Tagged with apple

Install GCC-4.2.1 (Apple build 5666.3) with Xcode 4.2

- 2011-10-30 17:36:48

As of Xcode 4.2 Apple have stopped bundling GCC with it, shipping only the (mostly) compatible llvm-gcc binary instead. The suggested fix is to install GCC using the osx-gcc-installer project. However, I wanted to build and install it from source, which apple provides at http://opensource.apple.com/.

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App Store Hidden Preferences

- 2011-01-06 19:45:49

See the Update at the end before you get excited :(

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Facebook iPhone app Contact Sync isn't automatic

- 2010-10-06 14:10:06

There's an article on the guardian about private phone numbers being uploaded from facebook, and another over techeye.net on the same subject.

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+[NSObject load] in MacRuby

- 2010-06-12 02:11:32

If you've not heard of it, MacRuby is an implementation of Ruby 1.9 directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector, the LLVM compiler infrastructure and the Foundation and ICU frameworks. Basically means you write in Ruby using Objective-C frameworks, and vice versa. It's pretty damn cool to be honest!

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iPad? iPerfect (…for me)

- 2010-01-27 20:56:50

Google Groups is a pile of fail and hasn't posted my message in reply to a thread on Geekup so I'm blogging it instead.

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