Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

File types revisited
File typing has been a hot topic in Mac OS X ever since ...
The first problem with file name extensions as a means t ...

The Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is a powerful open-... source code maintenance. It is provided on the the Xcode... accompanies Mac OS X or as a part of the Xcode developme... online. This article covers some of the most commonly us... CVS, with e

Apple’s File System Events API gives applications the ... changes to paths containing relevant files recursively w... directory tree, both during execution and between launch... System Events API tackles the problem of detecting chang... chunk of th

Web applications like Gmail, Facebook, Campfire and Pand... more and more like desktop applications every day. Runni... web apps in an individual tab in your browser can be a r...
Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out ...
Using Fluid

7.6.1. Mapping Entities to Handlers
Applications can register themselves with Launch Service ...
[23] Although UTI support was introduced in Mac OS X 10. ...
Typically, registration with Launch Services occurs auto ...

And that’s OS X, Apple’s minority operating system n... is no file explorer — let alone one with 19 toolbar bu... Because in Apple’s view, the concept of a “file” i... saving of them and the transferring of them is something... should neve

This is a Toolbar Script for Mac OS X.
When you click its icon in the toolbar of a given direct ...
It's also possible to drop one or more folders or other ...

This list of special key combinations has been compiled ...
Apple Boot Key Combos:
Bypass startup drive and boot from external (or CD).... ...
Boot from CD (Most late model Apples) ................. C
... l PowerBooks & Desktops to sleep.......... CMD-O

Launch Services Framework
he Launch Services Framework is conceptually a sub-frame ...
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework\
/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework
... LSOpenFromURLSpec()

User Interface Scripting
by Benjamin S. Waldie
As we have seen in the past, AppleScript is a great tool ...
Many scriptable applications offer enough AppleScript su ...
... ing, or UI Scripting, which can be used to do just that.

Early adopters of Apple's newly released OS X 10.5 Leopa... are unable to work with the latest version of the Java p... language.