Technical Notes provide you with the latest technical documentation on Apple technologies and system updates, fixes and errata to Inside Macintosh, as well as programming tips and techniques to advance your development efforts. New Technical Notes are published on a regular basis and are reviewed by Apple engineers for technical accuracy and robustness.

Technical Notes by Category
Alphabetical categories for Apple Technical Notes are listed below.

Mac OS

• Color
• Communications
• Cross-Platform
• Devices
• Documentation
• Files
• Hardware
• Help Systems
• High Level Toolbox
• Inside Macintosh
  • Addenda
  • Errata
• Interapplication Communication
• Memory
• Networking
• OS Utilities
• Overviews
• Platforms & Tools
• Printing
• Processes
• QuickDraw
• QuickDraw 3D
• QuickDraw GX
• QuickTime Technologies
  • QuickTime
  • QuickTime VR
  • QuickTime for Windows
• Runtime Architecture
• Sound
• System Releases
• Text
  

• AOCE: Apple Open Collaboration Environment
• Apple Media Tool
• QuickTime Conferencing

In addition to our recent Technotes, other technical resources are available on Apple's Developer site:

Q&As
Technical Q&As provide you with the latest information and programming tips from Apple's developer technical support engineers.

Technical Publications
Apple's Technical Publications group produces information resources for programmers and innovators who are developing with Apple technology. Inside Macintosh volumes can be found on the Technical Publications site. An archive of develop magazine is also available.

Sample Code
Sample code provides you with coding samples for Apple Technologies from Apple's technical support engineers.

Japanese Technotes
For the convenience of our Japanese developers, many of our Technical Notes have been translated into Japanese.

Mac OS TN 1139: QuickTime 3.0.2 By the QuickTime Team This Technote describes the changes between the final release of QuickTime 3.0 and the update release of QuickTime 3.0.2 TN DV22: CD-ROM Driver Calls By Chris Brown, Neil Day, and Brian Bechtel Revised By Sérgio J. Henriques Updated By Mark Cookson This Technote is directed at developers who are writing special purpose application software that needs to access the audio or data portions of a CD-ROM directly. TN 1138: High-Speed SDRAM Design Considerations By Gary Phillips This Technote is directed at memory developers who are involved in the design and manufacture of high-speed RAM memory modules for Macintosh computers. TN 1137: Disabling Interrupts on the Traditional Mac OS By Quinn "The Eskimo!" This Technote is directed at developers who are building kernel-level software, such as device drivers, or application software that makes heavy use of Mac OS "interrupt time." In general, application developers should not need to disable interrupts. TN 1136: MicroBug: The ROM Debugger By Louella Pizzuti Revised by Quinn "The Eskimo!" - 08/98 This Technote describes the features of MicroBug, the ROM debugger present in all Macintoshes from the Mac Plus onward. Mac OS X Server (Rhapsody) RTN0002: Dual Boot Installation By Jason Mills updated by Kevyn Shortell This Technote details how to 'Dual Boot' your machine with Mac OS and Rhapsody. This Technote has been updated for Rhapsody Developer Release 2.

In addition to our recent Technical Notes, all previous Technical Notes are also available. A quick, easy-to-scan Table of Contents includes all of these Technical Notes in an itemized list sorted by date published on the Web. A more robust Table of Contents, which includes a descriptive passage on each Technical Note, is also available.