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Cocoa Applications in Mac OS X: Jun 27, 2003; A little commitment and some hard work will get you poised to build great applications. Do this by getting a grasp on designing and implementing a document-based Cocoa application of your own through concentration on the relationships between the source code and the user interface items.

Cocoa Language Options: Nov 8, 2002; Scott Anguish, Erik Buck, and Donald Yacktman describe the general features of all languages that can be used with Cocoa, and provide a brief overview of object-oriented terminology.

Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X: Custom Views: May 30, 2008; All visible objects in an application are either windows or views. In this chapter, Aaron Hillegass shows how to create a subclass of NSView.

Cocoa Tips: Don't Reimplement Standard Functionality: Jan 15, 2010; David Chisnall explains why using OS X's built-in APIs, rather than rolling your own, will allow your program to work with all of the user's other programs.

Cocoa Tips: Exposing System Services: Jan 22, 2010; David Chisnall shows how exposing system services makes it easy for users to access the features of your program from other applications.

Connecting Your Mac to a Network: Jan 15, 2014; This chapter shows how to connect your MacBook to wired and wireless connections as well as how to manage multiple connections.

Connecting Your MacBook to a Network: Nov 28, 2011; In this chapter, you’ll learn how to get your MacBook online including tasks like connecting to wired and wireless networks, iPhones, VPNs and more.

Controlling an iPod or iPod mini: Dec 9, 2005; In this chapter, you'll learn the specific controls on the current generation of iPods (current to when I was writing this book, that is) that you use to perform various functions.

Customizing and Personalizing Your Mac: Jun 2, 2008; It’s your Mac—why not have some fun with it? Let Kate Binder show how you can change the way your Mac looks, feels, and works.

Customizing Your Mac: Dec 28, 2012; In this chapter, you’ll learn how to customize the OS X Mountain Lion Finder, the Dock, the desktop, your screen saver, and your security preferences. You’ll also learn how to make your own Dashboard widgets

Customizing Your Mac with OS X Lion: Nov 11, 2011; This chapter shows how to customize the Finder, the Dock, the desktop, your screen saver, and your security preferences in OS X Lion. You’ll also learn how to make your own Dashboard widgets.

Customizing Your Mac with OS X Mavericks Custom Settings: Feb 19, 2014; In this chapter, you’ll learn how to customize the Finder, the Dock, the desktop, your screen saver, and your security preferences. You’ll also learn how to make your own Dashboard widgets — tiny custom programs that you can build from pieces of your favorite websites.

David Chisnall Presents a Developer's Reading List: Jan 4, 2012; Expert programmer David Chisnall provides a list of the 5 books he believes every programmer should read.

Design and Install the Perfect PC—On Your Mac: Aug 12, 2005; Macintosh people don't want to give up their Macs just to use Windows software once in a while. With Microsoft Virtual PC for Mac, they won't have to. John Traenkenschuh takes us step by step through the (relatively) painless process of installing this revolutionary software to emulate a Windows PC on your favorite Mac.

Designing Objects and Relationships with IBM DB2 for z/OS: Feb 25, 2005; When you design any sort of database, you need to answer many different questions. How will you organize your DB2 data? How will you create relationships between tables? How should you define the columns in your tables? What kind of table space should you use? In this sample chapter, you'll learn about the DB2 UDB data types as well as the characteristics of tables, views, and indices.

Discovering Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Dec 4, 2009; Eric Geier discusses the performance enhancements and new features of Apple's $29 upgrade.

Document Level Parameters Using Core Data: A Guide for Cocoa Developers: Apr 7, 2006; Core Data is one of Apple's latest technologies that allows the developer to effortlessly develop applications with a very complex data store. By utilizing Core Data your Cocoa application can instantly have access to a full database for storing the applications data. All without a single line of code. But what if you want or need to store parameters that may be file specific but not application specific? In this article we will walk through one solution that allows for elegant access to document specific parameters in a Core Data application.

Easy Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Organizing Your Life: Oct 19, 2009; Kate Binder explains how to use Address Book, iCal, and iSync.

Enterprise iDevice Management with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Server: May 30, 2013; Unsure of how to integrate Apple devices (be they of the iOS or OS X variety) into your Microsoft- or Linux-based network? You’re not alone. IT expert Tim Warner shows how you can centrally manage iDevices in any corporate network environment with minimal cost and learning curve.