My another article on Empress Mehr-un-Nisaa (Nur Jahan) can be found in Issue3 of LAFZ Magazine, Page 136;

Article on Zēb-un-Nisā Makhfī was featured in Issue2 of LAFZ Magazine, Page 76.

And peaceful! And full of life. Real life! I love how the night sky shines and rotates. I love how the snow is so peaceful. The green of the trees! I’m even flipping out at how gorgeous the rocks are. God, why would anyone want to live in a city after watching this. Nature, man. Nature.

The timelapse video of Yosemite was made by Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty with a Canon 5D Mark II. I have heard and read about Yosemite in different blogs and I remember it being beautiful, but this ?? Really amazing;

(source: gizmodo)

That was April of last year when, coming back from Shahdara town, I instantly turned my car on side road leading to this building, just to extinguish the thrust of  my saunterer soul;

Image taken on Apr 3, 2011, 16:55h

The name is derived from Bara means twelve and dar means doors; Kamran ki baradari was a twelve door building on the bank of River Ravi; The river changed its course over time, with the result that the Baradari stands not on the bank but in the waters as an island while the gardens have deteriorated;

Image taken on Apr 3, 2011, 16:30h

It is the ostensibly the earliest known Mughal monument in Lahore, said to have been built by Prince Kamran in the 1520s; However, the pavilion more likely dates to the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) as certain architectural features such as the use of cusped arches were not employed until Shah Jahan’s reign; The attribution of the structure to Prince Kamran likely derived from local oral traditions which were picked up by Latif when he collected material for his comprehensive book on Lahore’s architectural heritage in 1892;

Kamran Mirza, sometimes known simply as Kamran was the second son of Babur Mirza, the founder of the Mughal dynasty; Kamran Mirza was born in Kabul; He was half-brother to Babur’s eldest son Mirza Humayun, who would go on and inherit the Mughal throne, but he was full brother to Babur’s third son, Askari; - wikipedia

See the complete album at my Picasa web album; Due to an instant visit, I couldn’t manage a good video cam for streaming, but I tried to shoot some good angles of this building;

Note: This post is a part of my visits in my free time, specially to different historical places; Some of them were documented under Saunterer Soul category; 

Today’s menu is again simple and short; We’ll learn how to integrate AdMob in an iOS application. I will show you the easiest way to integrate AdMob in the application. So lets start;

Step 1: Open the Xcode, Create a new project using View base application. Give the application “AdmobiPhone”.

Step 2: Xcode automatically creates the directory structure and adds essential frameworks to it. You can explore the directory structure to check out the content of the directory.

Step 3: Xpand classes and notice Interface Builder created the AdmobiPhoneViewController class for you and generated a separate nib, AdmobiPhoneViewController.xib for the “AdmobiPhone”.

Step 4: First go to www.admob.com site, we need to register in this site for AdMob. After login, goto Sites &Apps –> Add site/App –> Select a site or app type –> Select iPhone App (See figure 1)

Next we need to full fill details (See figure 2)

Now you can download the AbMob SDK, it is required for publishing Ads and drag drop into the Xcode project.

Step 5: We need to add framework in project, so select the framework -> add New Framework -> Select AudioTollbox.framework, MediaPlayer.framework,MessageUI.framework and SystemConfiguration.framework add in the Framework folder.

Step 6: We need to add one background image in the project.

Step 7: Open the AdmobiPhoneViewController.h file, in this file we need to import GADBannerView.h file and create a instance of GADBannerView class. So make the following changes:

#import
#import "GADBannerView.h"

@interface AdmobiPhoneViewController : UIViewController {
GADBannerView *AbMob;
}
@end

Step 8:  Now open the AdmobiPhoneViewController.m file and make the following changes in the file.

