A Sprinkle of Cocoa

For months, I've wanted to know whether Microsoft Office 2008 supported copying and pasting PDF data from the OS X clipboard. I couldn...

I have an online account with Consumer Reports , which I've been quite pleased with; it's the first place I look for home appliance...

Pretending 1GB equals 1000 MB. This is in the category of things that happen to everyone, but which should me remarked upon. Modern RAM capa...

The default Safari bookmark bar has a link to “ Apple ”, and another “Apple” labeled RSS feed of Mac news. You can save space by replacing t...

As part of my day job, I've recently become familiar with the creation, display, and destruction of menus on the Windows platform. In wr...

2 observations: 1) The months pass faster than when I was younger. 2) I feel slower mentally. The ideas come at a markedly lower rate. Is it...

[Update: Apple released iTunes 8, and whatever it is, it is not pure Cocoa] [Update: Apple did release a version of iTunes for 64 Bit Vista...

If you are tasked with maintaining a large, old—is there any other kind—Carbon application, here's an illuminating experiment. In XCode ...

[Update: check out Signal GH , an iPhone utility for monitoring the signal quality of an HDHomerun]. One of the best bits of tech I've b...

Compulsion can be a silly thing. Ever since Cover Flow became ubiquitous on the Mac, I've been on a mission to stamp out generic covers....

I'm gratified to see WebKit's continuous improvements in its support for SVG. Recent builds fixed a bug, I and many others, reporte...

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...