Coding Challenge: Full Justify (LeetCode Hard)
Lately I've been retraining my brain with some algorithmic coding challenges on LeetCode. After years of experience as a working Principal Eng...
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Blog Migration in Progress (Again)
This blog started off running as a custom CMS I built in Rails 2. I was really proud of it, but it was one of my first prod apps and ran really sl...
Coding Challenge: Detecting Unique Friend Circles in NxN Matrix
Friend Circle. Photo by Margarida CSilva on Unsplash Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding question...
Coding Challenge: Remove and Rearrange Array Elements In-Place in O(1) Memory and O(n) Time
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implement a Square Root Function
(not the sqrt function) Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineeri...
Coding Challenge: Finding the Longest Absolute Path in an Abstracted File System Display
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Converting Integers to Binary String Representations in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing QuickSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing MergeSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Find Missing Number in Array of 1 Through 100
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
How to Setup an Auto-Reconnect Script for an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN Service on Your Mac
So, you've setup an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN service on your Mac, and you want a tool that will keep you connected at all times. Well you've found the right pl...
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
Programmatically Opening the iOS Simulator Data Directory For Your App
When developing an app that downloads data and/or creates a lot of data, it is useful to inspect the simulator's file system to ensure the files are what,...
UAProgressView — Simple, Lightweight and Powerful
Unsatisfied with the current open-source progress view components, today I created my own. UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, y...
Urban - An Xcode Theme for Xcode 3, 4 and 5
Urban is an Xcode theme that uses a soft dark background, with subtle blue, orange and yellow colors.
Auto-Increment Build Numbers for Multiple Xcode Target Apps
Recently, I launched an App called NYC Bikes. Because it quickly became pretty popular, I expanded on it and created another bike share app for Chic...
UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0
UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...
Using Xcode Asset Catalogs with Multiple Targets
A few months ago, I released an App called NYC Bikes that quickly became the most popular non-official Citi Bike app. It resonates with busy New Yorke...
Introducing UAObfuscatedString
What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...
How to Make Drobo iSCSI Work Again on OS X Mavericks
TLDR; Install an older version of Java, found here. Despite every registered 3rd party developer having early access to the unreleased versions, ev...
UALogger 0.3 Released
UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...
How to Customize Your Dreamhost Dedicated Server While Retaining a Managed Apache2 Configuration
I use Dreamhost to host all my non-major sites. A non-major site, at least in my definition, is a site that doesn't require its own deployment stack. ...
How to Detect When an App is Coming from the Lockscreen or Homescreen on iOS 7
My Hourly News App has different behavior when becoming active from the Lockscreen (locked while active), or becoming active from anything else. The App...
Getting Pow to use RVM’s Ruby Version on Mavericks
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks 10.9 with relatively little friction, I decided to get back to work on a Rails site that needed some love. When deve...
How To Best Resize SMPageControl Indicators to Fit Bounds
I have been working on a new feature for my Hourly News iOS App that allows the addition of custom news sources to the app. While testing out what happen...
Introducing UAAppReviewManager
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...
App Store Rejection for Not Having In-App Purchase Restoration
My most recent App Store submission for NYC Bikes (iTunes link not active yet) was rejected for what I see as a stupid reason: Not having a "Restore" butt...
Introducing UALogger
I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...
Recommended Third Party Services/Repos for iOS Development
What third-party plugins, frameworks and projects do you use on your projects? I get asked this question a lot. With the recent iOS open-source...
My Favorite Macros for Objective-C Development in Xcode
Some developers say that macros should be avoided, but I find them very useful to add to my Xcode projects. By simply importing a single file -- UAMacro...
Today is my 2^5 Birthday
Like any good geek, I would be remiss if I did not point out that today is my 2^5 birthday. For all non-geeks out there, let me explain…
How to Setup a Rails-like Asset Pipeline With Octopress
A few weeks ago I decided to use Octopress for my new blog engine when Posterous shut its doors, and I love it thus far. There are a few things I miss f...
How To Map Plex Media Server to Your Home Domain
Being the Über Geek that I am, reaching my home server from anywhere in the world is trivial. I have all the appropriate port-forwarding in place for ss...
A Chrome Extension to Easily Save Images to the Downloads Folder
I am seeing Safari freeze up on me lately. To be fair, I load a ton of concurrent tabs, but Safari cannot handle dealing with that many tabs without gri...
Making Octopress Stylesheets Use A Content Distribution Network
I recently migrated from Posterous to Octopress. When working in development on the site, it is really convenient that all the stylesheets are relative an...
Migrating From Posterous to Octopress
Posterous recently posted a shutdown announcement stating that the service, now owned by Twitter, inc, would be closing up shop on April 30th, 2013. I hav...
If you run a Rails site, you need to update NOW.
Extremely critical Ruby on Rails bug threatens more than 200,000 sites "It is quite bad," Murphy told Ars. "An attack can send a request to any Ruby on Rails...
Automatically Sorting Downloaded Television Episodes From Transmission
If you were to download torrents of television shows frequently, you would probably find that manually sorting the episodes into your media center directorie...
How to Convert Simple Rails 2.3 Style Plugins for Rails 3.2
Upon updating your older project to Rails 3.2, one of the first things you will see is a deprecation notice in your logs: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in...
