A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I was taking my daily glance through MacSurfer when I was struck by a press release from WaveMetrics announcing a new version of Igor, the...

A little noted part of Monday's WWDC keynote was the final feature set for Safari 4. Safari now has searching of browsing history. This ...

So, I have my free MythTV remote in the iPhone App Store and it only has a 2 star average rating. Not exactly a Gaussian distribution. I th...

When I sat down to learn iPhone development, I settled on writing a remote control for MythTV as a first product. And thus Remote Remote GH...

I have children. Children love to destroy audio headsets, whether it be tearing out the ear padding, chewing up the wind guard, or taking a ...

Here is a picture of good intentions. It's my little bookshelf of mainly technical books, right next to the big desk in the basement. An...

As I described in my last post , I've setup an Airport Express and a ceiling speaker to deliver music to my bathroom. This is cool techn...

[Update: I've posted a video about installing a bathroom speaker using an Airport Express as part of an Amazon review of a SpeakerCraf...

Marvell just announced a 5 W Linux box with a USB 2.0 port and Gigabit ethernet, the SheevaPlug . This is a full Linux server with a 1.2 GH...

[Update: Lullabies is now in the app store. Check it out.] I recently submitted Lullabies an iPhone App to Apple. They reviewed it for a f...

[Update: Lullabies is now in the app store. Check it out.] I have 2 young children, and the familiarity and dexterity they show in using th...

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...