Timac

  1. Programmatically lock the screen

    This article proposes a technic to programmatically lock the screen.
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  2. Disable swipe to delete in Mail.app on OS X 10.11

    OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ added a new feature to Mail.app Swipe to manage your inbox: Swipe to manage your inbox. Now you can take care of your email with a swipe, just like on your iOS devices. Need to triage your inbox? Swipe right to mark an email as read or unread, or swipe left to delete. You’ll be focused on what’s important in no time. I find this new feature extremely annoying as I keep triggering it by accident. Sadly it seems that there is no preference (even secret preference) to disable this feature. But the good news is that Mail.app supports plugins.
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  3. Checking if Reduced Motion is enabled on iOS 7

    Apple introduced in iOS 7.0.3 a setting to reduce motion ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595 ) : Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Reduce Motion Sadly there is no public API to know if the user enabled “Reduce motion”.
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  4. QuickLook plugin to preview .strings files

    OS X and iOS use .strings files for localized text strings as described in the String Resources Documentation:
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  5. Detecting the iOS device hardware architecture (32-bit/64-bit)

    In a previous post I explained how to detect if an app runs in a 32-bit or 64-bit iOS Simulator. It was not explaining how to detect if an iOS app runs on a 32-bit or 64-bit iOS device. This post aims at giving a generic method that can detect all cases:
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  6. Detecting if an app runs in a 32-bit or 64-bit iOS Simulator

    With Xcode 5, it is now possible to compile an application for armv7 and/or arm64. You can compile an application as 32-bit and/or as 64-bit and you can run this application in a 32-bit or 64-bit iOS Simulator:
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  7. Using AddressSanitizer with Xcode 4.6.1

    Clang 3.3 now supports AddressSanitizer. Here is the description from the Clang 3.3 documentation:
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  8. Simple code injection using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES

    In the following article I will describe a simple method to inject code into executables on Mac OS X 10.8 using the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES environment variable.
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  9. Marre d’être inscrit aux newsletters car sur les listes électorales consulaires ?

    Vous aussi vous êtes inscrit sur les listes électorales consulaires et vous en avez marre d’être inscrit, sans votre accord, aux newsletters de tous les candidats et partis ?
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  10. StuffIt ContextualMenu for MacOSX 10.6

    Smith Micro Software released StuffIt Deluxe® 2011 this week. If you don’t know StuffIt Deluxe®, it is described like this: The StuffIt Deluxe® package gives you all the features you need to backup, share, archive, encrypt and shrink your photos, music, and other documents without compromising quality. StuffIt’s advanced technology specializes in the compression of MP3, PDF and graphics files with no quality loss. Shrink documents up to 98% of their original size. Use StuffIt to free-up space on your computer and to fit more compressed files onto CD/DVDs or other drives.
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