UAModalPanel: An Open-Source Modal Panel Alternative for iOS
As seen in Ambiance, UAModalPanel is an alternative modal panel that you can popup in your view controllers to show content that might not ...
How to Cut and Paste a File in Finder Using Keyboard Shortcuts and Automator
I manage a file server with a ton of content. When new stuff comes in most of it gets automagically moved into the right directory, but sometimes I need to m...
I Accidentally Deleted libSystem.B.dylib, Now What?
I was testing the dynamically loaded dependencies of a static ffmpeg binary today, and I saw that libSystem.B.dylib was indeed a dependency. coneybeare $ oto...
How to Determine Which Company Sold Your Gmail Address To Spammers
It happens more than you think. I mean really, have you ever really read the 43 page long terms of agreement that these sites make you agree to before signin...
Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...
How to make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Lion OS X 10.7
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
I Do Mass Quantities Of…
I Do Mass Quantities Of… Coke Code. Yes, those are 1's and 0's on the scale :) A great gift from Aunt Robyn and Uncle Dan Was this page help...
I just passed 10,000 reputation points on Stack Overflow!
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GoodGuide App Easter Egg
It has been long enough since I worked at GoodGuide that I think I can post this now :) While developing the GoodGuide iPhone app, my part...
Getting A More Accurate Download Count in the Adobe Air Marketplace
Ambiance for the Desktop was released this week and we got some pretty great reviews about it: Gizmodo BoingBoing TUAW These posts drove...
Custom Xcode theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this Xcode theme for awhile now and I think its rather nice. If you like it, just copy the line below into terminal ...
Apple tweaked the home screen icon layout in iOS 4.2
I have been using this grid iPhone wallpaper for awhile now and it lined up perfectly until some recent 4.2 build. Notice that in the iOS 4.2 screensho...
Why I no longer worry about minor memory leaks
I have quite a large app out on the app store called Ambiance and have been developing it off and on for about two and a half years now. In the beginning, I ...
Stats on the Ambiance Code Base
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Three20: How to Autoload More Results When You Scroll to the Bottom of a List
Pretty simple setup here. This is setup using a list data source with a TTTableMoreButton as the last item. We just add a hook into the data source for when ...
Public Domain Fail - Whitehouse.gov is blocking access to public RSS feeds and content.
UPDATE: 7/12/10 10:16PM All functionality seems to have been restored. Whether this was a hiccup in the system (probable) or a reversal of the blocking we wi...
Using AudioStreamer with AVAudioPlayer and Avoiding Hardware Locking
In Ambiance, I use some customized AVAudioPlayers to play the apps audio. When possible, these AVAudioPLayers use hardware decoding of the audio files which ...
Edit Google Analytics for iPhone to use a Hidden Database
I use Google Analytics in my iPhone apps to track how my customers are using them. It is very useful for determining the answers to questions such as: - Do ...
What happened with the Ambiance 3.0 failure
The last two days were pretty bad for me. I fucked up bad. I mean really bad. really really bad. As a developer you expect bugs, and even though you do yo...
Getting HTML5 Audio tag and flash fallback to work nicely with all browsers
In implementing the new (yet-to-be-released) html Ambiance audio pages, I wanted to take advantage of modern browsers support of the tag. I loaded it up with...
How to Make Custom Drawn Gradient Backgrounds in a Grouped UITableView with Core Graphics
In iPhone app design, it is important to find a balance between customization and familiarity. Many times, subtle differences are all you need to make yourse...
Overriding -[UINavigationBar drawRect:] to add a custom background image…
I needed to do this across the board for a client app and thought I would share… Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say ...
Adding and Saving a Border Around a UIImage with Core Graphics
I recently had to place a border around an image of unknown size and save it back as an image. Here is how: Start with a UIImage: Run it through th...
Proper Alignment of UIImage and UILabel when using UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
I am working on an iPhone App Project for a client and I decided to use the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle for one of my views. It was easy to setup and it had...
Custom Ruby Script to Import a Custom Rails Blog to Posterous
Took me 5 minutes. DIRECTIONS: 1) Edit your sql details on line 8 2) Edit for your table columns on lines 11-13 3) Edit your Posterous details on lin...
New Code Blog
After 1 year of non-updates, I am moving my (broken) code blog onto Posterous. Why, you ask? Well, like every Ruby on Rails fanboy, I created my own blogging...
Getting Home With a Dynamically Allocated IP
I recently had my Comcrap Cable shut off for downloading too much. Apparently, my 'unlimited' service did not protect me at all because I use cable. Basic...
tutorials
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Sonoma (14)
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. You can even find one of my other tuto...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Ventura (13)
Looking for Sonoma instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Monterey 12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail w...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Big Sur 11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to cre...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Catalina 10.15
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? There a...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Mojave 10.14
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Setup an Auto-Reconnect Script for an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN Service on Your Mac
So, you've setup an IKEv2/IPSEC VPN service on your Mac, and you want a tool that will keep you connected at all times. Well you've found the right pl...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for High Sierra OS X 10.13
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Sierra OS X 10.12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for El Capitan OS X 10.11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Properly Install an HTML Signature in Dropbox Inc.’s Mailbox for Mac
For basic signatures, the good old copy-paste method works well for the Mailbox App from Dropbox. You simply design your signature and code it int...
