Archive for August, 2008

You may have noticed recently that some of the programs on the iPlayer offer you the chance to watch them in the new beta high quality player. This is great as I have a Mac Mini connected to my TV, so I get on demand BBC programs in HD (ish) for free (well at no [...]

SSH keep alive

Aug. 22, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Random

When working with some servers you may find they log you out after a set time of inactivity. This can be really annoying, especially when setting them up as you keep finding yourself having to log in again and again, or repeatedly tap enter ever minute.

In order to stop this from happening you can set [...]

Closing an Air app

Aug. 4, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Random

Whilst developing a little uploading application I found I need to store some application settings locally, in order to save the user entering them every time, and also that I needed one function to be called when the application closed, either via the OS (Apple+Q) or by a custom close button on my application.

To save [...]