A nifty and not-so-obvious feature of the Shark tool that comes with Apple’s CHUD performance tools, is the “instruction set reference” that you can pull up for either PowerPC or Intel ISAs. The feature is hidden away in Shark’s Help menu: Selecting either reference item brings up a floating window giving you easy access to […]

The relationship between Dell and Apple has historically been hit-or-miss. Mostly miss. At times the companies have seemed on the verge of a friendly relationship, while more often the strong-headed leaders of each firm have gone public with the extent of their disdain for each other. This charming interplay will be missed – because 2006 […]

What I love about the web and blogging is the chaotic and largely egalitarian nature of publicity and “exposure” that the medium offers. In 2005, a computer programmer of modest means can fire up MarsEdit and get a message to the world as quickly as he or she can type it. Some of you who […]

I ran into a search problem recently in one of my Xcode projects. Every time I conducted a particular search (in this case, the search term was “CFString”), my screen was littered with a series of cascading Xcode exception dialogs that look like this: On the one hand, it’s great that Xcode goes out of […]