One of the reasons I started this blog was to have a place to write things down and be able to search later. Hence the tag, “If I write it down, I might not forget”. Often times it’s the small one-liners that need to be remembered. Example: To create a new […]

Apparently this storm wasn’t all hype. I shoveled the driveway twice. Once with ~4 inches of snow and then again with ~8 inches. My back hurts, but I’m thankful I took two rounds of shoveling. It’s tempting to just wait for it to end, but I’d rather not wrestle with 12 […]

Here in New England, we’ve already had snow this season (four inches on Thanksgiving Day). That was somewhat unexpected and not really a huge deal. Tomorrow a.m. is supposed to bring in our first real storm. It’s already been decently hyped by local news stations and many school’s have already been cancelled. […]

So, remember: 697c736781b5bd8e82ec82a2d2cac969 I’m comfortable working with pointers and pointers to pointers, but if you didn’t notice that the typedef chain made what looked like a pointer really a pointer to a pointer well, I’m not so good at that. In reality I should have seen ‘Ptr *’ and read “pointer to a pointer”. Ugh. […]

In the previous post, “Show user QT’s Export Video Dialog“, I showed how to present the user with the standard QuickTime export settings dialog. The next question should be “How can I figure out what they selected?”. For me, I only want to know certain settings for display purposes. If the user […]

Likes: Backlit keyboard: It’s useful, but really it’s just fun to show off. Performance: Feels much snappier than my iBook. A lot of that feeling probably comes from the beefier graphics card as well as the faster G4. Display: the 1440×960 display is excellent. Some complain of visual lines. If these […]

I’m fortunate enough to own a new 15″ PowerBook. I’ve been working on a mini-review pointing out some likes and dislikes of the PowerBook, but I thought it might be fitting to first explain how I got here. I’ve owned a total of five different Apple computers (not including the mini @ work) […]

The few snippets of code that I’ve put up here have looked ugly. I first tried using the <pre> tag and with the last post, tried <code>. I think the pre was better, but neither were very satisfactory. Declaring this a problem that needed solving I went to the blogs, what are […]

I want to write down how I’m presenting the QuickTime compression dialog. This post will be followed by another post describing how to figure out some of the information of what the user selected from the presented dialog. First things first, displaying the dialog: ComponentInstance component = OpenDefaultComponent(MovieExportType, kQTFileTypeMovie); […]

When I’m trying to get help with something Cocoa I first ask xcode, then developer.apple.com, then google. The Apple docs are great, but often times I just want a small little example snippet. Google can help here, but ninety percent of the time the results are overwhelming. Where does one go? […]