August 2006
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Announcing FourOneOne 1.0
I’ve put together my first Cocoa application. It’s called FourOneOne.
Several years ago I found a small application called Code Finder (now discontinued) by Andrew Zamler-Carhart. I used it all the time to look up area codes, zip codes and airport codes.
Like Code Finder, FourOneOne provides a quick way to look up area codes, zip codes, country codes and airport codes. It’s totally free....
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Basic command-line compilation syntax for...
cc -lobjc -lc -framework Foundation *.m
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Xcode won't build a universal binary for old...
If you have an old Xcode project (like one of Apple’s samples) you may want to build it as a universal binary that will run natively on either PowerPC or Intel architectures.
To do this, you would double-click on the project name in Xcode, then choose the Build tab, and then highlight Architectures and click Edit. Then choose both i386 and ppc architectures. So far, so good: it looks like you...
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How to make a responsive cancel button in an...
I’m new to AppleScript and AppleScript Studio and I wanted to make script that shows a simple dialog with a progress indicator and a cancel button. The script begins a lengthy process that can take 30-60 seconds. If the user clicks the cancel button it should terminate immediately.
I found that the cancel button was unresponsive until the end of the script. The solution, weirdly, was to turn...
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How to draw a rectangle or oval outline in...
This seems easy, but I always forget how to do it. Let’s say you have a picture and you want to highlight part of it by drawing a rectangle around one section. Like this:
Here’s how to do it with Photoshop Elements:
Choose the rectangular marquee tool (you can also use the elliptical marquee tool).
Draw a rectangle around the area you want to highlight.
From the Edit menu, choose Stroke...