Size Classes with Xcode 6: One storyboard for all Sizes Part - II

My favourite feature of Xcode 6 so far is the new size classes concept in Interface Builder. Size classes are Apple's solution to the question "How can I easily work with so many different screen sizes and device orientations?" They also enable the condensing of universal apps into one storyboard file. Combined with the new adaptive view controllers, it's easier then ever to rely on interface builder,...

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Documenting your code with comments in Xcode 5

One of the nice new features introduced in Xcode 5 is the ability for source code comments to be used as documentation displayed in the Quick Help Inspector, in a Help Popup, and for Code Completion. I believe that this is made possible because Xcode now uses exclusively Apple’s own LLVM 5 compiler (GCC support has been removed), so it can build this functionality right in, since the compiler processes...

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Size Classes with Xcode 6: One storyboard for all Sizes Part - I

My favorite feature of Xcode 6 so far is the new size classes concept in Interface Builder. Size classes are Apple's solution to the question "How can I easily work with so many different screen sizes and device orientations?" They also enable the condensing of universal apps into one storyboard file. Combined with the new adaptive view controllers, it's easier then ever to rely on interface builder,...

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Improve Spotlight Searches with Search Operators in Mac OS X

If you know some specific attributes of a file, application, or item you are looking for on a Mac, you can use Spotlight Search Operators to dramatically narrow down your returned results in the OS X search feature. For example, if the file type of a document you are looking for is a PDF, you can pre-qualify search results by using operators to return only PDF’s within Spotlight. There are tons...

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