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- Elegant user interface
- High quality, reliable code
- Quick time to market
- Low maintenance cost
- Satisfaction guarantee
We have been developing custom applications for Mac OS® operating system, professionally, since 1999. Our experience with operating systems includes Mac programming on all flavors of OS 9 and OS X (including Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard), and Macintosh hardware from G3, G4, G5 to Intel. We are especially good at developing dual-platform custom Mac and Windows applications and porting Windows applications to the Mac platform and back.
Premier Apple Developer Connection Membership
Mercury is a Premier member of Apple Developer Connection (ADC). This elite level of partnership provides our Mac developers with full access to Apple developer support, software and hardware.
Mac OS X Experience
- Desktop applications: stand-alone and client-server applications, Carbon- and Cocoa-based, with custom user interfaces, with AppleScript, featuring database connectivity using MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, as well as enterprise-level databases, Automator workflows, custom automatic update solutions and the system-wide notifications, custom methods for the software copy protection, Preference Panes development;
- Advanced multimedia solutions for professional audio and video: audio and video acquisition and playback, development of the plug-ins for the Mac OS X audio processing applications, QuickTime components, custom DRM solutions, QuickTime and HTTP streaming of the audio data, MP4 container low-level processing, AAF processing, Quartz-based solutions, OpenGL-based WYSIWYG graphical editors, use of the libfaac (open source AAC encoder) and SDL (Simple DirectMedia Player), CoreAudio-based solutions, AudioUnits;
- Cross-platform applications: for Mac OS X, Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, from the kernel level to GUI;
- Rapid migration of existing applications to OS X Leopard: from other platforms (Windows, Linux) or Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X and from PowerPC to Intel platform;
- Native iPhone applications: using unofficial and official SDK from Apple;
- iPhone web applications: do not require iPhone SDK and can be easily distributed over the Web;
- Mobile solutions: advanced data exchange and synchronization between mobile devices and Mac OS X Desktop;
- Web-based solutions: dashboard widget development for Mac OS X Leopard, general webkit-based development, plug-ins to the web-browsers;
- Security solutions: implementation of various encryption algorithms, development of integrated solutions restricting user interaction with the computer and the network, encrypted communications over SSL;
- Extending the functionality of the existing Cocoa-based Mac OS X applications: with and without access to their source code;
- Networking solutions: TCP-based, UDP-based network communication including development of custom streaming protocols for high-performance multimedia data streaming, HTTP communication including development of distributed web-service-based solutions, FTP communication, DNS communication, iSCSI protocol implementation, zero-configuration protocols including SLP, Bonjour, firewall appliances, IM protocol implementations, OpenTransport framework;
- Device driver development: to operate custom and third party Macintosh hardware or to achieve specialized low-level system functionality;
- System programming: low-level programming including assembly, performance optimization, SIMD-specific optimization for PowerPC and Intel CPUs, communication with the USB and FireWire devices.
Please email us with your Mac OS software development project details to receive a free quote.
Technical Expertise Matrix
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User-Level
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System-Level
Technologies
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Development
Tools
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Programming
Languages
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Cocoa®
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Open Transport SDK
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XCode®
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Objective C/C++
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Carbon®
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Security SDK
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gcc, gdb
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C/C++
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iPhone SDK
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Core Foundation
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Interface Builder
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AppleScript®
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Pro Tools SDK
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Core Audio
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Metrowerks CodeWarrior
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Unix shell (bash, tcsh)
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PowerPlant
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I/O Kit
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Package Maker
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Perl
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Accessibility API
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POSIX, BSD API
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ViseX Installer
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Ruby
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Mac, Mac OS, AppleScript, XCode, Cocoa, Carbon are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
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Breaking News |
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09/03/2009
Mercury becomes a Windows 7 "Front Runner" with release of PopMonger 4.0!
06/01/2009
Mercury has been awarded our fifth project for the National Park Service.
05/25/2009
A universal iPhone remote developed for Cremote appear in AppStore.
12/17/2008
iPhone app developed for iTranz Software appear in AppStore.
11/04/2008
Mercury was asked to develop an innovative 3D motion iPhone app.
10/10/2008
Element Labs selects Mercury to develop the next version of RasterMapper Mac OS/Windows app.
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