Due to some cookie restriction in Lion the latest stable or beta version of Adium cannot connect to Facebook chat. Luckily they just re-enabled their nightly builds which fix the issue. Download the latest nightly from: http://nightly.adium.im/ Make sure you get the 1.4.3 nightly currently: http://nightly.adium.im/?repo_branch=adium-1.4-default As the 1.5 builds are unstable. Update: Adium have now […]
When opening a new iOS or template type in Xcode 4 (4.0.2) I was unable to select any of the project or file templates, turn it out this occurred when tapping (not ‘clicking’) on the items. Using a firm clicking click or the arrow keys seems to work around this. Tapping just seems to deselect anything currently selected. What […]
If you’re experiencing compressed audio when connecting to a bluetooth headset on your Mac, you can change a setting to improve the quality: Option (alt) click the bluetooth icon in the menu bar and select Open Bluetooth Explorer. When Bluetooth Explorer opens, select Utilities then Special Options from the menu bar. Finally increase the minimum bitpool to around […]
Xcode wasn’t sending builds to my iPhone, failing with the error ‘Could not read from device’. Turning the iPhone on and off didn’t work, and the same error was appearing on a different Mac so I knew it was a problem with the device. To fix it try: Synchronise your iPhone in iTunes. Delete the app you’re trying to […]
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Great bit of javscript code that detects if a browser is Internet Explorer in just 7 bytes: if(!+”\v1”) // true only in IE (via http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2009/01/32-bytes-to-know-if-your-browser-is-ie.html)
The Google Maps API overrides the scroll functionality of the scrollwheel so it zooms the map, this often causes problems when you have a large map spanning the page. To prevent this in V3 of the Maps API add: scrollwheel: false To your mapOptions when initialising the map. For example: var mapOptions = { zoom: 14, center: point, […]
Problem When running iPhone OS 4 beta 1, syncing with iTunes doesn’t backup the iPhone causing the error: Fix Install the iPhone SDK 4 beta with Xcode 3.2.3 (or later), which will update some files in iTunes and enable the backup to complete successfully. An iTunes update is likely to be released soon to address this and other […]
