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.

I was always disappointed with Apple Keynote pages. It allows you to stream and watch the videos with QuickTime which is not great for streaming and videos are not HTML5 yet.

Warning: My observations are biased as I’m not an Apple Fanboy, at least right now (was one in the past, I both respect and hate Apple & Microsoft)

Notes.app of miPhone was not allowing me to save any new notes. This was after restoring the manual backup of notes.

Last Saturday I was successful in installing Snow Leopard on Sony Vaio with Core i3 Processor. I have tried many distro’s in past 2 years and I can tell you it is not easy to install on any given PC.

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.

No matter how large your hard drive is, the data will grow to fill the disk! Recently I was running out of space on both of my internal 120Gig and external 320Gig HDD.

A quick obj-c cheat-sheet for the beginners. Scribd link This is taken from RWTH-iPhone Application Programming. You can also download complete videos from iTunesU.

How to batch/bulk rename files with automatic sequence number? Try the following shell script from your terminal (OSX/*nix) Create a new directory Run the following command (you can replace newdir with the your directory name and some_prefix with your prefix the same applicable for extension as well.

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.

What if iPhone provides an accessibility option for users with bigger finger? I found that pinch to zoom and screenshot capturing can be considered as good photo cropping tool.

Please find the below presentation which explains obj-c for web developers (js/php). This is taken from SXSW'10. I’m also searching for the video will share if I come across any.

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.

Follow the steps below: Launch iTunes Log out of your account (if any) Scroll down the iTunes page and hit the flag on the right Select your country of interest Try to buy a random free app (Note: You will see payment option None only when you register after/while downloading a free app) iTunes will ask you for your credentials, hit open a new account Accept the terms Enter a valid email, pick a password and so on.

If you have Airtel broadband + unlimited bandwidth then you are lucky to enjoy IPL without commercials. YouTube IPL channel can be viewed with 2Mbps speed without any extra cost.

Everyone starts with a “Hello world” so do I. No idea on what I’m going to write; will I ever write something useful.