Tag Archives: 10.6

CoreLocation in 10.6

I took a really quick look at the built-in location services on Mac 10.6.  I wanted to determine what sort of accuracy the feature had out-of-the-box, and what the API looked like. The code is pretty simple.  Just something like: CLLocationManager* locationManager = [[CLLocationManager alloc] init]; locationManager.delegate                = self; locationManager.desiredAccuracy = kCLLocationAccuracyBest; [locationManager startUpdatingLocation]; The [...]
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Using CoreWLAN on MacOS 10.5

When Apple’s OS X version 10.6 shipped, they broke compatibility will all 3rd party geolocation applications.  This wasn’t entirely unexpected as we all were using a private framework which wasn’t documented.  So, Firefox 3.5 and Gears, and probably Skyhook, are busted right now on OS X 10.6. Apple has provided, with limited documentation, a new [...]
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