A Sprinkle of Cocoa

 My family recently moved to a home built in the year 2000, from our smaller, built in 1964, home I'd spent 15 years making convenient a...

 I've recently moved into a year 2000 vintage house filled with such trendy tech as phone jacks and coax cable in most every room. Being...

The Series 5 Apple Watch includes a compass. Which necessitated me selling my otherwise nearly identical Series 4 watch, because I knew it w...

For several years, I've been pondering replacing my 2003 Civic LX 5 speed sedan—with aftermarket CarPlay receiver. I was certain I was g...

I recently replaced the power supply and data cable on my Thunderbolt Display to keep it working with its 5th Mac.  I know from experience ...

My Thunderbolt Display started chirping when attached to a computer a few months ago, and then a few weeks ago, it out and out died. Now, ...

I was just watching the documentary about the long ago startup, General Magic , when about halfway through, they show a sequence representin...

While on vacation, I've been creating my first Swift Package, for my incomplete Scalar2D project. While my major ambitions have been sl...

I get asked by users of my Signal GH iOS app  for the HDHomerun  network TV tuner what measurement they are supposed to improve as they adj...

In my last post  I argued that you can get a perfectly useable used 2015 MacBook Pro development machine for half the cost of a moderately s...

I've been concerned about how little time I spend on my home software projects these days, and have been thinking that maybe a MacBook P...

So, I was verifying that my Chemistry Keyboard works with the iOS 12 beta, and I immediately noticed that the Globe button's icon looked...

I'd like to take this quote apart and explain its meaning to me. The general idea is someone develops an idea, something novel and ...

As I've written before , I was fixated on buying a recent Mazda 3 hatchback. Such a beautiful car, available with my favored manual tran...

I have not been a happy CarPlay user for the last couple months. I'd started getting the occasional loss of connection with my previous ...

There's an old story that when Apple was getting ready to release the fast version of the Macintosh SE, their naming convention should h...

As a writer of apps—such as TV Towers USA —which rely on the device's compass, I periodically would hear from users who don't see th...

I recently got a 2 star review for my TV Towers USA  app. This would be a nice app if it pointed in the right direction!  Most of the ti...

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...

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...