Welcome to Borkware

Borkware LLC specializes in Mac OS X Consultation and Software Development. The creation of Mac OS X software, utilities, as well as providing random information about Mac OS X development is our mission. Borkware is the brainchild of markd, with help from rzolf and a cast of several. Borkware, changing the world, one bit at a time.

Last Quickie added Mar 07, 2012

What's New

• I've moved the MiniBlog over to WordPress. (August 23, 2007). Check it out in its new home.

• OpenGL at the Ranch, some scribblings about my week at the Big Nerd Ranch taking their OpenGL course. (November 10, 2006)

• Faux Collection Class Subclassing, a new Guest Rant from AgentM. (March 16, 2006)

• Attention: A spammer has been sending spam with @borkware.com return addresses. They are not coming from us. (July 17, 2005)
• Come to the next Big Nerd Ranch Core Mac OS X Bootcamp, June 13-17, with MarkD at the helm. (March 14, 2005)

• Second Special Guest rant from AgentM, Elegant Delegation (March 11, 2005)

• Special Guest rant posted: A Better NSLog(), by AgentM, co-founder of CocoaHeads. (February 14, 2005)

• New rant posted: Making Inspectors for NSDocuments, using NSWindowController to make a shared inspector window. (February 4, 2005)

• Updated BorkWare: Borkware Drip 1.1, a retro-style screensaver. (Jaunary 15, 2005)

• Woo hoo! We've just hit our 200th Quickie (January 25, 2005)

• New BorkWare: ThumbBorker 1.0 has been released. A quick image thumbnail generator. (Jaunary 15, 2005)

• New rant posted: STUC on You, using the Scsi Toolkit User Client to read data off of DAT tapes. (January 9, 2005)

• The Borkware Miniblog has been revamped and better than ever. (January 5, 2004)
• CryptoGrammer has been released. A letter substitution puzzle solving aid. (January 21, 2004)
• Here's a way to import MIDI files into GarageBand (January 21, 2004)
• Attention: A spammer has been sending spam with @borkware.com return addresses. They are not coming from us. (January 12, 2004)
• MarkD writes up how to do cheesy web backups using rsync (December 31, 2003)