Category Archives: Development

AudioSessionInitialize Workarounds

Posted on December 25, 2008 by

Yesterday I decided to go after one of my audio bugs by take a look how AVAudioPlayer does it right, and I discovered a little thing about Audio Session. Here are two workarounds for AudioSessionInitialize.

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Apple Mail Plugins Developer Group

Posted on December 12, 2008 by

After talking with Scott Morrison of Indev Software at C4[2] about a mail list for Mail Plugin developers we finally started one. If you are interested in this topic you are welcome to join us: Google Groups – Apple Mail … Continue reading →

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Crash Reporter for iPhone Applications (Part 2)

Posted on October 20, 2008 by

In part one I describe how to set up an Exception Handler, Uli discovered as first one that this handles not all cases. The missing part is a signal handler to get information of SIGSEGV, SIGBUS, … signals. I thought … Continue reading →

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Crash Reporter for iPhone Applications (Part 1)

Posted on October 18, 2008 by

I’m getting ready to send my iPhone Application to the first beta testers and so I started thinking about crash reports. On the Mac you have two options to get the crash report of your application. The first one is … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Entourage 2008 Plug-in development

Posted on January 15, 2008 by

Today is the release day of Microsoft Office for Mac 2008. Let’s take a look if it is possible to develop a Plug-in for Entourage 2008. As far as I know, there was no way in Entourage 2004 for a … Continue reading →

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Sparkle in large deployments

Posted on November 10, 2007 by

I’m happy that I have some customer which have large enough deployments that they use Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) to install OMiC. In such a deployment the administrator don’t want that a update dialog pop up by his users, which … Continue reading →

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Sparkle for Plug-ins

Posted on November 9, 2007 by

OMiC use Sparkle for updating since version 1.7.2, but you can’t use Sparkle do update Plug-ins out of the box. So I spend the last days do turn my home cooked solution into something which work for other Plug-ins as … Continue reading →

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PackageMaker 3.0

Posted on November 1, 2007 by

Yesterday I switched to PackageMaker 3.0 to generate packages. My Plug-in OMiC is build separate for Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4 to support the different features. So the simplest solution maybe offer two downloads and give user the choice … Continue reading →

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