Jeremyg. Building a Hackintosh Apple Can't Sue You For. Getting Mac OS X up and running on a computer without an Apple label has always been a bit of a hassle. You needed customised Mac OS X disks, updates would ruin all your hard work, and there was lots of fiddling with EFI and the likes. Ever since the release of boot-132, this is no longer the case. Read on for how setting up a "Hack"intosh really is as easy as 1, 3, 2.
As easy as 1, 3, 2 The most well-known way of setting up a Hackintosh is to download a hacked Mac OS X Leopard image, burn it to a disk, and go from there. However, ever since September last year, we have a new method, using a small boot CD called boot-132. This method has several advantages. Using the boot-132 method, I built myself a non-Apple Macintosh with a flick of the wrist. The hardware The hardware used to build this Macintosh amounted to a total price of 199 EUR, ordered at my favourite Dutch online hardware retailer. The guide The above hardware. Let's get started with actually installing Leopard. Apple stickers. Design Then Code: Building iOS Apps From Scratch. Before taking a crack at any Design Then Code project tutorials you'll need some knowledge of Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa and UIKit.
My goal is for this guide to help bridge the gap between having no knowledge of iOS development and having enough to start tackling more interesting projects. Tools Apple provides a number of tools to enable developers to build Mac and iOS apps. To download them, head to the Mac App Store and search for "Xcode".
Here's a quick overview of the tools Apple provides. Xcode Xcode is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) used by Mac and iOS developers to build applications. Interface Builder Interface Builder is an application that lets you build your interfaces visually. In my particular development workflow, I prefer not to use Interface Builder, mostly because I work on custom interface components and those still take a lot of code to get exactly right. Frameworks And the most important piece of the puzzle: frameworks. Introduction To Programming?
@end. iPad Peek: How Your Site Looks on the iPad. One of the primary goals for web developers and bloggers like me is to provide users/readers a nice and smooth user experience on our websites or blogs. To achieve this, some of the things we do are using tools like the Google Browser Tool to check how our websites and blogs look like in different screen resolutions, install and use mobile themes/plugins or create mobile versions to make our websites or blogs viewable on mobile devices.
Now that the Apple iPad is here, I’m pretty sure that most web developers and bloggers would want to check how their websites look on the Apple iPad. To do that, you don’t need to buy or have an Apple iPad. iPad Peek is a cool website/tool that will let you see how a website or blog is rendered on the iPad.
Just point your browser to type in the URL of the website or blog that you’d want to check and hit Enter. Here’s how JaypeeOnline looks like when viewed on the iPad using iPad Peek: Landscape Mode Portrait Mode. iPad - ReadWriteEnterprise. 7 Handy iPhone Apps for Creating Expense Reports. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
It’s that time of year. We just wrapped up the holiday festivities, which were full of buying employee gifts and taking clients out for holiday celebrations. The accounting department wants everyone to submit their expenses before year-end. We can’t procrastinate any longer. But I think we can all agree that expense reports are possibly the last thing any of us want to be doing at this time of year (or any time of year, for that matter). Luckily, there are plenty of mobile apps that make it easier to track and submit expense reports. 1. Expensify (free) offers the ability to create photo receipts and iPhone expense reports, and it integrates with Expensify's website for instant reimbursement. 2. Fresh Xpense Capture (free) allows you to record your expenses (including photo receipts) as they occur. 3. 4. 5. 6. Hide My Ass! Pro VPN Service - Encrypt your internet connection. Demonstration Portal. Apple Takes Huge Steps towards a Graphics Pen for iPad.
Facts vs. Myth Although Apple's CEO scoffed at a stylus being used on the iPhone during his 2007 keynote, the fact remains that Apple continues to this day to bankroll expensive engineers to the task of developing exotic pens, styluses, displays and digital ink engines. I'd follow the facts more than the myth that Apple will never introduce a stylus or digital pen. Expanding the iPad's usage into the field of graphics only makes sense. Patent Background Apple provides us with a basic overview of why this invention is needed by discussing the need to advance touch screens to accept stylus inputs and what it will take to accomplish this. A low resolution array of row and column elements is usually sufficient for finger detection. However, when a stylus is subsequently employed on a touch sensor panel optimized for finger input, the stylus's small tip could often contact a region of the touch surface that is between adjacent capacitive elements (e.g., as between adjacent column sensors).
Apple makes move into offices. Microsoft's corporate Windows business is losing ground to Apple. Apple is hiring sales executives across the U.S. to get more of its products into Fortune 1000 companies. Microsoft has traditionally dominated the corporate workplace and more than 85% of corporate computers still run some version of Windows software.
But products based on Apple operating systems — including Macintosh computers, iPads and iPhones — are increasing in demand. Apple declined to comment on its hiring moves. But Forrester Research analyst Frank Gillett said a rash of recent want-ads by Apple is "strong evidence that Apple is responding to the demands of companies for a direct, formal relationship" with the company rather than buying products from the Apple Store. The growing appetite for Apple products in the workplace underscores the changing nature of the corporate market. Last year, 46% of companies in North America and Europe issued Macs to employees, according to a survey from Forrester Research. Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up? Two years ago Friday — Jan. 27, 2010 — Apple unveiled the iPad to the world.
At the time, critics and analysts were quick to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple name would sell the product, it wouldn't create a new market. Boy, were they wrong. The device was an immediate success, quickly becoming the fastest-selling gadget of all time. Even those of us who were bullish on the iPad have had our expectations blown out of the water.
As a company, Apple just had its most successful financial quarter ever and sold 15.4 million iPads. Looking at the trends in computing — especially with the rise of Ultrabooks — the merging of the tablet and the computer into one device certainly seems possible. Two years after its introduction, the iPad has not only created the modern tablet market, it has had a transformative effect on publishing, education and entertainment. Why the iPad Matters Two years ago, I watched Steve Jobs unveil the iPad.
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