A Sprinkle of Cocoa

This had me scratching my head. If you have a static library you want to link into your universal binary, and the library comes in two diffe...

Back in graduate school we had two Macs in the lab. One Mac was fast (for 1993); the other had a CD drive. I wanted to use the fast one, but...

I had trouble compiling a version of MythTV 0.19 with Firewire enabled. I downloaded the source and invoked the configure script with the fo...

So I decided to up grade to 0.19 of MythTV. I downloaded the source, configured and discovered I couldn't compile with firewire cable bo...

I'm solely responsible for transitioning a fairly large, old, OS X C++ Carbon application to the new world of XCode, and beyond that to ...

This is a mini-review of a piece of niche equipment: The Ball Bluetooth trackball. I'm a trackball user. My second computer was a Power...

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 ...