I have been secretly preparing in my evil laboratory, a Cocoa framework that makes it ridiculously easy to use the recently-released Digg API.
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Shiira 2 released, offers HUD framework
If you haven’t already heard, Shiira 2 has been released. Shiira is a web browser written in Cocoa and based on Webkit that aims to provide a better browsing alternative than Safari.
A sub-project of Shiira is a HUD-type window class. While they’re not completely accurate to the specifications used by Apple, these are probably the best HUD windows I’ve seen from a third party developer by a long shot.
The HUD Windows have the funny name of HMBLBlkAppKit. The Shiira team has really done a great job!
National API week
Two very important APIs were released this week. One is web-based, the other is Mac-based.
Continue Reading National API weekSpreading malware on Mac
- Gain access to Address Book… easy.
- Send HTTP POST data… easy.
- Send email w/ attachment via PHP… easy.
- Spreading malicious Mac-ware… easy?
Say what you like, the HIG are still relevant
I generally tend to distance myself from debatable issues, but I couldn’t bear to see the Apple Human Interface Guidelines take such a battering. The phrase “HIG is dead” must have been repeated at least a few dozen times in various places.
I’m sorry, but the HIG aren’t dead (Note the plural, please. It’s ‘Guidelines’). Quite the contrary; guidelines are needed now more than ever if the Macintosh is to remain the great example of usability it was.
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It’s finished. The real craze and controversy over Disco’s smoke is over. Jonathan Wight was the first to write up an article on integrating the smoke effects into a third party Cocoa application. Times have changed, and the smoke framework bundled with the more recent versions of the application no longer produce the desired results by using the same code.
So how do you get any Cocoa application to start smoking? Austin Sarner was kind enough to reveal the usage and implementation of the changes to the Disco framework which allow a wider variety of Macs to experience the entertaining effect.
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