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

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).

I love the theme of the Pure Reader for Safari (http://nadesign.net/safari/). I’ve ported the CSS as a userscript to use it with Google Chrome. Firefox need some css modification pls find the css here.

I created this custom UISplitViewController as one of my iPad project required Split view for only one screen. The default UISplitViewController provided by Apple can only be added to UIWindow which means you can’t use it with normal UINavigation based project with only one splitview screen.

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.

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.

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. This was done in the following sequence screenshot + zoom + screenshot. You can see the same with the UIPageControl aligned little left instead of center.

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:

1. Launch iTunes
2. Log out of your account (if any)
3. Scroll down the iTunes page and hit the flag on the right
4. Select your country of interest
5. Try to buy a random free app (Note: You will see payment option None only when you register after/while downloading a free app)
6. iTunes will ask you for your credentials, hit open a new account
7. Accept the terms
8. Enter a valid email, pick a password and so on. Hit next
9. Select “none” as the payment method. Then fill in the form with some random address in the country you picked (Google maps is your friend) or avail the service from http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/
10. Finalize & click the validation link in your email

Thanks: AppAdvice

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