A Sprinkle of Cocoa

For my AM Towers USA , and FM Towers USA  mapping apps, I had to compress well over a hundred radio formats into a handful of categories (it...

In my newly released iOS app, FM Towers USA —map of most of the FM radio stations in the United States—I had the problem of wanting to custo...

A while ago, I complained about a rude request for a feature in  How Not to Ask For A Feature . The flip side of this is this recent three s...

As someone who spent spent seven years of his life writing a vectored drawing app, I have a deep rooted dislike of the bitmap. Bitmaps are b...

Well, I just spent an hour moving all the images for this blog from Apple's abandoned Mobile Me hosting to my new genhelp.com domain. S...

After nearly 7 years on the job, I've left CambridgeSoft/PerkinElmer. It wasn't done lightly, I'll miss my codebase. I hope Mac ...

Just a heads up. Sometimes the auto HDMI setting of the Apple TV (this is the case with both the 2nd and 3rd generation models) doesn't...

I purchased the 32GB model of the Verizon LTE iPad, and while it is a great box (see my review on Amazon), it does have its problems, the m...

It came back when AT&T tech support told me to go to Settings : General : Rest and hit the Reset Network Settings button. Which dropped ...

When I was a junior developer working his first pro job in 1995, we didn't have Safari we had Netscape, and if we wanted to make the bro...

I have never been a regular vacuumer. I have a moderately priced vacuum I bought 20 years ago while in graduate school, and I've probabl...

[Update: Mary Jo Foley has posted a blog entry saying that her sources are saying that .Net will be available for immersive Windows 8 devel...

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...