Scott Stevenson has posted the second part of his Intro to Quartz tutorial at Cocoa Dev Central. The visual production of his tutorials is always really impressive, because he identifies (by instinct, I assume) the best graphical illustrations for any given point. This second Quartz tutorial is especially notable for the scope of techniques it […]

I’ve been working on iTunes integration for FlexTime. My model for this feature is roughly approximated by GarageBand’s “Send To iTunes” feature, which packages up the current song into an M4A format, sends it off to iTunes, starts playing it, and makes sure the playlist into which it was added becomes visible in the iTunes […]

A FlexTime customer recently asked me if there was any way to set up a routine such that each activity in the routine would take a random period of time. His interest was in having FlexTime remind him at irregular intervals to stay focused on the task at hand. Unfortunately, the short answer is “no.” […]

Resolution independence is the notion that all graphics on a computer display should be zoomable to an arbitrary multiplier without losing quality. If you know even the slightest thing about computer graphics, you’ll understand that in a resolution independent world, bitmaps are out and vector graphics are in. Vector graphics can scale gracefully to an […]