A Sprinkle of Cocoa

A blog about iPhones, iPads, Swift, being a working coder, gadgets and tech. The official blog of Generally Helpful Software.

Monday, January 18, 2021

Moving from Eve to Lutron Caseta Smart Switches

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 My wife and I are preparing our previous home for the rental market. So, we are making practically every improvement we always wanted but n...
Monday, December 28, 2020

Bringing a 2000 Home Up to Modern Tech

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 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...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Thank You Bell Atlantic for the Ethernet in My Walls

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 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...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

TV Towers USA for Apple Watch

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The Series 5 Apple Watch includes a compass. Which necessitated me selling my otherwise nearly identical Series 4 watch, because I knew it w...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

Why The Corolla Hatchback Won My CarPlay with Manual Transmission Battle

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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...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Thunderbolt Display Life Extension: An Environmental Proposal for Apple

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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 ...
Saturday, October 12, 2019

Chirping Thunderbolt Display, Time for a New Power Supply

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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, ...
Saturday, October 05, 2019

Wherein I Represent the Early Internet

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I was just watching the documentary about the long ago startup, General Magic , when about halfway through, they show a sequence representin...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Textual Representation of SwiftUI Paths

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While on vacation, I've been creating my first Swift Package, for my incomplete Scalar2D project. While my major ambitions have been sl...
Monday, March 04, 2019

Optimizing a TV Antenna with an HDHomerun

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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...
Friday, December 07, 2018

Changing My Mind and Buying a 2018 MacBook Pro 13"

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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...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

The 2018 MacBooks Pros are Out, Time to Buy a 2015 MacBook Pro Retina 13"

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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...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Filing a Bug Against Core Graphics [Update: fixed]

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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...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

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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 ...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Why I'd Buy a Subaru Impreza over a Civic or a Mazda 3

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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...

CarPlay Drops? Try Shortening Your USB Cables

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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 ...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Apple Has A Second Chance at the SEx (iPhone that is)

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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...
Sunday, July 09, 2017

Why Doesn't The Compass Work in Some iPhone Apps?

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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...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

True North and the iOS Compass App

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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...
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...
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