iPhone Touch Icon – Create your own Icon Set
Since the iPhone 4 introduced the Retina display in 2010, app icons stopped being a single 57×57 PNG. Every device
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Why Google Chrome?
In August 2010, Chrome was five years old and still the plucky outsider — and I wrote this piece to
WinSCP on iPhone
Updated September 2026 — a 2010 jailbreak-era tutorial, kept as a period piece together with the security story it belongs
Capture Save/Load/Remove Image in documents directory
Updated September 2026: the 2010 NSFileManager recipe below still describes the right idea, but Swift and modern UIKit give you
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CLLocationManager delegate method is not called in iOS4
Weird bug, easy solution. I ran into this when updating to SDK 4.0: CLLocationManager simply would not work on the
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NSString Quickies
This was one of my most-used cheat sheets when I was doing heavy Objective-C work: a grab-bag of small NSString
Xcode Color Themes
A small collection of my preferred dark color themes for Xcode, from June 2010. I used the teliaz theme as
Objective C – Basic Datatypes and NSLog
Debugging gets a lot easier when your log output is readable. NSLog uses C-style format specifiers, and since Objective-C is
NIBs or code? Why not both? Here’s nib2objc.
Updated September 2026: the nib2objc project is a 2010 relic — archived on GitHub, no longer maintained — but the
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Objective-C Categories as Stylesheets
It is very important that iPhone and iPad applications use visual styles in a coherent way. This helps users learn