macOS – Entonos

How to modify TCC on macOS via command line

June 23, 2023

by G.J. Parker with No Comment computing DIM macOS

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First impressions of Apple Silicon

December 14, 2021

by G.J. Parker with No Comment computing fortran macOS

My MacBook Pro 17″ (2.2GHz Intel i7, AMD Radeon HD 6750M, 16GB RAM) has been replaced by a new MacBook Pro 16″ (Apple M1 Pro, 10-core CPU, 16-core GPU, 32GB RAM). While the old Intel MacBook Pro has served me well for over 10 years, it has been fixed (free!) three times for the dreaded overheating graphics card....

Which CGRect was that?

May 20, 2021

by G.J. Parker with No Comment computing iOS macOS swift

iOS and macOS are different. NSRect and CGRect can be too, apparently....

Runge-Kutta in Swift

December 12, 2019

by G.J. Parker with No Comment computing iOS macOS Physics swift

Apple’s Scene Kit has a built in physics engine. However, we discovered it wasn’t accurate for particular cases. We decided to replace the physics engine with a Runge-Kutta method. ...

Desktop Icon Manager 4.0 for macOS

November 15, 2019

by G.J. Parker with No Comment DIM macOS swift

We are pleased to announce a new version of Desktop Icon Manager (DIM) for macOS. DIM is a simple application which memorizes and restores icon positions....

dice, orientations and quaternions

September 13, 2019

by G.J. Parker with No Comment computing iOS macOS swift

Generating random rolls of 6-sided dice is typically an easy task. Under iOS and Swift (4.1+), you can easily generate a random integer from 1 to 6 with the following Swift command:...

macOS automation

June 18, 2019

by G.J. Parker with No Comment DIM macOS swift

In a vain attempt* to get Desktop Icon Manager (DIM) into the Mac App Store, we wrote a class that simply ‘hides’ or ‘reveals’ the Desktop icons with a notification. Quite useful when giving presentations (alas, our Desktops are usually ‘messy’ with current work)....