Author Archives: agrant

NSHTTPCookieOriginURL is broken on iOS :(

Posted on April 20, 2011 by agrant

A quick tip that might save someone a good few hours of bug hunting: Under iOS it seems that when creating cookies via [NSHTTPCookie cookieWithProperties] that using NSHTTPCookieOriginURL will cause creation to fail. Instead you should pass the URL as … Continue reading →

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Whiist plans, past and future

Posted on November 24, 2010 by agrant

A question I’ve been asked fairly often is "will there be a version of Whiist for Vail?". Before yesterday, my reply has been along the lines of: Absolutely! Infact there’s going to be two versions "Whiist Classic" will essentially be … Continue reading →

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Clever App Update

Posted on September 15, 2010 by agrant

Love what the guys at Debacle did with the latest Pano update. Whenever you update an app you can enter a list of what’s new that will be shown in the Updates section of the AppStore. Every developer I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Syncing missing/modified files to a specific version in Perforce

Posted on June 17, 2010 by agrant

I think this is the 5th time I’ve had to figure this out in the past few years, so this time I’m going to preserve it here for posterity The problem is usually one or more of: You have files … Continue reading →

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Just a little test…

Posted on April 8, 2010 by agrant

Testing publishing via the WordPress app for iPad… It’s very buggy, and you can forget about including any images or formatting

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What the f… Nvidia!?

Posted on February 12, 2010 by agrant

So that’s where my hard disk space is going these days… Ho hum.

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Media companies STILL don’t get the internet?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by agrant

Last night Liz and I discovered that for some reason the first episode of the new Bing Bang Theory, our premium "watch together" show, hadn't been recorded. No problem, we just flicked on AppleTV, went to the TV section and…. … Continue reading →

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Fix for broken Time Machine backups under Snow Leopard

Posted on September 22, 2009 by agrant

Since upgrading to 10.6.1 (and possibly before) Snow Leopard has consistently failed to perform Time Machine backups to the Time Capsule on my network. The backup starts but quickly fails with the message “The backup was not performed because an … Continue reading →

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Dear AT&T

Posted on September 3, 2009 by agrant

Dear AT&T, Instead of sending me spam email advertising your new GPS service, how about pulling your finger out and providing the MMS service that Apple have been dubiously promoting for around six months now? (“Late Summer” my arse). The … Continue reading →

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Lucas Snaps

Posted on August 20, 2009 by agrant

See the full gallery on posterous Posted via web from Andrew Live!

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