Peter W techieshark

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

Intro

Recently, I had to implement an offline mapping solution for an iOS application. Here's a walkthrough of how to do it.

Summary

I generated a tile database using TileMill. I used the Route-Me iOS library which provides a map view that supports offline tile sources.

TileMill

Mac web developer apps

This gist's comment stream is a collection of webdev apps for OS X. Feel free to add links to apps you like, just make sure you add some context to what it does — either from the creator's website or your own thoughts.

— Erik

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta charset=utf-8 />
	<title></title>
	<script src='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.js'></script>
	<script src='http://codeorigin.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.min.js'></script>
	<link href='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.css' rel='stylesheet' />
	<!--[if lte IE 8]>
	<link href='http://api.tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox.js/v1.4.0/mapbox.ie.css' rel='stylesheet'>

	<!DOCTYPE html>
	<html>
	<head>
	<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

	<style>
	html, body, #map {
	height: 100%;
	padding: 0;

	#!/bin/bash

	# Sync Homebrew installations between Macs via Dropbox
	#

	BREW="/usr/local/bin/brew"

	# first get local settings
	echo "Reading local settings ..."
	rm -f /tmp/brew-sync.*

	/*
	Taken and cribbed from blog.datalicious.com/free-download-all-australian-postcodes-geocod

	May contain errors where latitude and longitude are off. Use at own non-validated risk.
	*/

	SET NAMES utf8;
	SET sql_mode = 'NO_AUTO_VALUE_ON_ZERO';

	DROP TABLE IF EXISTS postcodes_geo;