There are a few binary Emacs packages for OS X floating around out there, but I always build it myself from the sources. This usually results in an Emacs that works the way I expect, rather than the way some "helpful" distributor thinks it ought to work.
I'll assume you …
I like most of Apple's products, but iTunes is a very dark corner of the Mac universe.
For example, here is what you have to do to download updates to your iPhone apps:
It's not always easy to be an Apple fanboy: read "In Nomine Jobs, et Woz, et Spiritus Schiller" by Merlin Mann
I've installed Snow Leopard on my old 13-inch white Macbook (which I don't use for anything important). I've had no problems with it, but I'm going to wait a …
Menubar Countdown, my Mac OS X countdown timer application, has been tested with 10.6 Snow Leopard, and it seems to work just fine.
(But if anyone finds otherwise, please let me know.)
My wife and I bought a MINI Cooper S convertible almost a year ago. These are my thoughts about it:
The MINI Cooper convertible is the Apple Macintosh of cars. It's very expensive in comparison to other models with similar performance and features, and it has a lot of annoying …
[Note: The Remoting.Corba project is "dead", and has not been active for several years. If you need .NET-CORBA interoperability, I recommend checking out IIOP.NET. Archived Remoting.Corba documentation is still available via The Wayback Machine.]
Remoting.Corba is an open-source .NET library that provides interoperability between the .NET …
While working on an iPhone application, I decided I wanted to change the colors of the background and section headers of a UITableView with the UITableViewStyleGrouped style. It took a lot more work than I expected, so I'm sharing what I learned with anyone else who needs to do this …
I have previously written about my backup strategy. I've never really worried about backups too much. In the 30 years I've been using computers, I've never lost a hard drive.
...until last weekend. My wife's MacBook Air was displaying some funny behavior, so I ran Disk Utility on it. Disk …
On the drive home today, my ten-year-old stepson Bailey told me what he is going to have when he grows up:
The Mac App Guide video podcast has reviewed my Menubar Countdown application. The review includes a demonstration of how to use it.