As the developer of FolderGlance, I'm always on the look-out for strange Finder behaviour. This time, I discovered behaviour that didn't have its root cause in FolderGlance.
I recently purchased an iPod touch, and began developing for it a couple of weeks ago. In this post, I document my efforts to create a simple plasma-based fire effect for the 'touch.
Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. continues to work on the just-released 10.5.1 update to Mac OS X.
pthread_create() changes behaviour on Leopard compared to Tiger, limiting the number of new threads to 11002 if you forget to clean up after newly created threads.
I've been mightly annoyed by a number of inconsistencies with the new Spaces feature in Leopard. Now I do something about it, and release a small fix for the most annoying behaviour with Spaces.
Contextual menu plugins on Leopard always appear in the More... menu, also affecting the new version of FolderGlance.
FolderGlance and Screen Sieve are updated to run correctly on Leopard, and I discuss some of the changes necessary to make FolderGlance work.
The Mac OS X window server hangs when asked to create certain kinds of windows, and I spent two hours figuring out why.
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About me  Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. (Retired) Desktop Transporter(Retired)Contact me Recent posts 2011 Jul 28: Running iTunes in a debugger (gdb) Jul 25: The /Volumes/MobileBackups directory Jul 20: FolderGlance 3.0.1 supports Lion Mar 03: Quick tip: Speeding up Xcode compilations Mar 02: FolderGlance 3.0 Jan 07: Making Universal Back Button work on 10.6.5 and later 2010 Sep 03: Creating pthreads in C++ using pointers to member functions May 31: Quickly open URLs in Terminal May 31: Snow Leopard and automatically submitted Crash Reports May 27: Universal Back Button released for Mac OS X May 22: The 22 Megapixel Laptop Feb 09: FolderGlance on MacUpdate Promo 2009 Sep 28: FolderGlance 2.5.3 is out Sep 21: FolderGlance 2.5.1 adds features and fixes bugs Sep 16: FolderGlance 2.5 released! Sep 10: Intriguing: Snow Leopard ships with the iPhone's multi-touch API built-in Sep 03: FolderGlance and Snow Leopard Mar 15: Fixing Keynote '08 and '09 to work with the Scripting Bridge Feb 26: A website in an image Feb 09: Display wall multi-touch 2008 Feb 19: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. retires Feb 08: How-to: Reverse engineering the Dock to fix Spaces Jan 25: Interacting with wall-sized displays 2007 Dec 20: Interesting Finder bug Dec 06: Developing applications for the iPod touch (and the iPhone) Nov 15: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. and 10.5.1 Nov 15: Thread creation using pthread_create() on Leopard Nov 13: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. Nov 07: FolderGlance, Leopard and the More... menu Nov 06: FolderGlance and Screen Sieve now also on Leopard! Sep 16: Mysterious window server hangs Archive RSS feed |
