A Sprinkle of Cocoa

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

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Hint, You Want Your App to be Hard To Program

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I come up with many ideas for iPad apps. I have almost zero time to write them, but I do come up with ideas every couple weeks. And when I ...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Setup of iPhone 4 Hotspot

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I called AT&T as soon as I saw that iOS 4.3 had gone live. When I called, they had no information about setting it up and didn't see...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

On Keeping Politics Out of Non-Political Blogs

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This is a blog about technology and programming, that is its mission, and why readers find it*. They do not come for my political opinions. ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

On The Need for MonoMac

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I continue to listen to the Dot Net Rocks podcast even though I've yet to write a line of C#. It is a well done and even handed podcast...
Wednesday, November 03, 2010

Logitech Still Sells the Z-5500

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I just yesterday replaced the decade old Logitech Z-5500 Digital speaker system in my TV room. It had spent several years on my desk when I ...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

New version of Signal GH

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Just got a note from Apple saying that a new version of my Signal GH iOS app to monitor over the air TV signal quality with HDHomeruns was...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Finally! Apple Embraces A Standard for Metadata in PDFs

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I draw your attention to the header file CGPDFContext.h in the iOS 4 SDK: void CGPDFContextAddDocumentMetadata (CGContextRef context, CFDat...
Monday, August 23, 2010

The Three Numbers in Computer Programming

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When I was working at a small company in Illinois, Vysis, my team had an architect named Ian Poole who taught me many things, and one of the...
Thursday, July 08, 2010

Maybe I Have Too Many Apple Products

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Taken with my wife's iPhone 3G S, posted with my unibody MacBook.
Wednesday, July 07, 2010

iPhone 4 improves on audio output isolation

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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...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010

On Fixing the Personal Computer's Original Sin

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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 ...
Monday, May 24, 2010

Flash's History of Neglect on the Mac - An Example

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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...
Friday, May 07, 2010

Will the Next 13" MacBook Pro have an Optical Drive?

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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...
Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Bye Bye Pentium 4 Server

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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 ...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Holding onto Legacy PCI Cards is Limiting

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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...
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...
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