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Some useful Mac OSX tools

Cocoa JSON Editor A very nice tool for developers, which allows you to import/paste Json and easily edit it and export an object model which can be used in Xcode. $2.99 Link Dockview DockView adds an Aero Peek (Windows 7) functionality to your OSX dock. When you

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Using the interface orientations from your project definition

I have always been annoyed by the way you have to handle your interface orientation detection and which orientations you allow for your application. You can specify the orientations in your project’s plist file, but I am not completely sure why the UIViewControllers don’t use this by

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Protected: Localize your UIViews (the easy way)

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Using NSLog only in a DEBUG version

I have been using this in a couple of projects. It is a method to only perform NSLog logging when you are using a DEBUG build. There are more than enough reasons why you don’t want to use NSLog in your release builds. First of all, its

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Placing curved text on an UIImage

For a project I am doing for a client, I needed to layout text around a circle in objective-C. I spend a couple of hours searching the internet for this, but somehow when people succeed in doing this, they don’t post their solution online. So, I made

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Putting a UIPickerView on a UIActionSheet

Basically there are no really good (and now working) guides on how to put a UIPickerView on a UIActionSheet. Mainly because some things changed with the latest firmware updates made by Apple. Well after some fiddling around, I got it working. Here is how: Step 1: Adding

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Save an UIView to an UIImage in objective-C

For an application I am making, I am making a view where users can configure all kinds of settings, which has direct effect on an UIView I have. I want to grab that UIView and save it as an image. Well there are examples enough about this,

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Mount network drive before starting an app

On my Mac Mini, I have SABNZBd+ installed. I wanted to make it download my usenet downloads straight to my NAS. So I made my Mac automaticly mount a drive on the NAS on boot, and I also put SABNZBd+ in my login items. But that gave

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Replacing my HDX 1000 with a Mac Mini

For my HD movie playback I have been using an HDX 1000 the last couple of months. The HDX is connected via an ethernet connection with my file server, which is an Intel quadcore with over 4TB of storage and 12GB of memory. Since this isn’t the

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Make Xcode behave more like Visual Studio ;)

I am getting used to Xcode more and more, but the default behavior for double clicking files in the file tree really sucks. In the default mode it opens up an extra window, which is annoying when you are used to Visual Studio. I googled on this

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