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RssBucket on Google Code

I posted updated methods for doing source list badges and link arrows in NSTableViews, so I figured I should update the RssBucket code to reflect those. Rather than keep it as a zipped project on this site, I moved it over to Google Code. I also uploaded an updated app bundle.

Feel free to borrow any [...]

FilePile: Finder for the iPhone

Back in August, I wrote my first iPhone app: FilePile. I had noticed that no apps on the App Store let me look at the iPhone’s internal file structure, and the absence struck me as odd. I got around to submitting it on October 1, mainly because the NDA was lifted that day and Pragmatic [...]

sudo NSTasks with Mac OS X’s Security framework

Recently I found myself needing to perform root-level operations. Two simple things. Writing to a directory that’s root-owned and not group-writable (drwxr-xr-x root:wheel). And running a shell task with sudo. I had no experience with Mac OS X’s security framework before this, so now with the operations working, I wrote up a quick Cocoa application [...]

Cocoa Tutorial: Source List Badges, Part 2

So close but not quite. My original post on source list badges contained code that produced almost the desired result. First off, Ken Orr pointed out that the correct font is Helvetica. That fixed the font, but look at the colors in the screenshots.

Clearly, the final image just looks wrong. The badge’s text color is [...]

Cocoa Tutorial: Link Arrows, Part 2

Unfortunately, while my first pass at link arrows functionally worked, it didn’t work very well.

First pass

If you take the code from the original post, hook up setTitle: in a willDisplayCell: method, and connect the link arrow cell’s selector to an action, you get this. The text for the link arrow cell is clearly different from [...]