As much as I love the idea of MobileMe, this nightmare is why I will never use it.
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Apple just gave out my Apple ID password because someone asked – MK&C
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Wandering Polygon Walkthrough Part 2
Second part of walking through the WanderingPolygon screen saver to understand how to make screensavers work across multiple monitors in a cooperative manner.
The WanderingPloygon.[h,m] source represents the state of the drawing, composed of the current color, the vertices of the polygon, and the current velocity vector of each vertices expressed as an x and y delta to apply for each frame of the animation.
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Wandering Polygon Walkthrough
This post is for those developers who want to have a better understanding of how to write screen savers that smoothly flow between two or more monitors.
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Dual Monitor Screen Savers
One of the things I find disappointing about OSX screensavers is that 95% of them don’t treat dual or triple monitor setups as one large area. Instead they will either draw on the main screen only, or just run a separate instance for each monitor. This makes it look like I have two or three separate computers instead of one large workspace.
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Can iPhone apps run in the background?
I think part of the picture people are missing through the haze of quality information currently coming out of Apple regarding the SDK is exactly how Apple apple will bless some apps to run in the background and some apps not to run. It isn’t from having the kernel look at the name of the application.
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