Push Any Notification from your Mac/Windows to Iphone using GROWL

Yes you can now push any notification which Growl shows on your system to iphone.

If you are not familiar with GROWL, it is an application which run on Mac and Windows and display messages on your system in a beautiful window. For example when Email arrives or FTP transfers completed or your new song begins to play etc.

The catch is that you need a system which will remain ON (live on internet) and your system will push notifications to your iPhone and iPhone will receive notification through PROWL Application on your iphone.

You need to register at PROWL server which is FREE.

How this works:

Your system sends any notification through GROWL to PROWL Server. PROWL server push notification to your iPhone through Apple PUSH Service.

For detail instruction how to setup this on Windows:

http://cybernetnews.com/push-gmail-iphone/

and for MAC

http://lifehacker.com/5309573/set-up-push-gmail-on-your-iphone

Learn iPhone Application Development for Free

Are you interested in developing Applications for iPhone? You can take a course for Free? Well now you can. You can take a free course available online by Stanford University. All videos and slides are available on itunes. You can search on itunes and download course by typing:

Standford iphone Application Programming CS193P

Enjoy learning

Whole course is about 10GB including all videos and slides and it will be taken offline I suppose after summer. So be quick to grab all lessons.

MPlayer OSX Extended Rev 10 & VLC 1.0

Two new FREE video players are on the top of my list if you want to watch Videos on Mac, For example if you want to watch HD movies (.ts, .mkv) files then MPlayer is excellent choice. You can also turn on Anti Aliasing (you may need to experiment with different settings). I found MPlayer quite good. Infact VLC was unable to play some movies (like .ts file) but MPlayer played them quite well.

Make sure you download the latest version of MPlayer rev10 as most sites has old version.

VLC has also released its 1.0 version which is major upgrade. It now plays videos quite smooth but it still has some glitches to be sorted out when playing various (.ts) files.

Quicktime X looks so beautiful on Mac Snow Leopard, I wish all these players should follow its video window.

Enjoy your videos.......

Virtual Boxes(Sun Virtualbox 3.0, Parallels Desktop 4, Vmware Fusion 2.0.5) for Mac Brief Comparison

Sun Virtual Box 3.0

I have installed and tested it on my Snow Leopard. It is FREE solution and a very good one. But it lacks behind speed as compared to Paralles and Vmware. I also found some glitches in Share Folders Access.

Parallels Desktop 4.0

Parallels Desktop has improved a lot, Before release 381 it was quite buggy, but now it works as smooth, I found its seamless integration "Cohesion" very good better than other two products

Vmware 2.0.5

Vmware is fastest of all and it is very good Virtual Solution. Previously I has problems with Share Folders, they were too slow. Now they are blazing fast.

I also recommend to install portable versions of the Application in virtual box to have optimized performance. Presently I am using VMware Fusion 2.0.5.

iPhone 3g, OS 3.0 and Pakistan Carriers (Warid, ufone, Zong..)

If you have recently upgraded your iphone 3G to OS 3.0 and you live in Pakistan then here are the steps to follow to get most our of your iPhone:

1. Jailbreak your phone by using RedSn0w and then unlock your iphone using Ultrasn0w Software from DevTeam. Apple has not launched iphone in Pakistan so we don't have any other option...Sorry Apple!

2. Turn on your MMS & tethering. To turn on Tethering visit here and select custom carrier, I use waridTel, so APN is warid. Yours differ. Check your mail from iphone and download the file which is send by the site and click install. You will then see Tethering option available in Settings->General->Network

3. To enable MMS simple put the MMS settings (as shown in the pic.) in Settings->General->Network->Cellular Data Network.


4. Caller ID Fix, You will notice that some of SMS does not have names, To fix this go into the Cydia and download CallerID and Format (iSpazio) Fix for OS 3.0.

5. More Later.......