I was on vacation for the release of Leo, so I’m a little late for the final compatibility scorecard. As far as I can tell:

• Notae runs fine in Leopard. I’ll do some more testing to make absolutely sure every feature works well, but I’ve been checking all along and nothing’s obviously broken.
• My CUPS-PDF distribution does not work in Leopard. I’m sure it’s something simple and I’ll look into it soon.
• Text Reader and Launchd Editor have not been tested in Leo, but I expect no problems as these are very simple programs.

Two quickies on Xcode that made me smile. Well, one quickie done twice. If you hit ⌘O to open a file and pick a folder instead, Xcode will open the project file inside the folder.

This also works with xcodebuild it would appear. Similar to make, if you’re in the project directory you don’t need to specify a project file. If you’re outside, you just need to specify the folder it’s in.

I like smart code.

So I’m investigating leaving Sprint after the news of the previous entry, and this doesn’t inspire confidence in the brand for Verizon.

One would think to place basic computational arithmetic well within the realm of web monkeys that can make a web store for a multi-billion-dollar communications giant. One would also, apparently, be quite wrong.

Exactly how do you pay so

This is more for me because I know I’ll forget, but I’ve been doing this for little utilities like dd_rescue and cups-pdf for a while so I wanted to put it down for those too lazy to read Apple’s overly-extensive documentation on the topic — and for me when I forget.

One Step

This should work for most programs.

gcc -arch i386 -arch ppc -O3 -o cups-pdf cups-pdf.c

Two Steps

If the one step method fails for any reason, this will work:

1. Build your project in two versions, one for PPC and one for Intel: gcc -arch ppc -O3 -o cups-pdf.ppc cups-pdf.c gcc -arch i386 -O3 -o cups-pdf.intel cups-pdf.c

Version 2.4.0 (from 2.0.5):

• fixed possible read access after end of string


• fixed recognition of international characters


• experimental option to decode hex strings in title (NK)


• new option to remove prefixes from usernames


• minor bugfix to read umasks properly


• new option to select where to look for title


• some code changes and optimizations

This version is a universal binary and runs on PPC and Intel Macs.

CUPS-PDF is a double-clickable Mac binary distribution of the original version for other Unix-based machines.