If you’ve left information in the Address Book in OS X, any other program on the machine can use Cocoa APIs to extract information automatically.
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <AddressBook/AddressBook.h>
#import <AppKit/NSWorkspace.h>
void sayHello(void)
{
ABPerson *currUser = [[ABAddressBook sharedAddressBook] me];
NSString *firstName = [currUser valueForProperty:kABFirstNameProperty];
NSString *lastName = [currUser valueForProperty:kABLastNameProperty];
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace]
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For the five of you who have a copy of Heroes of Might and Magic IV, Mac edition (and still play it on occasion), here’s something you might not know.
The .h4s saved game files are gzipped data files, with what appears to be a straight-up serialized form of in-memory data structures representing your heroes, their [...]
