As you may have mentioned, lot of iPhone apps (especially games) run by default in landscape mode! You can easily force the app you develop to run in landscape mode! Let's see how: In Xcode find the file [YourAppName]-Info.plist and open it up. Right click on the table and select "Add Row". Select "Initial interface … Continue reading iPhone programming: How to force your app to run in landscape mode
How to use Fluid to create a site specific app
Fluid is a free, powerful (Mac OS X only) app that lets you create a site specific desktop app out of any Website. You can download Fluid (it's free) here. In this tutorial I will create an app to easily access my Mint installation. First download Fluid and launch it. Fill in the info as … Continue reading How to use Fluid to create a site specific app
Follow typpz on twitter
Twitter mania keeps going, so we decided to get a ride! Typpz posts (titles) will be tweeted! You can follow us by clicking the "Follow Typpz on Twitter" link on the sidebar. Many posts are in the pipe, so stay tuned!
Life with Things and Things Touch
Things is a task management app by cultured code. Thing is a mac-only app available for mac and iphone. I've been using things for about one month now (both desktop and iphone version) and I am pretty amazed with it. I love the app's simplicity and ease of use. Most of the task management and … Continue reading Life with Things and Things Touch
How to: Create an icon for your app in Mac OS X
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
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