Saturday, October 15, 2011

Update to XCode 4.2 in Mac OSX Lion

Today i faced a strange problem while updating Xcode from 4.1 to 4.2 using mac app store in lion. Mac store was giving me a option to update Xcode to 4.2. So i pressed update button. It was written 1.6GB. But to my surprise it downloaded around 3.4 GB (i think it downloaded reference library). When download got finished i clicked on Xcode icon in launchpad to install. But after installing Xcode was still 4.1. Many might have faced this problem. Finally i was able to install Xcode. you can follow the steps given below. Correct me if iam wrong here or if it didn't work for you

  1. Un-Install XCode by command  sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
  2. Restart your Mac
  3. Delete the file XCode Install.app from your mac. It could be in your Applications directory or in Downloads or wherever it is. Delete from trash also. (Here Xcode Install.app is the previous installation file which you used to install XCode 4.1 in lion). This is very important step.
  4. Now go to mac store, search for XCode and install
I am yet to explore Xcode 4.2. Happy coding
Thank you

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Keep Passwords Safe

     Today we live in two worlds. One is real world and other is virtual (internet/cyber/computer) world. Even-though both worlds exists in different space, they are connected, and we can say they are interconnected.
    To make private belongings of a person safe in internet world PASSWORD is the key factor. For email, twitter, Facebook, bank account etc password is the protector. But most people do mistake here. Everyone has difficulty in remembering passwords. So they keep same password for all accounts. Another reason for keeping same password is, most sites use email-id as the login or username. So people think we have to give real password of their email id while creating the account. This we can see practically see in Facebook accounts. While creating Facebook account email-id is taken as login or user name, then it asks for password. People simply type same password of their email id here.

The thing i want to put forward is

  1. Don't use same password for all your accounts
  2. If email-id is asked as login name while creating a account, then don't use the same password of that email id for new account.
  3. Don't use option of remember password in web-browsers (Firefox, chrome)
  4. Use some uppercase letters and numbers in password to make it hard to guess
  5. If you are using public computer use Private browsing option in Firefox and new incognito window in chrome
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