Month: July 2011

If you work with two monitors of different sizes, Xcode has an annoying bug of launching the iOS Simulator partially off screen — forcing you to manually drag it into position using the mouse. It’s not that bad the first time, but after a full eight hour working day with hundreds of launches, it gets very tedious. Luckily, we can solve this with Xcode 4’s new “Behavior” settings and a little AppleScript. Open up your favorite text editor and create the following script: #!/bin/sh osascript -e ‘tell app “System Events” to set position of window 1 of process “iOS Simulator” …

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Last week I released a minor update to VirtualHostX. Shortly thereafter, my inbox was flooded with reports of an “unsupported architecture” error on launch. After a quick lipo test I verified that somehow I had managed to build and ship the app as Intel only — no PowerPC support. I went through my git revision history and was able to track down the error. From what I can tell, the Xcode 3.2.6 update removes the default universal binary option. That’s fine for new projects, but I was completely taken by surprise to see it modify the build settings of an …

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