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.

This is something I’ve started in Jan ‘15. This is to practice a habit of keeping a log of stuff I do which took me a lot of time to figure out myself (may be I’m not efficient?).

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

Last weekend I was fortunate to be a technical evaluator of an hackathon. Yes, I’m trying to be vague here, as my company sponsored this event at a most reputed university of our state,  this post is just my view.

I was cleaning up my mac before handing it to systems on my last job. I had a couple of days just for the Knowledge Transfer of projects and nothing else. I have always run two or three passive self policing apps like Rescuetime and Timing etc.,

TL;DR: Yes, you can. If you are only interested in the steps skip to the relevant section.

I own a Raspberry Pi for closer to a year now. I was not able to use my Netgear N150 (WNA1100) dongle until last week with it, I was kind of lost my enthusiasm by this bitter experience and hold my experiments for long time. Other than installing some console emulators and XBMC in last 6 months, I have not done anything with my Raspberry Pi.  You can refer my adventures here and here.

I had my one-on-one meeting for 2012-13 appraisal this week. I was disappointed with the feedback given to me. Well, I have been _work_ing for very long time, and I know if you are not hurt then it is not an appraisal.
We received a lo..ong email from my manager couple of days before the one-on-one meeting, explaining his expectations from resources. A week after we submitted our self appraisal. Though unofficial first rule of appraisal is not to talk about appraisal, I couldn’t help myself from posting this.

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.

Project planning is always a difficult task for me. I could do anything to skip the project planning because for following reasons:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Color me surprised, I was amazed by his replies. Here is my favourite one

Harsha Bhogle: What you strive to do as a leader? Understand people?

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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.