Useful once I do finally decide to take the plunge and update my Mac OS: How to Disable System Integrity Protection (rootless) in OS X El Capitan. Via @bcf_ant.
Category: Mac
NES30 bluetooth gamepad
I’m a sucker for most things NES-related as it’s the first games console I ever owned. I enjoy touchscreen gaming to an extent although it remains heavily dependent on the type of game and how effectively the developers have implemented the controls.
I might not have to worry about all that much longer… as I’ve ordered an NES30 bluetooth gamepad! There’s a pretty comprehensive review of the NES30 over at gameusagi.com. It looks great and if it enables me to play games on my iPad, Android Nexus 7 and the 5.5 inch iPhone 6 later on this year (!) then it’ll be well worth the investment.
Once it arrives I’ll do a review.
Swift learning resources
Overview of Accessibility Features in iOS 7
Luis Perez has a detailed breakdown on the accessibility features coming with iOS 7. Good stuff Apple.
Beginning with Android
Originally uploaded by coderkind
Was messing around with installing the SDK tonight. Going to sleep now but intend to do some more tomorrow.
No major pain so far, which is encouraging!
Steve Job’s thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs has posted his thoughts on the Adobe Flash debate. Very interesting read.
EDIT: Good replies from Jesse Warden and Uza.
Hide extension == stupid
I thought it was only Windows which offered to hide file extensions, but I’ve just tried to download a JavaScript file off the net via Safari 4.0.4 and it hides the extension by default seemingly. I hate that; why would anyone ever want to be in the dark over what type of file they’re working with?
Grrrr >:(
50 things every Mac geek should know
This article is full of interesting tips. Expect that cisnky will find it especially useful given that he’ll be buying a Mac soon, given that he caved and finally bought an Xbox 360! 😉
Couple of useful Safari plug-ins
XML View Plugin allows you to view XML within Safari in a useful way (and not have to “view > source” to properly read the XML).
ClickToFlash prevents automatic loading of Flash content.
I think I’m sticking to Firefox on the Mac for the time being however 😉
Macs, GarageBand ’09 and Casio keyboards
We’ve an underused Casio LK-93TV at home and the announcement of GarageBand ’09 (as part of iLife ’09) got me pretty interested as there seems to be music tutorial features in the package. Connecting the Casio keyboard to GarageBand ’08 didn’t seem to work however, which then prompted me to do a search and I found out Casio don’t make Mac drivers for their keyboards (supposedly).
I then found a link to a MIDI driver here which enabled GarageBand ’08 to recognised the USB-connected Casio and now everything’s working fine. Thanks a lot to ferland francois for taking the trouble of coding a solution!