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It’s now couple of weeks since Xcode 4.2, the developer tools suite from Apple, is out for Lion (MacOS X 10.7.2). It’s a free update for all MaxOS and iOS devs and this time you have to download it from the Mac App Store and not from the iOS Dev Portal like the previous iterations.

However, unlike many of the app store applications, simply clicking the <Install> button under the Xcode icon does not directly result in a working application appearing in your dock. The icon for an Xcode installer app shows up there instead. And that installer isn’t trouble-free.

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I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no forwarding address because he was an idealistic revolutionary, plotting a new world for the Arab people.

Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man and he was my brother.

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What’s common between Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, Infinity Blade and Cut the Rope? Yes, they are the most downloaded games on iPad.  And more than finding a place in brand books as case studies what they truly achieved is finding a place in millions of hearts worldwide. So what’s the secret behind their success? A simple idea? Low learning curve? Stunning graphics? Or deliberate marketing? Well, it could be a combination of all or just one factor but in my opinion there’s one thing that has made the difference. It’s the ‘vision’.

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