</pre>
<div>#import "AdmobiPhoneViewController.h"
#define AdMob_ID @"a14dccd0fb24d45" // You can get this id from www.admob.com. This is Publisher ID

@implementation AdmobiPhoneViewController

- (void)dealloc
{
AbMob.delegate = nil;
[AbMob release];
[super dealloc];
}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
// Releases the view if it doesn’t have a superview.
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];

// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren’t in use.
}

#pragma mark – View lifecycle

// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
AbMob = [[GADBannerView alloc]
initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0,
self.view.frame.size.height -
GAD_SIZE_320×70.height,
GAD_SIZE_320×70.width,
GAD_SIZE_320×70.height)];

AbMob.adUnitID = AdMob_ID;
AbMob.rootViewController = self;
[self.view addSubview:AbMob];

GADRequest *r = [[GADRequest alloc] init];
r.testing = YES;
[AbMob loadRequest:r];

}

- (void)viewDidUnload
{
[super viewDidUnload];
// Release any retained subviews of the main view.
// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}

- (BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:
(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}

@end</div>
<pre>

Step 9: Now compile and run the application on the device.

So long its been when I lost posted anything on my blog; The reason was again the same, some tight schedules and some other home activities; But Notw I’m back; Say welcome please;

Today’s post is simple; Me and my team is using Git now a days for my code management; So here are some git commands for daily usage; I’m not going to describing their usage in details; This post is for busy developer who just want to know the exact syntax of a command for a particular requirement;

So here we go;

Fetching code from a repository;
git clone git@<your repository path>
This command will download all code from a particular git repository to your system; This is equivalence to SVN/CVS checkout;

git pull origin <branch name> Will fetch updated code from remote repository to your system; Its just like update in SVN/CVS;

Play with branches

git branch Will display all branches of your current repository
git branch dev Will create a new branch named dev, to current repository; Note that this branch is only to your local repository;
git checkout dev You will be switched to dev branch locally;
git checkout -f B2  Forcefully switch to B2, reverting all your changes of current working branch;

To commit your code
git status Will show all your changes for current working branch;

git add <file/directory name> Will add a file or directory in commit queue of git; This commit is only to your local repository; You can add one or more files/directories with this command and can your this command multiple times as well;
Tip: If there are more then on file in a directory, then just use the directory name in add command and git will all modified files to commit queue;
git add -u will removed deleted files from git status message; Sometimes many deleted files are shown in git status log, so this command will remove those deleted files form git’s logs;

git commit -m ‘message” Will commit the previously added files to current local repository;

To merger code from B1 branch to B2 branch

Assuming that you have pushed all your local changes to remote B1 branch ;

git checkout B2 Will switch you from previous branch to B2 branch;
git merge B1 Will merge the code in B2, from B1; (The code of B1 will be merged in B2 and B1 will remain intact) Again note that this change will occur only to your local repository;
git push origin B2  Will push your code to remove B2 branch, from your local repository;

To Revert your changes in local repository

git checkout path/to/file/to/revert This checks out the current index for the current directory, throwing away all changes in files from the current directory downwards.

git reset –hard HEAD Will revert all of your changes in current working branch;

If you know any command for git, just dont’ hesitate to share with us;
Happy Development;

Here is my another tutorial for iOS application; I’m composing a series of tutorial on different topics; You can find rest of the post under N-FAQ and iOS category;

So here w go; In this application we will see how to Email Send in iPhone. So let see how it will worked.

Step 1: Open the Xcode, Create a new project using View Base application. Give the application “EmailSend”.

Step 2: Xcode automatically creates the directory structure and adds essential frameworks to it. You can explore the directory structure to check out the content of the directory.

Step 3: Expand classes and notice Interface Builder created the ViewController class for you. Expand Resources and notice the template generated a separate nib, EmailSendViewController.xib for the EmailSend application.

Step 4: We need to add MessageUI.framework in the application.

