Random Musings About Software

Just a little update to let people know that for the past three months I've been working as Director of Engineering - Web Services over at Skyfire

What is Skyfire? Skyfire is a free downloadable mobile browser that delivers both the speed and media-rich experience similar to the PC browser.

Currently the only platforms we support are Windows Mobile and Symbian S60 3rd Edition. And yes we know that it doesn't work on VGA phones but we're working on that.

Anyways, If you want to give it a try go register and download. Also to Note: We only support the US and Canada at the moment.

If you're tired of seeing __MyCompanyName__ automatically in all copyright notices of all your XCode source files then here's a quick and easy fix. You can set the XCode default company name for copyright notice as follows:

Go to /Applications/Utilities and open Terminal.app and enter the following code:

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions '{"ORGANIZATIONNAME"="SomeOther Co.";}'

Make sure you replace SomeOtherCo. with whatever name you want. I used:

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions '{"ORGANIZATIONNAME"="damagestudios.net";}'

The 10.5.2 version of OS X has a new preferences command for Spaces although tt's hidden and not available through the System Preferences.

What it does is allow one to Command-Tab to the app you want and create a new window in the current space. No more switching to the space that the app was originally launched in.

Here's the terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO

Then just restart the dock using:

killall Dock

If you need to back out your changes just change the first command from NO to a YES then restart the Dock once more.