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So a multi-billion dollar company introduces its sleek and sexy new operating system today. Wall Street yawns and drops its stock price by 3%, and tons of this company’s users cry foul over the 3rd party applications being driven out of the market...
I’m banging out a little application on Mac OS X in Obj-C/Cocoa currently. With any luck, I will have this done in the near future, and I’ll sell a few copies per month. I tend not to have to use the documentation for NSImage that often; iRooster ...
“Sure, you’re right, I can’t break into OS 9. But I can’t telnet into a fucking rock now, either, can I?”
How do I bring all my windows to the front? Mac OS X introduced a new paradigm of window layering which allows windows of different applications to be interwoven with one another. This paradigm makes dragging from one applications window to anoth...
I’ve been a fence-sitter for years. I started out with Mac OS 7.5 (really, System 7.5) back in the early 1990s on a Power Mac 6100. I was totally a Mac zealot: “PCs suck, blah blah blah.” At the age of 17 I started working for the Geek Squad, wher...
If I ever meet Stuart Cheshire, I am going to buy him a beer. I was bored to tears at work today – I completed the project that I’ve been working on a couple days ago, and everyone I work with is gone so I can’t get any feedback – so I started pu...
I have one rather big issue with Mac OS X that I hope is resolved in the not-too-distant future. Removing nasty, buggy kernel extensions (kexts) is a terribly difficult process most of the time. Mind you, well-behaved kext authors do nice things l...
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