So, it’s been some time since I promised a little Cocoa wrapper around the (private) TimeMachine client API, as used by such applications as Mail, Address Book, and iPhoto. What with one thing and another, I never got around to expanding the example code to do everything I wanted (such as pulling individual items out of a backed up data file for re-importing, similar to Address Book), but such as it is, here’s what I have right now.

Download the example code

The complete (2560×1600) screenshot

The source code is, needless to say, Leopard-only, and the Time Machine helper class uses ObjC 2.0 features such as properties and @optional protocol specifications.

The archive above contains the project, based upon Jon ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch’s CoreData tutorial. This was done purely as a time-saving measure, since this tutorial resulted in a small app with a single data store containing a bunch of separate data objects.

Yeah, okay, I was just too lazy to write my own.

The archive also contains a PDF version of a talk I gave on this subject for the Toronto CocoaHeads group. This PDF is available separately here. Once I’ve got the code cleaned up a bit and released, via Google code or my own repository, should I ever finish writing that (I said I’d been busy, didn’t I?) then I’ll rearrange that a bit & do a screencast similar to the ADC/WWDC ones.

For now, enjoy, and ping me via the comments for more information.

Cabel Sasser released his FancyZoom scripts last week, and I’ve gladly employed it here. It supports just about all the existing images, except for a couple really big ones for which I’ve turned it off. Here’s a couple more samplers, with captions! Now I’m simply waiting for Markdown to be updated to do image widths & anchor tag titles

Oh, and for those wondering when I’ll be back on track, I plan to post my (still not cleaned-up) Time Machine API stuff here a bit later.

…well, I did say they would be coming.

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