A Sprinkle of Cocoa

This is an e-mail I sent to Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal after this morning's column on the practic...

I don't know when this was released, but the search field on apple.com is slick. It seems every day some hotshot AJAX programmer (or We...

In a followup to my note to myself on playing live TV from my satellite box using mplayer, this is about integrating a pcHDTV 3000 's s...

This is more of a note to myself, as I'm sure this involves an unusual set of hardware and software. I have a standard definition Direct...

There are a lot of MythTV settings. Page after page of preferences. In many ways, this is bad design; a refusal by the authors to make decis...

The Linux box in the basement runs the MythTV backend. I can watch live HDTV wirelessly using 802.11g networking through the Linksys router...

The Mac Business Unit at Microsoft released the first beta of Remote Desktop Connection 2 . This is good news for me. A perk of my job is th...

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

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

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 ...

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...