A Sprinkle of Cocoa

For Christmas, I bought my wife a Panasonic DMC-LX2K digital still camera. This camera has many interesting features—including a Leica len...

My TiVo has a Good Eats season pass, and you can bet there is one thing that will get me to pause, rewind, slo-mo and call the wife in from...

A critical decision any developer of Mac OS X software has to make is where to draw the line between users we can be troubled to support, an...

I opened up iTunes yesterday and navigated to the iTunes Plus page. I was offered with the opportunity to upgrade my 21 EMI tracks to the ne...

So, I rebooted my MythTV into Windows Friday morning. The system asked me if I wanted to setup the drivers for the new Rosewill SATA card I ...

This is the second of two posts on my experience helping to port Train Player to Mac OS X. This is about my theories and designs for using ...

I've found myself buying a lot of software for my MacBook these days. It isn't because I'm swimming in money, because I most cer...

I took my MacBook to the Genius Bar at the Cambridge (Mass.) Galleria Apple Store--making sure to make a reservation. The MacBook had been s...

On February 9 th of this year, a Seagate Barracuda 750GB internal hard drive cost $300 shipped according to DealMac . By May 18 th , that ...

Last week, TrainPlayer International released a Mac OS X version of Train Player , their application for designing model railroads. I had so...

In most aspects of my life, I have decent impulse control. But when I discovered IOSpirit's Remote Buddy software allowed me to use a ...

After building and installing the latest MythTV version, I browsed through the mini-website, MythWeb, which gets installed and served by Ap...

For my personal edification, I've been surveying my DVD collection in terms of how much each movie uses on disk. This is the main featur...

I had written this entry weeks ago, meaning to do some more research before posting it, and I had forgotten it with my busy work schedule, b...

I don't know when the 'styl' resource was defined, but I do know it is very, very old. For those not in the know, back in the da...

My dad is an interesting, and smart guy. He left retail banking 20 years ago to start a software company in his basement, then transitioned ...

A desperate Google searcher emailed me today asking about getting together an XCode project for a Netscape style plugin. Since this, apparen...

I ran into trouble building WebKit (Safari) on my MacBook. When I entered the command to build it % WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit...

If you are creating or maintaining Netscape style browser plugins on the Mac, you must get the nightly build of the open source version of S...

I've been contracted by Train Player International to help port their TrackLayer model railroad design software to OS X. It has been go...