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If you manipulate photographs, create graphics, or otherwise work with images, you’ve probably used Adobe Photoshop. And if you edit video, you’ve likely incorporated still images into your video projects. Final Cut Pro X works with all kinds of image…
18 January 2013Planet Mozilla
18 January 2013Planet Mozilla
Scoped style sheets are a feature from HTML 5 (or the HTML Standard, if you prefer) that allows the effect of a style sheet to be limited to a subtree of the document. By placing a scoped attribute on a element, the style sheet applies only to elements…
16 January 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
When working on an app, iOS developers don't just code, they also have to prep their app for the App Store submission process. One time-consuming step is gathering all the app screenshots that are needed for the App Store listing. It's not too bad if you…
16 January 2013Planet Mozilla
When I was first starting out in development, I thought that writing code was pretty easy. It took me a while (and a long learning process) before I realized that writing code is harder than it looks. Looking back on some of that first code, I wonder how…
15 January 2013MySQL Performance Blog
One of the most common causes of a poor Sphinx search performance I find our customers face is misuse of search filters. In this article I will cover how Sphinx attributes (which are normally used for filtering) work, when they are a good idea to use and…
15 January 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
1Password on iOS is the best way I've found to manage secure passwords, but the 4.0 version did not make it easy to search for passwords straight from Safari, iCab or another browser (well, not Chrome, which doesn't support bookmarklets). The recent 4.1…
14 January 2013TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
App designers (and Apple), take note! Designer Craig Dennis has an excellent article on Codrops about designing empty space in your app. These are pages with no data, such as an empty mail inbox or a folder barren of any documents. Dennis argues that no…
14 January 2013MacOSXHints.com
Use Spotlight in partnership with a cheap handheld scanner, plus some OCR software, and you can achieve the "paperless office" dream with remarkably little effort. I explain more about this on my blog, but here are the basic steps. I use the excellent…
11 January 2013inessential.com
On the Debug podcast (which I adore), Craig Hockenberry (whom I adore) mentioned that my code formatting style is crazy. He may be right. I’ll let you judge. Here’s a simple example from a view controller’s init method: - (id)initWithAccount:(GBAccount…
11 January 2013