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Tutorial: Sync Put.io and Other Cloud Services with Plex Using Rclone

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Tutorial: Sync Put.io and Other Cloud Services with Plex Using Rclone

I've been a Put.io [https://put.io] subscriber for almost 10 years now and after my app Fetch got blacklisted by the App Store [https://stephenradford.me/whats-going-on-with-fetch/] I soon looked for another way to add metadata such as posters and subscriptions to media stored on Put.io. Not

Install High Sierra Emoji on Older Versions

Install High Sierra Emoji on Older Versions

I'm being extremely stubborn and refusing to update to High Sierra at the moment for good reason [https://www.wired.com/story/macos-high-sierra-hack-root/]. The only thing that's really been annoying me is the fact I can't see emoji sent from iOS 11 or macOS 10.13 on Sierra but there's

Installing Fetch with Cydia Impactor

Fetch has been open source since it was removed by Apple from the App Store but the overhead of installing has always been large since it required not only a Mac but also knowledge of Xcode. I recently discovered Cydia Impactor [http://www.cydiaimpactor.com] which allows for easy install

Downgrading iOS 9.3.5 to iOS 6

Downgrading iOS 9.3.5 to iOS 6

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Jailbreak with Phoenix 3. OpenSSH 4. Downgrade to iOS 6 Introduction I may be one of the only people left still rocking an iPad 2. The only purpose it has in my life is to consume video through YouTube, Netflix, and Put.io and for that

Removing the White Bars in Safari on iPhone X

Removing the White Bars in Safari on iPhone X

The new iPhone X features a beautiful edge-to-edge display. Well, almost. There is the small issue of a notch at the top of the browser which doesn't cause an issue when viewing websites in portrait but by default does cause some issues in landscape. To accommodate the notch iOS 11

Mixing TVML and UIKit without a server

Mixing TVML and UIKit without a server

When building for tvOS Apple gave us two approaches. A fully native app could be built using UIKit, storyboards and everything developers have been familiar with when building apps for iOS. However, Apple also opened up their TVML and TVJS platform that has been used on Apple TV 2 and

Deeplinking (how to force out of Facebook's in-app browser and fallback on desktop)

Deeplinking (how to force out of Facebook's in-app browser and fallback on desktop)

So it turns out these in-app web views can't die quick enough (hello, SafariViewController!). Marty [http://twitter/marty] tweeted he was trying to get YouTube videos to open in the native iOS app rather than on the website but was finding it impossible. By default, the iOS app adds a

Make UILabel Copyable in Swift

I've been working on an iOS app that called for some text to be copyable but not editable. I wanted to able to long-press and have the contextual menu show the "Copy" action. I'd initially thought about using a UITextField and disabling the edit functionality to achieve this. However that

Swift "AnyClass" Type

TL;DR you're looking for MyClass.self When working with ConnectSDK, I came across something I hadn't before in Swift: the AnyClass type. ConnectSDK [http://connectsdk.com] is an Objective-C based library so I'd imagine this is a rarity when working with native Swift code. Here's what it looks like:

Creating a Delegate in Swift

The Delegate pattern is one that's widely used is developing apps for iOS and OS X and it's one that's very simple to implement in Swift. It's primarily used to alert classes of changes or interactions in other instances. For example, UITableView's delegate has a variety of methods of which

Creating a sharedInstance in Swift

Or, "How the fuck to I make a singleton?" One of the patterns that seems to be very common in Cocoa is the sharedInstance pattern. You can see it in a few of the native classes to UIKit and Cocoa. For example: * In UIApplication you havesharedApplication which returns the current

Gulp, AngularJS and html5Mode

To make your AngularJS app feel a little nicer you've probably enabled html5Mode to remove the annoying hashbang from your URIs. However, this can present some issues when trying to test the site locally. And, unless you've been living under a rock for the past year you've no doubt heard

Stop ng-repeat auto-sorting your objects in AngularJS 1.3

I was working on a project that called for an object to be used with ng-repeat. By default Angular orders this alphabetically but this wasn't what we wanted in the project at all. As it turns out there's no way to stop this in AngularJS 1.3 by default. However,

Animating or transitioning view changes in AngularJS

Since AngularJS 1.2.0 we've had the ability to do native animations in Angular using CSS classes, transitions and keyframes. I've been working on a site recently where it called for transitions to be used between view changes heavily. Thankfully this is made really easy using the ngAnimate module.

Setup a new Mac in 5 minutes

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Setup a new Mac in 5 minutes

I've just taken proud ownership of a shiny new iMac which meant I had the (dis)pleasure of downloading all of my applications and setting up my development environment. I thought this would be the usual manual process but thanks to Homebrew [http://brew.sh/] and Homebrew Cask [http://caskroom.