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This post digs into why, and offers up a solution for other developers affected by this behaviour. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2011/07-20-folderglance-3.0.1-supports-lion.html Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:42 I'm pleased to announce that with today's release of FolderGlance 3.0.1, FolderGlance adds support for Lion. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2011/03-03-quick-tip-speeding-up-xcode-compilations.html Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:06 Some tips on how compile times in Xcode can be reduced. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2011/03-02-folderglance-3.0.html Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:09 I'm pleased to announce that FolderGlance 3.0 is out, with two major new features: A menu extra giving you access to files and folders from your menu bar, and support for custom, context-sensitive scripts. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2011/01-07-making-universal-back-button-work-on-10.6.5-and-later.html Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:46 A quick workaround for making Universal Back Button work on 10.6.5 and later. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/09-03-creating-pthreads-in-c++-using-pointers-to-member-functions.html Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:10 Using pointers to member functions as entry points to pthreads, even though it's bad for you. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/05-31-quickly-open-urls-in-terminal.html Mon, 31 May 2010 15:34 Did you know you can Command-Shift double-click URLs in Terminal to open them? http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/05-31-snow-leopard-and-automatically-submitted-crash-reports.html Mon, 31 May 2010 11:11 Finally discovered how to turn off auto-submission of crash reports. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/05-26-universal-back-button-released-for-mac-os-x.html Thu, 27 May 2010 15:09 I just released the Universal Back Button, a small utility app that makes it easy to switch back to where you came from. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/05-22-the-22-megapixel-laptop.html Sat, 22 May 2010 17:00 I finally got around to making a video and a write-up on the 22 megapixel laptop - a 2.33 GHz MacBook Pro. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2010/02-09-folderglance-on-macupdate-promo.html Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:03 Get FolderGlance on the cheap the next twenty hours or so! http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/09-28-folderglance-2.5.3-is-out.html Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:53 FolderGlance 2.5.3 has been released, improving performance and fixing a few bugs. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/09-21-folderglance-2.5.1-adds-features-and-fixes-bugs.html Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:15 FolderGlance 2.5.1 was released today, fixing a number of bugs and (re-)introducing some features. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/09-16-folderglance-2.5-released.html Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:32 FolderGlance 2.5 has been released today, with full support for Snow Leopard. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/09-10-intriguing-snow-leopard-ships-with-the-iphones-multi-touch-api-built-in.html Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:26 More evidence of the impending release of an Apple Tablet? http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/09-03-folderglance-and-snow-leopard.html Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:52 Contextual menu items like FolderGlance are no longer supported in Snow Leopard. Thankfully, I have found a solution. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/03-14-fixing-keynote-08-and-09-to-work-with-the-scripting-bridge.html Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:20 Keynote's scripting definition files don't work so well with the Scripting Bridge introduced in Mac OS X 10.5. Here's how to fix it. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/02-25-a-website-in-an-image.html Thu, 26 Feb 2009 03:02 Did you ever need to render an image of an entire web page? I did, and writing the code to do it was fast and easy in Cocoa. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2009/02-09-display-wall-multi-touch.html Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:34 How can you build a scalable, multi-touch input system for high-resolution, wall sized displays? http://www.scsc.no/blog/2008/02-18-spaces..-spaces..-spaces..-retires.html Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:22 Apple listens, and Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. is no longer necessary in Mac OS X 10.5.2. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2008/02-08-how-to-reverse-engineering-the-dock-to-fix-spaces.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:48 Have you ever wondered how Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. works? In this post I discuss the work I did in order to have TripleS do its magic. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2008/01-25-interacting-with-wall-sized-displays.html Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:43 Multi-touch is everywhere these days, from the iPhone to the new MacBook Air. In my research, I have developed a multi-user, touch-free interface for interacting with wall-sized displays, and now I have some videos up on youtube to demonstrate it. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/12-20-interesting-finder-bug.html Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:48 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. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/12-06-developing-applications-for-the-ipod-touch-and-the-iphone.html Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:09 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. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/11-15-spaces..-spaces..-spaces..-and-...html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:54 Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. continues to work on the just-released 10.5.1 update to Mac OS X. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/11-15-thread-creation-using-pthreadcreate-on-leopard.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:03 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. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/11-13-spaces..-spaces..-spaces...html Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:47 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. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/11-07-folderglance-leopard-and-the-more...-menu.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:54 Contextual menu plugins on Leopard always appear in the More... menu, also affecting the new version of FolderGlance. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/11-06-folderglance-and-screen-sieve-now-also-on-leopard.html Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:41 FolderGlance and Screen Sieve are updated to run correctly on Leopard, and I discuss some of the changes necessary to make FolderGlance work. http://www.scsc.no/blog/2007/09-16-mysterious-window-server-hangs.html Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:50 The Mac OS X window server hangs when asked to create certain kinds of windows, and I spent two hours figuring out why.