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one is for all the Cocoa developers in the house (when I say 'Core' you say 'Data'!). Isn't writing your own auto
updating procedures for your applications a drag. Yeah, I though so.
Luckily, there is Sparkle! Andy Matuschak wrote up this little marvel that will allow you to add intelligent auto updating to your Cocoa applications in 5 steps. The price is right as well, as in free.
Why not give your applications a little Sparkle?
Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Jacques Lema said 3:49PM on 3-23-2006
This truly looks excellent. I just finished reading the PDF. I wish more apps would use this. Even though installing apps with an installer or just plain drag and drop nothing beats automatic updates.
I'll definitely use this in my app(s)!
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jpf said 6:22PM on 3-23-2006
I thought this was going to be about System 7 MPEG players. Sigh.
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DidYouLoseASock said 9:43PM on 3-23-2006
I thought this was going to be about Pixen. Double Sigh. When you watch the video it show a download for Pixen r3b3 which from my knowledge is not real which is lame because i want it.
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