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The Apple “Hierarchical File System” is a major advance in Macintosh technology. From the programmer's standpoint, HFS is an an extension to the current file manager. Many calls are the same, some ...

Lately, there has been a lot of talk in the Macintosh community about Microsoft, and the forthcoming Office 12. One of Microsoft's big announcements is that they will be doing away with support for ...

Software is abstract and non-tactile by its very nature. It can be difficult to see what it is doing and why it may be misbehaving. To get a better view of software, we often use tools like gdb, leaks ...

Volume Number: 22 (2006) Issue Number: 5 Column Tag: MacTech Labs Office 2004 Benchmarks on Intel-based Macs How well does Office 2004 run on Rosetta technology? by the MacTech Editorial Staff The Big ...

In AppleScript whitespace is automatically added by the compiler so that nested commands (such as those in an if, repeat, try, tell, etc) are always indented properly. In Python whitespace is also ...

Windows in a Windows world... Microsoft products for Windows are made to work together - seamlessly. Windows users can log in to workstations with their Active Directory credentials and from that ...

The API for contextual menu plugins is different in OS X than in OS 8/9. It's COM-compatible--it's based on Microsoft's Component Object Model. That should be enough to scare you off, but don't let it ...