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Xcode 4.4.1 released as standalone app

by Mike Schramm (Aug 7th, 2012)

Apple has finished smoothing out its Xcode releases with version 4.4.1, which finally brings Xcode out as a standalone app. Instead of just including the developer tools (such as legacy simulators and optional command-line tools), it now has sectioned those off into a separate downloads ...

Video Introduction to Cocoa

by Mat Lu (May 23rd, 2008)

Over at Theocacao Scott Stevenson has posted the video of his Introduction to Cocoa talk (entitled "Best of Both Worlds") aimed at those who want to learn a bit about Apple's preferred API for building OS X applications. The talk runs to over 90 minutes and includes "an introduction to Xcode, ...

Flickr Find: Twitter in Mac OS X developer tools

by Cory Bohon (May 6th, 2008)

An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us -- a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS X developer tools for Leopard. "Twitterverse," when tweaked right, ...

Xray your code with new dev tool

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2007)

A few tipsters have dropped us notes (thanks!) that on Apple's Developer Tools page, there's a new tool. Along with Xcode and Dashcode, there's a new, very pretty app called Xray. The flavor text itself says the app takes "interface cues from timeline editors such as GarageBand," so what we're ...

Neat iSight trick - Seeing you, seeing me

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 14th, 2006)

Caught this on MacInTouch and I'm still a little freaked out by it. If you have an iSight camera, check out this neat trick. It's not magic, really, it's just a QuickTime movie embedded in a web page, but the fact that it displays YOUR iSight, even though it's not your web page is a little ...