Apple has upadted their home page , over growing privacy concerns

    Apple has updated their home page over growing privacy concerns 

Head over here to know more on recent concerns over privacy and government role. And what apple has to say about it.

http://www.apple.com/apples-commitment-to-customer-privacy/

Why you should ditch other messaging apps and use iMessage

Messaging apps like whats app , Viber , Message me and audio and video calling apps like skype ,IM dont care much about your privacy. When you start a conversation with these apps,your data are stored on one of their servers and chances are you can being watched by Big Brothers. They can pretty much see all your text ,video and audio conversations you had .They might be secured by Secure shell protocols ,Which may prevent hijacking from hackers but thats least of a problem. 

So , Its a pretty big problem we have got. How do we fix it?

I dont have any plans to tell you how to fix it but you can avoid being watched by using some best alternative methods available. I personally recommend to use apple's iMessage and facetime, well if you have one of the apple devices and iCloud ID. Because they are protected by end to end encryption they cannot be read even by the apple and the data are not stored on  apple servers.The message you send directly reaches the end device. So there is no chance of MITM attacks , Data snooping , Government data request etc,etc.And many of us know that this very problem has angered even NSA for long time. So my personal recommendation : Use imessage and facetime. Although iMessage on iOs6 is little buggy and little cocky , i hope it will be fixed after the final release of iOs7.

How to show hidden files on Mac using Terminal

Open up terminal and then copy pase or simply type in

To show all hidden files

>> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles True
>> killall Finder

To un show hidden files 

>>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False
>>Killall Finder


Note: The command and arguments are case sensitive so type in the same way i did without missing the capitalisation.(">>" Dont include this while typing command, i typed this for showing purposes only)

Must have iphone apps 2013

Below are the apps i often use and i recommend you to use for better iphone experience.

 Flip board
It lets you view news on technology ,science , space, health within an app from many news website like Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Enadget , Tech crunch  , NY Times etc. Also it lets you access your twitter and facebook feed within an single application.

 Facebook
Social networking that i dont have to describe this to you.

 Camera+
It is the most downloaded alternative camera application , It lets you shoot in brust mode , offers better stabilization , lets focus and control exposures.Also you can edit photos on this application with some awesome filters and save them on the cloud.

Bump
IT lets you share contacts , photos music between iphone users via bluetooth.

Catch
It is the best alternative note taking app for ios , it let you use 6 space for free and every additional extra space cost 0.99$ which is pretty expensive for taking notes i think.

Omvana
Its the best Meditating app available on the app store , You can get some calming and soothing music for free and some you have to pay for it ,It has a growing number of users and community. It's worth downloading .

Uc browser
It's the best alternative available for safari , It lets you download files , store you files on cloud and access on all of your devices , It has a intuitive interface. You should download right now to find out how awesome this stuff is.

QuikIo
It is the media streaming app for iphone and ipad , You can stream literally all video formats from your mac or PC to your iOS devices.It's the best available on the app store.

 Pocket
It is an app that lets you save articles for offline reading from the web , You can save any page on the internet for offline reading , This app is available on multiple platforms . Once you save an webpage in one of your devices , it makes available in all of your devices. Download pocket for chrome here.

Flickr
It is a photo sharing platfrom , It lets you store photos upto 1 Tb for free in full resolution , Free and Paid services are available.

Viber
It lets you send text messages and make a voice call from smartphones using internet . Call quality is awesome and messages are sent pretty quick.

Msecure
It is an password storing app, Pretty damn secure having a good user interface. It lets you store password using a master password , You can save your personal logins and passwords of any type.
Its the best and may the most awesome password manager on the app store.

Fruit ninja
It an awesome game where you can slice up fruits like a pro ninja to gain points.

123D catch
Its an application which turns photo into a 3D object using your device camera , Where you should take 360 shots of an object to turn it into a 3D object .

Must have mac apps 2013

1. iwork suite (Office Suite)
Just like microsoft , its an integrated package from apple, It includes Pages , Numbers , Keynote. They are  pretty easy to use and cheap compared to that of microsoft.

2. Pixelmator (Photo Editor)
It's an alternative to Photoshop , It uses Macos X library to edit you photos. It can do nearly every pro photo editing like photoshop. Since adobe is moving for creative cloud , I would recommend pixelmator for every pros who hate expensive creative cloud fees.

3. Uberstrike (Games)
Its an awesome game , every gamer who has ever played counter strike will surely be in love with this game . In app purchases are seriously expensive and you have to strive hard to get into higher rank and get serious ammunitions.

4. Tor browser (anonymity)
Its for those who want serious anonymity. It comes with its own browser and own settings , so you dont have to be a pro to use a Tor. You can also change your identity and do some serious stuffs. I highly recommend downloading Tor.

5. Vuze (Torrent client)
Like bit torrent and utorrent  Vuze is a power house of torrent for mac. Its only for mac , It includes features like subscription, Inbuilt video converter for downloaded files and some other cool features you should probably check it out.

6. Pocket (Offline reading)
For those who cant leave safari for reading list , Pocket is the one. Its the most awesome offline reader or whatever you want to call it , you will ever see. It allows infinite saving of webpages . You can have pocket on your iphone, Ipad, android , mac and chrome browser. Just hit the button and your offline web page is ready.

