Uber Driver Tip, A illegal/unlawful/unthoughtful user interaction

One fine day I was returning from one destination to home through a cab booked over Uber Cabs. While travelling, I snacked and drank water, and my hand was wet. Once I arrived, I made a trip payment through an online card or Amazon Pay. About to get out of the car, I was scrolling …

Betting your company on Metaverse AR/VR Craze

First Story that I want to share today is from my experience In 2009 I worked as an Animator and E-Learning Courseware Creator and Designer. And I was planning to switch the design domain to HCI/UX, i.e. Human-Computer Interaction/User Experience Design. And software like Apple Shake and Adobe After Effects was standard competitive tool used …

Recover accidentally deleted Apple Address Book Contacts, Calendars and Safari Bookmarks from Apple iCloud

Apple’s iCloud is for iPhone, iPad and Mac cloud data syncing platforms activated by default for every Apple ID on any Apple device. Apple introduced Apple iCloud after the failure of MobileMe cloud offerings for Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac. In day-to-day life, it may happen that you may accidentally delete or lose your Apple …

My Experience Using Apple Watch for 5 Years and Apple’s Gamification Strategies

In 2019, I bought myself an Apple iPhone 11 Pro 256GB and Apple Watch 5. I have used an Apple iPhone 5s with 16GB since 2016. But I was dissatisfied with the storage that it allowed me to use. Out of 16GB, 10GB was the operating system, 2GB was for Apps that were able to …

Choosing your correct online Music distribution and streaming service provider

In the old golden day, music came on cassettes and compact disks (CDs). With the evolution of better, faster, stable internet with Gigahertz processing power for computers, better/stable computer applications came along. With the invention of gesture-based high-tech mobile devices like the iPhone, modern, always accessible pocket-friendly apps emerged. With faster 4G and 5G internet …

My side of the story of selling Apple iPhone apps on the Apple App Store while doing a day job…!!!

I am selling apps on Apple App Store since 2012, Tried free apps with excellent sales but no revenue or no Apple iAd revenue or very little. I kept doing that for two to four years. Then I removed all of my apps from the sale and kept my account inactive with no apps on …

My experience in converting my paid educational apps to a subscription business revenue model.

After experimenting with various apps, I ventured into an educational language-earning app in 2013/14. I developed three apps Mudrakshar for tracing Alphabets, Swarakshar for Pronouncing Alphabets and Chitrakshar for Alphabet Charts with Illustrations and audio pronunciation. All three apps were dedicated to Devanagari Script—mainly Marathi, Sanskrit and Hindi Language. For Chitrakshar, I added the English …

Apply UIVisualEffectView & UIBlurEffect to any Views in iOS / iPadOS or macOS app.

Apple describes UIVisualEffectView & UIBlurView in its support document as follows:Depending on the desired effect, the effect may affect content layered behind the view or content added to the visual effect view’s contentView. Apply a visual effect view to an existing view and then apply a UIBlurEffect or UIVibrancyEffect object to apply a blur or …

Get the iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating system names, versions, and model identifiers programmatically.

Programmatically get iOS, iPadOS, macOS Catalyst Operating System Name and Version and a model identifier of iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Here is a simple way to programmatically get the operating system name and version of your iOS, iPadOS and macOS. The code below will also return the value of the iPhone, iPad, and Mac …

Get iOS, iPadOS and macOS app Versions and Build numbers programmatically.

Here is a small function I have written that you can use in your iOS, iPadOS or macOS Catalyst app to get your app’s current version, build number, and print it on the screen whether it will be on the app’s about or support view. Copy the below function in the Xcode project’s UIViewController Swift …