How do I port my application to OS X?

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Porting CLI/GUI Windows program to OS X

I have a Windows program that has a GUI which also uses a command line interface (a cmd Window) as a debugging console. Basically, when it is double clicked, it launches a command line window and then the program creates all the GUI windows. Then you'd have two Windows: the main GUI and a debugging console. I'm trying to port this pogram to OS X. Because OS X (and all Unix OSs for that matter) doesn't automatically launch a command line window when you run a command line application. So, I obviously...

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You can of course create a run loop from a terminal-launched app. But that generally isn't what you...

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Throttle Application bandwidth by Process, not by port or host

I'm using Bitcasa to back up things, but it doesn't have builtin bandwidth upload throttling. So consequently it sucks up all the bandwidth and the entire houses network comes to a stop. This also happens to make browsing the web impossible. This would...

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I've not used it myself, but I think that Throttled might do what you want. It's geared towards optimizing...

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Easiest way to port a PHP Web App to Android?

We have a LAMP stack-based web application which we have built on a proprietary framework and have been running for several years. It also makes extensive use of AJAX and CSS. I would like to port it over to run as a stand-alone application on an Android...

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There is PHP for Android project that you can use for that, but I am afraid you would not reuse much...

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How to connect a Mac OS X and a Windows XP machine, in order to have a PHP+MysqL application running on Windows but with browser and usage from Mac OS X?

I want to connect from a Mac OS X machine to a Windows XP running XAMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP), in order to use an application running on the Windows machine.At the same time, I want to have the Mac OS X allowing Internet browsing, while Windows should...

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If it's just the Mac connecting to the Windows XP machine, by far the simplest solution is to just get...

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Mac OS X application crashes, but only for one user. Why?

Fairly gnarly Mac debugging / troubleshooting question, concerning an app that crashes on launch consistently, but only when run by a single particular user. So far, it's stumped everyone. Lots of gory technical details inside. I have a Mac OS X application...

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While I don't have the source code obviously, I do have a disassembler and a conference call less interesting...

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Would the page is still application A after you refresh the browser? Sometimes the browser cache your...

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Does anybody can describe the method of partitioning and installing OS and application like the OEM does?

Most of the Laptop and Desktop manufacturer customize HDD, OS and Application such a way that for any reason we need to reinstall OS, a hidden partition of the HDD (this partition can not be seen or accessed from My Computer) containing the image of...

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The tools the vendors use to repair the system from those restore partitions are usually proprietary...

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Xerox XK35c won't print using Win2k. Error: Port is busy...Another application is using the port?

Can anyone help with this one? My old custom-built computer's hard drive died. So I replaced it with a hard drive pulled from another custom-built unit whose processor died. The "new" hard drive has Windows 2000 on it. Now I cannot make my...

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Try using another printer or USB port? Make sure the printer is not trying to print other documents...

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Yes ofcourse. There are emulators that can do that. But all of them are in development stage and therefore...

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I need a good media center application for OS X.

I need a good media center application for OS X. Currently I'm using MediaCentral, and have tried iTheater and Front Row. However, all of these seem to have their flaws. The biggest problem is the inability to play any ogg vorbis formatted videos. MediaCentral...

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You might try adding the Ogg Vorbis QuickTime Component to the /Library/QuickTime folder, to try to...

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