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Universal Control Text Selection with 3 Finger Drag
The Problem: Attempting to select text on the iPad when under Universal Control from the Macbook, using the 3 finger drag (which is my normal
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Safari on iOS – Typing or tapping in address bar causes crash
The ‘Safari Suggestions’ option is causing the Safari browser to crash when you tap in the address bar field and start typing. Sometimes just tapping
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Apple Watch – One Month Review
After a month with the Apple Watch, I was meaning to do a review of the experience so far, and my brother made a timely
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After 2 Years, I’m Wearing a Watch Again
Yes, I succumbed! Well, not much surprise there. Actually, not that hard a decision, I was happy to wait a bit till launch frenzy and
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iOS 8.1 Reports LTE Personal Hotspot When iPhone Reports ‘No Signal’
I’ve experienced this same problem several times since the release of iOS 8.0, but as the problem persists in 8.1 I thought it worthy of
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iPad Multi-Tasking Gestures Stop Working Periodically in iOS 8
I’m getting a problem that is being reported on a few other forums, where the multi tasking gestures on the iPad (4 finger pinch for
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I Predict – September 2014
Time again for another Apple keynote, and therefore time to predict what might be in it. We are expecting a new iPhone, and probably a
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Cocoapods: Creating and Sharing Your First Objective-C Open Source Project
Yet another little annoyance on the way to trying to create an iOS App – learning how to create sub-projects as Cocoapods. It involves Github, Repos, Commits, and Podspec. Yep, that sounds odd even to me. My little brain is starting to bulge out my ears!
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Brace Style in Objective-C
Over on inessential.com, Brent Simmons discusses brace style in Objective C. I’m glad he’s seeing the light. In 25 years of coding in C dialects, I’ve never understood why people think that omitting the brackets improves readability. Coding is not, generally, improved by brevity or obscurity. The purpose is to write code that is clear in its intent, both to the compiler, the author, and future maintainers. If you know a thing about visual design, then you know that white space is your friend, so there is no need to skimp on that either.