Xcode Balancing Brackets For Method Calls

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, This may well be my favourite and perhaps also the simplest Xcode completion trick I have come across. I may be the last person to discover it but just in case there is somebody else who is…

27 April 2012

Replacing iDisk with online storage of your own

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

With the June 30, 2012 death of Apple's MobileMe service looming just a little over two months away, some Mac users are still wondering what to do to replace one of the keystone pieces of the service -- iDisk. Macworld's Glenn Fleishman provided some tips…

26 April 2012

The Three Keys to iPhone App Performance

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When I’m writing iPhone code, I keep three things in my mind at all times: 1. Don’t allocate any memory. 2. Don’t do any work. 3. Don’t block the main thread. Obviously, 1 and 2 are impossible — you’ll need to allocate some memory and…

26 April 2012

How to get AirPlay working when Apple TV is hooked up via Ethernet

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

When I got a new Apple TV, I decided to plug it directly into my Time Capsule via Ethernet to lighten some of the bandwidth load on my home wireless network. My Wi-Fi bandwidth has always been pretty lackluster with my first-gen Time Capsule, even though…

24 April 2012

VoiceOver Accessibility

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Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, Apple has made it really easy to add VoiceOver support to iOS Apps. In many cases setting the accessibility label for each interface element in Interface Builder gets 90% of the job done.…

23 April 2012

Hide Desktop icons when quitting Finder

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If you use an alternate Finder tool, such as PathFinder, the application quits the Finder when launching. However, any icons you have on the Desktop will still be visible. If you run the following command in Terminal, Desktop icons will be hidden when you…

20 April 2012

Version 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins Released

MySQL Performance Blog

I’m happy to announce that version 1.0 of Percona Monitoring Plugins is now available. The Percona Monitoring Plugins are high-quality plugins, templates, and add-ons for Nagios and Cacti, so you can add world-class MySQL monitoring to your existing…

18 April 2012