Just finished a scary but successful procedure on my iPhone 3G, Alhamdulillah. When iOS4 was launched, I upgraded, jailbroke and unlocked it. In hindsight this wasn’t a good decision. My phone got slow and sluggish. I knew I had to go back to the previous version of the software as the iPhone 3G specs are just not worthy of iOS4. What I needed to do was:
1. downgrade from jailbroken iOS4 to iPhone OS 3.1.3
2. jailbreak iPhone OS 3.1.3
3. unlock my iPhone  Read more...

There have been many times that my macbook’s battery is almost running out and about to die and I don’t pay attention to the icon in my menubar. The warning itself appears only when the battery level is 10% remaining. Recently however, this problem started causing more pain. My battery needs to be replaced, because of which at about 23% the machine will just shutdown. So I wrote a small script that calculates the battery power and along with some launchctl magic and growl, I now get a notification when my batter level is below 30%.  Read more...

Ever since Gmail came out with their tasks feature I’ve loved it. For my limited use, its simple, easy and usable. If you are using OS X, here is a quick way to create a dashboard widget. All you need is Safari, both versions 3 and 4 will work in the manner detailed below.  Read more...

These days who doesn’t have multiple gmail accounts. The popularity of gmail has skyrocketed in the last couple of years. As for me, I not only have multiple gmail accounts but also use the Google apps to manage multiple domains. Managing all these account efficiently can really be a challenge. Add to that if you have multiple machines, you are talking about possible serious lack of synchronization. I’ll share a couple of ways I have tried overcome this challenge.  Read more...