iPhone 101 devt

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web typography – dimensions

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The karola Account On Karola’s Mac Mini

Posted on Wednesday 24th July 2013 @ 11:05pm NZST by

System Preferences

  • General
    • check “Show scrollbars always”
    • check “Ask to keep changes when changing documents”
  • Desktop & Screen Saver
    • set screen saver to Message (plus check clock).
  • Dock
    • position on the left
  • Mission Control
    • turn off all Mission Control functions
  • Language & Text
    • stop eg Mail from auto-correcting spelling, it’s too aggressive (language tab) so
      uncheck “correct spelling automatically”
  • Security & Privacy
    • don’t require a password after sleep or screen-saver
  • Spotlight
    • turn off Spotlight categories: Applications, System Preferences, Music, Movies, Fonts
  • Notifications
  • CDs & DVDs
  • Displays
    • set resolution to 1600 x 1000
  • Energy Saver (see bickasoft settings)
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse (if Magic Mouse)
Magic Mouse Gestures
✓ Scroll direction: natural
✓ Secondary click
X Smart Zoom
X Swipe between pages
X Swipe between full-screen apps
X Mission Control
  • Trackpad (if one is attached)
Trackpad Gesture Controls
✓ Tap to click
✓ Secondary click
X Three finger drag
✓ Scroll direction: natural
X Zoom in or out
X Smart Zoom
X Rotate
X Swipe between pages
X Swipe between full-screen apps
X Notification Centre
X Mission Control
X App Expose
X Launchpad
X Show Desktop
  • Print & Scan (see bickasoft settings)
    • Check is set up to use printers CottageA4 & CottageA3
  • Sound
  • input from “unknown USB audio device” aka Logitek webcam
  • output to “headphone jack”
  • iCloud
    • Turn off
  • Mail, Contacts & Calendars
karola@brackenbury.nz
✓ Mail
X Calendar & Reminders
X Messages
X Notes

And

karola.brackenbury@gmail.com
X Mail
X Calendar & Reminders
✓ Messages
X Notes
  • Networks
  • Bluetooth
  • Sharing (see bickasoft settings)
  • Users & Groups
    • set Apple ID to karola@brackenbury.nz
  • Parental Controls
  • Date & Time
    • show date as well as time
  • Software Update
    • sign in as bickasoft@brackenbury.nz for all purchases
  • Dictation & Speech
  • Time Machine (set up later)
  • Accessibility
    • increase mouse cursor size by 20% or so
  • Startup Disk

KHFinder2Up & KHFinderViz

Install these programs in /Applications as simply 2Up (it sets two Finder windows
of equal maximum size side by side) and Viz (it toggles the display of
hidden files in Finder)

BBEdit

  • Download, install and register the latest BBEdit
  • Create folders:

mkdir /Users/karola/Library/Application Support/Preview Filters

mkdir /Users/karola/Library/Application Support/Stationery

  • Download and install multimarkdown; it installs into /usr/local/bin
  • Set symbolic links

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/multimarkdown Users/karola/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Preview Filters/DefaultFilter_Markdown

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/multimarkdown Users/karola/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/multimarkdown

  • Copy the locally created multimarkdown template file into:

Users/karola/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Stationery/multimarkdown

and set the file to be a stationery pad by checking the box in Finder info
– Set default new file language to be Markdown

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit DefaultLanguageNameForNewDocuments -string "Markdown"

Preferences

  • Application
    • When editor becomes active do nothing
  • Editor Defaults
    • Tab width 2
  • Preview Helpers
    • Safari, Chrome, Firefox

Finder

In Finder preferences set all device checkboxes on

Change sidebar to show:

  • Airdrop
  • Applications
  • Utilities (added)
  • Desktop
  • Documents
  • DropboxShared
  • Downloads
  • Movies
  • Music
  • Pictures
  • karola (account name)
  • filestore
  • root

set Finder to open new windows showing Documents

Drag Byword, BBEdit, 2Up and Viz into the Finder toolbar

Dock Menu

From Top To Bottom:

  • Finder
  • Safari
  • Mail
  • Messages
  • FaceTime
  • Scrivener
  • Byword
  • iPhoto
  • Image Capture
  • Contacts
  • PCalc
  • LaunchPad
  • 2Up
  • Google Earth
  • VLC
  • Flip Player
  • ITunes

From The Menu Bar

In any order …

  • App Store
  • Bluetooth
  • Dropbox
  • iMessage
  • Network Preferences
  • PeakHour
  • Splashtop Streamer
  • Synch Now
  • System Preferences
  • Time Machine
  • Transmit
  • Volume

