A Sprinkle of Cocoa

My three year old Airport Extreme Base Station stopped working last week. It was dead with no blinking lights. My first impulse was to tear...

I am not quite sure why HDTV manufacturers put DVI inputs in their sets if they insist on doing it in the most useless way possible, and wit...

I recently purchased a Syntax 26" LT26HVX HDTV for use as my main TV viewing monitor. I bought the Syntax for its good performance, lo...

I have a policy of reporting on my blog the result of any research which took me some serious yahooing to discover. Here's one such entr...

I spent Thursday and Friday at a workshop Apple put on to help developers transition their code onto Mac OS X for Intel. I won't get int...

I ended up ruining my Mythtv setup and reinstalling from scratch. The Wilson Myth(TV)ology instructions have moved on to using Fedora Core ...

This morning, I downloaded a cool application by BeLight Software called Image Tricks which leverages Cocoa and Core Image. The Kaleidosco...

Just a quick note about a problem I had (and have partially fixed) with the ATI Remote Wonder I bought to control my MythTV using Fedora Cor...

I'm enthusiastic about Make Magazine . It's always an interesting and inspiring read. For example, a few weeks ago on the Make blog,...

After 3 weeks of weekends, I have a fairly functional MythTV box running. I jumped hurdle after hurdle: ungainly audio support, package man...

I've been consumed the last few weeks with trying to get a working HD PVR working in my Dell desktop. I haven't been posting on this...

I asked myself that a few seconds ago. I'm in bed. My 12" Powerbook is on my chest, and the fan is on full blast. Which means its r...

Another how-to posting. Out of frustration with Windows and Wintel notebooks, my brother Joe bought an iBook. Unfortunately, he still needed...

This doesn't have anything to do with programming, but it might be of use to Googlers. I have a 2003 Honda Civic 4 door sedan, with a 5 ...

I have a project InCDius 2 with which I demonstrate my coding skills, and update my Cocoa skills. I know I have some users out there, and I...

I'm in the Detroit airport on a 3.5 hour layover awaiting the flight to Manchester after a week at Apple's World Wide Developer Conf...

I own a Dell 2005FPW LCD monitor, which has a native resolution of 1680x1050. My wife owns a Thinkpad X23 model 2662. The Thinkpad uses an i...

Well as luck would have it, Apple has open sourced much of their core operating system, including the driver for USB audio, as part of their...

If I want to get S/P DIF bypass mode, I should first try to do it in a non-hackish, standard compliant way. So, what does USB.ORG have to s...

Well, I figured it might be helpful to figure out what my speakers expected to see if they were ever to play AC-3 files over S/PDIF. So back...