Monthly Archives: January 2014

Install TideSDK on Windows 7/Ubuntu/Mac OS X

What's TideSDK? TideSDK is the new standard for creating beautiful and unique desktop apps using your web development skills. You can build muti-platform desktop applications with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in TideSDK. TideSDK can support Python, Ruby and PHP now. Download TideSDK and other software 1. TideSDK 1.3.1 Beta 2. TideSDK Developer 1.4.2 Install TideSDK 1. Extract TideSDK 1.3.1 to Windows 7/8/8.1: C:\ProgramData\TideSDK Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\TideSDK Ubuntu: ~/.tidesdk Mac OS X: ~/Library/Application\ Support/TideSDK 2. Install TideSDK Developer 1.4.2 Start Using TideSDK with Hello World 1. Download the Hello World demo from the official website. 2. Import the project and build it. What's more? If you got this error message on Ubuntu: Missing libjpeg.so.62, Please try to install libjpeg62-dev.

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Install Microsoft’s Consolas Font on Mac OS X

With the introduction of Windows Vista and Office 2007 Microsoft included some new fonts, which became the defaults in Office. Their names all start with ‘C’ and they are quite attractive. In particular there is a monospaced font called Consolas that is nice to use as a text editor font and Terminal font. The problem is they aren’t technically free, although Microsoft does include them in a number of freely available updaters. What follows is how I went about installing the fonts on my Mac. Installation Download the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. Double click the disk image if it wasn’t automatically mounted. You will see an Open XML File Format Converter meta package (.mpkg). Right click (or Control-click) the…

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