Tag Archives: iOS

Android 2.3 Gingerbread Released

So Android 2.3 is being rolled out the next few days, and will be avail­able on the Nexus One and the new Nexus S ini­tially. It’s got some much needed UI tidy­ing up (till HTC get to it), but here’s what else is cool in it: iPhone-esque Select, Copy and Paste You can now select a group of […]

Phonegap Crash on iPad iOS 4.2

If you’re get­ting an EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT) error when run­ning your PhoneGap app on iOS 4.2 (iPad only) remove the fol­low­ing line from your Info.plist file: Main nib file base name (iPad) Found via: #76 iOS 4.2 Crash on Launch on iPad — iPhone — phonegap

Play Friends iPhone / iPod Touch Library with iTunes 10

Now in iTunes 10 you can play your iPhone music lib­rary over the dock con­nector, handy when vis­it­ing friends or play­ing your per­sonal lib­rary on your work com­puter! Just click on Music under your iPhone in the Devices sidebar.

iPhone UITableView Pull Down to Refresh

I’ve been watch­ing the pull down to refresh paradigm grow trac­tion the last few months, and now it’s incred­ibly easy to imple­ment with Leah Culver’s PullToRefresh. It’s been achiev­able with Three20 for a while, but this just requires you to sub­class it after includ­ing two files in your project.

Site Seeing — Week Five

Ninite — Easy PC Software Installations http://ninite.com/ Auto installs your selec­tion of use­ful pro­grams after that inev­it­able Windows install.. It’s even clever enough to pre­vent it installing those nasty bundled toolbars! (via @fry15) Font Fonter — Preview Fonts On Any Site http://fontfonter.com/ From font­shop, this tool lets you pre­view a selec­tion of their fonts on any webpage of […]

iTunes could not back up the iPhone because the iPhone refused the request — iOS 4

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 […]

Disabling ‘hold to copy’ on Mobile Safari

If you want to dis­able the ‘Cut / Copy / Paste’ invoked by hold­ing down on an ele­ment in Safari on the iPhone or iPad use the css: –webkit-user-select: none; However, as stressed by Apple, this should only be dis­abled on a per ele­ment basis, and never applied to the whole doc­u­ment. Apple’s Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your […]

Debugging on iPhone Requires App Deletion

Problem When run­ning & debug­ging an applic­a­tion on an iPhone / iPod using Xcode you get the error: “A signed resource has been added, mod­i­fied, or deleted.” With the applic­a­tion not being able to be redeployed until it is deleted from the device. Fix Simply turn off Passcode Lock on the device. Update: This might just […]