Category: My Tutorials

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EXOdesk, Your Virtual Desk;

Aasim Naseem, November 21, 2011April 7, 2025

Something that will change everything on your desk; I’m just loving the concept; EXOpc has posted a video of its EXOdesk — an interactive desk environment that lets you do all sorts of tasks on a virtual space on your desk — in action and it looks amazing. The actual…

Java

Java 1.7 G1 Garbage Collector

Aasim Naseem, November 3, 2011May 5, 2025

Hi all, Hope everything is going good at your desks; Last night, I was reading new features in Java 1.7 and found some updates in garbage collection mechanism; There are many updates in 1.7 ranges from core vm, i18n, Nimbus for Swings and other enhancements. We have already discussed the…

iOS

Getting a Screen Capture of UIView

Aasim Naseem, August 22, 2011April 27, 2025

Some times you have to capture a portion of you iPhone application programmatically; The quickest way is to pass the target view to following method and get its screenshot as an UIImage;

Code Repositories

How to delete .svn Files from Mac;

Aasim Naseem, July 18, 2011April 29, 2025

Here is a quick way to delete all .svn files from a particular directory and all its child directories: Open your terminal, navigate to the directory from where you want to delete .svn files;

Random Tips

Google Revamping his theme;

Aasim Naseem, July 8, 2011April 7, 2025

There were some changes in look & feel of goole services, that I has been noticing from last month; The Calendar and gmail has revamped; According to official blogs, it will take nearly next 2,3 months for final shape; Don’t know but right now its just look like a student…

Random Tips

Show Hidden Files on your Mac;

Aasim Naseem, May 29, 2011April 7, 2025

Last night i was working with SVN and need to delete .svn files in a particular directory hierarchy; I couldn’t find a direct way to do this so i moved to terminal and achieved this; So hows it go;

Random Tips

How to fix Skype crash;

Aasim Naseem, May 26, 2011April 7, 2025

This afternoon, my skype on mac suddenly crashed when one of my friend make call; And after that several attempts failed to relaunched it; Might be mac users were blocked by microsoft who bought the skype recently;

iOS

iOS Code Chunks – Part 2

Aasim Naseem, May 23, 2011April 27, 2025

Hello iFellows; Hope all are enjoying your life. Today, there are some tips for new iDevelopers. These code chunks will help you out to do some really simple and many-time-usable things. Bring coke and have some light track in iTunes. So here we go;

iOS

How to symbolicate iPhone Crash Reports;

Aasim Naseem, May 10, 2011May 5, 2025

Hello Everyone; Hows your developments going? Im sure you enjoy it as much as i do; Its really a fun; Today’s menu is related to iPhone Applications; We often notice that iPhone/iPod/iPad applications hangup or exit abnormally; It means the running application has been crashed due to some unknown reason; It really…

Random Tips

“Also Include” :: Gmail Feature;

Aasim Naseem, April 19, 2011April 7, 2025

I have been noticing a nice small update in gmail compose form; While adding your contact in To/CC/BCC fields, gmail automatically shows you some of your contacted you may wish to add in receivers list, as shown in image bellow; By just clicking on name, that contact will be included…