Category: I-phone

There are plenty of window management apps on the Mac platform. Some allow you to snap windows to the edges of your screen like BetterSnapTool, but others, like Autumn Apps’ Breeze (which we covered last year), allow you to record a desired window size and position.

Breeze sits in your menu bar and lets you define “states” of windows by positioning them on your screen wherever you want and selecting “Save State As.” You can save states for one application and apply them to any window from any program or just for that one specific program. States can be bound to keyboard shortcuts or selected from a drop-down list from the menu bar.

Once you’ve got all the window states you want defined, you can quickly and easily move your windows around with just a few key presses.

Some programs don’t react well to being manhandled like that, with one poignant example being Photoshop, but most programs behave as they should. If for some reason you have a problem with a window (maybe it moves too far off screen), Breeze has a handy “Rescue window” function that brings the window back on-screen for you to deal with.

There’s a free trial available from Autumn Apps’ website, while purchasing the app will set you back US$8. Breeze works on Mac OS X 10.5 and up, including PPC-based Macs.

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Breeze originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke at the D9 conference this week, and said that while he considers the cloud to be a huge force in technology going forward, he’s not sold enough to be included in the first round of Apple’s almost-announced iCloud service.

Whatever Steve Jobs announces for iCloud on Monday (likely a music sharing and storage service, according to the rumors), it will not include goodies licensed under Disney. Still, Iger lauded Apple for working on what he called a “digital locker in the sky,” saying that a system like that would really be “a step in a better direction for the user experience.” Hopefully Apple will nail down Disney’s agreement for iCloud in the future, if indeed it is going to serve as a media storage unit in the cloud.

Meanwhile, Iger’s plans seem much more local to his company — rather than relying on Apple or any other company to sell and store his content, Disney apparently plans to “deliver entertainment directly to our consumers through a proprietary site or platform,” said Iger. Seems a little inconvenient to have each content company set up its own platform to sell content (rather than going through Apple’s store and service), but to each his own, we guess.

Disney will not be a part of iCloud launch originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Walt Mossberg during an interview that the dispute between Adobe and Apple over Flash is a thing of the past. Adobe and Steve Jobs went head to head last year when the Apple CEO publicly criticized the multimedia company and banned apps that were created using third-party tools, like Adobe Flash. The heated exchange was covered extensively by the press.

It took several months, but the dispute was finally resolved when Apple reversed its decision on third-party compilers and now lets developers use them to create apps. Though the press continues to bring up this dispute, it’s unofficially over as far as Narayen is concerned.

Narayen also confirmed that Adobe is supportive of HTML 5, the standard Apple has chosen for web video and multimedia on the iPad and iPhone. “We welcome the evolution to HTML5, and are actively contributing to it.” says Narayen. This is good news to iOS owners who won’t have to worry about Flash draining their batteries and slowing their browsers to a crawl.

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirms unofficial armistice with Jobs, Apple originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A man reportedly dressed in a hooded white “ninja” outfit crashed his car into the Apple store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The accident occurred early Friday morning before the store was open. Witnesses who saw the accident claim that one man abandoned the car and fled the scene without taking any merchandise. Details are sparse, but the police believe this was a burglary attempt and not a random accident. Until employees can clean things up, the store at the Friendly Center will be closed for business.

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White Ninja crashes car into Greensboro, NC Apple store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A report from analyst Mark Moskowitz of JPMorgan Chase suggests the iPad is killing sales of competing tablet devices. Companies like Motorola, Samsung and Asus have reportedly cut production of their tablets by as much as 10 percent since March of this year. Demand for tablets such as the Eee Pad Transformer, Motorola Xoom, RIM PlayBook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab is lagging, while demand for the iPad 2 remains strong.

Moskowitz points to the App Store as a key factor in the success of the iPad. Both the Android Market and RIM’s BlackBerry App World have a small selection of tablet optimized applications. The iPad, though, has a robust App Store with over 65,000 apps designed specifically for the tablet.

JPMorgan says iPad competitors slow production originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’ve updated your Mac with Security Update 2011-003, but how do you know if you have the latest malware definitions from Apple?

Macworld had a nice technical note on how to force your Mac to update its malware definitions, so we thought we’d pass that knowledge along. To start, you can check to see how old your malware definitions are by launching Terminal (found in your Utilities folder in the Applications folder), copying the following code, pasting it into Terminal at the prompt, and then pressing the Return key:

more /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/XProtect.meta.plist

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Force your Mac to update malware definitions (Updated) originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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On Monday morning at 10 AM PDT (1 PM EDT), Apple CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the fun at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. TUAW will be liveblogging the event, and now you can join in on the fun thanks to the good folks at KrazyBig.

They’ve come up with a browser-based Keynote Rumor Bingo game that you can play during the keynote, blocking out squares every time Steve or one of the other members of the Apple team makes an announcement of a new product, service or feature.

It’s sure to be a hoot listening to the keynote, waiting for the moment when one of the assembled crowd of developers and press shouts out BINGO! at the most inappropriate moment.

Many thanks to KrazyBig for making Keynote Rumor Bingo accessible from any Mac browser or iOS device. I know I’ll have the game up on my iPad during the keynote.

Win big at Keynote Rumor Bingo on Monday originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dear Aunt TUAW,

Do you know an app that streams music from Mac to iOS? I hear that Apple’s iCloud is going to do this but I don’t want to pay $25 a year.

