Archived: Mac

HOWTO: CSS for the iPad [Update]

March 4th, 2010 in Apple, Mac, Tip, Web design |

The iPad is coming and the developers already received the iPhone Simulator Extension. The new XCode beta also includes Safari Mobile.

If you want to use a CSS modification for the iPad (as I do), this is how you tell the iPad to use an additional CSS file:

<link rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px)" href="../ipad.css" type="text/css" />

Because of the other browsers not knowing how to handle this type of media string they won’t interpret it. The ipad.css will be interpreted by the iPhone, too. So if you need some specific CSS also for the iPhone, you proceed equally but with max-device-width: 480px.

Update

This site shows how to implement the rotation mode (portrait or landscape).

The inofficial Google Wave App for Mac (Beta)

October 16th, 2009 in Archive, Downloads, Mac |

I love minimalism and I love Apps. And I got an Google Wave Account. So I wanted a small app for Wave – but there is none.

Therefore I built one. You can download it for free.

(It is still Beta because I don’t like the current icon so much.)

Did you ever have a great Ethernet connection but your iPhone needed Wi-Fi?

October 11th, 2009 in Archive, Mac, Tip |

I work on an iMac for the most time with an Ethernet internet connection. I’ve got an iPod touch, too, but how can I use the great and fast internet connection my iMac is connected to with my iPod. My iPod only understands Wi-Fi and that’s what I don’t have.

Share internet connection

Thanks to working on a Macintosh with Max OS X (you may need 10.5 or 10.6 for that) I got various choices to share something. So launch System Preferences and choose Network. Then create a Wi-Fi network between your Mac and your small device. When this is applied go to Sharing and look for Share Internet connection. Click the checkbox and Mac OS X will do the rest.

From now on your device is able to use the Ethernet internet connection form the Mac via Wi-Fi. Great! Small downside: The Mac have to run whenever you want to use this network.

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