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Snow Leopard to Lion; The painless way
Conclusion first! Let me save you a few minutes (and perhaps hours of suffering on your Mac) and tell you the end of the story in the beginning. Upgrading has been always a tricky way of installing a new operating system. Granted it is smooth enough on a Mac but it comes with its own…
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Adding easy to use sorting features to Objective-C arrays
Apart from how powerful and flexible NSArray in Objective-C is, there are times that you need to sort many arrays throughout the projects. The standard way of sorting arrays in Objective-C is to use one of: sortedArrayHint sortedArrayUsingFunction:context: sortedArrayUsingFunction:context:hint: sortedArrayUsingDescriptors: sortedArrayUsingSelector: (See the official documentation) But what if all you need is just a simple…
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Cloud is better off without Flash
With the emergence of the iPad, there are many trends changing and many ideas developing around an old but finally well-developed phenomenon: the tablet computer. Although I am somehow late giving my opinion on the subject, I think it is worth the try. One of the areas cloud computing can be very useful and extremely…
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Mix like a DJ on your Mac with Djay
This article is originally posted on Shufflegazine. If you are a music fan (who isn’t?) you might have dreamed about mixing some tunes and added new grooves to your favorite tracks. Macs are famous for their music production tools and you don’t need to be a professional DJ to create cool stuff. There are a…
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Convert video formats on your Mac for free
This article is originally posted on Shufflegazine. Earlier today I received a dinosaur JVC camera with a truck load of video clips. We are traveling to Lebanon to have our annual seminar on the beautiful mountains of Farya and somebody had to make a fun video intro for our office. Since I still did not…
