Marc Charbonneau’s Blog

All I can say is, it’s about time. Unfortunately for those of us who have been looking forward to using this on a day-to-day basis, the term ‘beta’ seems very appropriate in this case. In the short time I tried it I noticed several problems, including two crashes when disconnecting from a session.

From Ars Technica: Connect your computer to your iPhone’s EDGE. It’s a little complicated, but with some work it looks like you can use your iPhone to create an ad-hoc WiFi network, which you can then use to share your EDGE internet connection.
I’m glad to see this is possible, even though it’s a long way [...]

I finished Runner’s Log 1.0.3 last weekend; have a look at the changelog, or download the new version. 1.0.3 has several new improvements, but it’s mostly bug fixes and cleaning up some old code that I wanted to get out of the way before I started on a bunch of new features I’m planning for [...]

I came across two new sites today thanks to Bagelturf; Cocoa Traces and Code Beach. Both are repositories for those small, useful pieces of source code that are always nice to come across when you’re looking for the answer to a common problem.
If you’re still reading this you’re probably well familiar with it by now, [...]

If you want to build a Cocoa application that works with iTunes, take a look at the free EyeTunes framework from liquidx.net. Dealing with iTunes through AppleScript is no picnic; it seems like this might be a good alternative. Maybe I’ll take my old playlist generator out of retirement and see if EyeTunes can solve [...]

A neat pre-processor trick from Brian Cooke showed up on Daniel Jalkut’s blog today. It’s useful for anyone working with beta software that needs to expire after a certain date; instead of putting a new expiration date into your code each time you release a build, you use the gcc __DATE__ macro.
// Two-week expiration
#define EXPIREAFTERDAYS [...]

Once you grab the latest software update, that is. I always thought it was a bad decision to not include fullscreen in the free QuickTime player, especially given the number of hacks, scripts, and terminal commands that anyone could use to get around this restriction (but still weren’t as convenient as cmd+f). I’m glad to [...]

I’ve been using the ReportViewer .NET control recently for a project at work. I’m using a collection of data objects as a data source, and while the ReportViewer itself works great, the documentation doesn’t really go beyond putting things together in the Visual Studio designer. It’s actually just as easy to do the configuration in [...]

Gus Muller’s OSX application FlyGesture is now freeware, and the best kind of freeware; the kind that has all the effort and polish of a commercial application. Gus released FlyGesture for free based on poor sales when it was shareware, which is disappointing, but I think understandable. Out of all the application launchers for I’ve [...]