A Sprinkle of Cocoa

In my day job, I spend a lot of time compiling and linking a fairly large commercial C++ application. My PowerBook G4 was not up to the task...

Must resist urge to use the word tilting I recently bought a Kill A Watt energy consumption measuring device, and have become an enthusiast...

I purchased a MacBook two weeks ago. I am replacing my trusty PowerBook simply because the MacBook is so much faster and Apple no longer sel...

And now for something completely different. Advice on buying cars. Three years ago, I was single, dating, and car shopping. I had always dri...

A few months ago, I purchased a Kill-A-Watt power monitoring device, and today I went around the house and measured the power usage of my v...

In my, seemingly, never ending quest for reliable reception of the Boston Fox affiliate, I decided to upgrade my rooftop antenna's (Wine...

[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. The following script works with EyeTV 2...

A coworker, who knows I am an HDTV know-it-all, asked me whether he should get a tuner card for his desktop PC or buy an ATSC tuner box for ...

My friend Mindy has another blog site exploring New York City both day and night. It's New York City Nomad . I read her first post about...

After banishing my noisy MythTV Linux box to the basement, and returning that sweet iMac to work, I had no way of watching recorded programm...

This is interesting, a container for a Mac Mini which mounts on the VESA mounting holes flat panel monitors and TVs. The mount effectively ...

[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. [Update: also works with the 2.2 update...

My friend Mindy has started her own blog, concentrating on personalizing her first home: a condominium in Brooklyn. Small Space Big Idea If...

I have updated this post since its original incarnation, and may update it without notice in the future. Requirements I've been dissatis...

As I said a few weeks ago, I was writing a small Cocoa application to remotely control my MythTV frontend over my local area network in my h...

My wife and I bought our first house recently, which we love. It's a great ranch style brick house in South Nashua, NH. Quiet, sturdy, a...

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...