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[28 Apr 2011 | One Comment | ]
How To Group iPhone Contacts For Quick Access

iPhone’s “Contact Group” option is one way of ensuring quick access for users. You can group your contacts so you can easily find them or send them messages. How do you group iPhone contacts? Here are the step by step procedures for Mac.

Computers, General, Mac, Tools and Productivity »

[24 Apr 2011 | 2 Comments | ]
How To Create Custom iPhone Ring Tones

iPhone lets you create custom ringtones from the songs in your music library. A lot of people still spend a lot on ringtones when they can create one using iTunes, Mac or Windows PC, and a non-DRM song. Here is a step by step procedure in creating custom iPhone ringtones:

Computers, General, Mac, Tools and Productivity »

[20 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
How to Add Colors to iPhone Calendars

It would be good if you can add colors on your iPhone calendar. It will be easier on the eyes and keeping track of your schedule and appointments will be straightforward. Here is a step by step guide on how to do so.

Featured, Photography, Photoshop, Tools and Productivity »

[28 Mar 2011 | No Comment | ]
Photoshop Pen Tool Basic Tutorial

The Pen Tool is a powerful but neglected selection tool in Photoshop. Although the Pen Tool creates Vector instead of selections, it can be converted into selections and is more powerful than the Lasso or Magic Wand Tool. This article shows a video on Pen Tool Basics.

Computers, Tools and Productivity »

[25 Mar 2011 | No Comment | ]
Maven: run mvn package without doing test

When you run the mvn package command, as part of the build cycle, Maven will compile and test the code before packaging it in its distributable format.

However there are times when you want to compile and package the code without running the test. While I don’t advocate shipping untested code, there can be a number of reasons why you want to package the code without running test.

In order to perform mvn package without running the test. You need to use the argument -Dmaven.test.skip=true