Let an iPhone user know they can access your content via their device
Here's how: 1. Check if the user-agent matches an iPhone/iPod Touch 2. Check for an appInstalled cookie 3. If the cookie exists and is set to true, set window.location to your-uri:// (or do the...
View ArticleHow to develop / migrate apps for the iPhone 5
1. Set a 4-inch launch image for your app called Default-568h@2x.png This is how you get 1136 px screen height (without it, you will get 960 px with black margins on top and bottom). This should be...
View ArticleApp Store Review Guidelines
The full text of the App Store Review Guidelines. Note that this is a “living document” so they may change it as and when they please. Introduction We’re pleased that you want to invest your talents...
View ArticleReclaiming disk space on the Mac
When I bought my MacBook Pro I immediately ditched the hard drive that came with it, open up the system and installed an SSD drive – immediately voiding the warranty! But, I got some amazing response...
View ArticleWhat are all those gems that are installed/used by Rails
Wonder what all those gems are that you find being installed/used when you do: rails new app Here’s a breakdown (all gems can be found doing a search on http://rubygems.org/) Using rake (10.0.4) Ruby...
View ArticleHash key on a UK Mac
… is normally Alt 3. However, if this doesn’t work you may have some keyboard shortcut remapping going on. Or you may not be using a UK keyboard (Preferences > Language & Text). Or you could...
View ArticleApple Mac: Keyboard shortcut conflicts
If you’ve got a keyboard shortcut conflict start off here: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4182 Some apps that may help debugging a conflict are: Cheatsheet and KeyCue See also:...
View ArticleWWDC 2013 101: Platforms State of the Union
Released: iOS7 AirDrop New UI 3 big ideas: Clarity, Deference (getting the chrome out of the way of the content), Depth (parallax, blurs, sophisticated animations) 4 things to pay attention to:...
View ArticleRails: Phusion Passenger
Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps. Some notes on installing it: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download Ignore the docs that suggest: $ sudo gem install...
View ArticleRails: Phusion Passenger
Passenger is an application server for Ruby (Rack) and Python (WSGI) apps. Some notes on installing it: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/download Ignore the docs that suggest: $ sudo gem install...
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Photos on Android
Why does the Photos app take so much time to delete a photo? Sometimes it literally takes over a minute. What’s worse it takes an indeterminate period of time. Sometimes seconds, sometimes minute . It...
View ArticleSpotlight Search Results Not Working in iOS 8 on the iPhone 6
I did a search for an app in Spotlight on my new iPhone 6 Plus. I knew it existed on the phone but the search wasn’t returning it at the top of the list of search results. I fixed this by going into...
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