How to Backup Your Apple Airport or Time Capsule Settings So You Don’t Get Burned
Recently, while trying to simply restart my Time Capsule router from the iOS Airport Utility App, I accidentially reset the router to its default settings...
Caps Lock? No Thanks!
Disable the pesky Caps Lock button on your Mac keyboard by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > (Keyboard Tab) > Modifier Keys and ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Yosemite OS X 10.10
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
Programmatically Opening the iOS Simulator Data Directory For Your App
When developing an app that downloads data and/or creates a lot of data, it is useful to inspect the simulator's file system to ensure the files are what,...
The Right Way to Install an HTML Signature in iOS 7 Mail
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with OS X, and you have probably already seen my tutorials on how to add ...
Auto-Increment Build Numbers for Multiple Xcode Target Apps
Recently, I launched an App called NYC Bikes. Because it quickly became pretty popular, I expanded on it and created another bike share app for Chic...
Using Xcode Asset Catalogs with Multiple Targets
A few months ago, I released an App called NYC Bikes that quickly became the most popular non-official Citi Bike app. It resonates with busy New Yorke...
How to Make Drobo iSCSI Work Again on OS X Mavericks
TLDR; Install an older version of Java, found here. Despite every registered 3rd party developer having early access to the unreleased versions, ev...
How to Customize Your Dreamhost Dedicated Server While Retaining a Managed Apache2 Configuration
I use Dreamhost to host all my non-major sites. A non-major site, at least in my definition, is a site that doesn't require its own deployment stack. ...
How to Detect When an App is Coming from the Lockscreen or Homescreen on iOS 7
My Hourly News App has different behavior when becoming active from the Lockscreen (locked while active), or becoming active from anything else. The App...
Getting Pow to use RVM’s Ruby Version on Mavericks
After upgrading to OS X Mavericks 10.9 with relatively little friction, I decided to get back to work on a Rails site that needed some love. When deve...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mavericks OS X 10.9
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How To Best Resize SMPageControl Indicators to Fit Bounds
I have been working on a new feature for my Hourly News iOS App that allows the addition of custom news sources to the app. While testing out what happen...
How to Setup a Rails-like Asset Pipeline With Octopress
A few weeks ago I decided to use Octopress for my new blog engine when Posterous shut its doors, and I love it thus far. There are a few things I miss f...
How To Map Plex Media Server to Your Home Domain
Being the Über Geek that I am, reaching my home server from anywhere in the world is trivial. I have all the appropriate port-forwarding in place for ss...
Making Octopress Stylesheets Use A Content Distribution Network
I recently migrated from Posterous to Octopress. When working in development on the site, it is really convenient that all the stylesheets are relative an...
Migrating From Posterous to Octopress
Posterous recently posted a shutdown announcement stating that the service, now owned by Twitter, inc, would be closing up shop on April 30th, 2013. I hav...
Automatically Sorting Downloaded Television Episodes From Transmission
If you were to download torrents of television shows frequently, you would probably find that manually sorting the episodes into your media center directorie...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mountain Lion OS X 10.8
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Convert Simple Rails 2.3 Style Plugins for Rails 3.2
Upon updating your older project to Rails 3.2, one of the first things you will see is a deprecation notice in your logs: You have Rails 2.3-style plugins in...
How to Upload to the Mac App Store when using a Developer Beta Version of the OS
I recently finished a Mac App called Thumbs and I wanted to upload and submit the binary to the Mac App Store through Xcode. Sounds easy enough right? I ran ...
How to Cut and Paste a File in Finder Using Keyboard Shortcuts and Automator
I manage a file server with a ton of content. When new stuff comes in most of it gets automagically moved into the right directory, but sometimes I need to m...
I Accidentally Deleted libSystem.B.dylib, Now What?
I was testing the dynamically loaded dependencies of a static ffmpeg binary today, and I saw that libSystem.B.dylib was indeed a dependency. coneybeare $ oto...
How to Determine Which Company Sold Your Gmail Address To Spammers
It happens more than you think. I mean really, have you ever really read the 43 page long terms of agreement that these sites make you agree to before signin...
How to make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Lion OS X 10.7
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
Three20: How to Autoload More Results When You Scroll to the Bottom of a List
Pretty simple setup here. This is setup using a list data source with a TTTableMoreButton as the last item. We just add a hook into the data source for when ...
Using AudioStreamer with AVAudioPlayer and Avoiding Hardware Locking
In Ambiance, I use some customized AVAudioPlayers to play the apps audio. When possible, these AVAudioPLayers use hardware decoding of the audio files which ...
Edit Google Analytics for iPhone to use a Hidden Database
I use Google Analytics in my iPhone apps to track how my customers are using them. It is very useful for determining the answers to questions such as: - Do ...
Getting HTML5 Audio tag and flash fallback to work nicely with all browsers
In implementing the new (yet-to-be-released) html Ambiance audio pages, I wanted to take advantage of modern browsers support of the tag. I loaded it up with...
How to Make Custom Drawn Gradient Backgrounds in a Grouped UITableView with Core Graphics
In iPhone app design, it is important to find a balance between customization and familiarity. Many times, subtle differences are all you need to make yourse...
