Thanks a lot Apple, you incompetent pieces of shit. Gone are the Steve Jobs days of quality and consistency, these days it seems not only have Apple stopped innovating, they can not even seem to release a software update without breaking things.
First the messed up launch of iOS 8 and the number of issues people experienced there, now the latest and supposedly greatest version of OS X comically named Yosemite is experiencing more issues than an actress in a rehab clinic.
Recently on my MacBook Pro when I launched DOTA 2, the dock was showing and the menu bar, buttons were being cut-off and the game was hard to use. The issue seems to stem from how Steam sometimes launches the game client.
The fix is rather simple and worked for me.
Open up the Steam client Click the Library tab Right click on Dota 2 Select Properties Click on the General tab (it should be selected by default) Click on the “Set Launch Options” button In the box that pops up enter -fullscreen
I am a huge fan of 1Password and the update process has always gone very smoothly, however recently while attempting to upgrade from 4.4.2 to version 4.4.3 I kept getting an error message about how the application archive failed to extract.
I tried absolutely everything and came to the conclusion that this is an issue with the update package or the update software itself.
The fix is to manually download the update from the 1Password site here and manually install it (which works). Annoying, but not world ending.
Well, it finally happened. I broke my phone whilst playing a furious game of air hockey. Leaning against the table for those slam shots resulted in my loyal Samsung Galaxy S4 getting its LCD broken and cracks in the glass.
I am currently in Seattle, my insurance ran out recently and I had to go and find a new phone. I tried to find just a straight up Galaxy S4 for a decent price, to no avail.
After over a year since EllisLab announced they would be discontinuing development of Codeigniter and finding a new owner and or owners, EllisLab have finally announced they have found a suitable owner to take over the Codeigniter framework and brand.
Whew! Lengthy search and process is winding down. @codeigniter has a new home. Details will follow soon.
— EllisLab (@EllisLab) August 22, 2014
The owner nonetheless is the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) who have a course that teaches Codeigniter amongst other things, so they have a vested interest in seeing the framework continue to thrive and evolve.
My soon-to-be wife recently purchased a HP Envy M6 laptop because it fits her needs of blogging, listening to music, photos, social media and watching video (she isn’t a gamer). However, she soon encountered issues with the trackpad.
It seems HP and their middle-line laptops have some history when it comes to trackpads becoming unresponsive and buggy. This is the model of laptop with the A10 processor, 6gb of ram and 15.6" touch screen.
I used to be and am still at times, an avid Adobe Fireworks user. I strongly believe it was ahead of its time and it wasn’t given a proper chance to be the standout premier web design tool that many realised it was.
Recently after moving to a MacBook Pro, I have started playing around with Sketch 3. I think it is fantastic, a great design tool and above all, really snappy (the exportable SVG feature is great).
As I write this I am sitting on a plane at 32,000 feet, about 5 hours into my 13 hour flight from Brisbane Australia to Los Angeles, USA.
Unknown to many I am actually terrified of flying. From the moment I know we are boarding, to the taxi, instructional video, take-off and then subsequent ascent into the skies I am having a panic attack each time (sometimes worse than others).
Recently I encountered a dreaded issue whilst trying to install Laravel on my Mac OSX machine.
The message I was getting was:
Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 72 bytes) in phar:///usr/local/Cellar/composer/1.0.0-alpha8/libexec/composer.phar/src/Composer/DependencyResolver/RuleSetGenerator.php on line 123
The issue was perplexing according to PHP I had allocated 128mb of memory for PHP, but apparently this wasn’t enough. It appears as though dependencies are managed within memory and all of the components that make up Laravel (mostly Symfony) take up more than 128mb of memory.
After recently deciding to switch to Navicat on my MacBook Pro from Sequel Pro, I encountered an issue where Navicat couldn’t connect to my MySQL server using either localhost or the local IP of 127.0.0.1. This is because MAMP will start the MySQL server using a socket. This just means you need to tell Navicat where your socket server is.
When creating a new connection you should see tabs; General, Advanced, SSL, SSH and HTTP. We want to specify the socket in the advanced tab.