Author Archives: michael
Music reverse engineered: Ommadawn live in Montreux
Here’s the transcript of an excerpt of Mike Oldfield’s Ommadawn (live in Montreux). It’s the electric guitar part starting at around 1:07:45 right after the fluty fantasia… Enjoy! \m/ Ommadawn_Montreux.txt
Music reverse engineered: Incantations (excerpt)
Here’s the transcription of a small piece from Mike Oldfield’s Incantations 1 & 2 – from the Exposed album (13:12min – 14:17min). Actually it’s the beginning of Part 2 played on an electric guitar. Incantations.txt
Music reverse engineered: Shabda & Aurora
I have ignored Music of the Spheres for a long time. After a discussion with my friend a few weeks ago I decided to give it another try. Conclusion: I’m still not sure how to compare it to classics like … Continue reading
Using Bonjour for iPhone/desktop application sync
Many Cocoa developers might want to port their application(s) to the iPhone. I’m one of these developers and the first problem I ran into was how to sync my desktop application’s data with it’s iPhone pendant. Some applications like OmniFocus … Continue reading
Ojective-C dot notation
This blog post by Marcus Zarra made me happy. Now I know that I’m not the only person who dislikes the dot notation which has been introduced in Objective-C 2.0. The “Properties” feature is great, since it takes a lot … Continue reading
simpleTAN translated into english
Did I mention that simpleTAN is available in english? At the moment we are working on translating the website but it seems to take us longer than we thought. But if you want, you can give the app a try. … Continue reading
Relaunch an application
Some tasks, e.g. restoring an application’s data files from a backup should be performed while the application is not running to make sure there won’t be any concurrent access to the files. A desirable behaviour would be: Quit the application, … Continue reading
Synchronizing the content of multiple NSArrayControllers
As an application grows and it’s UI becomes more complex, you definetly want to split the UI into multiple views and hold each of it in a seperate Nib File. This makes your project a lot more cleaner and helps … Continue reading
simpleTAN Beta Announcement
The work on simpleTAN is coming to a close. Today I can proudly announce that the simpleTAN Beta is available for download. simpleTAN is a TAN management application for MAC OS X focusing on security and usability. You can comfortably … Continue reading