Overriding -[UINavigationBar drawRect:] to add a custom background image…
I needed to do this across the board for a client app and thought I would share… Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say ...
Adding and Saving a Border Around a UIImage with Core Graphics
I recently had to place a border around an image of unknown size and save it back as an image. Here is how: Start with a UIImage: Run it through th...
Proper Alignment of UIImage and UILabel when using UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
I am working on an iPhone App Project for a client and I decided to use the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle for one of my views. It was easy to setup and it had...
Custom Ruby Script to Import a Custom Rails Blog to Posterous
Took me 5 minutes. DIRECTIONS: 1) Edit your sql details on line 8 2) Edit for your table columns on lines 11-13 3) Edit your Posterous details on lin...
Getting Home With a Dynamically Allocated IP
I recently had my Comcrap Cable shut off for downloading too much. Apparently, my 'unlimited' service did not protect me at all because I use cable. Basic...
apps
Watch Later for Plex iOS App Lets You Easily Add Videos to Your Plex Queue
I am pleased to announce that my company, Urban Apps, just released our newest iOS app, Watch Later for Plex, on the iTunes App Store! Watch La...
Hourly News for Mac Now Available Outside of the Mac App Store
I am excited to announce that Hourly News for Mac is now available outside of the Mac App Store as a standalone app!
About User Interface Sounds in Chicago Bikes
Normally I don't respond to iTunes App Store reviews about my apps, but I saw this one today and thought it needed a response and justification ...
Hourly News Updates for iOS and Mac
Hourly News has just been updated for both the iOS and Mac versions. The updated versions — 1.6.3 on iOS and 1.2.3 on Mac — are available now on t...
Boston Bikes — A One-Tap Hubway Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Boston Bikes. Boston Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Columbus Bikes — A One-Tap CoGo Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Columbus Bikes. Columbus Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Melbourne Bikes — A One-Tap Melbourne Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Melbourne Bikes. Melbourne Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you ...
Hourly News is the TUAW Mac App of the Week
Hourly News for Mac just got a great writeup from my friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / AOL. I use Hourly News to keep on top of ...
Bay Area Bikes — A One-Tap Bay Area Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Bay Area Bikes. Bay Area Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Hourly News for Mac Updated With Custom Sources and Sync
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for Mac! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
London Bikes — A One-Tap Cycle Hire App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, London Bikes. London Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Chicago Bikes — A One-Tap Divvy Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Chicago Bikes. Chicago Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you loca...
NYC Bikes 1.2 Adds a Full Station Map and Ride Timer
NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the closest Citi Bike℠ docking station. With one tap you can find the closest Ci...
Stupid Apple Rejection of the Day
2.16 We found that your app uses a background mode but does not include the following battery use disclaimer in your Application Description: ...
Finally! Hourly News Updated With Custom Sources
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for iOS! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...
App Store Rejection for Not Having In-App Purchase Restoration
My most recent App Store submission for NYC Bikes (iTunes link not active yet) was rejected for what I see as a stupid reason: Not having a "Restore" butt...
Recommended Third Party Services/Repos for iOS Development
What third-party plugins, frameworks and projects do you use on your projects? I get asked this question a lot. With the recent iOS open-source...
Migrating from Sharify to LimeLM
The Adobe Air version of Ambiance Desktop has been around for a few years now and has been quite popular as a try-then-buy app. When we first launched i...
Ambiance is currently being featured in the App Store under “Rest and Relaxation Apps”!
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How to Upload to the Mac App Store when using a Developer Beta Version of the OS
I recently finished a Mac App called Thumbs and I wanted to upload and submit the binary to the Mac App Store through Xcode. Sounds easy enough right? I ran ...
GoodGuide App Easter Egg
It has been long enough since I worked at GoodGuide that I think I can post this now :) While developing the GoodGuide iPhone app, my part...
Getting A More Accurate Download Count in the Adobe Air Marketplace
Ambiance for the Desktop was released this week and we got some pretty great reviews about it: Gizmodo BoingBoing TUAW These posts drove...
Look what I just spotted on the 10,000,000 download iTunes page: http://t.co/Fs71yXv
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Ambiance 3.1 Brings Full iPad Support, Airplay, Available Now
Available Now <span">Urban Apps is pleased to announce that Ambiance version 3.1 has been approved by Apple and is available now in the iTunes App Stor...
Keep You and Your Family Safe: All Recalls
Urban Apps is pleased to announce the release of All Recalls, a new app to help keep you and your family safe. [[posterous-content:WbO2FCKa0In4LxqbIxyz]]...
Stats on the Ambiance Code Base
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Ambiance hits 5,000,000 Sound Downloads — Free for today only!
Today marked a very important milestone for us at Urban Apps. Ambiance had it’s 5,000,000th sound download! You read that right — that is indeed Five Millio...
Public Domain Fail - Whitehouse.gov is blocking access to public RSS feeds and content.
UPDATE: 7/12/10 10:16PM All functionality seems to have been restored. Whether this was a hiccup in the system (probable) or a reversal of the blocking we wi...
What happened with the Ambiance 3.0 failure
The last two days were pretty bad for me. I fucked up bad. I mean really bad. really really bad. As a developer you expect bugs, and even though you do yo...
Ambiance 3.0 available in the iTunes store with background audio!
