Blog Archive

Custom UIButtons via Subclassing

While working on Capo for the iPhone, I had a need for UIButtons that carried custom state. For instance, the dual-state play/pause button which has highlighted variants for each state.

Subclassing UIButton isn't entirely straightforward, so I figured...


Capo 2's Innovation

I recently wrote a lot about why capo doesn't do automatic transcription, but there was still more to the story.

Obviously, I shipped Capo 2, and it is a huge success! But, why? Where is the innovation?

Keeping Records

During my research on automatic...


A Note on "Auto Tabbing"

I read a few articles about Capo 2 lately, and noticed that some authors have claimed that Capo will "automatically tab out" music. Here's what Capo's product page says:

Tab it Out!

By simply drawing atop the spectrogram, Capo will generate...


FuzzMeasure 3.2.2 - Fighting Poor Recording Levels

This afternoon I released FuzzMeasure 3.2.2, which you can download from http://fuzzmeasure.com.

The largest change in this release is an important one, as I believe I may have finally found a 'silver bullet' to deal with widespread confusion about...


Capo 2.0

After nearly a year of research and development, Capo 2.0 is here!

Now that the cat's out of the bag, you can see why I've been hacking on OpenCL so much. As a result of my OpenCL use, Capo 2 requires Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Sometimes I need to...


Booting the Ultimate Boot CD in a Mac Pro

I spent way more time than I should have getting my Mac Pro to boot a version of the Ultimate Boot CD

I have some WD Green Power drives in a ReadyNAS NV+, and the latest one I purchased was parking its heads far too often. Its load cycle count was...


FuzzMeasure 3.2

Today I've released FuzzMeasure 3.2 out in the wild for the world to use. Here's the official press release.

I think this is a very solid update to the app, and I'm happy to finally have it in my customers' hands after such a long time. For me, the...


Indie+Relief

If you've not already heard it elsewhere, the Indie+Relief page contains all kinds of great, independent Mac software for sale, with all proceeds being donated to the crisis in Haiti.

All my products: TapeDeck, Capo, and FuzzMeasure are a part of...