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Installing things to /usr/bin – Trampolines

Some Mac OS X applications can install useful tools to use with Terminal. PDFKey Prohttp://pdfkey.com is one of those applications. Currently I simply installed a binary called “pdfkeypro” in /usr/bin via a .pkg file. This had the obvious draw back of needing the user upgrade it …

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Icon Composer in 10.5

I just had to create an icon and used the new Icon Composer for this. There’re some really great new features in the new version. Not only that it can create icons like the previous version, it also provides a VERY nice preview panel. You can preview your icon in any size from 1p…

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Update on Xcode Templates

Today I got a mail regarding Xcode Templates and it made me look into it again. I was surprised that Apple changed the way Xcode integrates into the system now. Until 10.5 everything was stored in /Library/, but as of 10.5 Xcode uses the folder /Developer/Library/. Everything rel…

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A little bit on project management

I just wanted to talk a bit about how I use to manage the projects I’m working on. I abuse Midnight Inboxhttp://www.midnightbeep.com/ for my project management. It may not be created for this task, but I’ve never really understood the whole GTD idea; maybe I should read the book,…

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Updates

I just updated Camouflage/products/camouflage and CuteClips/products/cuteclips. Both use a newer version of BSHotKey now. The new version should be on CodeBeach.orghttp://www.codebeach.org already. You may now specify a default hotkey when initializing the BSHotKeyManager. The co…

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NSFont fontNamed:@”Arial”

Using fonts in a drawing method should be a pretty common thing. I use that in CuteClips for rendering the text of each clip. However, one should not believe that NSFont fontNamed:NSString\aFontName is sort of appropriate for using it there. This method is hell slow. If you’re go…

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