OSX Archives - jammer

More Apple Pricing Insanity

I'm currently in the midst of helping a company delivery a new version of their mobile application. So I need…

Posted on: May 16, 2021
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MacBook Prolapse

Apple, seriously ... you fucked up. Are you seriously telling your MacBook Pro & iPhone users that they'll have to…

Posted on: October 31, 2016
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My Life With a MacBook Pro – 3 Years In

Hmm ... where to start? I had to buy a MacBook, I need to write and compile apps for iPhones…

Posted on: February 27, 2016
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Bye, Bye Parallels – Hello Virtual Box

So I finally did it. When I first purchased my MacBook Pro I bought a copy of Parallels 8. What…

Posted on: February 20, 2016
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The Apple Developer Clique

I'm genuinely gobsmacked by this. I applied for the Apple Developer program a couple of weeks ago on behalf of…

Posted on: June 20, 2015
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Should I Download MacKeeper?

I'll cut to the chase - NO, DO NOT DOWNLOAD this "software". MacKeeper is one of those apps that seems…

Posted on: June 10, 2015
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Compiling Blender on Mac

So I decided that after all these years I would like to start looking at and contributing to an open…

Posted on: February 13, 2015
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App Store Repeating Updates

So I had a number of apps installed on the MacBook that kept asking to be updated repeatedly. Tried every…

Posted on: December 31, 2014
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Yosemity Handoff – What’s really happening?

It should be obvious to people that the more and higher levels of integration of devices like the Mac and…

Posted on: October 26, 2014
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Using Older Versions of Adobe Photoshop under OSX Yosemity

I've already made the leap to using Yosemity on my MacBook Pro and so far all seems really stable and…

Posted on: October 23, 2014
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Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac and Yosemity Compatility Fiasco

I've been using Window 8 on my MacBook Pro for well over a year now. The combination of the two…

Posted on: October 23, 2014
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Nefarious Yosemity Spotlight Feature

With the new version of OSX just released there is a rather naughty feature that is switched on by default.…

Posted on: October 22, 2014
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Safari Web Inspector for iOS Debugging

Whilst I'm building web pages I make a lot of use of the development tools that modern browsers include. These…

Posted on: September 20, 2014
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iPad Mini Retina 32Gb

So with great trepidation I have indeed bought my second Apple device - an iPad Mini with Retina display (32Gb…

Posted on: July 19, 2014
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OSX Mavericks – WiFi – FIxed in 10.9.4?

This is good news! Seems that Apple have finally released an official fix to the WiFi issues introduced with Mavericks.…

Posted on: June 30, 2014
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OSX Mavericks Wi-Fi Not Reconnecting

OSX weirdness strikes again. In the year I've been using OSX I've been surprised a number of times by oddities…

Posted on: May 26, 2014
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Cross Platform Development w/ Xamarin & SVN Source Control on OSX

Hmm, rather ambitious title there Jammer ... Anyway, I've just started looking at building some iOS and Android (plus others…

Posted on: May 22, 2014
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Updating SVN in OSX Mavericks

Well that was an interesting hour wasted spent updating SVN. I found this write up on how to perform this…

Posted on: May 21, 2014
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Subversion Global Ignore Pattern

I'm slowly building up this default Subversion global ignore pattern for my Windows & Xamarin Development on Windows & OSX. …

Posted on: May 24, 2013
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OSX & Parallels Visual Studio Debugging – F11 / F12

If like me your using Parallels on a mac for your development you'll find that debugging can be a pain…

Posted on: May 11, 2013
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