7. VLC media player (Media Player)
Its the media player i dont have to say you should use it .Whole world uses it , World knows VLC.



Let me know which apps i missed and the apps you think must be listed as must have.

Features i would like to see on upcoming iOS7

These are the feature that i am eagerly waiting to see on upcoming iOS7.

1. More customizable Dont disturb.
2. Real multitasking specially on ipad.
3. More gesture based controls.
4. Easy navigation to frequently accessed settings like wifi , bluetooth , VPN , brightness.
5. Location based wifi , In which software knows we are out of the known wireless networks and then automatically turns off.
6. Awesome lock screen , I really hate iOS lock screen.
7. Siri with more capabilities.
8. Whole new look for new iOS7 , Apple believes that iOS is so simple that every kid can use it -perfectly- right away , But What apple doesn't know is Todays kids are more smarter than apple employees.
9.Ability to set default apps.
10. Ability to choose which playlists to include while playing music.
11. Removed  apple maps.
12. Better email management , labels for emails so that they can be classified.
13. Longer passcode or enhanced security.
14. Airdrop for file sharing or any serious file sharing abilities.
15. Changed safari interface, Extended f
16. Offline maps.
17. New interface for native iOS voice recorder.
18. Ability to send voice and video messages on face time.
19 . Integrated facetime and imessage.
20. Better control over photos.
21. Google is the default search engine.
22. Secure and better third party integration.
23. Data tracking , More serious privacy stuffs, ability to know which app is sucking up personal datas.

Arguments with basic terminal commands

1.find

a. find . -iname "filetofind" 
i= search case insensitively
name= search by name
The portion indicated by double inverted commas is the file you need to find.
. (dot) refers to current directory

b. If you need to find file that are accessed  in time interval within 1 day.

 find . -iname "*" -atime -1

* are wild cards they can replace any keyword or name you want to find

c. If you need to find files that are modified in time interval less than 1 day.

find . -iname "*" -mtime -1

mtime= modify time

2. rm filename

a. rm filename (use this command to remove file)
b. rm -r filename (use this command to remove directory)
Since we cant remove directories simply,  so using argument -r with rm removes file recursively.

3. mv filename 

a. mv filename ./Desktop 
for full details of mv command refer here

3 must have extensions for better youtube experience

This post is not for pro users, In this post i've listed some of the fundamentals but highly recommended tools for better youtube experience.

1. Download Ad blocker
Download Ad blocking software , I use chrome in my case ad block is the best. There are also many ad blocking extensions and tools for the browser of your choice. Ad blocker eliminates the ads from your web pages making your web experience less distractive and clean.

2. Video resumer
It is the extension that is specially useful for youtube. In case you left watching a long video on youtube or your browser suddenly crashes, It is useful when you open the same video again. This handy extension resumes from the last time you left off.

3.Youtube video downloader
It is available for all web browsers, For firefox you can download ant downloader and for chrome You can download youtube video downloader from the chrome store.

Let me know if i should have listed other basic things that should have been on the post above on the comments below.

MV command - Two different types of arguments

In mac terminal mv command is capable of doing 2 things based on arguments supplied, mv command can both move and rename files.

1. If two file name is supplied

mv filename1 filename2

This command renames filename1 to filename2


2. If the filename and the destination file is supplied

mv filename1  ./desktop/folder1

This command moves filename1 to folder1

Basic Terminal commands part 2

Welcome to the second part of basic terminal commands , To get yourself started- Here are some of the  basic terminal commands you must know.

1 . mv

It moves the directory

2. rm

Removes any file or directory

3. mkdir

Make a directory

4. man 

Its an argument actually, that fits on any command for eg type man cd and then you can see how to use cd  command. man is used to find how to use a specific commands, details about the commands and what arguments can be supplied to an specific command.

5.scp 

Securely copy any files to destination.

6.wc

Counts the words within a file or if valid arguments supplied can count words of a directory.

Basic terminal commands

Im very sorry - i've been lazy these days. Lets get to the point now,
If you are migrating from windows to mac then u might be in trouble as i were or in anyways you are in  trouble  learning Mac osx terminal then you dont neet to worry. Grab a pencil and paper -In this whole month, My blog is going to be flooded with Terminal commands.

1. ls
It lists the contents of a directory like we use dir command on windows.

2. cd
It  chages the directory

3. .
Note : above command is a single dot it is used to refer a single dot , type in cd . in your terminal and find out what it does and remember there is space between cd and dot.

4. ~
It stands for home directory in Macosx type cd  ~  to find out what it does.

5. pwd
sorry it does not shows passwords in Macosx it stands for print working directory or simply prints the directory you are currently in.

6. cal
It prints the calendar of the current month

7. users
It prints users who are currently registered on your machine.

8. ps or top (They are different i'll come to that point later on my blog, For now you should know that it works)
Watch the process running on your Macosx.

9. clear
It clears the screen

For now all you need to know is this , If you have any question regarding advanced terminal commands which may include and not limited to piping , grep commands , ssh commands , ssh- keygens , standard i/o or  finding stuffs feel free to leave the comments below or contact me.