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What Does 200 Calories Cost? The Economics of Obesity. (Update: I thought this popular article would be worth bumping back up due my #BelowTheLine eating challenge.

What Does 200 Calories Cost? The Economics of Obesity

There have been some good comments about the fact that caloric content does not equate to nutrition. Very true, I am actually planning to buy relatively little of the “cheap” junk food items on this list like donuts, white bread, chips, and candy. Instead, I’m buying rice, lentils, beans, eggs, and a few fruits. Safari Developer Program. API Design. Cocoa Source Code. This page contains some of my Cocoa/Objective-C source code for fellow Mac OS X developers.

Cocoa Source Code

You’re welcome to download and use the source, subject to the License Agreement. It’s assumed that you’re a developer and you know how to make use of the source; I can’t provide support. Happy coding! (And if you’d like to hire me for your own iPad, iPhone or Mac development projects, take a look at my business site, Instinctive Code.) Donations. TimeMachineEditor. Should I turn the big switch from the Time Machine preferences to OFF?

TimeMachineEditor

Yes. How do I disable Spotlight. Cocoa - Mac OS X Technology Overview. Cocoa Frameworks The Cocoa frameworks consist of libraries, APIs, and runtimes that form the development layer for all of OS X.

Cocoa - Mac OS X Technology Overview

By developing with Cocoa, you will be creating applications the same way OS X itself is created. Your application will automatically inherit the great behaviors and appearances of OS X, with full access to the underlying power of the UNIX operating system. Using Cocoa with the Xcode IDE is simply the best way to create native Mac applications. Everything you need to know about publishing and distribution for iBooks Author. Update: Apple’s decision to restrict material created with the iBooks Author platform from being sold anywhere other than through the iBookstore has started to create a bit of controversy.

Everything you need to know about publishing and distribution for iBooks Author

One author has likened Apple’s policies to “Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can’t freely sell it to Getty”. Get the full story here. 10.6.5 and wifi issues. OK, my wife just went through this ordeal (2007 MBP, Atheros 5424 chipset).Thanks to the work of others diagnosing this, I found a solution that doesn't require a full downgrade, although a little bravery might be needed. As has already been stated, the version of the firmware for the Atheros cards changed in 10.6.5. Install Lion On Mbr - Project OS X Forums. Upgrade from GM to Final:1) Download Lion app from appstore2) Follow the procedures mentioned below to prepare installation media.3) Boot into the installation media and choose the Hard disk where GM is installed (It will say that your files,programs,accounts etc will stay untouched.)4) Install and reboot .5) Follow the same post installation procedures mentioned below.6) Done!!!

Install Lion On Mbr - Project OS X Forums

GitHub for Mac Makes Version Control Sexy. The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting.

GitHub for Mac Makes Version Control Sexy

Learn more about Rackspace's hosting solutions here. Earlier this week, web-based code hosting service GitHub released GitHub for Mac, a free Git client for Mac OS X that makes managing and interacting with GitHub repositories and sharing code a snap. Announcing GitHub for Mac - GitHub. Hacked Kinect Connects Directly to Mac OS X via App, No Drivers Required. The hacked Microsoft Kinect saga seems to be growing with each passing day, with more and more people from all over the world bringing all sorts of interesting new additions to this “story” in the form of various applications that enhance its original functionality, the latest we've come providing a whole new level of functionality for Mac OS X users.As you'll certainly remember, a chap by the name of Theo Watson ported the hacked Microsoft Kinect drivers from Linux to Mac OS X, a short while after the original version had appeared online.

Hacked Kinect Connects Directly to Mac OS X via App, No Drivers Required

He hasn't stopped there, actually participating in the development of yet another very interesting application for the hacked Kinect, namely the large virtual puppet-bird we've talked about in an earlier article. Much like everything else related to the Kinect hacking community, the app is open source, so everyone can test whether it works or not on their own systems.

OSX Kinect [fernLightning] Installing OpenNI, Kinect drivers and NITE on Mac OS X 10.6. Macintosh Security Site -> Snort - Network Intrusion Detection System on Mac OS X. Information: Snort is a lightweight network intrusion detection system, capable of performing real-time traffic analysis and packet logging on IP networks.

Macintosh Security Site -> Snort - Network Intrusion Detection System on Mac OS X

iPad Usability: Year One. AppleScript: The Language of Automation. The Language of Automation Powerful, easy-to-learn, easy-to-use automation for Macintosh systems.

AppleScript: The Language of Automation

Everyone who uses a computer knows how daunting it can be to perform the same series of tasks over and over again. For example, try to change the name of 75 files in a folder and you'll soon realize how time-consuming and stressful repetitive actions can be. Apple Just Handed Twitter The Keys To The iOS Kingdom — Here’s Twitter’s Take.

When we first broke the news that iOS 5 would come with Twitter integration, I wasn’t thinking big enough. Based on the fairly vague (but credible) information I had, I figured it was mainly based around the Twitter Photos product which Twitter was rushing to get out in time. Turns out it goes much, much deeper. Apple has essentially baked a “Twitter Connect” into iOS 5. Magical Macintosh Key Sequences. This is a collection of the (poorly documented) key-sequences that do things. It’s probably possible to find all this information within Apple’s Knowledge Base, but it’s currently scattered across multiple entries [update 14 May, 2003: There’s a knowledge-base article that lists many of the keys supported by Mac OS X that came out December 2002.

I just noticed it now]. In any case, this came from a number of smart people, but Marc Pawliger started the list and Tim Hume collected the various responses. Appleddl.net. » Quick Python/Developer tips for OSX Lion jessenoller.com. Yuval Adam, Installing JPype on Mac OS X. Installing Django on Apple Mac OS X 10.7 aka Lion. Like many of Apple fanboys out there even I decided to upgrade Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) to Mac OS X Lion (10.7) as soon as it was made available on App Store.

Apple Developer. Developer Downloads & ADC Program Assets. iOS Dev Center. WWDC 2011 Session Videos. Making Desktop Webapps in Lion. Qt. Mac OS X: What Are All Those Processes? Things MacOS X.