Mike Zornek had a brilliant idea for a way that independent software vendors could show a little holiday spirit this year. He’s put together a loose-knit collection of companies whose profits from sales tomorrow will be donated 100% to the Child’s Play Charity, which helps hospitals buy toys, books, and other entertainment for the kids […]

I love iTunes, but it has a number of rough edges that leave me constantly praying that a major revision will come along one day soon. Most of my complaints have to do with it being simultaneously the “only way to manage music and podcasts on the Mac” and yet being frustratingly feature-incomplete in some […]

In general, a user’s changes to a Cocoa NSTextField are saved when they finish editing (by tabbing or clicking to another field) or press return. This is fine, and it works 95% of the time. But on occasion we may find good reason to saved a user’s changes regardless of whether they’ve performed one of […]

Scott Stevenson has posted the second part of his Intro to Quartz tutorial at Cocoa Dev Central. The visual production of his tutorials is always really impressive, because he identifies (by instinct, I assume) the best graphical illustrations for any given point. This second Quartz tutorial is especially notable for the scope of techniques it […]