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Apple: Working with Quartz Composer

You might not know it, but tucked away on those OS X install discs of yours are some magical applications that are grouped together as 'Developer Tools.' The big ticket item is XCode, Apple's IDE, but there are also lost of other tools in there that let you program in other ways.

One of the best examples of this is Quartz Composer, which allows you to manipulate OS X's Quartz graphic layer by dragging and dropping. Sound interesting? If so, then you really need to check out Working with Quartz Composer. This starter tutorial will get you up and running in no time.