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Make the most of the iPhone SDK

Safari The iPhone, like Safari and many other browsers, runs on WebKit, which is one of the most blazing fast, powerful, standards-compliant rendering engine ever. Although there is no official Cocoa API for iPhone app development, it’s not like we have nothing to work with. Writing web apps for the iPhone will be a pretty good experience for two reasons:

We don’t have to worry about IE support when writing our web app
WebKit is amazing.

Highlighted below are ten CSS rules that make WebKit extra-great. Many of the previews require a WebKit-based browser like Safari, OmniWeb or Shiira.

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Writing internal commands for Quicksilver

Internal commands in Quicksilver are essentially actions that don’t require a subject (direct object) defined by the user. Most tasks, such as “Force Catalog Rescan”, and some commands like “QS Preferences” are internal commands. The Clipboard plugin also adds a large number of internal commands so as you can see, they’re quite useful in some circumstances.

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Secret Quicksilver animation effects

You may have had a shot at creating a Quicksilver interface. (If you haven’t, see the tutorial). While it’s good fun to play with changing the colors and positions of the controls, there is a whole lot of really clever code in Quicksilver that lets you go beyond that and play with some weird and wacky effects on any window.

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Write your own Quicksilver interface

Writing your own interface for Quicksilver is surprisingly easy, especially if you have experience in Cocoa and Xcode. Having covered the basics about the QSPlugin key in the Info.plist, as well the as the fundamentals of writing Quicksilver actions using Xcode, we are ready to start in a completely new direction. The Quicksilver interface.

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3 + 1 Fumo tips and tricks

Fumo is a revolutionary new Quicksilver interface that boasts a clean look with fancy effects. The tricks mentioned in this article assume you have a Mac with Quicksilver installed and the latest version of the Fumo interface.

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Zap unwanted apps the Quicksilver way

AppZapper, the uninstaller Apple forget, is a great way to remove applications along with any ~~garbage~~ files they may have left on your system in the form of preferences, caches, and application support. Using Quicksilver, removing an application with AppZapper is as easy as a simple hotkey or trigger.

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