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Choosing Between Google, Amazon, & iCloud Photos

I recently went down the rabbit hole of figuring out if I am using the right solution for offsite storage of my photo library. I've been using iCloud Photos for over a year and am not totally happy with the solution. I decided to try out both Amazon

Another day, another set of iTunes Connect errors

Easy Mac to Mac Screen Sharing

Easy Mac to Mac Screen Sharing

Screen sharing over iMessage is not a terribly well-known feature of Mac OS X - but it's incredibly awesome and easy to use. The only requirements are the person needs a relatively new Mac OS X install (Yosemite or higher) and iMessage enabled on their Mac. 1. In

This feature is temporarily unavailable

While updating a few apps today, the Apple App Store is giving me this super helpful error message. I hadn't realized updating/installing apps was a feature!

Extending your Apple Watch with WiFi

Extending your Apple Watch with WiFi

WiFi on Apple Watch!? It's not completely obvious but the Apple Watch supports WiFi networks starting in Watch OS 2.0. How does one configure WiFi to work with the Watch? It's not terribly obvious so I threw this guide together. My Situation My Apple Watch

Even Apple Leaves TODOs in Production Code

My credit card got charged today for my Apple Watch which wasn't supposed to ship until June. I was so excited that I tweeted the shipping notification to sarcastically note the availability in June still. Copying that text into a tweet, I actually got: Preparing for Shipment TODO:

Apple at 9:41am

Apple at 9:41am

In my post on using QuickTime to record an iOS device I mentioned the carrier and time are fixed at simple dots and 9:41am. Why 9:41am? Well I knew there was a reason behind it and did a quick search to review the reason. January 9th 2007 .. iPhone

Creating your Verse in the Play that is Life

Creating your Verse in the Play that is Life

I've recently become a fan of Walt Whitman's poem from 1892 entitled "O Me! O Life!". I've heard the poem in the past but it has never resonated with me until hearing Daniel Steinberg, an iOS developer and trainer, used it in

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks Calendar + Google Sync Problems

On occasion my Calendar on Mavericks gets hosed when syncing with Google. If I look in the console, I see errors like the following mentioning "An error exists on principal": 6/5/14 10:05:00.337 AM Calendar[59555]: [com.apple.calendar.ui.log] [An error exists

Apple's Public Mailing Lists

You may not be aware but Apple has a pretty extensive set of public e-mail discussion lists. https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo There are topics ranging from fundamental Objective-C issues through to development for their various desktop applications. Some of the lists are quite chatty but you can subscribe

iOS - Customize Table View Cells

Ever wanted to have alternated colors on your table view cells? If so, you've probably done something inside of cellForRowAtIndexPath and applied a background color to your cell there. Would you be surprised to know that's completely wrong? Yup. Wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG. I didn'

iTunes Connect - Invalid Binary

I spent the past week pulling out my hair trying to submit an update for Centare's EyeOnWeather application to iTunes Connect. I kept getting a reject from the system and all I got for an error message was "Invalid Binary." THANKS, THAT'S SOOPER. Eventually

Xcode 4 - Problem submitting App with Static Library

I'm submitting a new version of my Migraine Diary App to the App Store and was running into problems with Xcode 4 giving me the following error: "[Your App Name] does not contain a single-bundle application or contains multiple products. Please select another archive, or adjust your

iOS Basics - UINavigation Controller & Back Button Text

I've brought an old project out of the moth balls recently, the Migraine Diary application I wrote as part of my master's thesis. It was my first "real" iPhone app and I call tell I didn't know what I was doing entirely

Mac OS X - Adding a loopback alias

I do a lot of local web development on my MacBook Pro. Frequently I had multiple tiers of servers running - a Jetty instance running the web tier and a JBoss/EJB server doing the business tier behind it. The problem is JBoss opens up so many ports on a

CDMA / Verizon iPhone

There has been quite a bit of press about the upcoming Verizon / CDMA iPhone. I'm happy to hear that AT&T will finally lose the monopoly on the iPhone in the United States, but I'm disappointed that nothing has come out yet about T-Mobile carrying

Installing MySQL 5.5.8 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Installing MySQL should be a no brainer on any operating system, especially with how mature of a product it is. Apparently that assumption is incorrect. I tried installing the most recent GA release of MySQL on my new Snow Leopard machine, and found I couldn't start the blasted

iPhone Migraine Diary

I may have mentioned it before, but I created a Migraine Diary application for the iPhone as my master's captone/thesis project. The school year finished out for me and I submitted the application to Apple on the 29th. Two days - TWO DAYS - later they approved

Xcode SCM & build directory

Xcode has a build directory inside of your project, which you shouldn't be including in your source code management repository. Simply said, those files change so much and are "discardable". There is no way to easily exclude this directory from your repository. The accepted way to

Thoughts on the iPhone 3GS

Everyone is giving their two cents about the iPhone 3GS. I'm excited to see that Apple is releasing a faster phone that still feels like the first generation iPhone. Developers are used to a specific screen size for instance. Drastically changing the environment will create the discord other