I was too lazy to write blog post for a long time. To break my lazy streak, here is something I wanted to write and procrastinated for at-least 6 months.

I’ve recently integrated Apple Pay for an iOS app. Though I have heard it is very easy to integrate and lot of tutorials available, I could not find overall requirements/activities involved in integrating Apple Pay.

Speedy is a Speed reading application for Mac OS X that lets you speed read the text contents.

It is based on speed reading technique/methodology called Spritz

Speedy is an utility application for Mac OS X that lets you speed read the text contents.

I created to read the emails & news faster, as I have a tendency to lost in ’endless space between the words’ with my lack of concentration or I should say gift of imagination?

Last Sunday, I got to try iPad pro with all its accessories (most of the outlet here has only iPad pro without keyboard & pencil).

I was one of the very few people who held on to the last cat OS X (Mountain Lion). I had to switch to Mavericks at office to play with the new shiny language Swift.

If you did not have enough time to go through the 50G contents from WWDC'13, I highly recommend you to watch the session 228, aptly named “Hidden Gems in Cocoa and Cocoa Touch”.

Finally I found a good usecase to test the Sudden Motion Sensor of my macbook pro. I was curious to know whether there is an impact of cooling pad’s fan.

Last Thursday one of my iPad app’s provisioning file has expired. Client brought it to us at the very late moment, the iPad app was distributed internally as an enterprise app. App users are for HVAC technicians, app integrates with their organization’s CRM (Salesforce) so distributing it with App store doesn’t make any sense.

If you are experiencing frequent disk I/O and your console is full of

25/08/12 4:30:19.506 PM ALSPlugin 235.55[62]: Failed to get brightness for displayID 0x042731c0

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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.

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

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 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

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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Yes, every post you come across suggest the same thing, hold your power button and home button for X seconds. Though it is true, unfortunately I had a couple of situations my iphone doesn’t respond to the key combinations. And some time it is very frustrating to hold your buttons so long.