The philosophy behind my Cocoa Code Snippets has been to post little quick tips on Cocoa routines and methods and such that have caused me to do some thinking/researching/tearing my hair out. This day’s tip came up in my development of the new Todos. With an NSSearchField you might find it difficult to find out [...]
Any Todos fans out there? You might know that Todos 2.0 is in current development and will be hitting alpha pretty soon. With the new version comes a new updated icon. Right now, I am going with a design that is very derivative of the old Todos icon. In terms of the old icon, there [...]
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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 [...]
As I was sitting in my RELI lecture class, I had a little idea for a quick and dirty app to make. This idea wasn’t for something useful. It was merely to play around with a different toolkit and have something cool to look at for a few minutes.
Looking at what is coming in Leopard, [...]
Going through the first few weeks of college, I’ve found a few apps that have made my university life so much easier. Some of these apps will be things you have heard of. Hopefully, some will be new to you. Most of the apps have been designed for a much larger audience, but greatly help [...]
Dustin Bachrach is a 20 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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