Reading through my overflowing RSS feed in NetNewsWire, I came across a relatively old article by Andy Finnell on his blog Safe From Losing Fight. The article, entitled How to implement a magic wand tool, goes into thorough discussion about the algorithm behind the magic wand tool. Andy then goes on to walk you through [...]
Last.fm announced its extremely cool deal with major music publishers a few days ago in its plan to allow users to listen to full tracks of songs online for free. As of right now, all of the music on Last.fm is available for 3 free listens. After that, you will be told that a subscription [...]
Continuing the Cocoa Code Snippet series, I want to put up a nice useful method I add to most of my NSWindows. Consider making it a category. This bit of code will allow your windows to fade in and out nicely when they are closed. Before Leopard and Core Animation, you had to write your [...]
If you’re like me, you’ve began the transition to coding on Leopard. After giving XCode and IB a swirl, you’re going to want to get down to coding real stuff. After starting a new project and creating a a few classes in XCode you want to instantiate your controller object. When you open up Interface [...]
Hello everybody. It’s been quite a long time since an update. I am, in fact, still alive. I’ve just been taking a break from the life of blogging, but I’m back, and a bunch of cool news is coming soon. I’ve got some intersting Cocoa tips coming out real soon, as well as some sweet [...]
Dustin Bachrach is an 18 year old Rice student and developer for both OS X and the web. He also deals a lot with design work and Photoshop. He blogs technology, Apple, programming, and life.
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