TL;DR If you have a Apple Portable within the 1yr manf. warranty, stop reading and go and buy Apple care if you haven’t already.

Youtube - Randy Pausch Last Lecture | Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

The idea supposed to be named as iBooks 2.0 well it is taken by Apple yesterday :)

The original pointers of this idea from my notebook are

Here are the collection of snippets to do CRUD operation with ZKSforce (Force.com toolkit for iOS).

Remember this is a SOAP based API, there is a new alternative library available from salesforce called MobileSDK for iOS.

For the first time in history, I am publishing resolution list online, let see if this helps.

1. Shed at least 5kg weight
2. The iPhone4s which can’t resist myself from buying should be the last gadget for the year.
3. Donate the pile of books I’m keeping to the library
4. Publish at least 2 iOS apps
5. At least 2 mac apps
6. Publish at least 5 prototype from my idea vault.
7. Gift at least one device
8. Author 5 library/codes on Github
9. Gift/sell my other devices - Too many Apple devices 
10. Learn a new language/Framework (Ruby, Coffeescript, Node?)
11. Build at least 2 Html5 app/util
12. A vacation? I didn’t leave home for almost 4 yrs.

Other than this there are quite a lot like perfect pitch training, learn a music instrument, painting etc., I carry from previous years.

Integrating iCloud with core data was easy when I found this tutorial, but I ran into few issues while implementing and testing it on devices. And here are the steps how I managed to solve it.

If you would like to keep tabs on your bandwidth usage?

http://122.160.230.125:8080/gbod/gb_on_demand.do

It is good to know your usage, the 10GB fair usage plan from Airtel is peanut for my usage as I download a lot of TED & iOS Dev videos from iTunes.

If you are like me, who use more than one machine to develop iOS app and wants to install 4.x and 3.x simulator without re-downloading it on every machine? then I’ve got a solution.

I recently uninstalled all previous versions of xcode (I had all xcode from ios 3.2.x) to install 4.2 on my MBP. Although I freed around 30 GB, noticed an issue shortly. A process named BTServer is utilizing high CPU usage.

Update (2016-01-20): The app is now available on Mac App store.

Additional menu clock for your Mac. A minimalist clock to display time of different timezone of your choice.

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

End credits from the movie Up 

iTunes logo updated with version 10 in Sep ‘10

Not many of my ideas are converted to a project, this one has seen its light last week. Though I haven’t completed all the UI and features of my original vision, it is better to have one working idea than nothing.

I really liked the background image pattern used in testflightapp.com. It is so cool that I have replaced my all time favorite iPad-Safari-fabric texture to gray varient given below.

One of my long time wish to write a Chrome extension completed last week. It all started when my answer was down-voted at apple.stackexchange.com, the original answer was based on my experience sometime ago I was searching to migrate my links between my Instapaper accounts.

Update: I recently found this site called diawi.com which allows you to distribute the app similar to file-sharing sites, drag and drop ipa file and share the link to the testers.

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Recently I was in need of generating sample images for no. of products in my db. I really hate to create a copy of image for each products in my db.

Notepad++ on windows has this beautiful option “View all characters” to display all invisbile characters such as line endings.

I recently started using Git as my revision control tool. Impressed by the use of branching and merging, I create and merge a lot of branches. Our company use SVN and other peers were not aware/interested in Git. So I took the initiative to use svn-git. After months of progress I left with so many branches for features, svn, QA-release and quick-fix for released builds.

I’ve recently stumbled upon studio.html5rocks.com and found the cool trick to display desktop notifications like Gmail.