If you, like me, don't like to install Xcode into the /Developer folder (maybe because you have several versions of it on your computer at one time), you will run into a problem while trying to install Application Tools 1.1 to build apps for the Mac App Store.

Like a number of installers I've encountered, the Application Tools 1.1 installer fails if it cannot find Xcode in the /Developer folder. In my case, I already had a /Developer folder with a few system items in it but Xcode was in a separate folder off the root of my drive called /Xcode3.2.5iOS4.2.

(more...)

I don't know if there's an official announcement or documentation on it but I realized yesterday, while making Tweaky, that Twitter for Mac supports the same protocol handlers as Twitter for iPhone. The only thing you have to change is the tweetie:// protocol to twitter://.

Check out the protocol reference here.

(more...)

Update 12 June, 2011: Version 1.3 released. Fixes the missing @ sign bug on original and /via slashtag quote tweet styles. Download now.

(more...)

I love to teach and I had a blast this year while teaching my 3-Day iOS SDK course for iPhone and iPad at venues around the world. And, based on the feedback, the students had a blast too.

(more...)

Connecting to your web server by FTP is insecure as you send your username and password in plain text for the world to see. Instead, you should really be using SFTP. Setting up SFTP on most systems, however, is still not as intuitive as it should be.

If you're on a MediaTemple (dv) – Dedivated-Virtual – account, here are the settings for connecting via SFTP:

(more...)