XCode
From Applepedia
XCode is Apple's integrated development environment (IDE) for developing applications for Mac OS X. Version 1 was shipped free with Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, and XCode 2 with Tiger. It allows you to write programs in C, C++, Objective-C or Java. More information can be found at Apple's Xcode pages.
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Tips and Tricks
The Tiger devtools come with some things that are fun/useful even for laymen. These are:
- Core Image Fun House
- Quartz Composer (if just to marvel at the neat examples, and the cool screen saver)
- Quartz Debug (turn of vsync for happy ripping fun times)
- Propery List Editor (instead of using the command-line "defaults" command)
- SimpleText (one of the examples)
- Core Image Fun House
- It includes some Automator Actions as examples (gamma, process info, randomizer, translate text)
- Dashboard Widgets (Eat At Joe's, Picture Frame, Grid, US Constitution, Speak text, some hello world type examples)
- Xgrid mandelbrot
- Core Image Fun House
- Core Image Fun House
The Tiger developer tools come with some cool Quartz Composer samples that work well as screensavers. To use them, copy them from "/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer/Motion Graphics Compositions/" to "~/Library/Screen Savers/"
- Blue
- Explosive
- Mask Slide Show
- My Screen Saver (much much cooler than "Computer Name")
- Particle System
- Rings
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