I’ll be trying out the 23 week half-marathon training program myself.
Read: RunKeeper’s In-App Personal Training Feature is Now Free (mashable.com)
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4 Ways To Increase Performance of your Unity Game
Good check-list, worth checking out even if you are an experienced Unity developer.
Read: 4 Ways To Increase Performance of your Unity Game (paladinstudios.com)
Get Save As back on Mountain Lion’s File menu easily and without hacks
Simple and superb tip for getting Cmd+Shift+S to function as “Save As…” in all Mountain Lion applications.
Read: Get Save As back on Mountain Lion’s File menu easily and without hacks (tuaw.com)
Mountain Lion AirPlay mirroring v. AirParrot: fight!
If you have an older Mac laptop (i.e. older than 18 months) you cannot run AirPlay Mirroring on it, the new screen sharing technique in OS X Mountain Lion. Instead you can run a software called AirParrot, which does the same thing with even more functionality. Check out this comparison between the two over at Arstechnica.
Read: Mountain Lion AirPlay mirroring v. AirParrot: fight! (arstechnica.com)
Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion
More great tips for those of you who have upgraded to Mountain Lion.
Read: Top 10 Secret Features of OS X Mountain Lion (lifehacker.com)
This Is The Only Thing You Must Know About Shooting Video On Your iPhone
Read: This Is The Only Thing You Must Know About Shooting Video On Your iPhone (cultofmac.com)
The Amazing Contents of Steve Wozniak’s Travel Backpack
This guy carries more stuff than I do. Much more.
Read: The Amazing Contents of Steve Wozniak’s Travel Backpack (gizmodo.com)
devicePixelRatio
“I did some research around the
window.devicePixelRatioproperty that all WebKit browsers, as well as Opera, support, and for once the news is good. This property’s definition makes sense, and it is implemented almost universally.”
Follow the links for some excellent retina-optimized web page design tips by Peter-Paul Koch.
Read: devicePixelRatio (quirksmode.org)
Read: More about devicePixelRatio (quirksmode.org)
Week numbers in your iPhone, iPad & iCal
If you want week numbers in your iPhone, iPad or iCal, I have an easy script that helps you with that.
Begin by enabling iCloud calendar sync to iCal and all your devices. Then follow the instructions on this page to import week numbers into a separate calendar. The week number will appear as an all day event on Monday.
I have made available both English (“Week 1″) and Swedish (“Vecka 1″) week calendars for 2012.
Using a Windows Laptop with a Bluetooth Keyboard
I recently purchased the Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000, and while being generally happy with it (despite the lack of dedicated home / end buttons) my main concern with it was that after just 8-10 seconds the keyboard seemed to go into sleep mode, requiring a second or so to wake up again. According to the Microsoft documentation the keyboard should not go to sleep until 8-10 minutes, so this behavior was quite unexpected.
It turned out that the issue was in the Thinkpad laptop. The default settings for the Bluetooth driver is to power down the Bluetooth chip to conserve power, causing the keyboard to become unresponsive after just a few seconds.
So if you too experience this issue, you can remove the lag by:
- Pressing the <Windows> button on your keyboard
- Type ”Device Manager” and press <enter>
- Open the “Bluetooth Radios” section and right click your Bluetooth driver (in my case “ThinkPad Bluetooth 3.0″) and choose “Properties”
- Choose the tab “Power Management” and disable “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power”
Your keyboard should now be completely “lag-free” in daily use.
