Author: John MacAdam

Round Corners with Pixelmator on YouTube or Vimeo.

I often find myself needing to round corners of an app icon for promotional graphics. I put together a quick screen cast tutorial that does just that.  This demonstration uses Pixelmator for Mac. Here are the steps as shown in the video:
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Are you having trouble editing the value of an input element in your iOS Phonegap app? It may likely be the CSS rule used to prohibit users from selecting content by long pressing: -webkit-user-select: none; 

Apply the rule -webkit-user-select: text; to your input element to fix the issue.

Nothing interrupts your productivity like a random Build Failed from the CLI. If your build is failing after you recently added a new plugin and especially if you are getting a CpResource error here is the solution for iOS and Xcode:
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Are you having issues with your location aware Phonegap app on iOS 8? I did too. My first attempt to deploy an existing app through Xcode on an iOS 8 device did not work. The application would not recognize my iPhone location.

Here is the quick solution:
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