Image tribute designed by Jonathan Mark Even if you never met the man, if his visionary products helped your child to read and write at an early age, let grandparents see their grandchildren across thousands of miles without having to crowd around a computer, led the transformation of the mobile and music industry that pays your salary today, made product companies rethink their priorities towards customers, and most importantly made many of us want to make even a fraction of a dent he has made to this industry and shape our careers accordingly, its not surprising that on his passing you’d think you knew him very well and to ask yourself ‘What do you want to do before you go’?
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Adding a VPN server to ReadyNAS
Image (c) NetGear I recently purchased a 4 disk-bay Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ box. This was a few days after I lost 60% of my media collection because my HD just decided to stop working. And yes, I’ve been meaning to back up the archive, but never got around it, till it died. Hindsight is 20-20, I guess. Anyhow, the ReadyNAS NV+ is a great box. The nicest thing about it is that via plugins, you can convert it into a full fledged development box running linux. One of the things lacking was how to make this box a VPN server as well. I currently have OpenVPN running on an ‘always on’ home laptop, but it was better if I moved the VPN server to the ReadyNAS box as it is the one that is supposed to be ‘always on’ anyway. I searched around. There are several sites that give only partial instructions of how to get things working. No one site has ‘everything you need’. So I thought I’d post *exactly* how to do everything you need to get this working.
Tutorial: RouteWeather Using Google weather and Driving Directions APIs in your iOS apps
First off, let me say this: Google’s terms of service do not allow you to use their APIs for any commercial apps. So it is likely that if you use these APIs, they may never see the light of day in the app store, unless you negotiate a commercial deal with Google. Here is what we will be developing: Let’s assume you are planning a trip from Bethesda, MD to 90210, CA and you plan to drive (Yeah a road warrior!). You can get the driving directions from many places, including Google. What you also want is, what “what is the weather along the route”. Not only that, you want it for the day you plan to drive (so maybe tomorrow, the day after, or the day after the day after…) I often need this information. I don’t drive cross country, but I do drive and knowing the weather along the route and for the day I want to drive is very useful to me. I wish we had an app for that. Well, let’s not wish, let’s write one. In the process, you will learn how to: a) Use TBXML for XML parsing b) Use Google Weather and Driving
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Total Finder: Total Satisfaction
Every once in a while, I come across a tool that makes a big difference to you doing just small things. When I say ‘small’, I don’t necessary mean ‘simple’. I mean, it is so integrated into another tool that you may already use, that its differences are never in your face, but you feel it all the time. Before I confuse you any more, I am talking about TotalFinder by Antonin Hildebrand an extension to Snow Leopard’s Finder.The Finder is to Snow Leopard what the File Explorer is to Windows. You use it for everything – copying, deleting, finding, mapping drives and what-not. While the OSX finder is in many ways better than File Explorer, I also think it had limitations. Instead of telling you what they are, let me just describe TotalFinder and why I loved it.
Embracing digital tools for early development – all in 45 minutes a day.
When I grew up, it was common for parents (including mine) to assume that making your child watch TV, or play video games at an early age was not the right thing to do. Anything to do with TV or video gaming was assumed to ‘corrupt young minds’ and the general thought process was to ensure your child grows up on traditional things (like real physical toys, pen and paper, chalk boards and educational books).There was a valid reason for this – in old days, content in such mediums was purely for entertainment and little was done for conscious education for children. Interestingly, that notion persists very strongly even today. I have lots of friends who have brought up their children pretty much devoid of TV and digital tools. When I say devoid, I don’t mean a total ban. They let them use these objects once in a while, but not in a ‘let it help you grow’ mode. It is treated as pure entertainment and curtailed often to just one show, played over and over again, or just one game, played over and over again. It is impossible to state what is right and what is wrong when it
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