Fisher

I’m especially glad the vast conspiracy keeping Flash down by falsely claiming video decoding was horribly inefficient didn’t prevent Adobe from fixing that inefficiency. Haters gonna hate, yo. You gotta rise above. John Nack on Adobe : Flash video gets … Continue reading →

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Xcode tip: Renaming files shared by projects

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Steven Fisher

What if you want to rename a file that’s used in multiple Xcode projects? Well, previously I’d rename the file in one project, then open each project in series and correct broken references. But I discovered today that this is … Continue reading →

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John Siracusa: Ars Technica review of Snow Leopard. Includes a discussion of some of the file system’s new tricks and QuickTime X’s secrets, which you’ll probably never need to know. But don’t you want to know?

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

John C. Welch (aka Bynkii, Angry Mac Bastard): Password Changes in Open Directory (One burst of profanity). For us Mac users who are sometimes a little too smug about the Mac’s user interface. (The podcast: Angry Mac Bastards. Extreme profanity … Continue reading →

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Matt Gallagher: Rules to avoid retain cycles

Posted on July 27, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Apple’s developer documentation website is horrible

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Isn’t anyone at Apple even mildly embarrassed about how poor the ADC search results are? Like everyone other Mac developer (at least, those not using a seed… no comment otherwise), I’ve been bit by the Mac OS X 10.5.7 bug … Continue reading →

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Wade Cosgrove (Panic): Developer Color Picker. Copy colors from the picker as a [UIColor initWithRed:green:blue:alpha:] sequence.

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

I knew about Quartz Debug.app , but hadn’t heard of NSShowAllDrawing. Sounds more practical.

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Steven Fisher | Comments Off

Keeping optimal autorelease pools

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Steven Fisher

Martin Pilkington on autorelease pools: However, a problem arises when you’re creating a lot of objects at once. The obvious solution is to initialise and release objects by hand in this case, but sometimes it isn’t possible. A lot of … Continue reading →

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iPhoto Faces fail

Posted on March 27, 2009 by Steven Fisher
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