I’d been having this problem for a while and decided to dig into it today. I have shares from a Lion box, but when I’d attempt to connect from Windows 7, it would just refuse my credentials. Here’s the solution that worked for me. Edit this file in a text editor: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist You’ll need permissions [...]
Here’s an interesting way of looking at what people eat: Looking at what people do calorie queries for on Google. The winners are: apple banana almonds avocado beer banana broccoli blueberries chicken breast chicken coffee carrots dates domino’s pizza dried apricot dried cranberries egg egg whites edamame eggplant fruit fish flour grapes grapefruit gin green [...]
It’s amazing the discongruity between the “professional” analysts of Apple’s financials, and the “amateurs” like Horace Dediu of Asymco. I put “professional” and “amateur” in quotes because it seems like in this case, the results you get from these two groups are opposite from what you’d expect. The financial market, and professional analysts, have been [...]
I don’t really understand why Apple would get into the TV business. Apple creates new markets. Moving into an established market like the TV business, with all the content complexity and interconnection requirements, just doesn’t seem like something they’d do. It’s a highly competitive space with low margins; not Apple’s kind of business. And the [...]
I have some UITableView code that was setting a selection, and then later making some other changes to the cell using reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:withRowAnimation: and I was having trouble figuring out why my selection wasn’t sticking. I’d select an object, but it wouldn’t show as selected. Turns out reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:withRowAnimation: will deselect whatever rows you reload. Check this [...]
Tiling a background texture is a pretty common thing to want to do. Instead of creating one large texture that fills the entire background, instead the goal is to take a smaller image, say 256×256, and repeat it horizontally and vertically to fill the background. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to [...]
I’d been having some trouble with UIManagedDocument that turned out to be my fault, but it wasn’t easy to figure out. In the end there were a couple of things that helped me figure out what was going on, so I’m posting them here in the hopes that I’ll save someone else some time. UIManagedDocument [...]
Categories take a little getting used to. Objective-C categories let you add your own functionality to existing classes. This can take classes in directions that seem decidedly strange. For example, if you want to draw a string in UIKit, you ask the string to draw itself. Coming from a Windows / Java background this seems [...]
A quick QuickTime tip I just discovered.
I’m sitting in the car at the Canada/US border, blogging into my phone, using Siri. There’s a 30 to 60 minute delay in crossing the border, so I have some time to play. So far I’ve dictated this entire post to Siri, without having to correct anything. Cool.