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Interesting Podcast episode from “Late Night Cocoa” about Leopard — the new version of Mac OS X — and the advantages for developers.

Daniel Jalkut wrote in his Red Sweater Blog that Microsoft will possibly use information from the iTunes-Library for their new iPod competitor. The idea is that as a lure to switch to their service, Microsoft will offer to give you for free Windows Media versions of some number of songs from your existing iTunes library. [...]

Who still doesn’t know Wil Shipley‘s “Pimp My Code” postings in his blog should take a look at them. Very informative for Cocoa developers. Start with Part I.

I played a little bit with Cocoa and as a little testing-project i wanted to integrate a drop-down menu to the NSStatusBar for controlling the iTunes-application. Its not finished yet and i dont know if i’ll work on it in the next time. But it works for the three functions “play/pause”, “previous song” and “next [...]