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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

The app I’m working on has the ability to easily take your iMovie project or QuickTime movie and push it over to iTunes where it can then be synced with your iPod. In order to ensure this feature worked I purchased a 30G iPod video (aka 5th gen iPod). It was about a week ago […]

My copy of iLife ‘06 showed up today. I don’t feel like I’m the right person to give it a full review, but here’s my two cents: iPhoto: is much faster (seriously, *much* faster with my 5613 photos), has cool date overlay when scrolling, a nice full screen implementation, photocasting (would love this if […]

Short version: Xcode is secretly building my release builds as universal binaries. Editing the pbxproj to remove the reference to i386 fixed things for me. update:It’s something with my environment causing this. Longer version: I recently added Growl support to my app. It was super easy. I snagged the Growl source, built the Growl.framework […]

The new PowerBook’s sense the ambient light to turn on and off the backlit keyboard when it decides that’s a good idea. That’s all fine and good, but a lesser talked about feature is the display’s “Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes” option. The goal is to dim the display as the surroundings get […]

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 […]