Written by Scott Williams who lives and works in sunny Phoenix, AZ. Twitter is also a place.

The iOS Development Calendarw

January : “We just had our biggest sales quarter ever!” - Apple, adding another $20B to their bank account. April : Speculation of what’s…

Things I Learned When Making a Podcast

We just published episode 2 of the podcast . I’m still very new at this, but I’ve already learned more than I anticipated. Most of these…

Let's Talk Photo Licensing

Recently, Flickr started to sell photos uploaded by its users marked with the Creative Commons license that allows commercial use . They’ve…

How to Add a Noise Gate in GarageBand 10

GarageBand is a decent amateur audio editor and is also free. I use it to edit my podcast , which has worked out ok. Dealing with audio…

My New Podcast

I’ve been a fan of podcasts for ages. I listened to Bill Simmons’s show since it was called “Eye of the Sports Guy”. I listened to Dan…

Star Wars Episode VII Soundtrack Titles

I found the names of the songs on the Force Awakens Soundtrack. Don’t worry, no spoilers. 1 20th Century Fox Theme Star Wars Main Theme…

Copying the Current Page From Safari

If I’m preparing a bunch of links for a blog post or something, it’d speed things up if I could hit a button and have the computer do…

Holiday Meals Ranked in Order of Meal Glory

Family is cool and all, but really, the reason we have holidays in AMERICA is to eat too much. Here’s how they rank. This is not opinion, it…

I Once Caught a Comet that was THIS Big

We landed a spacecraft on a comet . This in itself is pretty cool, but apparently not many people are familiar with the size of the comet in…

Thoughts on App Store Beta Review

A little while ago Apple acquired the parent company of TestFlight and began integrating its beta testing services into the iOS…

Pricing for Emergency Contacts

Pricing is tricky for mobile apps these days. When I was developing Emergency Contacts , I knew I had a few options to choose from: Free…

App #2 - Emergency Contacts

I made another App(!) It’s called Emergency Contacts and is available for your iOS 8 device. It’s a real fast way to display information…

Dealing with Xcode and Swift

I like Swift . But Xcode’s support of Swift is… lacking (to be polite). My biggest woe is that code completion up and vanishes in projects…

X-Wing Nostalgia

X-Wing was one of my favorite games when I was a kid. I played it on my family’s rather old 386 . It didn’t have a CD-ROM drive, and didn…

The Best Customer Service

A few years ago I was at a steakhouse for a company dinner. I had ordered the King of Steaks, a Rib-Eye medium rare and was looking forward…

Thoughts on Swift

Swift is a new language developed by Apple. I’ve been using for a few side projects. On my first glance, I thought Swift would be a great…

A Trip to Joshua Tree and Back

[Editor’s note: the author will try not to make any terrible U2 jokes, but no guarantees, k?] On drive back from visiting my grandfather…

Performance Detractors

PED’s are one of the long-time kerfuffles in sports. I had a thought about how to solve that controversy the other day. First, embrace PEDs…

Porting DB5 to Swift

I’m a big fan of using the DB5 library for customizing an iOS app via a plist configuration file , and I’ve used it in several projects…

Podcasts I Listen to (July 2014)

5by5 Specials 5by5 at the Movies Accidental Tech Podcast 5by5 After Dark Back to Work CMD+Space CocoaRadio Debug Developing Perspective…