If you have Airtel broadband + unlimited bandwidth then you are lucky to enjoy IPL without commercials. YouTube IPL channel can be viewed with 2Mbps speed without any extra cost.
Apple App-store bug
It was showing same app Parking Mania Lite twice :)
Update [28-Mar-2010]
Wondering what’s wrong with appstore app? is this an API issue or dequecellidentifier issue?
How to connect to multiple MySQL servers from PHP
Most of the PHP developers remember only the first three parameters of mysql_connect (host, username, password). There is a fourth parament called $new_link a boolean existscreate a new link. The default value is set to false.
Building Dynamic Websites (LAMP)
Harvard university offers a course on PHP/MySQL based Dynamic website development (CS75 - Building Dynamic Websites). I found the contents are full of rich information. And I recommend this to all PHP developers.
Steve Jobs - Stanford Commencement Address
Steve Jobs - Standford commencement address 2005. Jobs at his best.
Weird issue with application icons on iPhone dashboard
Note: Apple reported this as fixed in version 3.1 and above. The screenshot above was taken with an iPhone OS 3.0 on a 2G device.
Firefox : Settings are not saved
I was having an issue recently that none of my settings/preferences were saved in Firefox. It opens the Firefox updated page along with extensions updated page every time I open the browser. The manual override of about:blank is also not reflecting.
Sync Contacts from your Nokia to iPhone without outlook
It is possible to sync your contacts to your iPhone without MS Outlook? Yes.
Steps
- Export your phonebook to CSV
- Import the same to your Gmail account
- Sync contacts from your Google account with iTunes.
Notes:
- In addition to Google, it is also possible to sync with Yahoo, windows address book, MS Outlook.
- To export your phonebook you need Nokia PC suite. It doesn’t copy the SIM contacts; but the same can be imported directly in iPhone.
1. Open your iTunes, select your iPhone and click the Info tab.
Lord Ganesha in the background of iPhone compass app?
How to test your iPhone applications with iPad simulator?
iPad can run most of the iPhone (iPod touch) applications. After installing the iPhone SDK 3.2 open your iPhone simulator and select below from the menu
First iPad program
I managed to install iPhone SDK 3.2 beta today. I installed it on my Snow Leopard 1.6 (Note: the minimum requirement of iPhone SDK 3.2 is 10.6.2). But the installer didn’t ask me to update OS before installing.
iPhone SDK 3.2 beta for $29
I’m little surprised to know that the new iPhone SDK 3.2 beta requires 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard). And, no SDK for 1.5 (Leopard).
Hello world!
Everyone starts with a “Hello world” so do I. No idea on what I’m going to write; will I ever write something useful.
Skin-is-skin
I’m very much disturbed after viewing the following video.
It is an excerpt of the documentary Earthlings watch it and share.
Wish You A Happy New Year 2009
www.prjx.org is down
Friends,
prjx.org is down at the moment, so all the projects/files hosted there won’t be available now. Please use contact me if you need the files.
SVN: Export only updated files between 2 revisions
Are you someone like me who is looking for an SVN command that exports the files updated between two revisions? Until now, I used to say that there is no such command available in SVN by default, or maybe now they have a feature to build in the next release.
Google Chrome : Hybrid of all
- Webkit as rendering engine like Safari
- Tabstyles are from Flock
- Startup page similar to Opera speed-dial and Flock myhome page
- Paste and go in the address bar like Opera
- No menu bar like IE 7
- Tab-to-window and vice versa from Opera/Safari
- Incognito browsing similar to Private Browsing
- Create Application Shortcuts like Mozilla Prism
What’s new in Google Chrome
- No two separate textboxes for URL and for Search
- Every tab is a separate process
- Innovative Search, composite of Tortoise Merge (any Textdiff app), Firefox’s (Highlight All) findbox positioned similar to Safari
- Built-in support for Google Gears
- Above all its from the giant Google
SVN: Auto UPDATE WORKING COPY after COMMIT
In one of our recent project, we were looking for an automated script that update the working copy of our dev server as soon as someone commit the changes to the SVN.
Google Chrome : The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application
Symantec causes this issue and the temp. solution is to disable the sandbox. And the solution from Google Groups is
You can try running Google Chrome with --no-sandbox
(you need to edit the properties of the shortcut you use to launch it).