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.

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


HD for good configuration computers | SD for little out of date computers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

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.

Until recently I was not aware of the shortcut _Ctrl + Cmd + C _

It captures the complete content of the iPad simulator to the clipboard, You can save it to a file by File -> New from Clipboard with preview.app

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)

Recent search on iTunes listed the Madison Area Technical College classes on iPhone development by Dr. Brad Larson

Session on OpenGL ES 2.0 recommended by Gurus. Go and download the complete sessions from here

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.

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).

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.

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

Saurik will be doing the UI for us ;)

If you use GotoMeeting to record video of the shared screen, make sure that you DO NOT use G2M3 codec. It does a great job in compressing the size of the video but it is not compatible with OSX or any OS other than Windows.

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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.

I was planning to write a post similar to this for very long time. My intension is to help beginners to know the jargons and best practices. Please add your comments and I will update.