Apple Developer Connection News • October 27, 2006 • Issue 471

Start Your Development with Mac OS X Leopard

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The Leopard Early Start Kit provides developers with advance access to an exclusive collection of digital resources and information — everything you need to deliver innovative applications when Leopard ships in 2007. ADC Premier and Select members can log in now to access their Leopard Early Start Kit, and tap into these development essentials:

Pre-release versions of Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode 3.0

Leopard Dev Center, with hundreds of Leopard Reference Library documents, code samples, and more

ADC on iTunes, a convenient way to view, sort and download Leopard session videos from WWDC 2006

If you are not already a Premier or Select member, purchase the Leopard Early Start Kit now and start developing for the future today.

Intel Core 2 Duo Processors Ship in MacBook Pro

Apple recently announced that its entire MacBook Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster* than the previous generation.

ADC Premier and Select members can now purchase MacBook Pro Notebooks with the Intel Core 2 Duo Processors at a significant discount utilizing their ADC Hardware Purchase Program membership benefit.

ADC Compatibility Labs Offer the Latest Hardware

ADC Premier and Select members can take advantage of Apple's state-of-the-art compatibility and testing facilities located in Cupertino California, Tokyo Japan, and Beijing China. The three labs on the Apple campus in Cupertino offer more than 250 PowerPC and Intel-based Macintosh systems, and now feature the very latest hardware, including:

Mac Pro - 2.66 / 3.0 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors

24" iMac - 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor

New on the ADC Website

ADC Articles
Leopard Technology Series for Developers: Overview

New technologies in Mac OS X Leopard offer developers amazing opportunities for innovation. Read this article to learn how to get ready for the next big thing.

Adding Accessibility to Custom Views in Cocoa

You've already access enabled your application, now read how to access enable a custom control from scratch. This article is the second in a two-part series on enabling accessibility in your Cocoa application.

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Reference Library
Technical Q&A: Finding EXC_BAD_ACCESS bugs in a Cocoa project
Technical Q&A: Using static versions of existing dynamic libraries
Guides: Aperture SDK Overview
Reference: Aperture Reference
Sample Code: FinalCutPro_AppleEvents
Technical Q&A: What is the "main bundle" of a command-line foundation tool?

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In the Community

TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac Publication Now Available
TextMate is a powerful tool for programmers, web designers, and anyone else who regularly needs to work with text files on Mac OS X. TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac focuses on pragmatic automation and other time saving operations that will offer you ways to achieve your desired end result quickly and efficiently.

developer Tools
QuickHelp Mac OS X 2.0.5
FileCarver Demo 1.0
DbVisualizer 5.1

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Unix & Open Source
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4
LyX/Mac 1.4.3
MySQL 5.0.2

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October 27, 2006 • Issue 471
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* Based on estimated results of industry-standard SPECint and SPECfp rate tests. SPEC is a registered trademark of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.apple.com/macbookpro for more information.

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