Archive for the 'Programming' Category

Rogue Displays

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

The folks at Rogue Amoeba have a product called Airfoil, which enables sending arbitrary audio streams to “AirTunes” devices. They just updated it to add support for streaming to your Apple TV. While Apple TV is receiving this streamed audio, it shows various information about the sender, which gave Rogue Amoeba an idea for doing […]

NSURLConnection Crashing Epidemic

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

I’m proud to say that all of my apps are pretty solid. They rarely crash. At least, I assume they rarely crash, because I very rarely receive crash reports from users. When I do, it’s usually from beta testers before the application has been shared with the general public. But after Apple released 10.4.11, I […]

I Get Around

Friday, January 11th, 2008

While I am regrettably not going to make it out to Macworld Expo in San Francisco next week, I have managed to do some web site traveling, by participating in panel discussions and other interviews related to Macworld and otherwise. The Guardian: Reading The Runes For Apple The UK newspaper The Guardian invited me to […]

Usable Keychain Update

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Some time ago I shared a free AppleScript interface I put together for accessing the Mac OS X keychain with some degree of speed and grace. The download, named “Usable Keychain Scripting” was my frustrated response to the more or less completely unusable Keychain Scripting interface in Mac OS X. Usable Keychain Scripting was awesome, […]