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Vlad Alexa Mancini's Blog
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Programming, open source , web servers , wamp , web programming inclinded , from software to sociology and beyond.
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what the sparkle doc’s won’t tell you
Sparkle is the updates framework for cocoa that “just works” , yea ok it does , however the documentation for it is a bit lacking on some very important aspects that i discovered over time : 1 – the preferences for your application ...
magic mouse three finger taps dashboard and expose
Peering into the settings for the magic mouse i have found out what looks like support for 3 finger tap gestures for Dashboard and/or Expose control , namely : “Dashboard” – three fingers tap “Exposé All Windows” - thr...
netbeans jarsigner woes
Ok so this is about the dreaded jarsigner error : unable to sign jar: java.util.zip.ZipException: invalid entry compressed size 99% of the time what that means is your jar is already signed However jarsigner has no way to remove signatures from a jar...
apple “magic” mouse testing
Personally i think a gesture enabled mouse is a great move , and am looking forward to seeing it implemented in more mice , besides the mighty mouse i have been using a Logitech Air mouse which has a touch scroll with momentum which i miss dearly whe...
Midnight Commander for snow leopard
Wether you like to have a file manager running as root , need a file manager that can really dig into the guts of the os or are just nostalgic for the good ole 2 pane commanders , either way you got to have mc handy on your brand new 64 bit osx. The...
appstore and cryptography
With the onset of copy/paste in the 3.0 version of the Iphone OS i figured i would write some software providing a facile way of encrypting text with a password for sending via sms , email and whatnot, it is called TXTcrypt after a long struggle it i...
