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2011 in review 1 Jan 2012 | 12:40 pm
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 180,000 times i...
MacBook Pro SSD upgrade may cause fan to run constantly 1 Aug 2011 | 04:54 pm
If after the upgrade to SSD you’ll hear the fan constantly running, reset the SMC – http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964. Initially, the fan could come on due to SSD hard drive getting indexed. Regardle...
JSON Lint 22 Sep 2010 | 05:19 am
I came across a really handy tool to validate JSON strings. Kudos to the authors of this tool. Nice job!
Arduino 18 and Sanguino 18 Aug 2010 | 08:19 am
Today I upgraded to Arduino 18 and none of projects were compiling when I was using a sanguino board. I kept getting this error: The sanguino folder does not include the main.cpp file. Instead it inc...
1Password slows down Safari on startup 12 Aug 2010 | 04:51 am
I had purchased 1Password a while back. It is a password vault application for the Mac and iPhone. The application is pretty good. But the 1Password extension/plugin for Safari ought to come with a wa...
iPhone voice memo to MP3 6 Aug 2010 | 09:28 am
Today I tried the iPhone Voice Memos for the first time and recorded a meeting that lasted for 55 minutes. To get access to the voice memo file you need to sync the iPhone with your computer using iTu...
Blog stats 14 Jul 2010 | 10:19 am
I normally don’t go out of my way to look at my blog stats. But just now as I was looking up something on my blog, the latest page views stats caught my eyes: 472,472. It is unusual to catch a symmetr...
UITextField: how to dismiss the Number Pad keyboard 12 Jul 2010 | 10:48 am
By default the Number Pad keyboard unlike the default keyboard does not have a “Done” button. I tried a number of different techniques to dismiss the keyboard, e.g., set the UITextField’s delegate to ...
Mapping cellular signal strength to 5 bars 5 Jul 2010 | 02:58 am
By now you may have heard about the reception problems with iPhone 4. Apple has mentioned that the real problem has been with the way they mapped signal strength to the famous AT&T 5 bars icon (where ...
XCODE – change compiler version to 4.2 1 Jul 2010 | 09:24 am
I’m running the latest version of xcode (3.2.3), which includes gcc 4.2. Today when I upgraded core-plot I ran into syntax errors with UIView.h. This was due to xcode using gcc 4 and not gcc 4.2. Usi...
