A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I think we've all seen the stories about some guy in New Zealand making $6K a day for a Choplifter clone, or another fellow making $250K...

Needing a license compatible implementation of UPnP I could use to locate MythTV frontends, I made the mistake of using the C++ version of ...

Earlier in the year, I posted a blog entry about how Apple, obviously, must be getting ready to release a new version of iTunes based upon ...

iPhone development has re-energized my love of programming. My day job requires me to do too much Win32 coding, and that is soul deadening f...

[Update: It's finally in the iTunes App Store .] I submitted my second iPhone application to the App Store this morning. Signal GH is a...

[Update: an earlier version of this blog entry said that the 2A Griffin PowerJolt was able to charge my iPhone while playing audio and showi...

I've written a "toy app" for OS X Touch, a version of my Remote Remote GH for MythTV application which acts as a remote contro...

So, I am testing a little iPhone app to control MythTV, and I decide I should upgrade to the current bleeding edge build. Which is bad enoug...

You should not be creating any PICT files, but longtime Mac users might have a large number of .pict or .pct files lying around, and some (a...

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...