A Sprinkle of Cocoa

If you insert your iPhone's headset into your iPhone, and then plug an iPhone to USB connector into the bottom connector, the phone has ...

Last week, my co-worker Gerald came to my cube saying his PowerMac G5 was consistently locking up after starting up and bringing up Entourag...

My MythTV records over the air broadcasts as .mpg (MPEG) files of several gigabytes each. My preferred mode of viewing them these days is to...

As a father of young children, I have some advice for my fellow software engineers in similar boats who want time for their side projects. A...

I was sent a bug report on some software I had written a while back wherein it would become less and less responsive over time till it just ...

The big extravagance at the house this year is replacing the cheapest looking vinyl shower you ever saw with a very nice tile and glass bloc...

One thing you want in C++ compilers is consistency with other C++ compilers. Especially if you are doing cross-platform development work. I ...

This is one of those blog posts where the author has two data points and has to write an entire entry about those points. Here is the data: ...

The company I work for is interested in Microsoft's .NET framework; I am not. But, I was scrounging for free content on iTunes the othe...

Developing for the iPhone and iPod Touch is nice: limited hardware differences leads to reliability. If it works on my iPhone running the 2....

As I occasionally let on, my day job is the care and feeding of an ancient, semi-well known, Carbon application (and worse its Win32 doppleg...

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...