Tuesday, June 26, 2012

MonoDevelop 3.0 log files filing hard rive in OSX Lion

I've hit this issue a couple of times recently so I thought I'd share what I've discovered.

I've been using MonoTouch on my Mac Mini running OSX Lion (10.7.4) and I've ran out of disk space on my primary harddrive twice.

After a little research it appears that MonoDevelop is writing massive corrupted log files.  I haven't figured out how to stop the problem but the quick fix to free up your disk space is to:

Open Finder
Go to (your harddrive\Users\(your username)\Library\Logs
Delete the MonoDevelop-3.0 folder.  You may also want to delete log files for previous versions of MonoDevelop - this can all be done safely.

This morning I had two files over 25gig wasting space.


If I find a solution to stop the log files being created I'll update this post.  Strangely this is only happening on one of our three primary developement machines so it might be related to another issue.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

iPhone/iPad Calc Pro manual now available through iBooks

Just a quick note for Calc Pro users, you can now download the updated manual free of charge on your  iPad.

If you find it useful please take a minute and give it a rating as well.

Additionally, if you're looking for a PDF version, you can send an e-mail to support@panoramicsoft.com to get a download link.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/how-to-use-calc-pro/id522783170?mt=11

iOS (iPhone/iPad) icon sizes and names explained

So each device type/size combination should have 2 icons:
the Application icon
the Spotlight/Settings icon


Additionally you should have an iTunesArtwork File but its not required.  Technically the only "required" icon is the Application icon.

Original iPhone/3/3s/iPod Touch icon sizes and names:
Icon.png (57x57)
Icon-Small.png (29x29)

For Retina icons for the iPhones & iPods we double the resolution in both directions and add "@2x" to the name
Icon@2x.png(114x114)
Icon-Small@2x.png (58x58)

For the iPad 1 & 2 we need the same icons but they have different naming requirements
Icon-72.png (72x72)
Icon-Small-50.png (50x50)

And again, for the new retina iPad we need to make "@2x" versions so
Icon-72@2x.png (144x144)
Icon-Small-50@2x.png (100x100)


So, for a complete universal app that supports all screen sizes you want to create:
Icon-Small.png (29x29)
Icon-Small-50.png (50x50)
Icon.png (57x57)
Icon-Small@2x.png (58x58)
Icon-72.png (72x72)
Icon-Small-50@2x.png (100x100)
Icon@2x.png (114x114)
Icon-72@2x.png (144x144)


Additionally you'll probably want to make the iTunes Artwork icons
iTunesArtwork.png (512x512)
iTunesArtwork@2x.png (1024x1024)