After months of careful research, kerning and tweaking, I gave a stroke to my friend and typographer when I proudly announced my next logo would be set in ITC Garamond Narrow. Thanks to him, it is perfectly kerned ITC Garamond Narrow but ITC Garamond Narrow it remains. There are too many reasons for this choice to go into specifics here....

As the baby boomers get older, an industry for using technology to monitor seniors at home is emerging. You can buy a packaged solution, or roll your own, but either way you might just find some peace of mind.

It seems the announcement of AOL working on an iPhone version of AIM before Apple releases iChat Touch – so to speak – has a few commentators stumped. In fact, many are speculating that Apple is waiting until it can enable video and audio chat to release a shiny, crowd-pleasing iChat, once again leaving the AIM guy in the dust...

I was up way way late and woke up way way early. I didn't sleep so you could--here are important things you need to know about the SDK.

Last weekend, I decided to expand Coverflow to work with my entire photo album. This involved exploring the MusicLibrary and PhotoLibrary frameworks to find out how I could extract a complete set of albums and their pictures. The PLPhotoLibrary class proved to hold the key. With it, I could request an album list, and then build up a dictionary of photos that linked back from the image identifier to the album it came from.

If you have even the slightest interest in the iPhone SDK be aware that Apple's servers are getting slammed from every direction.

The iPhone SDK is here (sort of) and that's certainly no reason to whine. But it has a few ugly dents in its shiny new coat: Apple takes a 30 percent cut from developers selling apps. Imagine what would happen If they would do that to artists in the iTunes store... "Third party iPhone and iPod touch applications must be...

As Apple prepares to announce the iPhone SDK in a couple of hours I'm torn. Haven't people been trying to convince us for years of the advantages of browser based applications? And Apple has put the browser on its list of strategically important pieces of the puzzle to own along with hardware and the operating system.

This week... Thunderbird 2 weirdness, Zoho Notebook rocks, JotSpot (Google Sites) doesn't, Streem.us is Tumblr with comments.

I was looking forward to using Microsoft Excel 2008 on my Mac to access MySQL tables using the MySQL Connector/ODBC for Mac OS X. But, that didn't work out. Here's what I found...