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All applications configuration are stored in some "plist" files. They are different for each user, and the path of  the directory of these "plist" files is [Current User]/Library/Preference. For exam

This documen will be updated from time to time, as Im crazy about Mac. 1. http://www.entropy.ch/home/Thiss a persoanl homepage which has been linked in many pages. Itseems its owner, Marc L

My favorite websites for Mac development:1. (Of course) http://developer.apple.com/2. http://www.osxfaq.com/index.ws3. http://macosx.com/Set HOSTNAME in OS X: edit /etc/hostconfig, chage HOSTNAME=-AUT

One issue confused me for two days. Mac OS X version lower than 10.3.9 does not provide two C++ standard dynamic libraries:     libstdc++.6.dylib, libgcc_s.1.dylic So if you deploy an application

This time I will mention an important custom of Mac application installation.Mac restores all installed PKG in /Library/Receipts. Installer.app will use these backups to determine whether to install n

Today Paris team correct one of my bad habit: I used to write script to copying/moving resource files into some system folder, such as /Applications, /Library... However, its a better and more offici

 As you know, Installer will require administrator authentication each time, as you will write something into the folder /Applications (very sensitive locations), so you can do some great things, such

 The previous content of this pad has been removed because of my awful operation :( Now all of that I can make up is to record the key points of it.Installer.app will auto-detect several script files

While processing, the Installer.app will look for some name-predefined executables to process customized operation. Theoretically, users can use these executables to do everything they want. However,

The Apple Event Manager user four-character codes (Apple event codes) to identify the data within an Apple event. Since all the Apple-defined event codes are lowercase letter and space (such as capp

There is a file named ".profile" in $(HOME) to manage environment variables of current user. Note that all environment variables declared here will only be accessful in bash process. If you want other

Get a CFStringRef from a constant string, we can use marco CFSTR(string). However that, "string" should be a string of text, not a const char* variable.CFStringRef text = CFSTR("This is a sample"); //

It's been a while not publish any words here. As during the past half year, I'm totally occupied by a new filed for me: driver development on Mac. Although the learn curve is tough and painful, meanwh