I ordered my stock 17″ iMac on Friday via Amazon. UPS says it’ll show up today. Conveniently, today is a US holiday so I’ll be home all day doing miscellaneous things and working on rooVid beta 3 (well under way). Beta 3 will almost certainly be a Universal Binary. The first […]

DHL dropped off my replacement iPod today, it’s syncing now. The replacement seems to be in good working order, but only time will tell. To recap, here’s a timeline of events: Wed Feb 8th: Filed my problem report with Apple Thu Feb 9th: DHL dropped off the packaging to send the iPod back […]

Appcasting seems like a great idea to me. In short, an appcast is an RSS feed with an enclosure that is your latest release. I was turned on to appcasting when I found out about Sparkle. Sparkle made it super easy for me to add “check for update…” support to rooVid (it’ll […]

Having just re-installed OS X there were some settings I was accustomed to that I had to find and reset. The hardest for me to find was the ability to tab to controls other than text boxes and lists. I remember this was an OS X settings I turned on a long time […]

rooVid 1.0 beta 1 was released today. In short, rooVid makes it easy to take one video and convert it for multiple purposes. I use rooVid [1] to convert family movies I edit in iMovie and export them in two different formats for the web, one in h.264 the other in MPEG-4. […]

I often have an external display attached to my PowerBook. Just recently I wished my “primary” display, the one with the menu, was my external display. After about five minutes of poking at the display preferences pane I realized you can drag the little menu from the display it’s on to whichever display […]

I recently reinstalled OS X on my 15″ hi-res PowerBook. The goal was to partition my hard drive putting my user account on a separate partition. It took two tries but I finally got it right. Normally when I get a fresh install of OS X I run the highly praised Migration […]

Filing the “my iPod’s battery is useless” complaint was easy. Enter your serial number, explain the problem[1], wait. Next day a box shows up at my door. Open it, read the instructions, pack up the ‘pod, tape up the box, hand package off to DHL and wait some more. Kudos to Apple on […]

I’m trying to load a NSPanel with a controller that inherits from NSWindowController. So my controller’s init calls: self = [super initWithWindowNibName:@”NibNameHere”]; and then I call showWindow on my now init’d controller object. All pretty straight forward. Problem is that the dang “window” assigned to files owner wasn’t showing up. […]

I’m trying to debug a problem using Xcode’s debugger. All should be well, except the dang thing won’t break for me!? I have an NSLog statement and a breakpoint set on the line of code just before that NSLog. I see the log entry[1] but no break. ugh. I’ve sprinkled […]