The book’s back cover contents are available for viewing.

The book’s cover and preface are now available for viewing. For those who will know what this means: yes, the book’s production is back on track.

SMSRotateD is a demonstration application that triggers screen rotation based on the orientation data it retrieves from the Sudden Motion Sensor (SMS) built into newer Apple notebook models.

A new version (2.4) of hfsdebug is out. Besides bug fixes, this version has some useful new features whose utility is seen in Chapter 12 of “Mac OS X Internals”.

This blog is the accompanying blog of my forthcoming book titled “Mac OS X Internals”. More information can be found by visiting the top-level page of this site: www.osxbook.com As an “opening item” for this site/blog, I’m making iremoted available. It is a command-line program that receives and displays events corresponding to button-presses on Apple’s [...]

Without any ado: The accompanying website (osxbook.com) of my forthcoming book (Mac OS X Internals) is up. Although the site is preliminary at the moment, it has useful information related to the book. In particular, a detailed table of contents is available for browsing. osxbook.com also has a blog, which will eventually cause this blog [...]

A quick FYI… it’s done.

My apologies to all who have sent me emails that I couldn’t respond to — I am almost entirely off email for over a month. I hope to be able to say “done” in a matter of days now, if you know what I’m talking about. I know the motion sensor software doesn’t work on [...]

A Tour of the Mac OS X Kernel is a flash conversion — and a minor edit — of a recent talk I gave at the NSA. Although I think the conversion is fine, since it allows the presentation to be “driven” within a web browser, it is far from being a visually faithful conversion. [...]

This is sort of rushed, since I’m traveling starting today, but I want to share a hopefully useful program for monitoring (in near real-time) file system activity on “Tiger”. The program, called “fslogger”, uses the same underlying mechanism as Spotlight to retrieve file system change information from the kernel. Here is the relevant discussion and [...]