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Hilarious Parody Video of Ambiance
I think its the British accent that gets me… Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!
Ambiance has been named the “App of the Day”…
(via http://appoftheday.com/app/Ambiance ) Its a great honor to be named alongside apps like Tweetie 2 and DropBox. This is great! Was this pag...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2: Sharing, Backups, Playlists…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
New Ambiance Promo Video
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Great Video of a Baby Calming Down With Ambiance
(via Jason Prance — http://jasonprance.com/apple/crying-baby-theres-an-app-for-that/comment-page-…) Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a...
Website Notifies You When The Apple Store Is Back Up
If you view my blog or read my tweets, then you are probab...
announcements
Watch Later for Plex iOS App Lets You Easily Add Videos to Your Plex Queue
I am pleased to announce that my company, Urban Apps, just released our newest iOS app, Watch Later for Plex, on the iTunes App Store! Watch La...
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
Hourly News for Mac Now Available Outside of the Mac App Store
I am excited to announce that Hourly News for Mac is now available outside of the Mac App Store as a standalone app!
UAProgressView — Simple, Lightweight and Powerful
Unsatisfied with the current open-source progress view components, today I created my own. UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, y...
Urban - An Xcode Theme for Xcode 3, 4 and 5
Urban is an Xcode theme that uses a soft dark background, with subtle blue, orange and yellow colors.
Hourly News Updates for iOS and Mac
Hourly News has just been updated for both the iOS and Mac versions. The updated versions — 1.6.3 on iOS and 1.2.3 on Mac — are available now on t...
Boston Bikes — A One-Tap Hubway Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Boston Bikes. Boston Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Columbus Bikes — A One-Tap CoGo Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Columbus Bikes. Columbus Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Melbourne Bikes — A One-Tap Melbourne Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Melbourne Bikes. Melbourne Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you ...
Hourly News is the TUAW Mac App of the Week
Hourly News for Mac just got a great writeup from my friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / AOL. I use Hourly News to keep on top of ...
Bay Area Bikes — A One-Tap Bay Area Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Bay Area Bikes. Bay Area Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Hourly News for Mac Updated With Custom Sources and Sync
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for Mac! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
London Bikes — A One-Tap Cycle Hire App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, London Bikes. London Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0
UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...
Chicago Bikes — A One-Tap Divvy Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Chicago Bikes. Chicago Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you loca...
Introducing UAObfuscatedString
What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...
NYC Bikes 1.2 Adds a Full Station Map and Ride Timer
NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the closest Citi Bike℠ docking station. With one tap you can find the closest Ci...
UALogger 0.3 Released
UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...
Finally! Hourly News Updated With Custom Sources
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for iOS! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...
Introducing UAAppReviewManager
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...
Introducing UALogger
I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...
A Chrome Extension to Easily Save Images to the Downloads Folder
I am seeing Safari freeze up on me lately. To be fair, I load a ton of concurrent tabs, but Safari cannot handle dealing with that many tabs without gri...
Ambiance is currently being featured in the App Store under “Rest and Relaxation Apps”!
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UAModalPanel: An Open-Source Modal Panel Alternative for iOS
As seen in Ambiance, UAModalPanel is an alternative modal panel that you can popup in your view controllers to show content that might not ...
Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...
Look what I just spotted on the 10,000,000 download iTunes page: http://t.co/Fs71yXv
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Ambiance 3.1 Brings Full iPad Support, Airplay, Available Now
Available Now <span">Urban Apps is pleased to announce that Ambiance version 3.1 has been approved by Apple and is available now in the iTunes App Stor...
Keep You and Your Family Safe: All Recalls
Urban Apps is pleased to announce the release of All Recalls, a new app to help keep you and your family safe. [[posterous-content:WbO2FCKa0In4LxqbIxyz]]...
Ambiance hits 5,000,000 Sound Downloads — Free for today only!
Today marked a very important milestone for us at Urban Apps. Ambiance had it’s 5,000,000th sound download! You read that right — that is indeed Five Millio...
Ambiance 3.0 available in the iTunes store with background audio!
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Ambiance has been named the “App of the Day”…
(via http://appoftheday.com/app/Ambiance ) Its a great honor to be named alongside apps like Tweetie 2 and DropBox. This is great! Was this pag...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2: Sharing, Backups, Playlists…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
releases
Watch Later for Plex iOS App Lets You Easily Add Videos to Your Plex Queue
I am pleased to announce that my company, Urban Apps, just released our newest iOS app, Watch Later for Plex, on the iTunes App Store! Watch La...
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
Hourly News for Mac Now Available Outside of the Mac App Store
I am excited to announce that Hourly News for Mac is now available outside of the Mac App Store as a standalone app!
UAProgressView — Simple, Lightweight and Powerful
Unsatisfied with the current open-source progress view components, today I created my own. UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, y...
Urban - An Xcode Theme for Xcode 3, 4 and 5
Urban is an Xcode theme that uses a soft dark background, with subtle blue, orange and yellow colors.
Hourly News Updates for iOS and Mac
Hourly News has just been updated for both the iOS and Mac versions. The updated versions — 1.6.3 on iOS and 1.2.3 on Mac — are available now on t...
