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Recent Menu now Open Source
My app Recent Menu is now open source, and not available from the Mac App Store anymore. Feel free to download the source code from GitHub or the app from my website. Source code as well as the binary are available under a MIT license.
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OS X Notifications With Custom Images
Most interesting, the NSUserNotification class has gained a new ability in OS X 10.9 to display custom images.
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NSData Base64 Support
This took me by suprise today, when surfing the OS X Mavericks documentation: The NSData object now has built-in support for Base64 encoding and decoding.
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Detecting Launch At Login Revisited
In the past, I presented two approaches for a sandboxed OS X application to check whether it was launched at login via a helper app or not. Both of them don’t work anymore on OS X 10.8 and newer, but I will present them nevertheless for better und...
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Though there are some really nice OS X command line tools, there is not really much information available on how to write, build and distribute them. This is like in old times when you had to experiment and try out something in order to get it to ...
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SMLoginItemSetEnabled Demystified
Have you ever wondered how the SMLoginItemSetEnabled function works? How to remove an application from launching at login from outside that application? Well, read on.
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Bring Brow to Alfred
If you are using Brow to synchronize your Chrome and Firefox bookmarks with Spotlight, it is quite easy to also bring them to Alfred, the popular productivity application.
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[Snippet] Get App From Bundle Identifier
Have a bundle identifier like com.apple.Safari and want to know which applications are associated with it and where on your system you have installed instances of the application?
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[Snippet] Rebuild Finder's Context Menu
I have a lot of snippets that I found somewhere on the web, ages ago, or created myself. They solve small problems and range from making OS X working better to Cocoa development issues. Until now I didn’t have any central location for storing them...
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Private RSS Feeds: Support for security in aggregators — RSS test feeds with HTTP Auth and/or SSL authentication. This is almost ten years old, but still very valuable for testing your code. Programming in Objective-C, 5th Edition — The new e...
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