Recently a client shared updated requirement document, unfortunately the document was in PDF and I don’t want to go through 60+ pages of document for changes.

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.

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.,

I have used this command sparingly in the past and I recently learnt more options by solving couple of my problems. I really don’t know whether grep is the right choice here, but hey! it worked :-)

Task management app with little twist. Yep, Dug instead of clippy while nagging.

Idea is to log all our project ideas similar to logging notes in nvALT. This app runs in the background and randomly nag you to split a one line task you had logged earlier to multiple small tasks.

A Bookmarklet or a Browser extension to select the root element of a DOM (UL/OL) to view the Inverted tree structure of its child nodes.

Wish you all a very happy new year!

It is 2013, another chance for us/me to start a new beginning. I believed in Mayan so much, I never had a plan post 20th Dec 2012 :)

I wrote a small plugin for sublime text to develop salesforce. I’m glad to share one of my idea to project execution.

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

End credits from the movie Up 

iTunes logo updated with version 10 in Sep ‘10

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.

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.

I’ve recently stumbled upon studio.html5rocks.com and found the cool trick to display desktop notifications like Gmail.


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.

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.

It is unfortunate to know that Yahoo is going to shutdown/transfer the awesome Delicious bookmarking service.

Evernote does not support direct import of bookmarks from delicious as it does with Google notebook.  I wrote this script to move my delicious bookmarks to evernote for my use.