In January 2006, Apple introduced Intel Architecture based Macs. They took this hardware move as an opportunity to also upgrade their choice of firmware. Their previous firmware, Open Firmware, was ...

Among its other achievements, the Macintosh has stirred considerable interest and spawned many rumors on the subject of PALs®. Most computer enthusiasts are familiar with hardware terms like ...

Brad Cox is one of the co-creators of the Objective-C language, along with Tom Love. Objective-C was originally designed as a Smalltalk-like object system on top of the C language. NeXT started using ...

Nobody expects to find great literature in a ReadMe file, and that's good news for busy developers writing ReadMe files for their software. There's no need to consider the symbolism behind RAM ...

In last month's column, I provided an introduction to Database Events, a new technology that made its debut with Mac OS X Tiger. I discussed how Database Events can be used as a method of data storage ...

BBEdit: Somehow, It Still Doesn't Suck! A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a guy named Rich Siegel released a nice little piece of freeware named BBEdit. Released back in 1991, BBEdit was ...

Macintosh Common LISP (MCL) is a powerful development environment which is often overlooked by Macintosh programmers. This article will show why you should consider using MCL, and explore some of the ...

Why do I need Prograph CPX? Building a full Macintosh application, with fourteen functions, in a single session, without caffeine. By Dr. Scott B. Steinman, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Note: ...

Take $150 off every Apple 11-inch M3 iPad Air Amazon is offering a $150 discount on 11-inch M3 WiFi iPad Airs right now. Shipping is free: – 11″ 128GB M3 WiFi iPad Air: $449, $150 off – 11″ 256GB M3 ...

The XTensions modules (formerly known as Quark ALAP XPert Tools Pro) include: XPert FindChange (for transforming entire documents in seconds); XPert ItemStyles (which lets you create pages while ...

Apple posts first public betas of iOS 11.4 and tvOS 11.4 Apple has released the first public betas of iOS 11.4 and tvO 11.4, both of which add support for AirPlay 2. AirPlay 2 is Apple’s followup to ...

Does your application need to parse data out of a bunch of text, or match strings that can vary some, but have a regular syntax? Do you have a Find command in your text editor? If you do you need to ...