Archive for the 'Cocoa' Category



IMAP Libraries

Due to my dissatisfaction with existing mail clients, I’ve been slowly grinding out a simple IMAP client. There was no way I was going to write my own IMAP client, so I scoured the web and came across a few libraries. So I wanted something that was clean, fast and written in C, C++ or […]

For while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with Mac OS X backup apps. There are too many apps that claim to backup, when all they do is sync. In my book synching and backing up are two different things, yet the market is filled with shareware apps that synch. The apps that do perform incremental backups […]

Symbolic Trouble

Lately I’ve been doing file system work in cocoa and I was using NSFileManager, but that quickly got out of hand as NSFileManager is lacking in regards to symbolic links. So, I factored out the often used code and created a class which uses FSRefs internally. However, I’ve since had a problem: I don’t […]