The iPhone Development Story

Wow, what an illuminating story! You can find the original here…
http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/the-iphone-development-story.html

I just got my first application in the iTunes App Store, and I wanted to tell the story of what it’s like to publish one, from start to finish. The app, NetAwake, is an independent project I wrote with my friend Joshua. It makes an [...]

How To Import Non-Commercial DVDs Into iMovie ‘08

Hopefully this hasn’t already been discussed; I searched all over the web and couldn’t find a good answer, so I figured it out myself and thought I’d spread the word!

So I had a couple of DVDs of wedding footage shot by my wife’s great uncle, and I wanted to edit the footage in iMovie 08. [...]

Mac Tiger 10.5 Apple Registration Screen Loop Stuck

1. Turn off your Mac. Perhaps hold the power button down until it turns off.
2. Hold the SHIFT key down and startup. Be patient as it may take awhile.
3. DO NOT LOGIN yet. Click the back arrow (Restart).
4. Your computer should start installing the hazardous upgrades.
5. Allow your computer plenty of time to install and [...]

Getting PHP 5.2.x To Run on Mac Tiger 10.5

So, you decided to upgrade to Mac Tiger Workstation and your PHP service stopped working. No fear, as PHP will still work fine once you make a simple change to your Apache 2 configuration file. Previous versions of Mac OS 10.4 and below were using Apache 1 series, not Apache 2 series. You need only [...]

UNIX Intro to Single-user mode

To get to single-user mode, hold down the command (i.e. cloverleaf or Apple)
and “s” keys as the system begins to boot. This will drop you into a command
line interface before the system has fully started up, giving you the chance
to check/repair things before much of the normal OS X environment starts up.

Single-user mode starts [...]

UNIX Pipelines And I/O Redirections

Many unix commands take text-like input and/or produce text-like output. It’s
sometimes useful to be able to control where the input comes from and output
goes (via redirection), or even pass the output from one command to another’s
input (via pipes). This can be used to do fairly complex things, for example
the following command will print [...]

Changing File Permissions Using Unix Commands

The following
information will help you to use Unix commands to change file permissions.
If you have not already done so, you may want to review the document Unix
File Permissions. Please note that Unix can be a very user-unfriendly
environment. For a start-to-finish tutorial on working in the Unix environment,
please see Unix for Web Designers.

Directions
for:

single-user
sites
group-maintained
sites

Single-user
sites

The steps
for correcting permissions [...]