Tag: «os x»

I've been trying to come up with something that would make it convenient to do pixel-perfect screen layout while developing iOS apps. Something that would make it easy and visual to compare the mockup and the result. Today I hacked together this tool for OS X - an almost transparent window where you can open a mockup, place it over Xcode or the simulator, and see what you got. You can adjust the transparency with a slider to check how closely it matches.

Maybe it will be useful to someone. Or maybe someone else feels the same pain and will join the development.

The source code is on github.

Download the binary.

P.S. my first app for OS X.

I'll leave another cheat sheet in the form of a link. Network Link Conditioner is a tool from Apple from the Hardware IO Tools for Xcode set. It lets you limit connection speed in macOS. You can test, for example, how an app behaves under EDGE connections or worse. The same thing exists in the Developer section of iOS settings, but that is on the device, while this is in OS X.

By the way, the same set also contains a simulator for HomeKit.

I finally updated my work Hackintosh from OS X 10.9 to 10.10. It took a lot of time. Here is how I did it and what problems I ran into.

When I got the chance to play with the new iCloud features in OS X Lion, the only thing that left me puzzled was the feature called «Back to My Mac». Yesterday I finally figured out how it works, and today I gave it a proper try.