Sparkle is a module that developers can stick in their Cocoa applications (five-step install!) to get instant self-update functionality. By that, I mean that your app will be able to update itself, not just check for new versions: it’ll read the update information from an appcast on your server, download, extract, install, restart, and even offer to show the users release notes before they decide if they want to update.

SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of ATA hard-drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.-status of your hard-drives. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard-drives that acts as an "early warning system" for pending drive problems. Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA or S-ATA hard-drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your FireWire hard-drive, send feedback to Apple. SMARTReporter 2.1 can notify you of impending drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.

This little patch holds the same power that started the computer revolution. Armed with my limited digital design knowledge, I set out to create some well known circuits from within Quartz Composer. I started out building a full adder. This takes three inputs and produces two outputs. When you chain these together, you can make an N bit adder. You have one in your CPU right now, chugging away at thousands of operations a second.

Quickly find the colors that best match your design. Create and share harmonious color schemes in almost any Macintosh application. Have a color wheel handy whenever you need it.

I am now a QA Engineer on the iChat team, at Apple

Unnsse Khan wrote me yesterday and asked the question, "Why are Macs better than PCs?" I thought about it for a while and decided that I'd write my reply as a public blog entry. After all, I've been a poster boy for Macs for a while. Almost every serious

The default (tcsh) command shell of Darwin (the open source core of OSX Panther)