Things that are cool

– Apple’s tiny new iPod Shuffle. Almost as small as a key, VoiceOver navigation, 4GB. Making tech smaller makes something like this all the more plausible…
Sixth Sense Technology. Portable kit that merges the real world with the digital one in natural and compelling ways. Its only an experiment right now, but this kind of thing isn’t that far off. Watch the video!
– America’s First Lady — at work in a soup kitchen, showing the world what grace looks like. Too bad the mainstream media missed the point.
Michelle Obama at Miriam's Kitchen

Resolving missing dependencies when building a NeXTStep/OpenStep App

If you’ve played around with NextStep/OpenStep trying to build a sample app — say, so you can find out how much OS X/the iPhone is like those sweet black machines of yesteryear — you might have an error like this one, when attempting to build a sample app you’ve created: AppKit.h not found (or any one of the other billion header files that are missing)
This may mean an incomplete installation of the Developer tools. Here’s what to do:

  • From the Developer CD, open the NextCD folder and then Packages.
  • From the Services menu, use Open Sesame to open the Package as Root
  • Install the Package to its default file locations.

Now, in your project in Project Builder, you may need to tell the compiler where to find those libraries.

  • From the Tools menu, open the Inspector and look at the Build Attributes.
  • Under Framework Search Order, Set… a new path to where those files just got installed: /NextLibrary/Frameworks
  • Do the same for Header Search Order, but use /NextDeveloper/Headers
  • Or, if you’re if you’re trying a NextStep tutorial on OpenStep, the path to the Headers is:
    /NextDeveloper/OpenStepConversion/3.3Headers


Now you should be able to Build in Project Builder! Note that PB doesn’t have a “Build and Go” that I can find, so once you build, you need to use Workspace Manager to find your newly made .app and double click it to test it out.