Resource forks are a strange beast, while Apple started moving away from them (around 10.4) and migrated to HFS Attributes, software like Adobe’s Photoshop still save (can be disabled in Preferences > File Handling) file previews as resource forks, here is a refresher on how to view, find and delete resource forks. You can see is a file has …
It has been proven that the drive to give feedback on something is strongly polarized, that is the feedback is shaped by strong feelings either positive or negative, which makes sense, the people with median feelings do not care enough to give feedback, it should come as no surprise that this mechanic is relevant to …
It’s a brave new sandboxing world they say and that brings about many implications good and bad
I noticed something quite strange today, almost a year since Apple launched their Magic Trackpad their marketing materials on the website do not depict the actual device correctly in terms of proportions. Don’t get me wrong, a 7% width difference from the promotional images to that of the actual device is a far cry from …
In 2010 Apple introduced a feature in MacBooks with the aim of extending battery life “Automatic graphics switching” that switches between using either the integrated Intel GPU inside the CPU or the standalone discrete AMD/Nvidia GPU. The exact conditions however that make it switch one or the other were never clearly stated by Apple, and there …
Any conscious iOS developer wants his artwork to look as good as possible, and with the retina display for example we were told to upgrade our artwork to higher resolution, which involved alternative @2x versions for each file and gets daunting fast if you have a lot of artwork files, and especially if a lot …
Closest cell tower 1 Km, iPhone 3G, Wi-fi mode, iOS 4.0, Orange network. With device held gently by edges: signal avg 90 (outdoor, line of sight to cell tower, same altitude) signal avg 8O (indoor, line of sight to cell tower, same altitude) signal avg 60 (indoor, no line of sight to cell tower, same …
Here is a little handy tip to make your device speak textual content with almost acceptable computer voice: Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Triple-click home to “Toggle VoiceOver” or “Ask” if you want to get a dialog asking wether to turn it On/Off (remember that tapping is done by double-tapping when voiceover …
There seems to be a significant issue with the iAd implementation at the moment, the ads themselves are not cached on the operating system, and that has two major implications: 1 – ads can be disabled by the user by just turning off the network connection 2 – the user has incentive to disable ads …
We all like the new feature in Safari 5, Reader, well maybe except the advertisers, it is so pristine as anything we would expect from Apple but as it turns out it is actually based on the work of NYC based design house arc90, namely Readability which is acknowledged by Apple in file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Acknowledgments.html If you …