Category: ramblings

  • NAB 2005

    Found this languishing in my drafts folder. Interesting look back, at least for those who lived it. I definitely need to do a drink/gambling Sin Log the next time I’m in Vegas. Here it is, unedited:

    In the morning, we talked to a number of folks from Apple about their new products and the Xsan, […]

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  • FlintFone

    This is the ringtone for Derek Flint’s direct line to the President in the 1966 movie, Our Man Flint, which was a sort of parody of the James Bond movies of the time. The ringtone would also be later used as the sound of the electronic handcuffs in Hudson Hawk.

  • Objective-C on Twitter

    I run the @objectivec account on twitter, aggregating many RSS feeds of developers and other Mac/iOS/Cocoa/Objective-C development blogs.

    That’s it. Just wanted to note that. If you want to be added or removed (or have suggestions for same), get in touch.

  • Receipts, Neat and Otherwise, on Mountain Lion

    I have an old Neat Receipts scanner Scanalizer. I also have a Mac. Unfortunately, it seems that Neat Receipts may abandoning the Mac market with the release of their Neat 5 software, as it still only works on Windows (so far), and the Mac Neat 4 software still doesn’t work correctly on Mountain Lion. (This […]

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  • 3D Snowflake

    With some of the holiday cards I send out this year, I included a plastic snowflake ornament that I printed on my 3D printer. Granted, a relatively flat ornament is not the best design to show off what a 3D printer can do, but it is one that fits inside a holiday card envelope and […]

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  • Podcast URL Schemes on iOS

    I’m updating an app to make it easier to subscribe to a podcast in your listener app of choice, and am trying to see which URL schemes work with which apps. So far, I have:

    If you have other apps and URL schemes that will open podcast feed URLs on iOS, I’d love to know […]

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  • A Puzzle

    In the course of transferring film (24, or for our purposes, 23.976fps) to NTSC (29.97fps or 59.94 interlaced fields per second), we get what’s referred to as 3:2 Pulldown. What happens is that we get three fields from one frame of the film, two fields from the next, and repeat this forever. So, for frames […]

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Mark Boszko

Film & Video Editor, Voiceover Artist, macOS IT Engineer, and Maker

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