After the amount of backlash it received for spreading U2’s new album forcefully upon ALL iTunes users, Apple have created a tool to remove the U2 album, “Songs of Innocence” from your iTunes library permanently.
While it was a creative attempt at trying to break a record for largest album release ever recorded, it was basically a form of malware. I am sure some people liked the new album, but many didn’t because it was a steaming pile of shit.
Usually I write my blog posts in Sublime Text Editor using Markdown and then I copy and paste into a Markdown format convertor before publishing them, but it is tedious and feels a bit crappy.
I evaluated and read up on a lot of different options until I came across Byword 2 for Mac. Even though it costs $13 AUD in the Mac App Store and then another $6 AUD for activating the premium publishing features, I dived in and decided to buy it.
If you’re like me and you’ve just come to the Apple side or you have an external hard drive (client supplied or old drive lying about) formatted in NTFS, then you will have noticed that Mac OS does not support writing (delete, update or move) to the drive and only allows you to browse and read only.
There is a product out there by Paragon which is about $30 and I have used it before and it works incredibly well, but if you can’t justify the spend, there is a free alternative. Mac OS has a secret, it can support writing to an NTFS formatted drive with ease and it works quite well too.
I’ve officially gone to the dark side and bought a MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display model (the late 2014 variant). I will be travelling a bit in the next year or so and I needed a laptop that is easy to carry around, use on a flight and has the power for development.
This is my first Mac, I primarily use PC’s and Windows because I love to game occasionally and well, it’s what I grew up using.
Before I used Laravel, I used Codeigniter and I had the perfect workflow of being able to use WordPress as the administration panel, taxonomy system, authentication, users and post types.
I hate having to create administration panels from my previous experience working for a WordPress development agency, as the admin packages out there are complicated, don’t work correctly and are severely lacking in the features department.
In Laravel 4, the process for integrating WordPress is basically the same. You disable the theming functionality and include the WordPress blog-header bootstrapping file to include WordPress’ core functionality and features.
In what sounds like a crazed conspiracy theory, it actually might turn out that the Malaysian Government and authorities have been covering up the fate of missing flight MH370 the whole time.
General Sutarman the head of the Indonesian Police Force apparently made the claim during a meeting of senior police and airline officials.
Apparently he said:
“I spoke to the Malaysian Police Chief Tun Mohammed Hanif Omar. I actually know what had actually happened with MH370.”
Recently I bought a MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display and the first thing I wanted to do was connect my Casio CTK-800 keyboard to it and use it with Garageband just like I saw in this epic video where these guys jammed out on such a retro set up! source – http://progamerreview.com/
The driver for Mac OS can be found here and even though it specifically states versions 10.7 and 10.8, it will work on 10.9 and presumably later versions of Mac OS when they’re released.
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of Bono laughing uncontrollably as he counts the reported one hundred million dollars his band U2 were paid by Apple in exchange for releasing their latest album Songs Of Innocence to all 500 million iTunes members for free, as part of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus announcement.
If you have an iTunes account, you’ve been “gifted” the album from U2, congratulations. Whether you want it or not, it’s there right in your iTunes account, enjoy.
When it comes to front-end development, it is a relatively new job title. The advent of responsive web design or as the hipsters call it RWD, meant more emphasis was placed on making coherent front-end user experiences across different devices and mediums.
Even though web development has been a thing since the nineties, you once upon a time called yourself a web developer and it was rare you specialise in just the front-end aspect.
That is the question. While researching a potential MacBook purchase, the one question I had but could not find a definitive and up-to-date answer is: Can you play DOTA 2 realiably on a MacBook and if so, what models?
I am not a big gamer, but I do like to play the occasional game of Dota 2 where I can. I usually play on PC, but I will be travelling, so I had to get a laptop.