Step 5: Open the EmailSendViewController.h file and make the following changes:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import <MessageUI/MessageUI.h>
@interface EmailSendViewController : UIViewController
<MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate>{
}
- (IBAction)SendMail:(id)sender;
@end

Step 6: Double click the EmailSendViewController.xib file and open it to the interface Builder. Drag the round rect button from the library and place it to the View window. Now select the button and bring up Connection Inspector and connect Touch Up Inside to the File’s Owner icon and select SendMail: method. Now Save the .xib file, close it and go back to the Xcode.

Step 7: Open the AlertViewViewController.m file and make the following changes:

#import "EmailSendViewController.h"
@implementation EmailSendViewController
- (void)dealloc
{
[super dealloc];
}
- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
// Releases the view if it doesn’t have a superview.
[super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
// Release any cached data, images, etc that aren’t in use.
}
#pragma mark – View lifecycle
/*
// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
}
*/
- (void)viewDidUnload
{
[super viewDidUnload];
// Release any retained subviews of the main view.
// e.g. self.myOutlet = nil;
}
-(BOOL)shouldAutorotateToInterfaceOrientation:(UIInterfaceOrientation)interfaceOrientation
{
// Return YES for supported orientations
return (interfaceOrientation == UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait);
}
- (IBAction)SendMail:(id)sender
{
if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail])
{
MFMailComposeViewController *mailer = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
mailer.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[mailer setSubject:@"A Message from iPhone"];
NSArray *toRecipients = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"", @"", nil];
[mailer setToRecipients:toRecipients];
NSString *emailBody = @"Have you Nice Day";
[mailer setMessageBody:emailBody isHTML:NO];
// only for iPad
// mailer.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationPageSheet;
[self presentModalViewController:mailer animated:YES];
[mailer release];
}
else
{
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Failure"
message:@"Your device doesn’t support the composer sheet"
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:@"OK"
otherButtonTitles: nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
}
#pragma mark – MFMailComposeController delegate
- (void)mailComposeController:(MFMailComposeViewController*)controller didFinishWithResult:
(MFMailComposeResult)result error:(NSError*)error
{
switch (result)
{
case MFMailComposeResultCancelled:
NSLog(@"Mail cancelled");
break;
case MFMailComposeResultSaved:
NSLog(@"Mail saved");
break;
case MFMailComposeResultSent:
NSLog(@"Mail send");
break;
case MFMailComposeResultFailed:
NSLog(@"Mail failed");
break;
default:
NSLog(@"Mail not sent");
break;
}
[self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}
@end

Step 8: Now Compile and run the application on the Simulator.

Thats all; If you found anything confusing, do let me know or comment here;

from:eduMobile

Here’s an excerpt:

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 69,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

EXOpc has posted a video of its EXOdesk — an interactive desk environment that lets you do all sorts of tasks on a virtual space on your desk — in action and it looks amazing. The actual device is a tabletop computer, somewhat similar to Microsoft Surface, offering 40 inches of high definition space, where you can manipulate virtual objects by touching them and dragging them around.

 The video offers a taste of what you can do with EXOdesk: add a virtual keyboard, an RSS feed stream and apps to your tabletop surface. A piano simulation app is shown, and though we don’t see much of its functionality, it looks stunning when expanded to the entire surface of EXOdesk. Although the release date is vaguely set for 2012, we already know EXOdesk will cost $1,299. If that sounds like a lot, compare it to the recently announced price of Microsoft Surface 2.0, which is $8,900, and it will suddenly seem like a bargain.
(source: mashable)

Previously we discussed the iTable or Table.Connect a rather wonderful-looking hardware hack which connects an iPhone to a 58-inch capacitive multi-touch display, allowing full control of the iPhone’s navigation functions, only using hands instead of fingers.

This is a 3rd issue of LAFZ magazine;
You can find my article at http://www.lafzonline.com/magazine/issue3/ and go to page 136;

The second issue was made public in Ramazan; My article was featured from pages 76 – 81.
You can find it at http://www.lafzonline.com/magazine/issue2/ and move to 76th page;