Mac OS X comes with great and powerful tools pre-installed. The scenario is simple: you have coded your app and designed a great logo for it. How you create the OS X icon for your app? The answer is: very easily. First of all open the logo in illustrator if it is .eps file or … Continue reading How to: Create an icon for your app in Mac OS X
Category: Apple Mac
Ten apps I use daily
Here is a list of ten apps I use on a daily basis (both web and desktop apps). The main system I've been using for a while is a unibody MacBook, so many of the applications on the list are mac-only. Mint Mint is a site-stats program that promises to give a "fresh look" at … Continue reading Ten apps I use daily
How to: Find original photo files in iPhoto
If you use iPhoto on your Mac (ok you use it, because it is the most commonly used application in iLife suite and comes pre-installed with any new Mac), you've noticed that iPhoto keeps all your photos in a file called iPhoto library. The point is that iPhoto library is a package, not a single file. To … Continue reading How to: Find original photo files in iPhoto
How to: Uninstall widgets easily on Mac OS X
As you know, if you use a Mac, you can uninstall programs just by moving them to the trash. That uninstalls the program but leaves on your hdd some preferences files which have to be deleted manually (they are too small though, so you do not have to delete them as they do not slow … Continue reading How to: Uninstall widgets easily on Mac OS X
Introducing Typpz mobile edition
I released (thanks to Mint for that) that around 1% of Typpz visitors view the blog using their iPhone and Mobile Safari. As with almost every site that is not optimized for viewing on cell phones, viewing from an iPhone means zooming in and out the parts of the page you want to read. To … Continue reading Introducing Typpz mobile edition
Typpz Blog Dashboard widget
Every user that uses a Mac has came across Dashboard widgets. Creating widgets is very easy using the Dashcode IDE which comes preinstalled with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. So I decided to create my first widget, which parses typpz blog feed and displays it on your dashboard. Dashcode provides a ready-to-use template for RSS … Continue reading Typpz Blog Dashboard widget
iPhone photos
Ok here is a bunch of photos I took since I got my iphone! Next to come are a review for iPhone 3G (I want to use it for two weeks so I will be able to judge the battery life better), a list of the apps I use on it and reviews for some … Continue reading iPhone photos
How to: Create iPhone webclip icons
If you have an iPhone, you will probably have came across webclip icons. Webclip icons are the icons that apear on your iphone homescreen when you bookmark a web site. It is very easy to create a webclip for your own web site. Let's see how: Create a 57x57 png icon with your logo or … Continue reading How to: Create iPhone webclip icons
Posting from iPhone
So I bought an iPhone 3G. I have installed the WordPress app from the app store, so I am writing my first post straight from my iPhone alongside with some screenshots (you can take screenshots on your iPhone by pressing the home and sleep/wake button). I will post a review for the iPhone and for … Continue reading Posting from iPhone
Review: Apple 3G iPod nano
Recently I decided to upgrade my 2nd generation ipod nano with a 3rd generation one. Not that I had a problem with my old nano, but it just seemed too outdated -just after one year- with no video playback capabilities and only 2GB of memory. The new nano is as thin as its predecessor, but … Continue reading Review: Apple 3G iPod nano