The following photo was taken using my hi-res super macro camera, Canon S5 IS. A quick comparison in the displays of iPad, iPhone 4 and Nexus One. The iPhone 4 display is clearly superior. You can download a higher resolution version of this image by right clicking the above image and clicking “Save link as…” Be forewarned, most low end computers can’t even open that image (as on the date of writing this). The...

Anti-DRM fans might quip, but iPhone Developers love this digital signatures and provisioning as it reduces piracy dramatically. But all these aren’t free. Provisioning comes with a cost, especially when you write a iPhone app and want to share it with your friends/clients for beta testing. Apple has an excellent documentation on how to do an AdHoc build. Yet still, most users stumble upon especially when they have to make a build...

Like most of you, I too downloaded the 3.2 beta and was playing around with some iPad stuff. Today when iPhone OS 3.1.3 is released, without second thought, I immediately updated my iPhone. My iPhone being a development device, I understood that I can no longer use the current XCode installation to run apps on device. When I launched XCode, the Organizer reported, “The version of iPhone OS on “ABC’s iPhone” does not match any...

With the outburst of Twitter and microblogging services, many companies who want to make some quick money started services that include, URL shortening like tinyurl, bit.ly, tr.im and others or image sharing services like TwitPic, yFrog and so on. However, due to lack of a proper business model, some of these sites are struggling to meet their bandwidth costs. Because most of these services are just a week long PHP programming work,...

I know… For ages, I’ve been an egosearcher… But just today, I noticed that Google is suggesting my full name when my first name is typed. Am I really this popular??? Ego Searching with Safari And now in Google Website itself… Ego Searching in Google Am so happy...

A 404 Error page usually informs visitors that something they were looking for is not found. I wanted to create a useful 404 error page for my blog and site. If it is only for a blog, I would have done with a multitude of plugins available for WordPress like smart 404, AskApache’s Google 404. A quick search for “404″ in wordpress extension site will reveal atleast 6 pages of extensions. But much to my bad luck, they...