I was discovering some apple related blog/site feeds . I found a YoutTbe RSS pointing to 1984 Apple’s Macintosh Commercial at YouTube having more than 20,000 ( to be exact 27237) RSS subscribers . It got my sudden interest . But when i opened that feed and subscribed to it . It has no post , not even a single one ever . I dont understant how is this possible . Is it a possible Google Reader bug? . BTW this much popular video has 2,215,447 views at YouTube as i write this and has 2459 text comments . Its a quite popular Video commercial of Apple . View it here .

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That’s 95 MBs, pre-checked by default, bundled into a security patch and ready to be downloaded without asking the User.

The other day i downloaded XCode from Apple site to have some experience of Apple development . And also the iPhone Development kit . After i downloaded the software it asked me to update my OS to latest version from Software Update tool before i can install the downloaded Software kit . It was irritating to know that . I dont find any reason why i should be having latest OS X version . Though I have 10.5.3 version of OS X . Latest one is 10.5.4 . I did not want to update my OS version . Rather i found a cool fast trick to get the Mac OS X version to any number i wanted . Now i have Mac OS X Leopard version 10.5.5 before apple has seeded this version . Continue reading »

I have been using Virtual CD/DVD mount tool like Alcohol , Daemon Tools in my windows machine to mount any CD/DVD disk image especially for games play. But in mac i couldn’t find such Virtual drive creator tool . In Fact in mac disk mounting can be done from Mac’s ( OS X ) inbuilt disk utility . The disk utility mounts files like .iso but today i came across a file which needed disk mounting . The file name was .bin and the associated file to mount was having .cue extension . The file actually is from VTC online tutorial series CD . Finally i managed to mount the .cue file and read the content inside .bin file with the help of Toast Titanium software in Mac . Below is the video showing how i did that.
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