Tag: Tutorial

Screensaver on your desktop - in one line

Want to impress your Windows friends? Want a desktop background that is interactive, configurable, and cool? Look no further. Presenting, “Cool Desktop”.

It takes one command in the Terminal to set your current screensaver as the desktop background. You can have slideshows, animations, and even Quartz compositions. The possibilities are endless.

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Core Graphics, meet Core Image

Following on from the Core Graphics tutorial, this download-able demo app presents an easy way to look at the various effects available both through documented and undocumented code.

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Xcode Animations and Transitions

Ever wanted to be able to use fancy transitions and animations in your Xcode applications? This series provides the method and the means to implement terrific flips and ripples throughout your app, showing window transition effects using undocumented and documented Objective-C code that can be implemented anywhere quickly and efficiently.

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