Tag Archives: Mac OS X
Ars Technica on Snow Leopard
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?
Password Changes in Open Directory
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
Rules to avoid retain cycles
Matt Gallagher: Rules to avoid retain cycles
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Tagged cocoa, iPhone, Mac OS X, memory management, objective-c, release retain, Software Development
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Apple's developer documentation website is horrible
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
Developer Color Picker
Wade Cosgrove (Panic): Developer Color Picker. Copy colors from the picker as a [UIColor initWithRed:green:blue:alpha:] sequence.
Debugging drawing performance
I knew about Quartz Debug.app , but hadn’t heard of NSShowAllDrawing. Sounds more practical.
Keeping optimal autorelease pools
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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Tagged autorelease, cocoa, Mac OS X, memory management, Software Development
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iPhoto Faces fail
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Tagged Apple, face recognition, faces, fail, iLife, iphoto, iPhoto Faces, Mac OS X
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iCal View menu
Here’s iCal’s View menu. What’s so confusing about it? You really need to see how it interacts with the iCal main window to understand. We’re going to be focusing on the group starting with “Hide Calendar List.” The iCal main … Continue reading
Save changes?
Is it any wonder I sometimes miss saving?