How to open a Mac OS X sparsebundle when it shows up as a regular folder
July 16th, 2009 • Apple, Mac • No comments
This was taken from http://fplanque.com/dev/mac/os-x-sparsebundle-shows-up-as-regular-folder
What do you do if you have, say, an encrypted sparsebundle and some day you try to open it and you discover it shows up as a plain folder in the Finder instead as a bundle icon?
Double clicking will just open the folder and show you the bands that make up the bundle.
I’ve forgotten how to fix the issue, you can at least mount the contents of the bundle by typing this is the terminal: "/path/to/bundle/name_of_bundle.sparsebundle/"
Then you’ll have your virtual drive mounted on teh desktop, and if need be you can just copy them to a new sparsebundle.
Awesome tools for rapid UX prototypes – Letting you focus on the solution!
June 18th, 2009 • Internet, agile, gtd, portal, programming, software development • 3 comments
Comic Life is great for creating story flows in a rough and ready way, with a little style.
Balsamiq is an excellent tool for rapidly creating purposefully low-fi wireframe mockups
Napkee enables you to import Balsamiq mockups and turn them into HTML prototypes! Lovely!
Axure is excellent for rapidly creating interactive prototypes.
Liferay Portal is a pretty awesome portlet container that, with a bit of UX (HTML, CSS and JSP) hacking, enables you to rapidly produce fully functional portals. It comes with a vast array of portlets out of the box, saving you a whole load of time.
JQueryUI is a lovely toolkit for quickly developing interactive prototypes. I’m not completely convinced by it as a production tool (heavy JS? but i could be wrong), but excellent for prototyping
iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 Bluetooth tethering results: Less than 1/3 the speed of USB
April 29th, 2009 • Apple, Internet, iPhone • 1 comment
So, it’s rather slower – 96kbps.
To test it, i tried the ThinkBroadband speed tester, (that i successfully used to test USB tethering), but it failed to complete the test.
I then tried the Broadband speed tester site and got the above results, as well as a 74kbps upload speed.
When (if!) i find time, i’ll go digging and find out if there’s an obvious reason for this – it’s clearly shouldn’t be bottlenecked by the performance of BlueTooth, as it should run up to 3 Mbit/s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth)
iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 + iTunes 8.2 Pre-release = USB Tethering Active Again :)
April 29th, 2009 • Apple, Internet, iPhone • No comments
Yep, USB tethering died in Betas 2 and 3, but with iTunes 8.2 Pre-release and Beta 4, all is working again and it feels wonderfully fast. Well, it’s only running at 336.58 Kbps, but it feels great! As a note, i think the fix was actually iTunes rather than iPhone Beta 4.
Lovely 
Now to test the Bluetooth speeds
Important iPhone Push Notification consideration
April 16th, 2009 • Apple, Business, Internet, Objective C, iPhone, programming, software development • No comments
A point worth noting by all iPhone developers considering the exciting opportunities of cloud-side iPhone app notifications – how much will it cost you to provide this service?
An important point to consider.