Boston Bikes — A One-Tap Hubway Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Boston Bikes. Boston Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Columbus Bikes — A One-Tap CoGo Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Columbus Bikes. Columbus Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Melbourne Bikes — A One-Tap Melbourne Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Melbourne Bikes. Melbourne Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you ...
Bay Area Bikes — A One-Tap Bay Area Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Bay Area Bikes. Bay Area Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Hourly News for Mac Updated With Custom Sources and Sync
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for Mac! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
London Bikes — A One-Tap Cycle Hire App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, London Bikes. London Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0
UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...
Chicago Bikes — A One-Tap Divvy Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Chicago Bikes. Chicago Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you loca...
Introducing UAObfuscatedString
What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...
NYC Bikes 1.2 Adds a Full Station Map and Ride Timer
NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the closest Citi Bike℠ docking station. With one tap you can find the closest Ci...
UALogger 0.3 Released
UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...
Finally! Hourly News Updated With Custom Sources
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for iOS! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...
Introducing UAAppReviewManager
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...
Introducing UALogger
I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...
A Chrome Extension to Easily Save Images to the Downloads Folder
I am seeing Safari freeze up on me lately. To be fair, I load a ton of concurrent tabs, but Safari cannot handle dealing with that many tabs without gri...
UAModalPanel: An Open-Source Modal Panel Alternative for iOS
As seen in Ambiance, UAModalPanel is an alternative modal panel that you can popup in your view controllers to show content that might not ...
Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...
Keep You and Your Family Safe: All Recalls
Urban Apps is pleased to announce the release of All Recalls, a new app to help keep you and your family safe. [[posterous-content:WbO2FCKa0In4LxqbIxyz]]...
Ambiance 3.0 available in the iTunes store with background audio!
http://ambianceapp.com Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2: Sharing, Backups, Playlists…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
urban apps
Watch Later for Plex iOS App Lets You Easily Add Videos to Your Plex Queue
I am pleased to announce that my company, Urban Apps, just released our newest iOS app, Watch Later for Plex, on the iTunes App Store! Watch La...
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
Hourly News for Mac Now Available Outside of the Mac App Store
I am excited to announce that Hourly News for Mac is now available outside of the Mac App Store as a standalone app!
Hourly News Updates for iOS and Mac
Hourly News has just been updated for both the iOS and Mac versions. The updated versions — 1.6.3 on iOS and 1.2.3 on Mac — are available now on t...
Boston Bikes — A One-Tap Hubway Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Boston Bikes. Boston Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Columbus Bikes — A One-Tap CoGo Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Columbus Bikes. Columbus Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Melbourne Bikes — A One-Tap Melbourne Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Melbourne Bikes. Melbourne Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you ...
Hourly News is the TUAW Mac App of the Week
Hourly News for Mac just got a great writeup from my friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) / AOL. I use Hourly News to keep on top of ...
Bay Area Bikes — A One-Tap Bay Area Bike Share App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Bay Area Bikes. Bay Area Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you lo...
Hourly News for Mac Updated With Custom Sources and Sync
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for Mac! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
London Bikes — A One-Tap Cycle Hire App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, London Bikes. London Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate...
Chicago Bikes — A One-Tap Divvy Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, Chicago Bikes. Chicago Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you loca...
NYC Bikes 1.2 Adds a Full Station Map and Ride Timer
NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the closest Citi Bike℠ docking station. With one tap you can find the closest Ci...
Finally! Hourly News Updated With Custom Sources
I am happy to announce the addition of custom news sources into Hourly News for iOS! For a one-time, in-app purchase of $0.99, you will be able to...
NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...
Ambiance 3.1 Brings Full iPad Support, Airplay, Available Now
Available Now <span">Urban Apps is pleased to announce that Ambiance version 3.1 has been approved by Apple and is available now in the iTunes App Stor...
Keep You and Your Family Safe: All Recalls
Urban Apps is pleased to announce the release of All Recalls, a new app to help keep you and your family safe. [[posterous-content:WbO2FCKa0In4LxqbIxyz]]...
Ambiance hits 5,000,000 Sound Downloads — Free for today only!
Today marked a very important milestone for us at Urban Apps. Ambiance had it’s 5,000,000th sound download! You read that right — that is indeed Five Millio...
Ambiance 3.0 available in the iTunes store with background audio!
http://ambianceapp.com Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!
Ambiance has been named the “App of the Day”…
(via http://appoftheday.com/app/Ambiance ) Its a great honor to be named alongside apps like Tweetie 2 and DropBox. This is great! Was this pag...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2: Sharing, Backups, Playlists…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 Just Released…
Ambiance and Ambiance Lite 2.2 have just been accepted by Apple. The 2.2 update is a pretty big update to Ambiance with some new and highly-requested feature...
