Beginning Mac OS®X Tiger™ Dashboard Widget Development
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Terry, Fred.
Beginning Mac OS X Tiger dashboard widget development / Fred Terry.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-77825-7 (paper/website : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-471-77825-7 (paper/website : alk. paper)
1. Mac OS. 2. Operating systems (Computers) 3. Macintosh (Computer)—Programming. 4. HTML (Document markup
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