Bert Altenburg, author of “AppleScript for Absolute Starters”, in co-operation with Alex Clarke and Philippe Mougin, has released a new book for newcomers to Cocoa programming using Objective-C and XCode.

This tutorial is for non-programmers, and is aimed at levelling the learning curve as much as possible. In the best tradition, the tutorial is being released as a free booklet in pdf format.

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Have you ever felt that although Mac OS X’s built-in disc authoring is nice, it is at times rather limiting? Have you ever wondered what to do when a client requested a custom hybrid CD that required all the Mac-specific files to be hidden on the disc when viewed on a Windows PC? Enter shadowBurn, the painless CD/DVD authoring solution that is as straightforward as anything on Mac OS X.

shadowBurn is a CD/DVD authoring solution for Mac OS X 10.4 and later that uses Apple’s powerful DiscBurning APIs to ensure all disc authoring functionality provided by your system are handled perfectly and adds such much sought-after features like custom hybrid disc creation and disc overburning support for projects that just might fit on a disc, even though the official disc size does not allow the project to fit on it.

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Gimpshop is a Gimp modification that features menu layouts and naming conventions similar to those in Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop users should feel right at home using Gimpshop.

With this release, Gimpshop runs for the first time in OS X 10.4 Tiger as a self-contained app!

ImageWell is the popular image editing software for quick manipulation and upload to an iDisk (.mac account), FTP server or other web server. Whether you are adding images to your documents or posting photos to the web for others to see, ImageWell will do the work for you.

Drag images in and out of the well, resize, crop, shape, rotate and add a watermark, border, or drop shadow. No need to launch multiple applications to add text, labels, arrows, circles and squares to your image. Add a thought cloud or talking balloon. A few simple clicks, copy, paste, and send them off to your web server instantly. At the click of a button the image is sent and a handy URL is copied to the clipboard. Just like that, it doesn’t get any easier!

Salling Clicker is our award-winning remote control utility for Macintosh computers. Read on to learn more about Salling Clicker, and why we know you are going to want it.

Salling Clicker lets you pick the songs while taking care of your guests. Not only can you move between and scan within tracks – Salling Clicker lets you search for tracks by name, artist, composer, and album. When used with a Palm OS handheld or Symbian-based smartphone, upcoming tracks or album artwork is shown in your handheld’s display!

And more. I went ahead and bought myself a copy. Love it already! If you own a Mac and a Bluetooth enabled mobile device, you really need to try Salling Clicker!