Following up from my earlier article, you may wonder how to specify which email account your message comes from when you hit the “New Message” button. It’s a tad hidden and perhaps a little unintuitive to discover if I may say. Here’s how to do it: open Mac Mail head over to Mail – Preferences … Read more
One of the worst features ever about Mac Mail is the way it handles email signatures. For a feature so basic, something so ultra super simple, it has to be the most unintuitive thing ever about Mac OS X. It gives me the rage every time I have to set this up, so perhaps these … Read more
Need to find a file on your system? Look no further than the excellent find command line tool. Here’s how to use it: find / -name ‘yourfilename.extension’ This brings up a list of every file whose name matches “yourfilename.extention”. Wildcards are allowed, so you could list every .log file on the system like this: find … Read more
The UIDevice class can help us do that like so: [super viewDidLoad]; // lets detect the height of our screen here int height = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height; int width = [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width; // share the news NSString *message = [[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@”This screen is \n\n%i pixels high and\n%i pixels wide”, height, width]; NSLog(@”%@”, message); This will work […]
If you create a new project in Xcode 5 you’ll notice that it won’t allow you to change the deployment target to anything less than 7.0. The drop down menu is there but it’s greyed out and shows no other values. You can type something in that field (for example 6.1), but when you do […]
No matter how hard I’ve tried to tweak my Storyboard, there are always areas that only look well on one particular version of iOS. There is no “one Storyboard fits all” approach. The easiest option is to have one Storyboard for iOS 6 and another for iOS 7 – then everybody’s happy. Question is, how […]
No matter how hard I’ve tried to tweak my Storyboard, there are always areas that only look well on one particular version of iOS. There is no “one Storyboard fits all” approach. The easiest option is to have one Storyboard for iOS 6 and another for iOS 7 – then everybody’s happy. Question is, how […]