Videos tagged with MacOS

Mac Developer Tips blogger John Muchow describes how to use NetBeans and rb-appscript (a bridge to connect Ruby to the Apple Event Manager) to control scriptable applications on a Mac. This introduction shows how you can get started using Ruby as an alternative to AppleScript for scripting applications on Mac OS X.

In this second video in a series of two, Mac Developer Tips blogger John Muchow shows how to build an application using NetBeans to control the iTunes player on Mac OS X. This video builds on the first and walks through the Java, AppleScript and bash code to enable controlling iTunes from a terminal.

Interested in controlling iTunes using Java? In this first screencast of a two-part series, Mac Developer Tips blogger John Muchow demonstrates the basics of getting NetBeans, Java and AppleScript to talk among themselves.

Fair warning: this screencast is fairly Mac-specific and I ramble on about all kind of random non-web design related stuff. I introduce the new web app Status that I've been working on. Then I show Fluid, which is a Mac app for creating site-specific desktop applications and create one for Status. Then while I was on the subject, I introduce a few other Menu Bar applications that I find indispe...

As of Leopard, Apple has made Ruby a first class citizen for developing desktop applications. At some point everyone has an idea for a great desktop application. With a good number of Rubyists using OS X these days I want to give an introduction to what is possible with RubyCocoa so that when that great idea shows up, they know their options. This talk introduces Ruby Cocoa, listing the major f...

Adium is now a widely-known multi-protocol chat program for the Mac, but this was not always so. Beginning as a single developer's pet project to learn Cocoa, Adium has evolved considerably through its 6 year history. This talk will discuss the best features of Adium, the major milestones in Adium's development, and where it looks to be going. Speaker: Matt Handley Matt Handley is a PhD candida...

In this final episode, we’ll finish up the Cover Flow application by adding reflections to each of the photos and apply 3D transformations to the side photos. You’ll learn how to: add images and their masks to a reflection layer use Quartz drawing functions to create gradients for reflection masks rework the layout manager to properly handle 3D transformations apply 3D transformatio...

In this episode we'll take a look at how you can use Bridge and your operating system (Finder on Mac/Windows Explorer on PC) together. Learn some renaming techniques and quick ways of viewing folders in Bridge.

In this SPECIAL EPISODE I will give you a walk-through of the BRAND NEW Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 for Macintosh. See the new compelling features of this latest version of Elements.

We’ll replace our hard-coded photos with photos pulled from iPhoto albums using a pop-up list to select the album. You’ll learn how to: integrate with iPhoto using the Scripting Bridge framework interface with applications that are AppleScript-enabled use the sdef and sdp tools to generate header files bind a controller to a pop-up list to select photo albums using Interface Builder