If you have a home automation that you want to control while you're away, via the web, Mac software developers are ready to help you out. And can iPhone solutions be far behind?

After chatting with iPhone developer Cobra about his most recent UICoverFlowLayer example, I decided to simplify UICoverFlowLayer creation. What I found was this: programming cover flow is eerily reminiscent of programming tables. Like tables, you create a data source method in your main application. This data source supplies your coverflow layer with images on demand. And, like tables, you build delegate methods that react to selection changes. When a user taps on an image, you can catch that selection change and do something about it.

I'm sure when you're an Apple engineer heads down in a room grinding out code you can lose sight of the people you are building these products for. You could. I'm just glad you don't. I'm grateful to every Apple engineer who took the time to make this machine powerful enough or me to use every day and easy enough for my daughters to do everything they can dream of doing.

F/FOSS for Mac OS X - KDE for Mac OS X and Sun bought the group behind VirtualBox.

iStopMotion 2 lets you create your own stop-motion video classic. Create the next Gumby, Wallace and Gromit, time-lapsed nature video, or the passing of time outside of your window. The only problem with this software is the urge to keep playing with it.

Haven't been to Macworld Expo in January, or did not invest in a Conference pass? No problem: a wide selection of presentations from the Users Conference, MacIT Conference, and Specialty Programs tracks from this year's Macworld Expo San Francisco are now available online at Macworld Encore.

I haven't tried EyeTV recently, but the newest version convinced me to dive in again, and the results have been quite good. But you'll want to purchase carefully if you're thinking of buying right now.

As a Mac software consumer, the MacHeist price is obviously a huge attraction. Although the individual developers may not make a huge profit (or maybe any profit?), I think they will benefit from this in the long run. Why? Here's my take...

This past weekend, I made a startling discovery. Apple included another log function, hidden in its GraphicsServices framework. It's called GSLog and as far as I can tell, acts almost exactly like NSLog except it works correctly and will redirect its output

O'Reilly is now distributing the "Take Control" series from TidBITS. If you check out the list you'll see a lot of tempting titles. It's an interesting way for O'Reilly to build out their Mac and iPhone list in addition to the books they publish themselves.