Jackie Chan is the first action star I remember from my childhood. I know Bruce Lee and his fame but never seen his movies, coming to think of it, I do not remember if I have ever seen any one of his movie complete at all, to date. But I can remember so many scenes from my first Jackie Chan movie Who am I though I have never seen the movie after 1998.

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 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.

I was in Bangalore for two days, I kinda liked it.

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.

End credits from the movie Up 

iTunes logo updated with version 10 in Sep ‘10

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.

HD for good configuration computers | SD for little out of date computers

For those who wants to see all levels without completing a level or struck in a level, here is the hack, copy the following code, paste it on url textbox and hit enter.

I have designed the following as one of my side project required a simple radio buttons and checkboxes.

Download the *.png files.

After all the hiccups over years, we were able to witness the ultimate glory of bring back the cup to India after 28 years. India is a nation with at-least 50 million cricket experts including me. Though I’m not a professional player or an expert I do have rights to talk (who cares anyway)

Update: Check the extension and more information @ Idea to action: Tile this 

I was recently hunting images for a sample design. I was trying to find a pattern that can be tiled/repeated to fill.

I guess like me there will be many people often confuse appointments/client calls due to timezone differences.

I am not talking about people who send/receive schedules from Outlook (or similar apps).

You get the idea? You are not looking for the UI code are you?

Saurik will be doing the UI for us ;)

Youtube link

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iTunes 10

Another iTunes upgrade, I don’t want to see another 100Mb iTunes upgrade till next month. Many people were fighting over the icon, Guys! they have changed the boring icon after a decade.

Only yesterday I got a chance to view the Keynote video. You can also download the video from iTunes for Free.

Disclaimer: There is no alternative to real Mac, if you like Mac go and buy it. If buying a real Mac is too much, you can at least buy a license for Mac OS X Snow Leopard which costs $29 only. This post is to test the Snow Leopard compatibility with Lenovo 3000 N100.

Angry Birds is one great app in Apple App Store that worth every penny (Full version is only $0.99)

I am not a great gamer, I give up on games too early. But this Angry Birds is one hell of a game (next to Road Rash & NFS II) that makes me addicted for a long time.

• iPad didn’t replace common tasks. Steve was referring his notepad on stage:). Old habits die hard.
• Steve can still memorize 24 countries and repeat them in the same order. Bravo! Good job Steve.
• Yes, he appreciated Microsoft for their HTML5 demos.
• Now the revenue will be shared  60-40%. 40% of iAd revenue to Apple.
• Will FaceTime work if there are quite a few devices on the Wi-Fi network?
• If FaceTime is Open, then H.264 and AAC too?
• If the same front side glass was used in the back of iPhone 4, can we replace the backside glass for the front in case of damages to the front?
• 29$ for bumb ( a band covers the antennas’). Come on Steve, let the poor guys live with the iPhone/iPad cover business.
• FaceTime is open since it use many OpenSource tools & standards.

are few points I noticed during Keynote.