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- Top Ten Reasons Cocoa is Great Because of Objective-C (and Not In Spite of It)
- Jun 5, 2009
- Erik Buck gives ten reasons why Objective-C makes Cocoa great.
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- Where the Web and the Desktop Meet: An Interview with Lee Barney
- Jun 5, 2009
- David Chisnall and Lee Barney talk about the blurring of the line between web applications and conventional applications.
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- Getting Started in Objective-C: Your First Program (LiveLessons Video)
- May 26, 2009
- Stephen Kochran guides you through the process of creating your first Objective-C program in this training video.
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- Improving Photos in iPhoto
- May 25, 2009
- Brad Miser walks you through how iPhoto’s editing tools enable you to improve photos to correct problems or to make them better.
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- Working with Bento Forms
- Jan 15, 2009
- This chapter shows you how to work with fields and forms in Bento.
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- Understanding Instruments in Xcode 3
- Jul 29, 2008
- Fritz Anderson walks you through the basics of Instruments, a framework for software-monitoring tools in Xcode 3.
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- Recovering from Crashes, Data Loss, and Other Problems in OS X Leopard
- Jun 11, 2008
- In this chapter, you learn ways to react to application and system crashes and ways to be proactive about virus protection.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Interview with Aaron Hillegass
- May 28, 2008
- Scott Stevenson interviews Aaron Hillegass about the new edition of Aaron's book, programmers' fear of the NIB file, and why there aren't more Macs in corporate America.
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- Managing Your OS X Leopard Desktop with Exposé, Spaces, and Other Tools
- May 28, 2008
- Brad Miser shows how to take advantage of features designed to help you manage all the clutter on your Leopard desktop.
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- Introduction to Migration in Apple's Core Data
- Mar 7, 2008
- Marcus Zarra walks you through the steps required to use the new versioning and migration API that has been added to Core Data in OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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- Using the OS X Leopard Command Line
- Mar 7, 2008
- Brian Tiemann lays the foundation for understanding the UNIX filesystem in OS X Leopard.
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- A Look at Apple's Core Animation
- Feb 1, 2008
- Marcus Zarra walks you through some of the basics of Core Animation and how they can be applied to a normal Cocoa application.
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- The State of Java Development on OS X
- Jan 4, 2008
- Marcus Zarra look at the OS X platform from a Java developer’s perspective and reviews the state of the tools available.
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- Packaging Your Application for OS X
- Nov 21, 2007
- Marcus Zarra explores some of the more common ways to make a bad first impression when delivering an OS X application.
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- Tiger vs. Leopard: Which Should You Develop For?
- Oct 26, 2007
- Marcus Zarra provides keys for Mac developers to consider when deciding whether to develop for Tiger or Leopard.
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- Myth or Fact? Is Mac OS X Really More Secure than Windows?
- Apr 6, 2007
- Apple's ads often promote Mac OS X as a much more secure platform than Windows and that sense of security and freedom from viruses, spyware, and network attacks is one of the things that often encourages Windows users to buy a Mac. But is Mac OS X's greater security real or just marketing? The truth is that it's a combination of fact and myth. Ryan Faas tells you why.
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- Get Acquainted with Font Book
- Feb 26, 2007
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- Building on Apple Sync Services
- Sep 8, 2006
- In this third part of his series on Apple's Sync Services, Marcus Zarra walks you through the creation of a new sync schema that enables an application to synchronize its own unique data instead of synchronizing data with an existing application and/or schema.
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