I’m working on an application that has some simple networking needs, among them fetching small bits of data off of a variety of user-configured web sites. Since the needs are so straight-forward I thought using NSURL and its “resourceDataUsingCache:” method would be the way to go. It so happens that this application already has a […]

Maybe this should be filed under “No Duh” but it’s taken me this long to figure out that Mail’s smart folders might actually save my life. For the past year or so, I’ve adopted the “save everything” approach, ala gmail, except on my Mac. So I have this huge “Received Mail” archive that actually, for […]

When I chose to purchase an existing Java-based Cocoa application, I knew I was taking on some risk. Mac OS X still has a technology within it called the Cocoa-Java bridge, which makes it relatively easy for Java classes to participate in the Cocoa runtime, automatically translating objects like arrays and strings to their language-specific […]

In an unusual move, Steve Jobs has taken the text podium on the Apple web site, writing about his Thoughts On Music, though it might be more aptly titled “Thoughts on DRM” (Digital Rights Management). “Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any […]