This is a short one, but it might help someone with debugging someday. A while back, we had some code that was checking errno, then using the NSLocalizedString macro to get a localized error message, but it checked errno again later. Only the app isn’t localized yet. There’s no Localizable.strings file, so when NSBundle -localizedStringForKey [...]
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If you’re thinking of writing a commercially successful pro email client for Mac OS X, here’s some advice along the lines of what I wrote yesterday: Make sure you’ve tried a lot of email clients. Try everything you can get your hands on. Really use each one – figure out what makes it different, and [...]
Brent Simmons started a discussion yesterday about email apps for OS X. To summarize: Apple Mail doesn’t do enough for everyone, and the alternatives aren’t so great either. But because it is free, there’s no incentive for a third party to do better. Paul Kafasis agrees, saying “Don’t compete with Free and Don’t compete with [...]
2007-04-02 ::
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grad-school + mac + research + skim
Announcing Skim: Stop printing – Start Skimming.
Announcing Skim: Stop printing – Start Skimming.
If you spend a lot of time reading articles and research papers that you get in PDF form, then you might be interested in the latest app from the folks who brought you BibDesk. If you already use BibDesk, then you certainly want to take a look. Even though we keep our research papers stored [...]
Last year I wrote about my new page template for VoodooPad. I still use something like it – I like the uniform look and the built-in navigation starters I get in every page. I got tired of all the clicking around it took to fill in the navigation every time I put in a new [...]
Daniel Jalkut’s Red Sweater acquires MarsEdit. Congratulations, Daniel, and good luck! I think this is great news for MarsEdit users. I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with it.
If you only use X11 for XTerm, it might seem like the handling of the clipboard in Apple’s X11.app is broken. You can select text and paste it with a click of the middle mouse button (opt-click on my Powerbook), and that works when pasting into other X apps, but it doesn’t change the Mac [...]
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I usually like the link selection I get from the Joel Reddit, which usually has good software-related essays at the top. It seems to avoid links to uninformed rants about consumer electronics or industry politics, for which I have no use. I’d like a social links site for software professionals on the Mac – does [...]
The other day, I had a big outline on a wiki that I wanted to edit in OmniOutliner so I could hide and move things around with a real outliner, then export it back out to the wiki. I managed to get it into OO with copy and paste and a lot of RSI-inducing tabbing, [...]
The excellent “Take Control” series of Mac ebooks has updated “Take Control of OS X Backups” to version 2.0. I have gotten a lot of use out of their other books. “Take Control of Your Airport Network” saved me a lot of frustration setting up a network for my roommates, and “Take Control of Spam [...]
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