Life Insurance for Non-Smokers

A large number of employees in Australia have Life Insurance. You may have it and not realise it as many superannuation packages include a life insurance plan and the cost of this plan is automatically deducted from your Superannuation balance.

What you also might not know is that your insurance may have been setup with all the default parameters, especially if your super was setup for you by your employer. These parameters ultimately play a part in defining the premium charged to you each month and one of these parameters is whether you are a smoker. Non-smokers are likely to live longer and as such life insurance for non-smokers can be cheaper.

If you are a non-smoker with life insurance, check with your insurer if they know you are a non-smoker. You could be saving some of your super.

Insert Key on a Mac Keyboard

While the Insert key is a rarely used key on most keyboards it is far from obsolete and still used in many specialist applications. Try using most hex editors without one. However, the Mac keyboards whether they be external or built-in on a Macbook Air or Pro, don't make it easy to find the Insert key.

It is easy though.

Just press: Fn + Return.

iOS Dev: Strip HTML tags from an NSString

As it turns out there is no single one liner for striping HTML tags from an NSString in the iOS SDK. So I've written the following NSString category that adds a stripHtml method to all NSStrings. To use this include the .h and .m file into your project and:

Import the header:
#import "NSString_stripHtml.h"

And then call stripHtml:
NSString* mystring = @"<b>Hello</b> World!!";
NSString* stripped = [mystring stripHtml];
// stripped will be = Hello World!!