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Windows 8 Tip: Making All Apps Tile and Shortcut Real Easy

I recently upgraded my main work machine, Dell Studio 1558, to Windows 8 Pro. Only had one issue, where my ATI display driver was making Windows 8 Pro to crash after few minutes into the start screen. Other than this no issues. Smooth sailing so far :) There’s one thing that I realized after few hours of using Windows 8 start screen, the All Apps option is hidden under a …

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QR Coder for Mobile Devices

Being a mobile app developer, I have to keep few devices around me all day for debugging and testing my apps. Nowadays, all smartphones come with Bluetooth, WiFi and now NFC technologies, but they all fail to talk to each other for even simple text data exchange. I find myself in situations where I need to quickly get piece of text from one device to another. It could be a …

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Slides & Code from Nokia Developers Workshop in Islamabad-PK

I am really happy to be part of Nokia Developers Workshop which was jointly organized by Nokia Pakistan and Telenor, in Telenor’s premises in Islamabad. It was a two day workshop (28-29 Feb 2012) where I talked about Qt Quick runtime and QML for designing and developing great looking apps and games, with focus on game development for Symbian and Meego based Nokia devices, such as Nokia N8, E7, X7 …

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Nokia Developers Workshop in Islamabad – Day 1

Is was great energetic first day at the Nokia Developers Workshop in Islamabad, PK. I covered the basic concepts of QML GUI development with focus on dealing with games. We also took a brief dive into the State Machine, Transition & Animations for GUI elements. We did a small prototype game-kindda thing which is not complete, but attendees asked me that I put the code for download. BTW, we ended …

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Reinstalling Client for Microsoft Networks in Windows 7

I recently got into a problem where I by mistake uninstalled “Client for Microsoft Networks” option for my Dell notebook’s WLAN adapter. The main issue which I was having was that the network icon in system tray was always showing as disconnected, even if I connect to WiFi or plug a LAN cable. It always shows disconnected, which was annoying. So, if you happen to get similar issue in Windows …

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Highway Racer is #1 on Ovi Store

I would like to share our success so far on Nokia’s Ovi Store with our Flash Lite based game Highway Racer. You can read my previous post for our initial experience of publishing. We are really happy with our experience so far. Highway Racer reached #1 spot in Sports category, and #3 spot in overall Games category on Ovi Store in just four days after published on Ovi Store for …

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Updated SVG2Go and PlayBook Icon Maker now live!

Finally I got some time to do the most requested updates to our online icon makers, SVG2Go for Symbian devices and PlayBook Icon Maker. They are really helping a lot of developers and we have been receiving many suggestions and appreciation from around the world. And we thank you all. We have so far 1800+ SVG-Tiny icons created for Symbian apps, and they include icon for games like Angry Birds …

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Installing Symbian Anna on N8, E7, C7 and C6

You might have already read about the recent announcement by Nokia that Symbian Anna is now being pushed to all the Symbian ^3 capable devices, like Nokia N8, E7, C7 and C6-01. To read more visit the official announcement on Nokia Conversations blog here. In this post, I will give you some pointers, if you are unable to install Symbian Anna on your device. The first thing you need to …

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Highway Racer – Now On Nokia Ovi Store

I am excited to announce our first entry into Nokia Ovi Store with our first Adobe Flash Lite based game, Highway Racer. It’s a simple arcade style racing game, to take a fun break in your busy life. Click the banner below to head over to Ovi Store and get it FREE now. It’s a limited time offer ;) Here are some screenshots before I get to details and our …