A Passionate Technologists' Journal

How many of you know that you can search for a particular word in the webpage loaded in safari on your iPhone/iPod/iPad ? Most of them might say "No", because i was one of them before. Because, the solution is kind of hidden from the user's direct view. It could save you even hours when you come across a situation where the webpage is too long and you just want to know about a specific topic, so that you can skip everything and just jump to the section you wanted. Here's the trick to find a specific word in the webpage : Let's say i am on "saru2020.blogspot.com" (This is not too lengthy yet). But, still we need to take an effort to find an article that we are searching for. Let's say you want to see only the articles related to "iOS7", then definitely that is a huge task which consumes time. Instead, we can just search with the keyword "iOS7". That is what exactly we're gonna do now. Now, g...

  SARAddressBookBackup : This is an iOS library to Backup the Contacts in iOS Devices as .vcf file. Also, the Example project in Github illustrates on how to email the .vcf file. The .vcf file can also be accessed/shared through iTunes File Sharing. Story Behind its Birth : Searched the App Store for Apps that could backup all my contacts in my iPhone5. I would usually go mostly with free apps (Kind of a Freebie). When trying to backup my contacts, most of the apps asked me to purchase to backup contacts more than 500 or 1000 or whatever, completely depends on the app developer's decision and i have to abide their rules. I have more than 1000 contacts in my iPhone Contacts App. Finally, i found an app that backed up all my contacts, and it even allowed me to send the output file to my email, but that was not reliable (The app crashed several times). [Note : I didn't mention the App name here :) ] Just thought of how hard it is to develop an app that ...

MKLocalSearch provides a simple way to find local points of interest within a geographic region. Because of its no-hassle webservice integration and tight integration with MapKit , any location-based app would do well to take advantage of it. Usage : MKLocalSearchRequest *request = [[MKLocalSearchRequest alloc] init]; request.naturalLanguageQuery = @"Hospitals"; request.region = mapView.region; MKLocalSearch *search = [[MKLocalSearch alloc] initWithRequest:request]; [search startWithCompletionHandler:^(MKLocalSearchResponse *response, NSError *error) {     NSLog(@"Map Items: %@", response.mapItems); }];