Software / Technology Tips

otool is a command-line tool shipped with Xcode and can do things similar to Dependency Walker in Windows. Where is it located? /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin How to use it? For instance, to know all the dependencies of libcurl dylib the following can be done: cd to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin $ ./otool -L /usr/lib/libcurl.dylib Result:   /usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0,…

Introduction : While developing a gaming application, everyone wants to add background music to play all the time when user is playing the game. Corona sdk provides API that simply plays the music using 1 line of code. Description : Let’s take a scenario. We have a game board page, where user plays the game…

Introduction : Its a very common practice, to display countdown like 3, 2, 1 and then the game begins. So today we will see how can we make our own custom countdown. Description : Let’s say we have a gaming board page where we will play the game but before starting we will add countdown…

This tip demonstrates how to create, retrieve , edit and update an costume Entity in Online MSD CRM 2011 Using WCF and LINQ Query. To know how to connect to an Online MSD CRM 2011 using WCF Services check out Abhisek’s tip on it. step 1: Connect to Online MSD CRM 2011 using WCF Services.…

Sometimes there is a need to detect the face & face features in an image,now we can detect the face very easily in iOS 5 with just  adding a few lines of code.We can detect the number of faces visible in the image & we can also detect the position of  eyes & mouth. 1)…

1. Switch between open applications: This is perhaps the most common desktop activity: switching between applications opened by you as and when you need one. You can use the mouse, but here’s the faster way: Alt + Tab: Hold down the Alt key, and press Tab repeatedly until the window you want is active. Then…

In this tip I am not going to explain how to create new DNN module and its settings. Instead, I will try explaining how to register a new user and login from a custom module interface by using Dotnetnuke class methods. User Registration Interface: For building a Custom Registration module we need to have required…

Output caching enables one to store the generated output of pages, controls, and HTTP responses in memory. Due to it’s power and awesomeness,  it had tempted developers to use the  namespace into their projects and in other applications such as Windows Forms and WPF apps. In the .NET Framework 3.5 and earlier versions, ASP.NET provided…

A few tips for copying text to clipboard and how to use buttons like forward and backward like  in browser and changes color of scrollbar. 1. If you want a  page to have a forward and backward button to navigate forward and backward (similar to basic functionality of a web browser) you can use the following code. 2. If…

For scrolling to the top of the document , we can write a javascript like : window.scrollTo(0,0); But its transition effect is left visible . If we want a smooth animation to show the scrolling , we can use the following jQuery code : $(‘html,body’).animate({ ScrollTop: 0 }, 1000); In order to scroll “hml/body” you…