The Mentalist is an American crime drama series. It aired on CBS from 23 September 2008 to 18 February 2015. Bruno Heller created it. Simon Baker plays Patrick Jane, a former fake psychic who now works as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation.
NSCalendar offers many tools for working with dates beyond basic NSDateComponents.
If you see system_installd running on your Mac, here is what this system-level installer process does.
NSScanner wraps a string to pull out substrings and numbers. It has properties like caseSensitive (for matches), charactersToBeSkipped (ignores chars), scanLocation (current position), locale (for numbers).
Monthly update 298 • February 2015 • 2015-02-01 - 2015-02-28
The Heavy Water War is a Norwegian miniseries. It aired on NRK in January 2015. Petter S. Rosenlund directed it. The show tells the true story of the Allied effort to stop Nazi Germany from building an atomic bomb by sabotaging the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant at Vemork in occupied Norway during the Second World War.
Interstellar (2014), directed by Christopher Nolan, follows Cooper, a pilot turned farmer in a dying world. Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper with heart and grit.
Monthly update 297 • January 2015 • 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-31
If you see wifip2pd running on your Mac, here is what this Wi-Fi peer-to-peer process does.
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.print.PrintingPrefs, controlling printing behaviour on macOS.
Sons of Anarchy is an American crime drama series. It aired on FX from 3 September 2008 to 9 December 2014. Kurt Sutter created it. Charlie Hunnam plays Jax Teller, the vice president and later president of an outlaw motorcycle club in the fictional town of Charming, California.
Monthly update 296 • December 2014 • 2014-12-01 - 2014-12-31
On 1 January 2012 I stopped using Facebook. That’s 3 years ago. I didn’t miss it for a second!
Reflection on the year 2014, checking progress of the goals, and some numbers.
The Christian view of Christmas deepens with time. Jesus birth points to Gods great love and justice.
NSUndoManager gives you full undo/redo with almost no code. While you change something, tell the undo manager how to reverse it.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), directed by Peter Jackson, brings the story of Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield to its end. Martin Freeman plays Bilbo, who watches his friend lose himself to greed as armies gather at the gates of the Lonely Mountain.
Monthly update 295 • November 2014 • 2014-11-01 - 2014-11-30
In Personal, Reacher hunts a sniper who targeted the French president, linked to a past enemy from his Army days.
Paddington (2014), directed by Paul King, follows a young bear from Peru who arrives in London looking for a home. Ben Whishaw voices Paddington, a polite and hopeful bear who wears a red hat, loves marmalade, and believes the best of everyone he meets.
iOS 8 introduces significant updates to the Core Location framework, enhancing developer capabilities and user privacy through granular permissions, indoor positioning, and visit monitoring.
Monthly update 294 • October 2014 • 2014-10-01 - 2014-10-31
John Wick (2014), directed by Chad Stahelski, follows a retired hitman who returns to the criminal underworld after a group of thugs steal his car and kill the puppy his dying wife left him. Keanu Reeves plays John Wick, a man the whole underworld fears.
If you see nsurlsessiond using network resources on your Mac, here is what this process does.
Monthly update 293 • September 2014 • 2014-09-01 - 2014-09-30