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Preventing systematic piracy in Cocoa with Code Signing 4 Dec 2009 | 12:11 am
Why sign your code? Any Cocoa application that uses public key encryption to handle licensing and registration, like my app DateLine, is open to systematic cracks. This has historically been almost u...
Serving up the Potion Store on Leopard Server 7 Jul 2009 | 11:37 pm
The Potion Store is a fantastic way for Cocoa developers to create their own web stores - after all, it's tailor made for us. Kudos to the Potion Factory for their efforts and for choosing to open sou...
CodexFab and Cocoa Application Licensing 29 Jun 2009 | 04:47 pm
Cocoa application licensing schemes are a contentious issue. Opinions on how, and whether, to protect your application from piracy vary widely; from the open source approach, which simply sidesteps th...
Running Dockless 20 May 2009 | 05:06 pm
While working on feature requests for DateLine recently, I needed to add the ability to run the app Dockless - that is, without a menu bar or Dock icon. In 10.5 and later, you can simply add the foll...
XMRemoteImage 2 Mar 2009 | 08:00 pm
XMRemoteImage is a simple project that demonstrates a way to update an NSImage from a high resolution graphic on the web. About The project includes the XMImageDownloader class, which is an NSObject...
iTunes Artwork 13 Sep 2008 | 10:44 pm
A Cocoa source project using NSAppleScript to access iTunes artwork by track Persistent ID Rationale iTunes 7 introduced a new album artwork format which stores image data on the user's hard disk at...
Cocoa source code 15 Oct 2007 | 07:59 pm
Some free, creative commons licensed source code. Source code
LabNotes 7 Oct 2007 | 07:13 pm
Cocoa explorations on more advanced topics. Continuing on from BecomeAnXcoder but in a less formal fashion, we look at topics such as Cocoa Bindings and the Model View Controller pattern. The LabNot...
BecomeAnXcoder 7 Oct 2007 | 01:34 am
A free book for starting with Cocoa using Objective-C Please Donate! If you appreciate our work, please take a minute to send a donation. Bert Altenburg, author of AppleScript for Absolute Starters,...