New Ambiance Promo Video
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Great Video of a Baby Calming Down With Ambiance
(via Jason Prance — http://jasonprance.com/apple/crying-baby-theres-an-app-for-that/comment-page-…) Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Sonoma (14)
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. You can even find one of my other tuto...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Ventura (13)
Looking for Sonoma instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Monterey 12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail w...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Big Sur 11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to cre...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Catalina 10.15
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? There a...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Mojave 10.14
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for High Sierra OS X 10.13
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How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Sierra OS X 10.12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for El Capitan OS X 10.11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Properly Install an HTML Signature in Dropbox Inc.’s Mailbox for Mac
For basic signatures, the good old copy-paste method works well for the Mailbox App from Dropbox. You simply design your signature and code it int...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Yosemite OS X 10.10
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
The Right Way to Install an HTML Signature in iOS 7 Mail
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with OS X, and you have probably already seen my tutorials on how to add ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mavericks OS X 10.9
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mountain Lion OS X 10.8
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Lion OS X 10.7
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giantuser
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Sonoma (14)
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. You can even find one of my other tuto...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Ventura (13)
Looking for Sonoma instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with older versions of macOS/OS X. ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Monterey 12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail w...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Big Sur 11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? There are plenty of tutorials online to cre...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Catalina 10.15
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? There a...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for macOS Mojave 10.14
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for High Sierra OS X 10.13
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Sierra OS X 10.12
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for El Capitan OS X 10.11
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Properly Install an HTML Signature in Dropbox Inc.’s Mailbox for Mac
For basic signatures, the good old copy-paste method works well for the Mailbox App from Dropbox. You simply design your signature and code it int...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Yosemite OS X 10.10
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
The Right Way to Install an HTML Signature in iOS 7 Mail
There are plenty of tutorials online to create an HTML signature in Apple Mail with OS X, and you have probably already seen my tutorials on how to add ...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mavericks OS X 10.9
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
How to Make an HTML Signature in Apple Mail for Mountain Lion OS X 10.8
Looking for Sonoma instructions? Looking for Ventura instructions? Looking for Monterey instructions? Looking for Big Sur instructions? Looking fo...
open-source
Introducing Armchair: an App Review Manager in Swift
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called Armchair. Armchair is a simple yet powerful App Review Manager for iOS and OSX written...
UAProgressView — Simple, Lightweight and Powerful
Unsatisfied with the current open-source progress view components, today I created my own. UAProgressView is a simple and lightweight, y...
Urban - An Xcode Theme for Xcode 3, 4 and 5
Urban is an Xcode theme that uses a soft dark background, with subtle blue, orange and yellow colors.
UAAppReviewManager Updated to 0.2.0
UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight, yet powerful App review prompting tool for iOS and Mac App Store apps. It's Appirater all gro...
Introducing UAObfuscatedString
What is UAObfuscatedString? UAObfuscatedString is a simple and lightweight category on NSString that allows you to prevent sensitive strings from appear...
UALogger 0.3 Released
UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on steroids. It allows you to add information like the file and line number ...
Introducing UAAppReviewManager
I just released up a helpful little open-source tool called UAAppReviewManager. UAAppReviewManager is a simple and lightweight App review promp...
Introducing UALogger
I just finished up a helpful little open-source tool called UALogger. UALogger is a logging tool for iOS and Mac apps. Think of it as NSLog on ste...
UAModalPanel: An Open-Source Modal Panel Alternative for iOS
As seen in Ambiance, UAModalPanel is an alternative modal panel that you can popup in your view controllers to show content that might not ...
Custom Coda Theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this theme in Xcode and have become quite accustomed to the subtle, light on dark colors of it. It only has 5 colors (KISS) and is easy on ...
Custom Xcode theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this Xcode theme for awhile now and I think its rather nice. If you like it, just copy the line below into terminal ...
opinion
Office Space: Open or Closed?
There is an article floating around Hacker News today that makes the argument that open office space sucks. While I see the author's point, it really ...
Starbucks’ Stance on Obamacare
Prasad Naik, Flickr Surprisingly, Starbucks is doing the right thing when approaching the Affordable Care Act's mandatory health coverage for comp...
Don’t just build things
Peteris Erins over at Medium.com posts: Build it because it is cool or build it to sell — somewhere between these two approaches lies the sweet spot...
Recommended Third Party Services/Repos for iOS Development
What third-party plugins, frameworks and projects do you use on your projects? I get asked this question a lot. With the recent iOS open-source...
When asked on Facebook “What Has Obama Done For This Country?”
You mean other than prevent the Great Recession from turning into a depression, other than the repealing Dont Ask Don't Tell, other than killing the worlds #...
How To Get a New York Times Digital Subscription for 50% Off
Like many other left-leaning, iPhone-wielding, well-informed individuals of my generation, I signed up for the NYTimes Digital Subscription when it first cam...
Why My Dog is on Prozac
About 6 months ago Di and I rescued a 7 year old puppy mill mom named Foxy. She had spent her entire life mistreated, neglected and abu...
My Response on Health Care Attack
I recently received an email from a friend that caught me off guard. It was a lengthy letter defending the authors belief: "I believe that health care in Ame...
Barack Obama
True to my word, I am looking into Barack Obama as a potential candidate for my vote. Tom, Di and I went to see him speak on Wednesday in San Franci...
running
Marathon #31: Mad Marathon, Waitsfield, Vermont
I am pleased to announce that I just completed my 31st marathon, the 2024 Mad Marathon in beautiful Waitsfield, Vermont! This was supposed to ...
Marathon #30: Jersey City, NJ
Thirty. Thirty! Looking back over the past 9 years, I can't believe that I've completed 30 full marathons in this short time. 30% of the way to my lifet...
Marathon #29: Austin, TX
I just completed my 29th marathon, the 2024 Ascension Seton Austin Marathon in Texas! This was my first marathon after my 2023 injury where I had a fu...
