• Bit by API Changes

    Mac OS X Lion has changed some of the internal workings of various APIs and as I don't work much on Mac apps, I didn't care too much. However, one app I work on got bit by this pretty hard. In various places in the NSDocument based app, I called:

  • Goodbye old friend (Quicken)

    Back in April when there was a lot of talk about Mac OS X Lion coming out and it not supporting Rosetta. As I relied on Quicken for my accounting and have been using it for almost 20 years, I decided to start looking for a replacement sooner rather than being forced to make a decision when Lion came out. Intuit was pretty quiet about what was happening with Quicken and considering the last real Quicken version was Quicken 2007 (Quicken Essentials could only give me a snapshot of my investments and not track them), I didn't have high hopes for an Intel native version of Quicken coming out for Lion.

  • Looking for beta testers - iPad movie app

    Have you tried to edit video in iMovie on the iPad and found your video doesn't appear?

  • The Art of Googling

    Several years ago, I wrote about how librarians will become experts in web searching. While I still believe that this is true, there is no reason that everyone can't become masters at getting good search results. Lately, I've noticed that the ability of people to effectively search using a search engine (my engine of choice is Google) is quite limited and if people learned how to search better, it would really help them.