- Taking a Monastic Approach to Apple Programming: An interview with Aaron Hillegass
- Apr 8, 2010
- Aaron Hillegas and Linda Leung discuss the Apple phenomena, what we can expect next from Steve Jobs & co., Big Nerd Ranch's monastic retreat, and Aaron's thoughts on Android.
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- Taking Your iPod on the Road
- Jan 14, 2005
- Calling all music junkies: If you can't bear to leave your iPod behind when you're on the go, check out these ways to keep the music (and news and entertainment) playing.
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- Technology Books for Seniors
- Dec 16, 2013
- Que has published a variety of technology books of interest to older users. In this article, Michael Miller previews these books for seniors — and recommends specific books for specific users.
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- Ten Things I Hate About Apple Apps
- Mar 31, 2006
- At the risk of being accused of looking a gift horse in the mouth, Owen Linzmayer spells out 10 things he can't stand about some of Apple's applications that Apple bundles with Mac OS X.
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- Ten Things I Hate About Entourage
- Dec 30, 2005
- Owen Linzmayer is not exactly a big fan of Entourage, the personal information manager component of Microsoft Office 2004. Read his top 10 list of "features" that are turning him into a disgruntled user.
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- The Bourne Again Shell
- Feb 17, 2006
- The Bourne Again Shell and TC Shell are command interpreters and high-level programming languages. As command interpreters, they process commands you enter on the command line in response to a prompt. This chapter focuses primarily on the Bourne Again Shell, while noting where it differs from the TC Shell.
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- The iOS 5 Developer's Cookbook: Building Your First Project
- Feb 1, 2012
- This chapter introduces you to the basics of using Xcode to build your projects. You see how to build a simple Hello World project, compile and test it in the simulator, and then learn how to compile for and deploy to the device. You also discover some basic debugging tools and walk through their use as well as pick up some tips about handy compiler directives. This chapter also looks at how to submit to the App Store and perform ad hoc distribution for testing.
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- The Java Perspective: Cocoa's Interface Builder
- Oct 21, 2005
- Coming into Apple's Cocoa programming from the Java world has been a huge eye-opener for Marcus Zarra. Whenever he speaks with other developers who have worked with Cocoa, he hears praises about Apple's development tools. See if you agree with his conclusions about Apple's Interface Builder from a Java developer's point of view.
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- The Mac OS X Finder: Working with Files and Applications
- Dec 27, 2002
- Take an inside look at Mac OS X and its operation with the Finder and Dock.
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- The MacBook Family Comes of Age
- Jun 4, 2010
- John Ray shows how the Macintosh has changed from the "oddball" computer with little software support to a strong, vibrant platform.
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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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- The Technology NeXT Gave the World
- Jun 5, 2009
- The current Apple is a fusion of the beleaguered Apple of the 1990s and NeXT. David Chisnall takes a look at some of the now-ubiquitous ideas that were popularized by NeXT.
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- Three Ways Word Can Drive You Crazy[er] and What You Can Do About Them
- Oct 29, 2004
- Does autoformatting make you nuts? We computer users have a love-hate relationship with Microsoft Word. Some of us see Microsoft as the Evil Empire of Computing and refuse to use its software at all. The rest of us are more realistic; we understand the benefits of using some of the world's most popular software for everyday chores. But even fans know that Word has a few features that can drive anyone absolutely bonkers. Maria Langer presents the top three ways Word can drive you crazy and tells you how to fix it to maintain your sanity while you work.
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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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- Top Ten Highs and Lows of a Decade with Cocoa
- Mar 26, 2010
- Erik Buck lists the exalted highs and ignominious lows of a decade with Cocoa.
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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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- Understanding and Backing Up NetInfo: Ensuring the Recovery of Local Mac OS X User and Machine Data
- Aug 18, 2006
- NetInfo, Apple's legacy directory service, might not be used for storing network user accounts and other resources these days, but it's alive and well as the database that each Mac OS X computer uses to store all the information for local user accounts and system information. Ryan Faas gives you all the details of the way Mac OS X uses these databases and how important it is to manage their backups.
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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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- Understanding the Cocoa Text System
- Jun 28, 2010
- David Chisnall looks at the various parts of drawing text on a screen on OS X, using the Cocoa APIs.
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- Using Distributed Objects in Cocoa
- Jan 1, 2010
- David Chisnall shows how, with distributed objects and with Bonjour, you can write applications that find and communicate with all instances on the local network, without writing any networking code.
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