Accessible From Top Level Of Launchpad

  • Acorn
  • BBEdit
  • Calendar
  • Grab
  • Notes
  • Numbers
  • Pages
  • Preview
  • Skype
  • Splashtop Remote
  • SuperDuper
  • System Information
  • Terminal
  • TinkerTool Classic
  • TinkerTool 2
  • Toast (video burner / converter)

Third Party Applications

  • Acorn (graphics)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (advanced PDF Reader)
  • Adobe Flash player
  • BBEdit (text, multimarkdown, HTML and code editor)
  • Byword (multimarkdown editor on OSX and IOS)
  • Dropbox (karola@brackenbury.nz)
  • EasyFind
  • Find Duplicate Files
  • Flip Player (multimedia player)
  • Flip4Mac (Windows media player)
  • Google Earth
  • KHFinder2Up (tile Finder horizontally)
  • KHFinderViz (toggle showing hidden files)
  • Kindle reader
  • LaCie Lightscribe Labeler (and package)
  • Little Snitch (network security – set up later)
  • Multimarkdown + Support (simple markup for HTML output)
  • OmniDiskSweeper (list sizes of files and folders)
  • PCalc
  • Peak Hour (WAN monitor)
  • Skype (Internet calls)
  • Soundflower (for Splashtop Remote)
  • Splashtop Remote
  • Splashtop Streamer (server for Splashtop–2 remote access on IOS clients)
  • SuperDuper (create bootable clone disks)
  • TinkerTool Classic
  • TinkerTool 2 (tweek MAC OSX settings)
  • Toast 10 Titanium
  • Transmit (FTP client)
  • VLC (audio/video player)

Mail

  • Create account with name Karola Brackenbury and email karola@brackenbury.nz,
    Apple Mail will do most of the rest automatically
  • set Advanced setting IMAP prefix to [Gmail]
  • set on “When junk mail arrives move it to the junk mailbox”
  • exclude from junk mail if “sender in Contacts”
  • change message font size from 12 to 14
  • Show To/cc in the message list
  • display unread messages with Bold font
  • automatically bcc: myself
  • use the same message format as the original message
  • turn off “Organise by conversation”
  • do “Show mailbox list”
  • customise toolbar and add Archive to the left of Bin
  • map mailboxes:
    • Drafts -> Drafts
    • Sent mail -> Sent
    • Spam -> Junk
    • bin -> Trash

Contacts

  • set to sync with Google account ian@brackenbury.nz
  • address format, NZ

FaceTime

  • set to use karola@brackenbury.nz not bickasoft@brackenbury.nz

iMessage

  • create Google-Talk and iMessage accounts for karola@brackenbury.nz
  • for the Google-Talk account make sure SSL is ticked (see below)
  • set on “when I return set my status to Available”
  • set on “Notify me about messages from unknown contacts”

By default the Google Talk account seems to set up to use gmail.com as the server and
this does not use SSL. We need SSL so use the server talk.google.com and it will
use SSL which encrypts the messages for secure communications

iPhoto

Our main library of digital photos are held on Ian’s MacBook Pro and this is shared with
Karola’s Mac Mini. Ian’s MacBook Pro must be up with iPhoto running for sharing to work

Preferences

General: check “show item counts”

iWork

  • Pages & Numbers & Keynote for backwards compatibility

Peak Hour

Preferences

  • reset totals every 1st of the month
  • show totals on menu bar
  • launch automatically when computer starts

Safari

  • home page: https://brackenbury.nz/family
  • privacy: ask websites NOT to track
  • internet plugins: java DISABLE
  • install Ghostery extension (to block tracking)

Scrivener

Create icon on the desktop with link pointing to Documents folder where the Scrivener projects reside.

Splashtop Streamer

  • Required so that Splashtop 2 on iPad can mirror this systems display/keyboard/mouse
    • in Settings, require that the Mac login password be used upon connection

TinkerTool Classic

  • add Eject button to menu bar
  • in Applications set off “prefer iCloud as destination”

Terminal

In Preferences, change text font size from 11pt to 14pt

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Karola’s Mac Mini System

Posted on Wednesday 24th July 2013 @ 10:58pm NZST by

Late 2012 Mac Mini (MD387LL/A) With Attached Devices

  • Apple wireless keyboard & wireless “magic mouse”
  • Dell 24 Ultrasharp U2412M 24" LED-backlit monitor
  • LaCie DVD/CD writer (TSSTcorp CD/DVDD SH-W162L:)
  • SD (camera) memory card reader – builtin
  • external speakers, powered
  • Wi-Fi and gigabit ethernet networking
  • LOGITECH Webcam C270 – camera and mike for FaceTime or Skype
  • 500GB internal disk

