A Sprinkle of Cocoa

Taken with my wife's iPhone 3G S, posted with my unibody MacBook.

I often hook up my iPhone to my car stereo and listen to podcasts while driving. I tend to drive with one earphone in place so I can click t...

A conversation with an old friend the other day brought up the limited file handling ability of the iPad. Apple really doesn't want you ...

I turn your attention to this apparently genuine June 18, 2008 forum comment by Tinic Uro , which I will quote: We have identified the bott...

I've been following the news about the new MacBook 13" still having a Core 2 Duo when its bigger brothers have i5 and i7s. Apparent...

No sooner had I assembled a mini home theater PC for the TV room, but Amazon Vine offered me a Zotac MAG HD-ND01-U which is basically the ...

After the happiness of putting together an NVidia Ion HTPC for the TV room, I've been looking at replacing the Linux server in the laund...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...