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Entries for April, 2009

NRL Live on your iPhone – Finally!

I’m not sure about you, but we’re well into the 2009 NRL season and the lack of a decent dedicated NRL app has been something that has bugged me.  The AFL has had dedicated iPhone Apps since the start of the season, while the NRL has been stuck with rubbish apps that simply link to [...]

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How-To: Move change the address of a SVN repository

So you’ve changed where you host your subversion repository for a particular project and you want to update your local copy so that it points at the correct address?   How do you do this?  Simple: svn switch –relocate http://oldserver.com/PROJECT  http://newserver.com/PROJECT This will recursively modify all the .svn folders contents so they point to the correct [...]

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How-To: Detect if users have turned off the iPhone GPS

Simple and common situation.  You have an app that needs to use the GPS to function correctly.  However, users have the last say in this and can simply say “No” when the iPhone asks them if your application asks to turn on the GPS.  If you don’t deal with this situation, then it’s likely that [...]

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A solution to: Application failed codesign verification

Okay, so you’ve spent months working hard on your iPhone project, and you finally go gold.  You get sign off from your client, you’ve squashed the last of your bugs and you think “I’m ready to submit this bad boy!”.  You package it up for release as per Apple’s instructions, and then try and upload [...]

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How To: Fix iCal slowness

So you’ve been using iCal for a while, and suddenly it starts working very slowly… One solution I found was to remove your calendar from your computer and let iCal download it from your server (ONLY use this if you use server based calendars): Open terminal and type: rm -r ~/Library/Calendars/ Various solutions are discussed here.

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How To: Determine Folder Size on Mac OS with JDiskReport

Okay, so you’ve got a big folder full of stuff, its got a complicated directory structure and you want to know what what folders are taking up all the space.  Simple?  Well, no – not really.  Unless you have something like JDiskReport. JDiskReport is a Java based application that traverses your folder structure, and gives [...]

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Fairies Everywhere – Now on your iPhone

Bulpadok has just released their first iPhone app – Fairies Everywhere is a great camera based game that brings your iPhone to life! Take a photo, shake your iPhone and magic fairies appear everywhere around you.  Save the photo to your camera roll, and you can print the pictures for your kids. Great fun and [...]

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