Video Introduction to Cocoa

Over at Theocacao Scott Stevenson has posted the video of his Introduction to Cocoa talk (entitled “Best of Both Worlds”) aimed at those who want to learn a bit about Apple’s preferred API for building OS X applications. The talk runs to over 90 minutes and includes “an introduction to Xcode, Interface Builder, Objective-C, Mac UI standards and more.”

For anyone who has ever wanted to figure out what those developers tools are all about this is definitely worth (the rather large) download (scroll down towards the bottom) though it seems that a lot of folks are have problems getting the whole file (myself included). There’s also a torrent available.

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Flickr Find: Twitter in Mac OS X developer tools

An avid reader of TUAW, Chris Thomson, sent us a link to a Flickr picture (being the nosy people we are, we clicked the link). What we found surprised us — a Twitter Quartz Composer composition was included as a part of the Mac OS X developer tools for Leopard. “Twitterverse,” when tweaked right, can be used as an OS X screen saver and display all of your friends tweets in a graphical way.

You can find this Quartz composition in the ~/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Compositions/XML/The Twitterverse/The Twitterverse.qtz. If you want to add it as a screen saver, just drag it onto the preview in the “Screen Saver” part of the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane (in System Preferences.app). You can then add your username / password in the screen saver options.

Thanks, Chris!

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