Disk Partitioning

Partition the 500GB disk into a “start-up” partition of 250GB for Karola and a 250GB partition called home

Initial Install

  1. Install Mountain Lion (Mac OS X 10.8.4) from DVD after securely erasing the disk, writing zeros to the entire space

  2. Run “software update” to update the Apple system software

  3. Create account bickasoft with administrator privileges

  4. Create account karola with standard user privileges

  5. Disable the Guest account

Use the /Users/Shared folder to exchange files between the accounts, and use AirDrop for exchange between local machines.

Execute the following command on both systems to allow Airdrop over wired as well as wireless connections – and restart the Finder afterwards

defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1

Change the name of the “start-up” disk to root to have this appear in the sidebar as an alias for / (see setup for Dock)

The “start-up” disk (now called root) is to link to the file system on the home disk such that it mimics the top level structure of the web space at AceWebHosting, \our personal “cloud space” in the USA. The web space begins at /home/karamu and the web server “Document Root” is at /home/karamu/public_html.

The following commands create a structure which allows programs to use the same absolute addressing on either system. Also, the Finder sidebar can use home and www as labels for /Volumes/home and /Volumes/home/karamu/public_html:

sudo mkdir /Volumes/home/karamu
sudo mkdir /Volumes/home/karamu/www
sudo mkdir /Volumes/home/karamu/www/filestore
sudo ln -s /Volumes/home /home
sudo ln -s /Volumes/home/karamu/www /Volumes/home/karamu/public_html

(On AceWebHosting the folder is public_html whereas www is the symbolic link)

The filestore folder is my personal “TiVo” or place for temporary storage of media files where they can be accessed from anywhere I might be, by browser or FTP program

System Preferences

Most preferences are unique to an account so this covers only the settings which apply to all accounts on the system and differ from the defaults

  • General
  • Desktop & Screen Saver
  • Dock
  • Mission Control
  • Language & Text
  • Security & Privacy
  • Spotlight
  • Notifications
  • CDs & DVDs
  • Displays
  • Energy Saver – set CPU & display to 3 hours
Energy Saver
✓ put hard disks to sleep as soon as possible
✓ wake for network access
✓ allow power button to enter sleep
✓ start up automatically after power failure
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse (if Magic Mouse)
  • Trackpad (if one is attached)
  • Print & Scan
    • set up to use printers CottageA4 & CottageA3, an HP Photosmart 3310 All-In-One and Canon PIXMA IX5000 respectively. In addition a program, Printopia, provides access to these printers by simulating an “AirPrint” printer. This is active only when the bickasoft account is logged-in
  • Sound
  • iCloud
  • Mail, Contacts & Calendars
  • Networks
    • set the IP address for the wired ethernet connection to 192.168.1.101 using DHCP with manual address
  • Bluetooth
  • Sharing
    • share the cottageA3 printer
  • Users & Groups
    • set the karola account to login automatically, the bickasoft account to require a password at start up, after awaking from sleep or showing the screen saver.
  • Parental Controls
  • Date & Time
  • Software Update
    • sign in as bickasoft@brackenbury.nz for all purchases
  • Dictation & Speech
  • Time Machine (set up later)
  • Accessibility
  • Startup Disk
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Web colour scheme designer online free tool

Posted on Saturday 23rd March 2013 @ 10:48am NZDT by
.. to those who design or might design their own websites – no criticisms implied but this looks like a thoughtful tool for choosing combinations of colours and seeing how they blend. 

https://colorschemedesigner.com

…Ian.

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How To Capture Screenshot in Mac OS X – Cmd-Shift-4

Posted on Thursday 21st March 2013 @ 10:08pm NZDT by

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Alternatives to writing in JavaScript

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On Mountain Lion 10.8.2 with XCode 4.6, the versions are

Posted on Monday 11th March 2013 @ 2:09pm NZDT by

On Mountain Lion 10.8.2 with XCode 4.6, the versions are :

clang –version Apple LLVM version 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0 Thread model: posix

clang++ –version Apple LLVM version 4.2 (clang-425.0.24) (based on LLVM 3.2svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.0 Thread model: posix

llvm-g++ –version i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-g++-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

llvm-gcc –version i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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XCode 4.5 compiling for OS 4.2.1

