Safari HTML5 Audio and Video Guide: About HTML5 Audio and Video. This is a good reference with lots of sample code for using HTML5 audio and video. The samples cover a wide range of possible custom applications. Though it's specific to WebKit/Safari, many of the CSS styles used for custom appearance are now supported by Firebox and, of course, Chrome (which is a WebKit browser like Safari).

Mac Stuff. This site's author shares a lot of great AppleScript code, with explanations of how they work. Pointers to AppleScript resources as well. He also covers shell scripts and Automator.

CocoaOniguruma: Simple and tiny Objective-C binding of Oniguruma. I ran across this today after noticing that SafariStand now uses it for its regular expressions search support. Don't have a need for RegEx support yet, but I might eventually, so … I also note that the framework is open source.

Compass Compass is an open-source project built on Rails that's currently in development. It proposes to provide a full-fledged framework for CSS stylesheets, whereby you would store data in Compass and then generate styles as needed for your various website projects. Compass also anticipates the need to use CSS as one way of including semantic data with your website.

ccgus's jstalk at GitHub

Here's the latest offshoot of the jsCocoa universe: JSTalk is a scripting language that can be used to easily interact with Cocoa apps. It's what Applescript would be if rewritten today using Cocoa and JavaScript. The download comes with a slew of example scripts and a script editor application.

JSCocoa — A bridge from JavascriptCore to Cocoa

On the heels of learning about Cappuccino, here's a project that lets developers access Cocoa from within JavaScript! Natch, it's open source, with documentation on on a google code site.

JNSoftware - Miscellaneous Snippets of Code

There are a lot of useful AppleScripts here, providing functions I haven't seen elsewhere. Definitely worth returning to...

FancyBox - fancy image zooming tool

I keep running across cool and useful JavaScripts that emulate Apple's zoom boxes, which it uses for adding detail about products or showing larger versions of thumbnails. This is a new one to me. It doesn't have the nice rounded corners of Apple's but does have some features my other fave lacks.

Speaking of which, the script I've been using lately is FancyZoom... the variant that works with Prototype and jQuery and doesn't pull images in using Ajax. The original version of FancyZoom is also cool, more like Fancy Box.

AppleScript: Sub-Routines

I just discovered this amazing collection of AppleScript templates Apple has provided for building AppleScript apps in Leopard. I can't wait to find the time to explore all of these, which cover such topics as:

1. Math routines
2. HTML routines
3. Sorging routines
4. Text manipulation
5. Working with lists
6. Text encoding/decoding
7. Writing to files
8. Finder droplets

Thank you, Apple!

Theocacao Just ran across this site today and found some great demos of new Leopard APIs for core animation. I was specifically looking for demos of using the new CGWindow methods.

Lap Cat Software Blog » Blog Archive » Everything you always wanted to know about NSApplication This is a very interesting blog article, accompanied by an equally interesting test application. The author wanted to figure out precisely the order in which NSApplication calls events and objects as it opens. Now, I can confirm that he's not alone in this curiosity, and I'm very appreciative that he took the time to document it. The app writes very verbosely to the Console, delineating each teeny tiny step that takes place.

Bagelturf - Resources And Articles For Cocoa Programmers I stumbled upon this Cocoa blog yesterday, drawn by an article on enabling/disabling controls. Turns out the owner has a really useful series of tutorials here, complete with readable text and code, plus downloadable xCode projects. One is a 10-part series on key-value coding that I'll definitely have to check out! Amazing how generous we programmers are as a lot, don't you think? You know this is a good guy when you see his tag line is "Shining out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark." Certainly more inspiring than claiming to be "like a stream of bat's piss," eh?

Mulle kybernetiK: Optimizing Objective-C code From a guy who obviously knows what he's talking about... I just finally made up my mind about his terrific, open-source mkconsole app today and was tooling around his site to see what else I might find. Some of these lessons are old, as the author notes, but there's still a lot of useful learning here for someone of my limited knowledge of the language.

Snippets of a Grandiose Scheme: Free Code! I ran across this programmer's work on CocoaDev, but he's got a few other Cocoa tricks up his sleeve...

Cocoa Traces - Fragments of tasty Cocoa code Only 3 months old, this site may evolve into something truly useful and needed: A comprehensive portal for the many bits of Cocoa source code that are out there. It has a very nice search and tag system, and an easy to use interface.

Resources - ThisService Besides providing this bit of open-source Cocoa code to the world, the developer of ThisService is also maintaining a resources page with links to the various Services that have been built using it. Very cool indeed! I have an idea for a service I'd very much like to have... perhaps I'll try building it with ThisService.

malcom’s blog » Cocoa/ObjC Classes I ran into this programmer's site by way of his free software for combining PDF files, which I was looking up for a reader. Much to my surprise and delight, he has also donated a heckuva lot of good-looking source code and Cocoa tidbits for the world. Can't wait to come back and dig through here with a fine-toothed comb!

Effect.Transfer I really like this effect! It reminds me of ones I'd seen on the terrific TiddlyWiki app as well as the Ajax-y BloxPress blog system for WordPress. It may come as no surprise, in fact, that the effect was developed by the author of BloxPress... as well as numerous other cool web goodies. This effect is intended to augment the collection that comes with Script.aculo.us, and the author provides several useful demos on this page.

Mac reusable source code by author name Wow! This is a great resource to keep handy... I've already run across a few of the individual contributors, but if the author of this page is actually maintaining this list, I'll definitely want to keep coming back for more! (Note: For serious hack-type geeks only!)

Andrew Weinrich Another day, another brilliant programmer offers free goodies. Today it's Andrew Weinrich, whose contributions to F-Script look awesome--his FSClass (available for download and extensively documented) can be used to write Objective-C-compatible Cocoa classes in JavaScript-like style. He also offers a command-line tool for running F-Script programs, as well as other cool items.