Category Archives: Operating System

An operating system (OS) is a collection of software that manages computer hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs ( Wikipedia )

Mac OS X Desktop Application Deployment Primer Tutorial

We were really fond, in the early days of Windows, how seamless it was to what we call “plonk” (and you could say “deploy” (if you like)) bits of software (other than *.bat (which is always okay to “plonk”) such … Continue reading

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Xcode SpriteKit Game Primer Tutorial

We’re always on the lookout for the word “cross” within I.T. circles (not because we have any anger management issues, but), because it might mean some relief from “platform fatigue”. By that, we mean that the number of different devices … Continue reading

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Cocos2d Mac Game Hello World Cocos Creator Tutorial

We are revisiting a “Games Development” topic today, but games involving the possibility for “heavy” graphical usage, by channelling the first Hello World chapter of a book we really like called Cocos2D Game Development Essentials by Ben Trengrove (ISBN: 978-1-78439-032-7). … Continue reading

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Terminal Mark Primer Tutorial

XML data often comes in files with one record that is a very long string, so think long and hard about tools you rely on to find strings in such XML data. We’re biassed, but we like PHP on the … Continue reading

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Spreadsheet and XML Global Substitution Genericization Tutorial

It’s one thing to write a useful one off web application with quite a few hard codings, but what about an attempt to genericize it, and by so doing, oftentimes you are improving its documentation aspects, so that, if the … Continue reading

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Import to Photos via Card Reader and Digital Camera Memory Card Tutorial

Despite the ongoing pace of change in Information Technology there are some less glamorous hardware we admire greatly … leads card readers digital cameras … and we guess some will be thinking “troglodyte”, but, be that as it may, even … Continue reading

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Apple Dual Recording Dual Device Microphone Tutorial

Yesterday’s audio track added to the non-audio video of an iPad recording a movie of the screen and keyboard goings-on of a MacBook Pro, that we showed with Apple Dual Recording Dual Device Audio Tutorial as shown below, panned out … Continue reading

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Apple Dual Recording Dual Device Audio Tutorial

The non-audio video resulting out of yesterday’s Apple Dual Recording Dual Device Cropped Tutorial, as shown below, could have done with … an audio track some “video cropping” (to delete some spurious parts at the end) … so with those … Continue reading

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