Posted on Sunday 3rd March 2013 @ 6:22pm NZDT by

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12463195/xcode-4-5-and-ios-4-2-1-incompatibility

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Why You Need A Google+ Page

Posted on Saturday 2nd February 2013 @ 10:40pm NZDT by
https://www.kitces.com/blog/archives/444-Why-Every-Financial-Planner-With-A-Blog-Needs-A-Google+-Page,-Now.html

Monday, December 17. 2012

Why Every Financial Planner With A Blog Needs A Google+ Page, Now

As consumers increasingly turn to the internet for information about potential products, the ability of a company and its products to turn up at the top of search engine results is increasingly crucial for success and growth – leading to an explosion of consultants that will help companies with their “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO) to ensure that their products and services come up first. A similar process occurs when consumers search for information about services and people to work with, although the process is more complicated due to the fact that many experts may appear prominently on lots of sites, not all of which are necessarily tied to their business.

To better understand not just where influential content is, but the influential people whocreate it, Google has begun to develop a new system for its search engines to track authors and determine who’s influential, called “AuthorRank”, which is intended to supplement the “PageRank” algorithms it uses to identify and rank influential websites and content. The upshot of this change is that for the first time ever, financial planners and other service professionals will be able to start establishing their own online “webutation” as they tie content they have produced to their personal profile and business, regardless of where it is published. The caveat, though, is that Google accomplishes “Google Authorship” tracking by having authors tie their content and websites to a specific Google+ profile – which means any financial planners that produce a blog or other content who hadn’t already established a Google+ profile need to go create one, now!

What Is Google Plus

Google+Google Plus (also known as Google+) was Google’s intended social networking competitor to Facebook. In a similar manner, you connect with people you know, and status updates they post – from comments to articles to pictures and videos they share – appear on your timeline for you to interact with.

Google+ had a few new innovations on the existing social networking theme. They created “Circles” where you can organize your contacts into groups, unlike on Facebook whereeveryone you have friended is in one single gigantic group. Thus, you might have a “Co-Workers” circle and a “Family” circle and a “Business Colleagues” circle and more, and can choose with a few clicks whether a comment or article or video is shared with all your circles, or just some (for example, so you can just share videos of your kids with your family and not necessarily your business colleagues, and articles about work with your business colleagues but not necessarily your family). Google+ also created Google Hangouts, a form of online video chat for multiple participants at once.

However, Google+ never quite seemed to catch on and hasn’t experienced the growth that Facebook did (much less become a replacement for them as Google hoped), and has done little to draw away from Facebook’s popularity. In part, it seems this was because some of their new features and differentiators never caught on. Or it may simply be that the platform wasn’t viewed as being distinct and unique enough to be worth the trouble of stopping Facebook – where everyone “is” now – to adopt a new platform and try to get all their friends and family to come along. 

What Is Google Authorship

Google Authorship is a new tool that Google has developed to try to better track and understand who is creating what content on the internet. The reason this matters is that ultimately, Google hopes to use information about authors to try to improve the relevance and quality of search results, and to identify what websites – and people – are truly viewed as authoritative and influential.

Right now, Google’s search process is driven heavily by PageRank, a proprietary system that Google uses to determine what websites and content are most important and relevant. Google Pagerank evaluates a website by looking at everything from how many other websites link to it (under the assumption that more inbound links from other influential sites suggest that that site, too, is important) to how much the site’s content is shared, and more.

The new system Google is developing, to complement (and some have suggested at least partially replace) PageRank is called AuthorRank. The basic principle of AuthorRank is similar: to determine what writers are deemed influential and important by readers – and therefore should rank high in the search engines – by looking at whose content is widely linked to and shared.

The difficulty in the past, though, was that from Google’s perspective, it wasn’t always clear where content appeared first, or which site was the “primary” site with the “primary” author, especially as more and more content is reproduced (both through legal syndication and improper plagiarism). For instance, if an article was syndicated on Yahoo news, but was written by an author tied to a particular but less-well-connected blog, then ideally the search results for the article should link to the author’s original site (if available), not the Yahoo reproduction of the story. In practice, though, it was often the latter – the Yahoo version came up first, because Yahoo news is more influential. This occurred because in large part because it wasn’t always clear how to link a story to its original author and source in the first place. And of course, in a world where names aren’t always unique, it wasn’t always possible to tie content to a particular author amongst several people who might share the same name.

