If you were following my tweets, you might be knowing that I got a invitation from Microsoft to test Microsoft Office 2010. Invitation to test Microsoft Office 2010 Yeah, From the screen shot it should be evident that I’m using a mac now. I testing Office 2010 by installing it on my Windows 7 Virtual Box image. Being a usability guy myself, In this article, I will primarily focus on usability aspects of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and...

OK, many of the programmers would have been confused as how to design a dialog on your website. In what order should the dialog contain the OK and Cancel Buttons? Should it be OK – Cancel like Windows or Cancel – OK like the Mac? Are there any “rule of thumb” why a certain standard should be followed? Or is it just a matter of taste? Firstly Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines state that, rather than OK or...

Bluetooth receivers come in various forms and shapes… They “claim” that they support A2DP and AVRCP. So do mobile phones. But not all models of receivers “play nice” with all phones. In fact, if you read the “fine prints” in the user manual, you might even encounter something like this… This product *may* work. We don't guarantee anything...! [ad#AdBrite-Post] So,that doesn’t mean...

Well, you know that there has been a lot of twitter clients like iTwitter that already offer push. So why another push notification app for Twitter? what’s so special about this app? - In one word, It’s innovation… In my review here, I’ve splitted it into two parts. What’s great vs What’s missing… [ad#AdBrite-Post] What’s great about Boxcar Push Notifications? - You don’t have to switch...

Sending an email from your iPhone application is something which you normally want to do it asynchronously. But unfortunately, prior to iPhone 3.0, the only way to send email was using mailto:// url format. i.e, [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL: @"mailto:john.appleseed@apple.com"]; The technique was clumsy for one reason. It quits your app and launches mail. To our rescue, comes in-app email. In-App...

SG BBoM iPhone App is designed specifically for use with SingTel mobile broadband plans. The rationale behind this development is, SingTel doesn’t send you an SMS or alery when your mobile broadband data charges over shoot the free limit. Overshooting the free limit even by a 100MB could cost your dearly. According to SingTel Excess usage will be charged at $0.01/2KB. Which means, a megabyte of data, (1024KB) will cost you about...

codeproject Everyone knows SVN (Subversions) is the best version control tool on the planet. XCode, though, might not be as great as eclipse or Visual Studio, it offers one of the best integration with open platforms than both eclipse and Visual Studio. Apple scripting and XCode makes XCode even more powerful. In fact you can set up keyboard shortcuts to directly search the selected function name or keyword on Google or Apple Docs....