Category: Mac

Mac OS X programming question

Is it possible to use DYLD\_INSERT\_LIBRARIES without using DYLD\_FORCE\_FLAT\_NAMESPACES (which has nasty side effects)? I wanted to use the former for a port of tsocks (which needs to intercept socket calls) but I've had to...

Mac

OS X in VMware

Sure, it takes eons to boot up to the desktop and when it does, you get a perpetual bouncing beach ball, but somehow it's still neat to see it. OS X running in VMware Player OS X running in VMware Server...

Mac

AppleScript to get control over off-screen windows

As I mentioned before, one of my Mac OS X annoyances is the fact that sometimes I manage to get application windows off the screen. I think this happens mostly when I switch from using two monitors to one. Anyhow, it's a pain in...

Mac

Playing with TextMate – key problem

Started messing around with TextMate today and liking a lot of the features. One problem I'm having though, is that the key binding Ctrl+Cmd+T for "Select Bundle Item" doesn't work for me. I can select it from the menu but I...

MacProgramming

scplugin: Subversion plugin for OS X Finder

scplugin for OS X allows you to access Subversion from Finder context menus....

Mac

Getting vanishing OS X desktop icons back

Just noticed that my desktop icons had disappeared on my PowerBook. I managed to fix it with: open -a /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app I guess Finder crashes sometimes and doesn't always restart itself.

Mac

Flash and Firefox CPU usage

I noticed today that Firefox 2.0 on my PowerBook was suddenly incredibly slow. First, I suspected my own code. After I couldn't think of anything that I had done recently that could possibly cause this, I tried uninstalling half...