Apple’s Marketing Secrets

What do you attribute Apple‘s success to? Steve Jobs? Usability? Cutting edge technology? Innovation? Or their extra ordinary marketing skills? I think much of Apple’s success is because of their marketing focus. The customer experience focus comes from marketing focus. Steve Chazin, an Apple veteran, has written an insightful eBook – Marketing Apple. The eBook […]

Official iPhone will be in India soon: Rs. 8000 for 8GB

Update: iPhone 3G was launched in India. But with exorbitant price tags. 31K and 36K are just too much for this phone. I don’t suggest buying it at this price. Wait a few more months! The price will come down! (Photo Credit: James Martin/CNET News.com) The latest version of the iPhone will be launched around […]

SuperDuper Backup

If you are on Mac, you must get SuperDuper! and an External Harddisk for yourself. What is SuperDuper? SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable and easy to use. I discovered SuperDuper about two months ago […]

iPod Nano Calendar sync problem

I haven’t figured out a solution to this yet.. I sync my iCal calendar events with iPod Nano 3rd Generation via iTunes. I can see the .ics files when I go to the folder in Finder. But the events do not display on the iPod. This is puzzling me.. Is it because of the @ […]

Search and Replace Recursively using sed and grep

I have done this so many times, still I find a new problem doing recursive search and replace each time! Here’s one small shell script that puts the issues I had on the Mac doing search and replace on a directory recursively. Save the file as rpl.sh, chmod it 755, and execute it like: [code]./rpl.sh […]