Apple's programming interface (API) for the Mac OS X operating system. Formerly known as the Yellow Box and derived from the OpenStep environment from NeXT, Cocoa applications are created with Apple's Xcode and Interface Builder development environments as well as with languages such as Perl and Python. See Xcode and OpenStep.
Carbon and Classic for Compatibility
Carbon is the programming interface (API) for writing applications that run on both Mac OS X and earlier Mac operating systems, while Classic was the API for the Mac prior to OS X. Classic also refers to the Blue Box, which is the OS X system program that runs a legacy Mac application as is. See Mac OS X.
Carbon and Classic for Compatibility
Carbon is the programming interface (API) for writing applications that run on both Mac OS X and earlier Mac operating systems, while Classic was the API for the Mac prior to OS X. Classic also refers to the Blue Box, which is the OS X system program that runs a legacy Mac application as is. See Mac OS X.
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- Software downloads 2008-08-08
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- Blog posts 2008-08-02
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- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
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- Blog posts 2008-07-10
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- Software downloads 2008-06-19
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- Blog posts 2008-06-17
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- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- iPhone is about to get a whole lot more social
- As expected, during the company's WWDC keynote Steve Jobs and co. demoed some of the early fruits of Apple's official iPhone SDK and unsurprisingly we saw a number of social applications on display. Social networking While we didn't see the rumored MySpace client, we...
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
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- Unfortunately a series of prior commitments meant that I couldn't make it to WWDC 08. Since I can't be there, I've decided to do the second best thing and cover WWDC from the angle of "blogging the blogs." So, here I am sitting in front of three...
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Rumor Mill: All things WWDC
- Hey there, it's Jake (Jason's evil twin). It's Friday so that means I get to write my crazy rumor column today. It's also the last business day of the week before WWDC, so you can probably guess what today's installment is going to be about. So, there's...
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
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- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7: To wait or not to wait? That is the question Microsoft continues paring back the Windows Live family Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate 2 available from FTP servers ...
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
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