We’ve moved!
After a long and productive relationship, wordpress and I are parting ways. I am no longer posting long blog entries – there’s not enough time right now to get that involved. But the tips and tricks will keep coming from my new location on tumblr. Continue reading at
amychr.tumblr.com
Xcode color themes
Sorry Apple, but your color themes are just awful. There’s no way to candy coat this. They suck.
So, readers, I have converted several easy-on-the-eyes TextMate and Vim themes for xcode and provided them for You! Go get them from Github and save yourself some eyestrain.
Contains themes:
- 2morrow Night
- 2morrow Night (Eighties)
- Coal Graal
- Glitterbomb
- Kellys
- Monokai
- Night
- Resesif
- Sidewalk Chalk
Installation
Place the
~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/FontAndColorThemes folder of your home directory.
iTunes Genres Icons for Music and Books
If you’ve ever tried to organize your iTunes library into neat categories and genres you’ll know that there are some genres Apple has designed cool icons for and some that have been sadly forgotten (*sob*). After much trial and error, I’ve figured out a list of what genres will be represented by nice, Cupertino-approved artwork. There are several names that will score you the same artwork in most cases, like SciFi and Science Fiction. iTunes is smart enough to be able to tell. I’ve listed them separated by slashes. Also, some of the genre icons overlap between media kind, like SciFi. In the list below each genre is repeated with each media kind it will work with. Experiment! Use these in the genre field of your music, books, whatever, to help sort them out.
note: capital or lowercase doesn’t seem to matter
also note: it seems that tv shows, book, and movies can all use the same genres. In light of this, I’ve listed only the relevant ones where shared.
Books:
- Math / mathematics
- Art / fine art
- Nonfiction
- Children’s Fiction
- Science Fiction / scifi
- Fantasy
- History
- Science
- Language
- Literature
- teaching / education
- classic
- business
- engineering
- health / medicine
- humanities
- social science
Music:
- classical
- dance
- country
- electronic
- folk
- hip-hop
- j-pop
- jazz
- pop
- rock
- soundtrack
- world
- blues
- soul / r&b
- language
- teaching / education
- latin
- spoken word
- alternative
- gospel
- holiday
- new age
- reggae
- vocal
- disco
- metal
- kayokyoku
Movies:
- Action / adventure
- Drama
- Thriller
- comedy
- SciFi / Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Documentary
- Kids / Family
- Classic
- horror
- western
- romance
- independent
- music
- holiday
- short film
TV:
- Animation
- Drama
- SciFi / Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Comedy
- Kids
- Children’s
- language
- teaching / education
- science
- math / mathematics
- literature
- history
- nonfiction
- world
- Classic
- reality tv
- sports
- teens
Please comment if you have found any that are missing! Have fun!
(p.s. if this list is still unsatisfying, check out iGenres… you can use your own custom artwork!)
Gamer’s Abacus 3.0 update, Universal and overhauled
Whew! What a way to start 2011! Gamer’s Abacus has a new update in the pipes, uploaded to Apple today.
Inside are universal and retina display support. I’ve also upgraded the UI quite a bit. The iphone half of the app features fully redesigned graphics but I have also update the ipad side to match it’s new counterpart. I’ve tried to streamline the interface by removing the menus and toolbars (for ipad) which were a bit cumbersome before. You no longer need to choose what game you are playing or set any settings. All the dice are now available all the time. If this bewilders any of you, just don’t use buttons that don’t seem like they’re for your game. Simple enough, right? Anyway, while quite a big change to the design philosophy of Gamer’s Abacus, I think you will like the new look and feel!
Expect an update in iTunes in a week when it is approved.
Tile Zen 2 and game center upgrades
Good news everyone! Your and my own favorite dice game has been updated to full game center compatibility! This means leaderboards and achievements to showcase you dicing skills. Look for Nice Dice 2.6 on the app store next week!
Also in news, Tile Zen is now at 2.0 and fully universal. This upgrade came to what was Tile Zen HD and now includes a new redesigned iPhone version.
