Apple’s 10.4.3 update includes a nice surprise: the search field for the Keychain Access application is now case-insensitive! How many times I’ve fumed and fussed about this shortcoming. At last I can search for “etrade” and find a note called “ETrade info.” Though vastly improved, by no means is the Keychain Access application perfect. In […]

Normally I find Interface Builder to be pretty snappy. From time to time over the past few months, however, I have encountered periods of time where Interface Builder’s responsiveness has slowed to a crawl. What the heck! Could my Nib files be getting too complicated for IB’s scrappy little frame to handle? I doubted it […]

As a Cocoa programmer, it’s easy to take for granted some of the powerful features of the framework. For instance, autoresizing subviews are a godsend! This is the feature that allows for all of those amazing Interface Builder demos where a few flags are set on the buttons and text views in a window, and […]

My “Apple Bug Friday” entries today are both related to a really cool feature of Mac OS X: process switching while dragging. As the operating system has evolved, dragging in general has improved. One of my favorite improvements is that while dragging you can now invoke the Cmd-Tab process switcher keys to bring another application […]