Marathon #28: New York City
In the last marathon report that I wrote about here, I indicated a bit about some foot pain I was having leading up to the Boston Marathon, and di...
Marathon #27: Boston
Marathon #27 is in the books, and it was a good one! This is my second time running the Boston Marathon, my second sub-three hour finish in this r...
Marathon #26: Rock ‘N’ Roll Arizona
I'm happy to share that I just completed my 26th marathon, the 2023 Rock 'N' Roll Arizona race out in Tempe/Scottsdale! Despite being only two w...
How and Why I Started Running
I was recently given a chance to tell the story of how, and why, I started running marathons, and thought it would make a great (and long-overdue) u...
What It’s Like to Run After Recovering From Covid-19
I live in New York City and am married to an Emergency Physician, so it may not come as a surprise when I say that I contracted Covid-19 three weeks...
What It’s Like Running in the NYC Marathon
Today I ran my first marathon. The TCS NYC Marathon snakes its way through all 5 boroughs of the most diverse City in the world. So what’s it li...
challenges
Coding Challenge: Full Justify (LeetCode Hard)
Lately I've been retraining my brain with some algorithmic coding challenges on LeetCode. After years of experience as a working Principal Eng...
Coding Challenge: Detecting Unique Friend Circles in NxN Matrix
Friend Circle. Photo by Margarida CSilva on Unsplash Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding question...
Coding Challenge: Remove and Rearrange Array Elements In-Place in O(1) Memory and O(n) Time
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implement a Square Root Function
(not the sqrt function) Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineeri...
Coding Challenge: Finding the Longest Absolute Path in an Abstracted File System Display
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Converting Integers to Binary String Representations in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing QuickSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Implementing MergeSort in Ruby
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
Coding Challenge: Find Missing Number in Array of 1 Through 100
Lately I've been trying to challenge myself by taking a stab at some common coding questions asked in software engineering job interviews. After y...
new york city
What It’s Like to Run After Recovering From Covid-19
I live in New York City and am married to an Emergency Physician, so it may not come as a surprise when I say that I contracted Covid-19 three weeks...
What It’s Like Running in the NYC Marathon
Today I ran my first marathon. The TCS NYC Marathon snakes its way through all 5 boroughs of the most diverse City in the world. So what’s it li...
Inside the Abandoned IRT City Hall Subway Station
The IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) City Hall Station was the very first Subway station in NYC. It opened to great fanfare as it allowed people to get ...
NYC Bikes — A One-Tap Citi Bike App
I am proud to announce the release of my newest iOS App today, NYC Bikes. NYC Bikes is a simple and easy-to-use App that helps you locate the c...
This view never gets old
</a>Taken at Empire State Building Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!
Penn Station Detail
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I never get tired of this view…
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reviews
About User Interface Sounds in Chicago Bikes
Normally I don't respond to iTunes App Store reviews about my apps, but I saw this one today and thought it needed a response and justification ...
Ambiance is currently being featured in the App Store under “Rest and Relaxation Apps”!
Was this page helpful for you? Buy me a slice of 🍕 to say thanks!
Ambiance 3.1 Brings Full iPad Support, Airplay, Available Now
Available Now <span">Urban Apps is pleased to announce that Ambiance version 3.1 has been approved by Apple and is available now in the iTunes App Stor...
Great Video of a Baby Calming Down With Ambiance
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design
About User Interface Sounds in Chicago Bikes
Normally I don't respond to iTunes App Store reviews about my apps, but I saw this one today and thought it needed a response and justification ...
Custom Xcode theme: “Coneybeare”
I have been using this Xcode theme for awhile now and I think its rather nice. If you like it, just copy the line below into terminal ...
Apple tweaked the home screen icon layout in iOS 4.2
I have been using this grid iPhone wallpaper for awhile now and it lined up perfectly until some recent 4.2 build. Notice that in the iOS 4.2 screensho...
Proper Alignment of UIImage and UILabel when using UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
I am working on an iPhone App Project for a client and I decided to use the UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle for one of my views. It was easy to setup and it had...
personal
My Alcohol-Free April 2014
snapsi42 @ flickr Last year, my spouse and I moved to Manhattan from some suburbs on Long Island. One of the best parts about moving t...
I am a Big Brother
Those of you who have known me a long time know that I had a Big Brother named Scott when I was younger. Yes, had as in past-tense, but not because any ...
apple
How to Backup Your Apple Airport or Time Capsule Settings So You Don’t Get Burned
Recently, while trying to simply restart my Time Capsule router from the iOS Airport Utility App, I accidentially reset the router to its default settings...
Caps Lock? No Thanks!
Disable the pesky Caps Lock button on your Mac keyboard by going to System Preferences > Keyboard > (Keyboard Tab) > Modifier Keys and ...
family
I am a Big Brother
Those of you who have known me a long time know that I had a Big Brother named Scott when I was younger. Yes, had as in past-tense, but not because any ...
goals
My Alcohol-Free April 2014
snapsi42 @ flickr Last year, my spouse and I moved to Manhattan from some suburbs on Long Island. One of the best parts about moving t...
photography
Inside the Abandoned IRT City Hall Subway Station
The IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) City Hall Station was the very first Subway station in NYC. It opened to great fanfare as it allowed people to get ...