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A guided introduction and learning path for developers new to Mac OS X graphics and imaging.

Mac OS X is built around a powerful, integrated stack of graphics technologies that provide a solid foundation for developers to create great desktop, web, and media applications. The Mac OS X graphic system is composed of separate subsystems that handle windowing, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, image manipulation, and multimedia. These subsystems synergize with one another to provide applications with graphics capabilities that far exceed what is possible on other operating systems Read more...

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Coda Unites Web Development: Panic Builds Its UI with WebKit, Quartz
Written with Xcode and many Cocoa frameworks, Coda offers lots of features, yet is remarkably easy to use. Read how the team at Panic made its complexity appear simple.  

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