A Sprinkle of Cocoa

I recorded an episode of The Tablet Show  this week where I talked about what I've learned about writing an app for the Kids section of ...

Today I saw this review for Signal GH my HDHomerun utility: Don't buy if you're in Europe 1 Star Bought this without detecting tha...

I've been thinking a lot about gestures lately. I submitted a kids drawing app, Frog Draw, to the App Store this week, and while I'm...

I know many people when faced with the task of making an icon will fire up Photoshop and start pushing pixels. But lately, when graphics are...

I heard about Solid Signal Blog  on the HTGuys podcast, and sent them a copy of my TV Towers USA app, and they gave it a very positive revi...

I take product reviewing seriously, and my Top 500 Reviewer badge on Amazon (#200 as of this morning but steadily getting worse) means more ...

This summer, 2013, I spent June traveling in China with my wife, children and an assortment of Apple devices. This blog item is about power ...

I took my AppleTV to visit relatives, but the TV was far from an Ethernet port, and I didn't have the physical remote. So how to setup W...

I'd just like to recommend this excellent tutorial by Jeff Verkoeyen on creating a framework/resource bundle for distribution of librar...

With immigration reform in the news, I was interested while testing my AM Towers USA iPhone app how many AM radio stations serve the Spanis...

I have two radio station apps in the App Store, AM Towers USA which is free, and FM Towers USA which is not. They try to map all the activ...

Ever since spending months on a never finished project to tear the rendering code out of a large commercial application and into a QuickLook...

FTC Announces App Guidance The Verge's description of the guidance is fairly ridiculous, there is no way people would put up with cons...

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...