Entrepreneur Geek

We applied for an iPhone developers account at start of December. It’s been about 3 months now, and we have not yet got the Developers Account despite sending all documents and repeated followups.

We have 4 iPhone products ready to deploy, but our hands are tied because we don’t yet have a developer’s account. We would get emails saying that Apple is looking into this and that we should be patient. But how long?? A delay of 3 months would simply kill your idea. Why does Apple have to be so lazy in granting a developer’s account? I am scared to think how much time they will take to approve an application for AppStore.

The frustration levels went so high, we decided to just drop the plans to release these products.

Then we got an idea! Why not release them on the Mac?

So from frustration to joy, we present to you Picture Puzzle!

Picture Puzzle - more info and download

Picture Puzzle is a Mac OSX memory test game. You see a collection of pictures one after another. The objective of the game is to arrange them in right order after initial display. This tests how well you can remember the order of images. It stimulates your brain and helps you remember things better.

It’s a free download, and we encourage you to donate!

Are you an iPhone developer? Know someone? How long did it take for them? Are we the only sufferers?

If you are on Mac, you must get SuperDuper! and an External Harddisk for yourself. What is SuperDuper?

SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable and easy to use.

I discovered SuperDuper about two months ago while trying to install Leopard on my MacBook. I installed it through Vishal’s MacBook (my DVD drive has stopped working). Later I discovered that I screwed up Vishal’s machine, and it wouldn’t boot at all. I had to finally reinstall the OS on Vishal’s machine. Those were horrible 3 days, trying out everything I could to get the two systems to work correctly. But that story some other time.

But I learned my lesson (again!). I should regularly backup. There was too much trust on the machine and a high ego that was coming in the way so far. But I dropped all that.

After much thinking, I got myself a Western Digital My Book 500GB external harddisk. (for INR 6000, that was a good deal too). It supports FireWire (so I can easily boot the Mac off it) and has plenty of space. I was thinking about a 200 or 300GB drive earlier, but went with 500GB because of the price.

And I feel safe about my data now. Everyweek, I connect the disk to my MacBook, run a full backup with SuperDuper! and I am done. It takes only a few minutes to backup the files that have changed from last week and I am certain I can easily access them now.

I don’t use TimeMachine. I think it’s waste of resources, and I don’t need versions of my file. If I delete a file, I delete it for good. I also think SuperDuper! is one of the easiest software for backup. The most important feature is that it leaves the backup drive bootable. So you can simply plug it in and get started – even if your whole disk crashed.

From a careless geek to a peaceful geek – the journey was remarkable!