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Mac app localization now easier with Tethras

by Michael Rose (Oct 21st, 2011)

For many independent or smaller-scale Mac developers, the promise and profits of international distribution for their apps is obscured behind a very practical challenge: internationalizing their projects, which can take months and plenty of money/resources as all the interface items are ...

Daily Update for September 23, 2011

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Support for quad-core ARM CPU shows up in Apple's Xcode

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2011)

The default compiler in Apple's Xcode developer tools is the LLVM-based Clang. Ars Technica reports that they received a heads-up from a developer who works on low-level ARM assembly coding that the latest version of Clang in Xcode adds support for a quad-core, ARM-based processor from Marvell ...

DimScreen simply dims your screen

by TJ Luoma (Sep 19th, 2011)

Once upon a time, I had an application which would dim the screen of my Mac down to 0, and then exit. Somewhere along the way I seem to have lost the app and can no longer find it. Yes, I know I could just hold F1 and do the same thing manually, but I liked having an app that just did it for ...

Dev Juice: Help find me a standalone property editor

by Erica Sadun (Aug 31st, 2011)

"Dear Dev Juice, With Lion and new xCode 4, Property List Editor is missing. Opening xCode to just be able to edit a plist file is not what I want. So my question is how do you edit your plist files ? Do you know an alternative to xCode 4? Thanks. Thierry" Dear Thierry, If you ...

Dev Juice: Help me use less hard drive space for Xcode

by Erica Sadun (Jul 22nd, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, I have a small SSD drive on my iMac. Got some tips on how to offload Xcode to my USB drive instead? Jaames C. Dear Jaames, You can install some but not all of Xcode to a secondary drive. You'll still end up using about half a gigabyte, but that's a sight better than the ...

Dev Juice: Help me set up a multiperson dev team

by Erica Sadun (Jul 8th, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, We have a 3 man dev team with the iOS developer program (as a small company plan) and we are getting ready to move up to Xcode 4 once Lion is out to the public and the have a stable sdk. What is the best way to set all of our systems so we can each build for adhoc distribution ...

Dev Juice: How do I autocomplete in Xcode 4?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 5th, 2011)

Dear Dev Juice, I just moved from Xcode 3 to Xcode 4. How can I make autocomplete give me a template? I type -(void)deal and the drop down pops up. tab just completes the dealloc word. I want it to pop out the template for me. Space bar doesn't work, enter, escape, nothing anymore. I need ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Installing new betas borks my production Xcode

by Erica Sadun (Jun 20th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Every time I install a new Xcode beta these days, it kills my production Xcode and I can't submit to App Store. What gives? I thought you said that Xcode installs could live side-by-side in separate folders! Your loving nephew, Scott McA. Dear Scott, Although you can ...

If you install iOS 5, you can't go back... maybe (Updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 6th, 2011)

Update: Some of our Twitter buddies have noted that you should be able to use the TinyUmbrella tool to kick out of the 'error 1' loop that results after restoring an iOS 5 iPhone back to 4.3.3, and proceed safely from there. Needless to say, your mileage may vary. We knew the pre-release ...

Code Pilot 2.0 with Xcode 4 compatibility

by Brett Terpstra (May 31st, 2011)

Macoscope has released version 2.0 of its Xcode navigation plug-in, Code Pilot. Technically, it's still a beta -- judging from the 2.0b6 version number -- but it's been rock solid for me so far. This version brings Xcode 4 compatibility and a revamped interface. If you code and you haven't ...

Ten One Design licensing Autograph signature capture to developers

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2011)

Ten One Design started the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad stylus market singlehandedly with the Pogo stylus. Now it's hoping to jumpstart development of apps that capture signatures by licensing its Autograph iOS Library. The idea is simple. Rather than re-inventing the wheel when writing apps ...

Apple releases Xcode 4.0.2 (4A2002a) to developers

by Erica Sadun (Apr 14th, 2011)

How doth Apple's Xcode 4 Improve each shining Hour, And offer enhancements every day For every Developer! How skilfully Apple builds its tools! How neat it I.D.E's And labours hard to make it well With the sweet SDKs she releases. In Works of Labour or of Skill I would be busy ...

Xcode 4.0.1 is now available

by Dave Caolo (Mar 25th, 2011)

Apple has released Xcode 4.0.1 today. It's largely a bug fix release. Specific changes include: Improved Assistant editor logic when switching among different file types Fixed a bug in "Install Xcode.app" that hangs at 99% complete, never finishing Fixed a bug that prevented indexing ...

Development courseware updated for Xcode 4

by Chris Ward (Mar 15th, 2011)

Shiny Development has updated all of its training courses following Apple's release last week of the latest version of its development tools, Xcode 4. "We have been working with Xcode 4 for a while now and I am very pleased to announce that all of our training courses are now fully updated ...