A Sprinkle of Cocoa

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 ...

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...

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. ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...