Your loving nephew,

Ivo

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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me stream my music originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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According to Hardmac, Mac OS X Lion server will come as a paid-for downloadable app from the Mac App Store. One of Hardmac’s French readers (Blaise) inadvertently stumbled across this help window when typing “install server” in the help menu of a beta build of Apple’s newest, soon-to-be-released version of Mac OS X, Lion.

The help window states, “If this Mac isn’t a server, you can make it one by installing the server app.” It then goes on to detail the process of installing the app and creating an administrator account. The help menu ends with, “The Server app downloads the Server Essentials software package, installs it, and configures this Mac as a server.”

However, as we’ve noted previously, Apple’s own Lion marketing webpage states that “Lion Server is now part of Mac OS X Lion.” It reads, “It’s easy to set up your Mac as a server and take advantage of the many services Lion Server has to offer.”

Being that Apple currently charges US$499 for its Snow Leopard server package, it’s conceivable that Apple may charge something extra to flip Lion’s server switch via the Mac App Store. But we’re unconvinced.

Mac OS X Lion, alongside iCloud and iOS 5, is scheduled to be introduced on June 6th by Steve Jobs at Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference.

[Via 9to5Mac]

Mac OS X Lion server to come as a paid for downloadable app? originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Almost two weeks ago, Apple celebrated the 10th anniversary of its retail stores, and took the opportunity to launch iPads as in-store product information kiosks.

But, as MacRumors reports, there was also a mark of the occasion behind the scenes: a moving poster meant for store employees that artfully details the lessons gleaned from a decade in retail.

The poster begins, “In the last 10 years, we’ve learned a lot. We’ve learned to treat every day with the same enthusiasm we had on the first day. We’ve learned the importance of giving our customers just as much attention as they give us. And we’ve learned the art of hiring the right people for the right positions. We’ve learned it’s better to adapt to the neighborhood rather than expecting the neighborhood to adapt to us. Which is why we spend so much time and energy building stores the way we do.”

It continues with other revealing bits of information about Apple’s retail stores: “We’ve also learned that glass can be much more than glass. We’ve learned that a 32’6″ transparent glass box can stand tall even among the giants of the Manhattan skyline. That when glass becomes as iconic as the Fifth Avenue Cube, it can also become the fifth most photographed landmark in New York City. And we’ve learned that if you have to, you can close an entire street in Sydney to bring in three-story panes of glass.” And, “We even built a full-scale facade of the Regent Street store in a Cupertino parking lot to be sure the design was right. Which taught us the value of seeing things full size.”

MacRumors has transcribed the complete text. It’s worth a read, even just to observe the energy and attention to detail Apple places in its retail stores.

10th anniversary retail poster tells of Apple’s retail journey originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Bumpy Road is a cute title for iOS and Mac. It’s sort of a reverse platformer, where you control the platforms that a cute little couple in a car are running along and not the actual car itself. There are two modes to play. One is basically a Canabalt-style running game, with the goal being to get as far along the road as you can, grabbing some items for fuel along the way. The other is called “Sunday Trip” and has you traveling a fixed-length road in the fastest time, with items that can help your score at the end. Both are fun, allowing you place bumps and jumps in the road to push the car along. Another collecting meta-game, in which you grab pictures out on the road, helps build out a fun backstory to complement the great graphics and music.

Game Center integration provides scoreboards and achievements, and the stylistic graphics look great on a Retina Display or the iPad’s bigger screen thanks to universal compatibility. Bumpy Road is a simple game, but its simplicity is put to great effect by a lot of artistry and polish, making for a really solid, fun, and even emotional experience. The game’s available right now for US$2.99 in the App Store.

TUAW’s Daily iPhone App: Bumpy Road originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Fri, 03 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iFaith, codenamed Project iF, is now available for download. iFaith can save SHSH blobs for any old iOS firmware currently installed on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. You can download iFaith SHSH blobs…

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Apple has started enforcing their iOS device giveaway policies.

NAND flash contract prices fall because of reduced demand from Apple.

A from Apple describes a system for generating a notification based on calendar events and GPS location information.

AT&T says it is working on a shared data plan, does not have a time frame.

iSmashPhone brings us 5 rumors about Apple’s iCloud.

One of the more tedious problems when programming with Cocoa Touch is that when a user starts editing a UITextField or UITextView the keyboard pops up covering the lower part of the screen often covering the actual text the user is editing.

You can handle this by using the delegate methods associated with the UITextField and UITextView objects, and moving things around yourself adjusting for every text field, but I’ve found a much simpler solution.

The solution is an open source library from Michael Tyson that automatically moves things around so you can actually see what’s being edited.

The solution can be found on Github here:
https://github.com/michaeltyson/TPKeyboardAvoiding

It’s very easy to use, and the instructions are on the Github page.  A good solution for a common problem that can handle most situations.

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Some time ago I mentioned the excellent OpenGL ES 1.1 tutorials by Simon Maurice and unfortunately the original website and source code were taken down.

Over the last year I have seen a large number of people looking on this site for the code, and I just found that Simon has created a Github account, and uploaded the code for these tutorials.   You will need to change the base SDK in the build settings, but if you are looking to learn OpenGL ES these are still excellent code examples.

The location of the source code is here:
https://github.com/mauriceatron

You can find the complete original tutorials minus source code on the Cocoa China Wiki here:
Mauriceatron Tutorials

?I will be updating the OpenGL ES tutorial collection page to reflect the new source for the code.

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