May the Force Touch be with You

Posted on in Cocoa, AppKit, Force Touch

Last week I bought a newly updated 13" MacBook Pro with an amazing new Force Touch trackpad. I love it and it’s hard to go back to the older trackpad on my MacBook Pro at work. I’ve already caught myself trying to press on the top corners of the older version and have tried to press harder a few times. At this week’s NSCoder Night I decided to play around with the new Force Touch API to see how it works.

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Global hotkeys in Cocoa on Snow Leopard

Posted on in Cocoa, Programming, AppKit

I am working on a small app at the office for all our mac users to help locate files on the network (more on this later), I decided to go with a spotlight style NSStatusItem based app. I’ve been really inspired by these apps lately (when done right). Mostly thanks to Notify. To make this more handy I decided to include a global hotkey. For Leopard and earlier, one problem is you have to use the old Carbon-based events.

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