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Sencha Touch hasn’t been updated for iOS 7’s new fullscreen views yet. This causes the status bar to overlap your app’s content, which looks rather messy. Luckily it’s really easy to get things working again if all your views use title bars / navigation bars. Just drop this code into app.js (after your last Ext.Viewport.add […]
Continue ReadingA WILD PODCAST APPEARS! It’s been far too long since I did one of these, so here’s a bunch of awesome stuff that I’ve been listening to lately. Music this time from Hot Chip, Metric, Delphic, Tame Impala, Alex Metric, Tensnake and loads more. Inner City – Big Fun (Simian Mobile Disco Remix) Niki & […]
Continue ReadingA lighter mix than the past few. Music this time from Grum, Cassius, M83, Of Monsters & Men, Two Door Cinema Club and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good and buy the tracks you like, it’s […]
Continue ReadingJust in time to have something to listen to while frantically clicking refresh trying to get tickets for Glastonbury. :) Music this time from Cagedbaby, Van Go Lion, Van She, PNAU, The Migrants and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! […]
Continue ReadingFile sharing websites tend to have ads everywhere, and long running HTTP uploads of large files can be a pain in the backside, so I stopped using them a while back. Whenever I needed to share a file with someone, I’d figure out the file’s MD5 sum (to avoid naming collisions), fire up Transmit (the nicest Mac […]
Continue ReadingAfter 8 months of neglect, the Unadopted Podcast is finally back! Music this time from Goose, Santigold, Hot Chip, Soulwax, Joe Goddard and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good and buy the tracks you like, it’s […]
Continue ReadingI’ve used Google Chrome almost exclusively as my main browser since 2009, but after seeing Apple’s WWDC keynote last week I decided to give Safari another try, because being able to send a tab from one device to another (without using Pastebot to just copy/paste the URL across devices), is one of my most-wanted features. […]
Continue ReadingI recently had to install an old version of RubyGems (v1.7.2 to work around an incompatibility with a Rails 2.3.x app I’m working with. This caused Capistrano to freak the older RubyGems version out with this error: Invalid gemspec in [/Users/myusername/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2012.01@mygemset/specifications/capistrano-2.11.2.gemspec]: invalid date format in specification: “2012-02-22 00:00:00.000000000Z” This broke RubyGems so bad that every […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast is 5 years old! To celebrate, here’s a new session with a bunch of great music I discovered in 2011. Bit of a mixed bag this one, with some Azealia Banks, Holy Ghost!, Evil Nine, LCD Soundsystem, Zombie Nation, Daft Punk, Ladyhawke, Bag Raiders and much more! If you love the Unadopted […]
Continue ReadingYep it’s Monday again, but here’s something to make the week go that bit quicker! Music this time from Tiga, Cut Copy, Carte Blanche, Ladytron, TEED, Eyerer & Chopstick and more! If you love the Unadopted Podcast, please add Unadopted on Facebook and tell your friends about the podcast, then tune into Unadopted Radio! Also, please be good […]
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