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https://mackuba.eu/2015/04/02/testing-retina-images-older-mac/ · 2 Apr 2015
Update 7.12.2020: Added info at the bottom about a UserDefaults setting you can use instead.
https://mackuba.eu/2015/03/04/how-to-add-icons-to-menu-bar-on-yosemite/ · 4 Mar 2015
Mac applications often add their icons to the notification area on the right side of the menu bar. That way they can show you some status changes by changing the icon image, and they can also save some space in your dock by removing the icon from there whi...
https://mackuba.eu/2014/10/06/a-guide-to-nsbutton-styles/ · 6 Oct 2014
The NSButton class used for making buttons in Mac apps has as many as 15 different styles, not counting subclasses. But which should be used where? (Updated with new examples and Big Sur graphics)
https://mackuba.eu/2011/11/20/how-to-fix-ntfs-support-on-osx-lion/ · 20 Nov 2011
After I upgraded my Mac to Lion this month, I’ve noticed that my NTFS drives stopped working. I’m using NTFS on my Windows XP partition and on a WD external drive. I’ve previously used MacFUSE and NTFS-3G, which is probably the most commonly used so...
https://mackuba.eu/2009/09/02/installing-sphinx-on-macosx-from-ports/ · 2 Sep 2009
A few days ago I spent a couple of hours trying to install the full text search engine Sphinx on my work computer in order to use it in my current project. I’m posting the details here, maybe this will save someone some time…
https://mackuba.eu/2008/12/06/interface-builder-tips-tricks/ · 6 Dec 2008
I read Apple’s tutorial about Interface Builder this week. Most parts of it told about rather basic things and were quite boring, but I’ve learned several useful tricks from it. IB, like most of Apple’s applications, has lots of hidden features whic...
https://mackuba.eu/2008/11/20/generating-scaffold-interfaces-in-cocoa/ · 20 Nov 2008
I discovered an interesting feature in Interface Builder a few days ago. It seems that it can generate a scaffolding UI for you based on a CoreData model. It works like this: first you have to design a data model in XCode model editor (which you have to ...
https://mackuba.eu/2008/11/11/missing-controls-in-ib-3-1/ · 11 Nov 2008
I’ve upgraded XCode and Interface Builder to version 3.1 recently (the update doesn’t appear in the system update, you have to download it manually, and it’s deceitfully hidden - you have to register at Apple’s developer portal to get it…). Today...
https://mackuba.eu/2008/06/30/ls-on-mac-and-extended-file-attributes/ · 30 Jun 2008
Yesterday while I was working in the terminal I noticed something unusual about the results of “ls -al” command:
https://mackuba.eu/2008/06/20/bandwidth-limiting-in-macosx/ · 20 Jun 2008
I played a bit with bandwidth limiting tools in MacOSX recently. The reason was that I was uploading huge files to DivShare, and my Firefox took all the available upload bandwidth; and since upload bandwidth happens to be quite useful even when you’re ...