Category Archives: OSX

Xcode Script For Creating Properties From Instance Variables For UIViewController

Posted on 2010 02 24 by Jason Job

One of my favourite blogs on the net is Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa with Love. Today I was investigating ways to speed up my workflow in Xcode and I found a great mixed Perl and AppleScript script already written by Matt a … Continue reading →

Posted in OSX, Objective-C, XCode, code, hack, iPhone, script | 2 Comments

Change Your Company Name In XCode

Posted on 2009 10 25 by Jason Job

If you want your own company name to be automatically included in your XCode source files instead of this: // // helloworld.m // helloworld // // Created by John Smith on 24/10/09. // Copyright __MyCompanyName__ 2009. All rights reserved. // … Continue reading →

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Create An Ad-Hoc Network For TouchOSC On Your Mac

Posted on 2009 03 25 by Jason Job

After coding for iPhone for the last month and a half, I figured it was time I finally got one of the coveted devices for myself. This week I have been having fun setting it up, checking my email, and browsing the … Continue reading →

Posted in MIDI, OSC, OSX, iPhone | 6 Comments

Getting Started With iPhone Development

Posted on 2009 03 13 by Jason Job

I was recently inspired to write some apps for Apple’s iPhone. It is just way too fun a platform to resist. Having never done any development for Mac I had a lot to learn. Fortunately, as they do everything, Apple … Continue reading →

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Improved Arrow Key Key-bindings For OSX Terminal

Posted on 2009 02 26 by Jason Job

When using Terminal it is sometimes useful to have your Page-Up, Page-Down, Home and End keys (the four arrow keys on Mac keyboards) function as you would expect. This is especially useful when using more or less to view text … Continue reading →

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Remove Genre From List View In iTunes 8.0

Posted on 2008 12 12 by Jason Job

I personally don’t use genre to browse my music collection. I find it too difficult to pin a label on a lot of music these days; I would just end up stringing adjectives. iTunes 8.0 defaults to showing genre in … Continue reading →

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Simple Max Serial To MIDI Patch

Posted on 2008 10 12 by Jason Job

I have programmed an Arduino to output serial MIDI CC messages when I adjust potentiometers connected to it. To control my MIDI capable applications I could just send this data to a MIDI cable and then to a commercial USB-MIDI … Continue reading →

Posted in MIDI, MaxMSP, OSX, arduino, make, prototyping | 2 Comments

Serial Communication Tool For OSX

Posted on 2008 10 01 by Jason Job

Coming from a Windows background I previously used HyperTerminal as a serial communication tool. When I moved to a Mac I tried an app called zterm that is a sort of HyperTerminal equivalent, but found it to be a bit … Continue reading →

Posted in OSX, command line, prototyping | 2 Comments

Using Built-In Audio Output As A Cue Channel In Live

Posted on 2008 09 28 by Jason Job

I have an Apogee Duet firewire audio interface that gives me one stereo channel in and out. It works great for single track recording and overdubbing but is not very functional for dj’ing. A great feature available in OSX is the … Continue reading →

Posted in OSX, ableton, hack | 7 Comments