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Testing for OS X vs iOS

by Erica Sadun (Dec 26th, 2012)

Yesterday, I was messing around building shared NSLayoutConstraint code to be used across iOS and OS X. I put in a few #if TARGET_OS_MAC directives, assuming they'd just work. They didn't. Turns out that you should always check for TARGET_OS_IPHONE first, before TARGET_OS_MAC because the ...

Interview with Inglorious Apps, a webOS to iOS developer switcher

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 10th, 2012)

Inglorious Apps is well-known in the webOS world for its work on Notes, Voice and Glimpse, a multi-tasking app for the Touchpad that lets you divide up the screen and use several different widgets at the same time. Now that webOS is on the decline, the talented development company has ported ...

New developer tool will port Xbox 360 games to iOS

by Mike Schramm (Jun 24th, 2011)

ExEn is a brand new tool for developers that's designed to bridge the gap between XNA, Silverlight and iOS (and eventually Android). XNA stands for "Xbox New Architecture," and is the general API used by developers to create games for Microsoft's Xbox console, and ExEn purports to take those ...

Chopper 2 for Mac controlled by iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2010)

You've probably seen Chopper 2 here on TUAW before -- we originally covered the app's iPad-out-to-TV feature and then chatted with creator David Frampton back at WWDC last year. With the news of the Mac App Store coming soon, Frampton has decided to port the game over to the Mac, and since he ...

Export your Yojimbo database to a Tiddlywiki

by Giles Turnbull (Aug 6th, 2008)

You've got all your iStuff inside Yojimbo (hands up who loves Yojimbo and I'll count, starting with me), but for some reason you need to get it on to another computer, perhaps one running a different OS. What to do? This AppleScript takes your entire Yojimbo library (well, everything except the ...

Rumor: .Mac relaunch to coincide with iPhone 2.0?

by Cory Bohon (May 8th, 2008)

A little birdy told us about some unusual happenings at Apple. According to our anonymous tipster, .Mac will undergo a complete revamp that will coincide with the iPhone 2.0 launch (which everyone expects to occur at WWDC 08). We posted about the .Mac push e-mail coming to iPhone 2.0 last night, but ...

Moneydance 2006 - cross-platform finance management

by David Chartier (Aug 22nd, 2006)

Moneydance 2006 (awkward name and all) is a well-rounded personal finance app with a nice selection of features including: online banking and bill payment, budget management, recurring transactions, investment tracking, report generation, Quicken/Money import, database encryption and a whole lot ...