For the past 2 or 3 months, I’ve been busy developing a product, which I’m announcing now. It’s called as MKSync and it’s a iPhone client for Syncplicity. The product is in its early release phase and I intend to  submit it to AppStore by this month end. Currently I’m looking for beta testers. I’m looking for around 10-20 beta testers. As and when needs arise, I might increase the limit. I would prefer...

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...

Many a times, in an iPhone application, you might need to format the date relative to today. This code snippet will help you do it. + (NSString *) formattedDateRelativeToNow:(NSDate *)date { NSDateFormatter *mdf = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; [mdf setDateFormat:@"yyyy-MM-dd"]; NSDate *midnight = [mdf dateFromString:[mdf stringFromDate:date]]; [mdf...

PS: This post has nothing to do with Apple, iPhone, programming, Windows, Microsoft. Sometimes, I do pen down my personal thoughts on my blog. Read it if you are an atheist. Read it if you aren’t either This should have been my first blog post. I wrote this on a piece of paper around 7 or 8 years ago, during my college days, when Internet connection was intermittent, I didn’t have a blog let alone a web host. == God == Our...

The detention of ShahRukh in US has created a lot of furore, not just in India but in the Internet World as well. I first thought it was the stupid Indian media that created the hype. But the topic started trending in Twitter, and here is a screen cap from Bing, which says ShahRukh is a “Popular” search now (17th Aug 2009). Bing Says ShahRukh is a popular search now... Just about three weeks back, when the man who I revere next...

bit-ly-rest-api-objective-c Introduction Of late, many programmers who develop for Windows/Linux have moved to iPhone because of it's runaway success. Among the most successful apps on the Apple AppStore, first comes games (yeah I can hear you, fart apps!!!). Next comes apps like Tweetie and others those consume a web service (REST or otherwise). Games are pretty difficult get started especially if you aren't a game programmer. However,...

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...