Getting Certified with Apple

I’ve had no end of trouble trying to get an app we’ve built for a client into Apple’s App Store. Build the app was quite simple but Apple have a certification process which involves their developers to download and install a number of certificates which do different things. Without this setup correctly, it’s near impossible [...]

iPhone OS 4.0 beta – What Apps Work, What you don’t know

I just joined the Apple iPhone Dev network and as a result got a chance to play with the new iPhone OS 4.0 beta. Apple suggest you only install it for the purposes of testing your apps for OS 4.0 compatibility but if you’re like me where you only have one iPhone 3GS, then you [...]

MouseWizard makes Magic Mouse complete

On the eve of another big product release from Apple my Magic Mouse finally arrived in the mail. These things had been sold out Australia wide for some time but today Apple finally started shipping them again. One of the most common complaints from Mac users who switch from the four button Mighty Mouse to [...]

Market Share of Mac and Windows 2010

As a web developer I’m always keen to keep abreast of where the PC market is at in terms of platforms and browsers. Back in 2003 it seemed that you could trust that most people were using Windows XP and IE6 but these days the market seems a lot more segmented which makes it more [...]

31 iPhone Apps you can’t miss

If you’re new to the iPhone you will no doubt be getting to know the App Store. This thing is growing larger by the day and it seems that there are more and more different apps being released that more or less do the same sort of thing. To help you figure out which apps [...]

Who wants to tether with 3?

It looks like if you have a iPhone phone with 3 (Australia) and have updated to the 3.0 firmware, you can enable Internet tethering (via Bluetooth or USB) in just a few steps. Andrew Harrison has put together a guide which looks like it might do the trick for you!

Network Unlock iPhone from Optus

You’ve got to love a blog title post that looks like a Google query. I’ve posted this information however searching around in Google for this very topic and finding very little about how to network unlock my iphone from Optus. So hopefully you’ll end up finding the information below useful. I recently picked up an [...]

Calibrate your Samsung Syncmaster for Mac

When we first got the Macs in the office we attached our 24″ Samsung Syncmasters to them so we could run them as dual screen desktops. Unfortunately, they didn’t seem to play well with the Mac and everything was looking pretty washed out. Still unfamiliar with OS X, this was something we decided just to [...]

Ecto Blog Publishing

Nothing like a Friday to find yourself way off task. This morning I found myself looking into ways to being able to quickly get blog entries online. The motivation behind this is purely for software documentation purposes. Given the large amount of both self developed and open source software we work with, we are often [...]

Sync iCal with Google Calendar

There are a few different software applications for Mac that will let you do 2 Way Syncing between iCal and Google Calendar but I haven’t road tested anything so far which is as easy as BusySync. BusySync installs as a preference pane on your Mac that allows you to insert your Google account details and [...]