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, November 03, 2016

Why an Ad Supported Model Isn't For Me

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As always, I was grateful to get a 5 star review for Signal GH , my app to let HDHomerun users best point their antennas.  ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ve...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

On Typing Everything In - My Updated Web Site

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I have a quirk of typing what most people wouldn't think type-able. My wife was once going to be the stateside representative of a Bei...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

When The Simulator Doesn't Act Like a Device

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I had to pull Signal GH from the App Store two days ago because  mach_absolute_time  which is based on CPU clock cycles returns quite diffe...
Thursday, August 25, 2016

Apple Doesn't Make a Mac I Would Eagerly Buy

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I've been using Macs pretty much exclusively since I walked into the computer lab at International Falls Senior High and saw one in 1984...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

The Awesome Responsiveness of Swift.org

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I encounter a bug in Swift 3 I had this cool idea to enhance CGPath, create an extension which would add a convenience init method that wo...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Where are All the New CarPlay Receivers?

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Back in late February, I was a bit miffed to hear that the JBL Legend CP100 CarPlay receiver was going to be released while I was visiting ...
Sunday, May 08, 2016

Note to self, UINavigationController's setToolbarHidden does something different than setNavigationBarHidden

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I spent a very long time thinking that I could somehow not put a UINavigationController in a container view (despite having done so before) ...
Friday, April 01, 2016

Mazda Had Best Start Supporting CarPlay

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Recently, I've had two passions in my life as a consumer. I've been dreaming of finally moving on from my 2003 Honda Civic, and buyi...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

My 2003 Civic Fuel Door Stopped Opening

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So, one day, out of the blue, I could not open the little hatch to get gas into my 2003 Honda Civic. Going online, I found this is a fairly ...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

New Open Source Library for Extracting Schedule Data from Digital TV ATSCgh

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I decided to release as open source (MIT license) my collection of Objective-C classes that can parse out the schedule information from ATSC...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

Goodbye to a Colleague

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Yesterday, my former coworker Alan Gorman died of cancer at 51. Alan and I were hired a month apart at the then CambridgeSoft to work on...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Amazon Vine and The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy

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For many years, I've been a happy member of Amazon Vine, taking frequent deliveries of random consumer items for review and then keeping...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Apple Needs to Thin Out The PNGs

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Had a pleasant time at WWDC. As is my habit, I spent most of my time in the labs going over every issue I had that had vexed me. One of the ...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

The 5 Rating Minimum and Releasing to the App Store

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Here is a screen capture of my app TV Towers USA  as it looked in the iOS App Store on May 2, 2015: May 2, 2015 (or so) And here is wh...
Monday, April 27, 2015

SVG Paths Tutorial

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About a year and a half ago, I left myself a Reminder on my iPhone to make an educational video about creating path elements in SVG documen...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Reusing An Old Mac Mini

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At every Mac hardware launch event, Phil Shiller will go through the features of the latest/greatest and towards the end will bring up the E...
Friday, November 07, 2014

How to Insert Superscripts and Subscripts in Pages for iPhone

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I'm trying to find customers for my Chemistry Keyboard  extension for iOS 8, so I've been doing things like searching for questions ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

Chemistry Keyboard - an iOS Keyboard Extension for Chemists

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To learn a computer language, you have to write something in that language, just reading the book doesn't help much. So when Swift was...
Saturday, October 25, 2014

Why I Bought a 2012 Mac Mini over the new 2014 Mac Mini

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Apple announced a new Mac Mini last week. I had been waiting for the news as my current situation leads me to program at my desk 95% of the...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

On .Net Rocks Talking about the Swift Language

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Last week, I recorded an episode of . Net Rocks  about what it's like learning Apple's new Swift language. I think it went well enou...
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