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Aug 20 2008

Copy and Paste from app to app on the iPhone


Cut and Paste for iPhone from Cali Lewis on VimeoI’m breaking our iPhone silence to point you to some news I find interesting even as a non-iPhone-user. A guy named Zac White has found a way for iPhone application developers to add copy and paste functionality to their apps without violating the terms of Apple’s SDK. The technique used, outlined in the video embedded here, requires that developers agree to adopt the method in order for everyone’s apps to play nice together.

I find the SDK violation avoidance method intriguing and will be interested to see how Apple reacts.

[ Via GeekBrief.TV ]

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Jun 14 2008

Create a cool 3-D texture using Illustrator

3dillustrator 20080614 141600 Create a cool 3 D texture using IllustratorLayers Magazine’s has posted an excellent video tutorial where Corey Barker shows you how to Creating 3D Shapes in Illustrator. One caveat to the tutorial: although the heavy lifting is done in Adobe Illustrator (USD$599), it finishes up in Adobe Photoshop (USD$649) making this “fun to try” tutorial a bit financially inaccessible to the graphically curious. For professionals, though, or for anyone else who has already purchased these two apps, this tutorial is built out of some very useful techniques that you can use to develop your own effects.

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May 22 2008

What fonts are supposed to be installed in Mac OS X 10.5?

Helvetica Warning 20080522 194344 What fonts are supposed to be installed in Mac OS X 10.5?If you’re a font addict like I am, but don’t use any kind of third-party font management software, a peek inside your Fonts folder may overwhelm you. And, if you ever suspect that an installed font is giving you system problems, you may need to sort through your collection and get rid of some typographic dead weight. The problem is, it’s hard to tell which fonts might have been installed by Mac OS X and may possibly be required for Apple apps to run properly.

This was the problem I faced recently on a machine running Mac OS X 10.4 and I found this support document very helpful. I also found there is a Mac OS X 10.5: Fonts list in case you run into confusion in Leopard. Although, I understand certain fonts under Mac OS X 10.5 will magically reinstall if they are removed, so you may not need a font list at all.

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