A Sprinkle of Cocoa

Think Class Library, MacApp, PowerPlant. What do these frameworks have in common? They are all on my resume and they are all dead. Qt, Cocoa...

I am ankle deep in Postscript code at my day job, so as a refresher I took an afternoon and hand encoded a business card for my wife, who is...

Ummm, maybe you forgot to uncheck "Open using Rosetta" in the release build? I was enthusiastically awaiting how fast my day job a...

I was watching a recent episode of Anthony Bourdain's: No Reservations on the Travel Channel this morning, and came up with an idea for...

You still see tables filling full page ads in computer magazines, a column of checks for the product being advertised, a column of blanks un...

If anybody's starting up a business based around iPhone development, and need a chief engineer, I'm sure you can find my e-mail addr...

I refer you to this posting on the product forum for the CoreAVC player application. An application which claims to have extremely efficie...

I direct your attention to the very explicitly obsoleted documentation for the QuickDraw routine PicComment . With a call to PicComment, an ...

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...