You would be surprised to know that Microsoft doesn’t support a viable option to view embedded documents. Embedded PDF’s are the worst, even the .docx files doesn’t allow you to save even in latest version of Microsoft word for OS X.

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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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.

A colleague told me that I should be a QA Engineer in a random conversation few months ago. Though I did not consider it but he stands by it even now. So I thought why don’t I start a photo blog to share the random screens I capture in my daily routine.

PeerGuardian is a great tool to maintain your privacy. But you should be aware of a fact that it uses a sqlite db to maintain the history called history.db in its directory under Program Files.

Check dependencies Code Sign error: Provisioning profile

[BEROR]Code Sign error: Provisioning profile ‘579ACFD8-827A-4325-F623-DB8CDD5081DB’ can’t be found

Anyone who is relatively new to iPhone development could easily identify this issue is related to the invalid provisioning profile.

They only check the binary to see if they use any private API nothing other than that. Sometimes they reject the app and give you a reason that it doesn’t fit with their HIG standards. Eg., one of our app got rejected for this reason. They said + button should be used when you use add contacts to the app from Address book. But the same + icon was used in USA Today app and is available in appstore. Moreover we just copied the idea to have + to show larger images.

It seems nobody is using NOSCRIPT tag. I never used in my application as well. But it is surprising that even Google itself ignoring the NOSCRIPT.

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.