All your display are belong to Skype

Just let Skype auto-update itself to version 5.  W..T..F..  the new UI is slick enough, yes, but it’s bloody huge.  The smallest window size is far from small.  It’s so bloody big I have to keep it closed by default. While the prior versions weren’t pretty nor fast, they were functional and sufficiently minimal.  This… Read more

Bought a pair of skis

Today I bought a pair of skis from some random woman at Google.  They’re probably hers, and are a fair bit shorter than I’d probably take generally, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home to discover that they really aren’t that much shorter than my existing ski.  They’re also in good condition, seem… Read more

Changing the default organisation name in Xcode 4

Xcode 4 no longer provides any UI – that I can find, anyway – for changing the default organisation name, whether globally or in a particular project.  It’s claimed that it’ll still respect the user defaults setting, which may well be true, but what if you’ve already created your project? Well, the only workaround I… Read more

RSA’s totally supported, only not really

Evidently RSA signing keys aren’t supported on iOS, at least in 4.3.  The entire process of submitting a cert request, generating provisioning profiles, etc etc… that all works just peachy.  It’s the very last step – verification of the signed app newly installed onto the device, ready to run – that actually fails.  And with… Read more

iPad full

To compound the issue, my iPad become utterly full once more today, to the point where it refused to even transfer purchases back to my iMac, let alone sync.  Le sigh.  After turning down the sync period for my work account, from a month to just three days, it now claims it recovered 1.8 GiB… Read more