A Sprinkle of Cocoa

A blog about iPhones, iPads, Swift, being a working coder, gadgets and tech. The official blog of Generally Helpful Software.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Could Apple Transition to Using iPhone Apps as Safari Plugins?

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I've been knee deep in trying to keep an old style NPAPI (Netscape) plugin working under Snow Leopard, and believe me it is not easy. An...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Inexpensive Ion HTPC

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As I want to improve my free MythTV remote, and I needed to "eat my own dog food", I decided to build a HTPC box for the TV room t...
Monday, February 01, 2010

A Cell Phone Game for Children

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I was playing hide and seek with my 2 and 3 year olds, and came up with this variation. Requirements 2 Cell phones, one of which with a spea...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Get the PSD Files From Your Graphic Artists

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If you hired a coder to write an iPhone app, you would expect the source code along with a delivered binary. Similarly, if you hire a graphi...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

MythBuntu 9.10 Quickly Dying Due to missing PCHDTV firmware

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So, I have been pretty unhappy with my MythTV for the last week, as something was seriously wrong with it. It would work for a while and the...
Saturday, December 05, 2009

MythBuntu upgrade and mythcommflag killing my MythTV

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So, I pushed the button and upgraded the MythBuntu box in the basement, and bad things happened. Oh, the new MythTV interface is lovely. But...

How Not to Ask For A Feature

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"best RDP" reviews my Signal GH iPhone app for HDHomerun Title: "piece of junk" Body:"This thing is worthless until...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

My Unibody MacBook had Been Grinding to a Halt

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I'm used to my Macs being reliable; of going months between forced restarts. And yet, two weeks ago, I found myself restarting my unibod...
Monday, November 16, 2009

When the Books are Free - Amazon Vine

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A few months ago, I noticed an invitation to join Amazon Vine program on my Amazon front page. I clicked on it, realized it wasn't a sca...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

When Apple Doesn't Follow It's Patterns: UIScrollView

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A comment in UIScrollView.h // override points. default is to call touch methods on the content subview. if -touchesShouldCancelInContentVie...
Monday, November 02, 2009

New Version of Signal GH

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Apple has sent me a notice that version 1.1.3 of Signal GH—my iPhone app to get the signal quality of OTA TV broadcasts with an HDHomerun—is...
Monday, October 05, 2009

iPhone as Baby's First Computer

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My son, Wil, wanted to paint on my unibody Macbook this evening. He turned four in September and this was the first time he'd wanted to ...
Friday, September 04, 2009

Garbled Fonts in Xcode 3.2 Console with Snow Leopard

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When I upgraded to Xcode 3.2 along with Snow Leopard, the output to the console was filled with apparently random garbage, and lots of white...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

DotNetRocks podcast I was on is up

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I just noticed that the episode of DotNetRocks is up.
Saturday, July 25, 2009

The Truthiness of Things I Said on DotNetRocks

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When I recorded a recent episode of DotNetRocks I recorded my side of the conversation so that the sound engineers would have a cleaner cop...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

"I'm A Mac Programmer; and a Mac User. And We are Arrogant People"

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“I’m a Mac programmer, and a Mac user, and we are arrogant people. And we love beauty.” I've never been a guest on a podcast before, so ...
Saturday, July 18, 2009

On Xcode 3.1 versus Visual Studio 2008

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Recently, the DotNetRocks Podcast had an episode where the guest spent an hour slamming Xcode, Objective-C, and the Cocoa frameworks, and h...
Saturday, June 27, 2009

The lagging edge

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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...
Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Star Trek Lessons for Safari

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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 ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Wonders of the iPhone Star Rating

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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...
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