Archive for October, 2009

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Share mouse & keyboard

27, Oct 2009

Really nice. Move your mouse to one side of the screen and watch it move to the next pc/mac in your room. This feels really natural is surprisingly easy to do.
Remember, it DOES NOT make sense for a device with no monitor attached! You want VNC then.

Another shot at piracy and the app store

25, Oct 2009

90%. Wow, that’s crazy. Smells Like Donkey published an nice report about their piracy rate.
John Gruber from Daring Fireball postet something about Anti-Bootlegging Measures and how they work best. You have to be patient, show a message after – let’s say 10 starts – and tell the user that what he does is wrong.
Please don’t pirate [...]

Clean up after macports

20, Oct 2009

Macports is like a child that suddenly stops playing, leaving all the toys behind.
Old program versions are not erased automatically!
This helps:
sudo port clean –all installed
sudo port -f uninstall inactive
Check your space saving with
du -sh /opt
Or use DaisyDisk for space gui madness.

iPhone gaming framework

20, Oct 2009

Just stumbled across cocos2d
cocos2d for iPhone is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on the cocos2d design: it uses the same API, but instead of using python it uses objective-c.
This seems to be the most used gaming framework for building 2d apps. Could be interesting for the [...]

Compress JavaScript with YUI Compressor

20, Oct 2009

JavaScript files that are served to the user should be compressed and minified, and ideally everything packed into ONE big file. You can do this with some rails plugins (not tested so far), or using the “manual” way of compressing it yourself.  (or download a compressed file
I worked with YUI Compressor on compressing [...]


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