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 …
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 …
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 …
Sparkle is the updates framework for cocoa that “just works” , yea ok it does , however the documentation for it is a bit lacking on some very important aspects that i discovered over time : 1 – the preferences for your application must have SUAutomaticallyUpdate TRUE for autoupdates to happen , just setting SUEnableAutomaticChecks …
Ok so this is about the dreaded jarsigner error : unable to sign jar: java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid entry compressed size 99% of the time what that means is your jar is already signed However jarsigner has no way to remove signatures from a jar , but you can do that manually since a jar file is …
Personally i think a gesture enabled mouse is a great move, and am looking forward to seeing it implemented in more mice, besides the mighty mouse i have been using a Logitech Air mouse which has a touch scroll with momentum which i miss dearly when using the mighty mouse, i am sure the same …
Wether you like to have a file manager running as root , need a file manager that can really dig into the guts of the os or are just nostalgic for the good ole 2 pane commanders , either way you got to have mc handy on your brand new 64 bit osx. There are …
On the heels of the Firefox 3.5 release that brings HTML5 video embedding support the following pattern of embedding video files emerges (including on mozilla.com and openvideoalliance.org) that is two distinct sources for the video , one encoded with ogg , one with mpeg4 , using html code as follows : <video> <source src=”thefile.m4v” type=”video/mp4″> …