Until now. The key distinction of Google Authorship and the new AuthorRank process is that, with Google+ profiles, authors can actually connect their personal author identity to their content and their website. And as a result, Google can now determine the original source of content and its author… and adjust its search engine results on the basis of not just the website where the content is located, but also its author. (See here for a more in-depth discussion of AuthorRank and its mechanics from ContentVerve.)

Why AuthorRank Matters For Financial Planners

So why does all of this matter to financial planners? The key is that with AuthorRank, financial planners truly have the opportunity to build their “webutation” (reputation in the online world), not by necessarily creating a valuable website of content, but instead simply by being a valuable creator of content, wherever it happens to be.

This distinction is important, because historically planners that did try to build an online presence faced an unusual challenge – if you wanted to drive prospective clients to your business, you needed them to visit your website. But early on, your website wasn’t necessarily very visible to the web in the first place, making it hard to find, and forcing a focus on “Search Engine Optimization” (the process of improving the ranking of your website in the search engines). The alternative was to try to get the content on other websites that were more public and visible – which then relied upon the hope that someone would read the article and subsequently click through on the author’s bio to get to the original website – yours.

With AuthorRank, these challenges largely vanish. Financial planners that are featured as authors on third party websites that have strong PageRank results will in turn improve the AuthorRank of the financial planner – making it easier for prospective clients to find the planner directly as well! As a result, established authors actually can increase the likelihood that a web search for them, personally, turns up their website and not another website where their content was featured. In addition, if the content appears on the planner’s website as well, the Google Authorship connection will establish that the planner’s lesser-known website was the originator of the content, and the perhaps-more-visible website that also published it was actually just reproducing it – which means ultimately a web search for the content will be more likely to turn up the planner’s originalarticle on his/her own website in the first place (and having more clients find your website and articles as a solution to their problems is definitely good for business!). In other words, being tied to AuthorRank may really help to ramp up a financial planner’s inbound marketing strategy.

An added benefit of AuthorRank is that, more than ever, financial planners can establish their online reputation tied not necessarily to their website – which may change in the future as business change, affiliations change, jobs change, etc. – but instead to the individual financial planner as a person (anchored to the Google+ profile). This means that time invested in establishing a credible online presence will just continue to build over time, even if/when/as the places that the content is published may change.

Time To Create A Google+ Profile, Now

The caveat to all of this, however, is that it only works if you have a Google+ profile, as that’s the anchor to which Google Authorship and the associated AuthorRank is tied. 

Accordingly, if you haven’t already, now is the time to create an account and complete your profile on Google+, especially if you actually do have a blog and create content on the web. Once the account is established and the basic profile is completed with your pertinent (business) information, you can go through the Google Authorship process to setting yourself up as an author and connect the articles you write and your firm’s blog/website to your Google+ profile (assuming your content does in fact appear on your website’s blog, which it should!)! (See here for a slightly more involved walkthrough of how to set up Google Authorship.)

Notably, Google has indicated that AuthorRank will also draw information from your Google+ account itself, including how many people have you in their Google+ circles, how often your content receives a Google +1, and more. Accordingly, this means it’s not only important to create the Google+ profile, but also to take some steps to begin connecting with others there, and have an easy way on your website for people to connect with you via Google+ if they want to.

Of course, the latter point in particular has been a negative for many, who aren’t exactly interested in yet another social networking site to maintain. Unfortunately, though, Google appears to leave us little choice now, as the ability and potential to connect your content to your Authorship, AuthorRank, and Google+ profile is a particularly unique carrot that arguably makes it more important to be active on Google+ than any other social media site. After all, Google still dominates search; being more visible there does matter for the ability of your clients, prospects, and referrals to find you. 

Thus, while it remains to be seen whether this process will really bring Google+ to life (although with recent growth it’s reportedly up to 500 million users), the fact remains that with Google’s shift towards authorship, it’s no longer a platform that can be ignored, as literally those who engage via authorship and participate may have their search results rank more highly than those who don’t! Consequently, a Google+ profile may now become as important as having a LinkedIn profile as a basic foundational step to having a professional online presence.

The good news for those daunted by having another social networking presence to maintain is that at least there are an increasing number of tools that can help to automate steps of the process (like posting content you share to Google+). And you’ll also be able to track the results of your efforts over time, as the Google Webmasters tool (which I recommend in addition to using Google Analytics for your website itself) provides some robust reports to see whether and how often your website and articles appear in Google searches, are clicked on, and drive social sharing.

In the meantime, if you do get started on Google+, I hope you’ll reach out and connect with me there, too.

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