Monthly Archives: July 2010

In Search Of A Good Alarm Clock App

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on July 20, 2010. Filed under Computers, Reviews. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Android Phone
When I recently switched from the iPhone to HTC Evo running Android, I found the Evo's Alarm Clock app surprisingly primitive. I looked for replacements on the Android Market and found mobitobi's Gentle Alarm, one of the best-written Android applications I've seen so far.

Processing A List Of Files In bash

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on July 17, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , . 1 Comment.
Under the tracks at Washington and Canal
When you’re working in Unix or Linux or even Mac OS X, there are often times when you need to apply the same command to a list of files.  In this post I’ll show you a couple of quick ways to do this using the bash shell. Let’s assume you have a command called that [...]