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.

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.

Notes.app of miPhone was not allowing me to save any new notes. This was after restoring the manual backup of notes.db. I have taken the backup of my Address book, notes and images data with iPhone Explorer.

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.db in its directory under Program Files.

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. I don’t have any clue on what to delete I have tried CCleaner to delete the history to save some space.

How to batch/bulk rename files with automatic sequence number? Try the following shell script from your terminal (OSX/*nix)

1. Create a new directory
2. 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. My eg., rename only the png files of the directory (there were no other extensions available).

i=0; for x in *.png; do cp \"$x\" "newdir/some_prefix_$i.png"; i=$(($i+1)); done

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.