A Sprinkle of Cocoa

A blog about iPhones, iPads, Swift, being a working coder, gadgets and tech. The official blog of Generally Helpful Software.

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

HDHomeRun and EyeTV

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[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. Cruising the AVS Forum Mac Home Theatre...
Friday, July 20, 2007

upgrading to Mythdora from Fedora Core 4

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My Linux installation was not aging gracefully. I had installed Fedora Core 4 a couple years ago, and had intermittently added packages as n...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

How To: Fix Portrait Oriented Movies

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If you are like me, you have dozens of video clips from digital "still" cameras which are rotated 90°. And like me, you find them ...
Monday, June 25, 2007

Widescreen Still Cameras

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For Christmas, I bought my wife a Panasonic DMC-LX2K digital still camera. This camera has many interesting features—including a Leica len...
Thursday, June 21, 2007

Alton Brown Uses My Software

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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...
Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Which Mac OS X should I Support?

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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...
Friday, June 15, 2007

iTunes Plus - It Doesn't Nauseate Me

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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...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

AAAAAARG - The Sound of a Corrupted Videoserver

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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 ...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Port Model Train Software to OS X - Under the Hood

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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 ...
Monday, June 04, 2007

The Golden Age of OS X Independent Software

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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...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

My Experience At the Cambridge Galleria Apple Store

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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...
Friday, May 18, 2007

When to Buy A Big Video Server Hard Drive

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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 ...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Porting Model Railroading Software to OS X From Windows

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Last week, TrainPlayer International released a Mac OS X version of Train Player , their application for designing model railroads. I had so...
Thursday, April 26, 2007

Wii Remote + MythFrontend + Remote Buddy + OS X

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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 ...
Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Streaming video to VLC from MythWeb

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After building and installing the latest MythTV version, I browsed through the mini-website, MythWeb, which gets installed and served by Ap...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

DVD Main Title Size: Where the Gigabytes Go

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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...
Saturday, March 17, 2007

Logitech Tech Support Driving Me Up the Wall

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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...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

It's Time for Carbon Apps to Support RTF on the Clipboard

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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...
Friday, March 09, 2007

The Freedom of EV-DO

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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 ...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Netscape Plugin Development in XCode

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