Archive for August, 2007
Democracy in Kuwait
Democracy is something that is promoted about Kuwait. It is said that the freedom of opinion is preserved. Now before moving any further I should note I am not a politician, I don’t know much about it, and my blog is not about politics as most of you already know. However what happened recently in [...]
Search Google quickly from Firefox Address Bar
Probably you haven’t known that before, but Firefox Address bar has a default action to search Google using I’m Feeling Lucky sort of feature if you only type words in the address bar rather than valid url. Example is, type in your Firefox address bar “monkey island” and hit enter. Since this is not a [...]
A pirate fanboy I was meant to be…
Being in the middle of pirate themes nowadays, and being an old Monkey Island fan makes me go and search for the old stuff. Remember the funny “A Pirate I was Meant To Be” Song in Monkey Island 3? Lovely isn’t it :). Well here is a new remake modern version of it: “A fanboy [...]
Quick launch your applications from command line with Launchy
One of the most time consuming practices when I want to start a program is going to Start -> Programs (waiting for windows to show up) and then searching for my program. Instead I’d rather do: Win button + R –> winword for example when applicable. But that doesn’t always work. Not by default at [...]
Japanese Love PS3, Hate XBox 360
I came by the Google Trends and I was thinking of an interesting competition to make, and I thought “What’s better than console war?”. So I went and compared PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii. and here is the result: Pretty obvious Wii came out of no where in 2005 Q4 to take over soon. Xbox [...]
“Google Checkout” A Self-Service Online Payment
Following their offer for extra Google Storage, I thought regardless of the concept I do need that extra storage, and it’s not expensive anyhow, $20/year for 6 GB. Better than having several emails to check or start deleting old ones. So I went to their page and Ohh… I have to use Google Checkout again! [...]
Google charges for “Never delete an email again”!
Google have started offering extra storage space for annual small fee. The new space will be shared among user’s different applications, like Picasa Web Album and Gmail for now. This is bother frustrating and a bit of relief. Frustrating in the sense that Gmail started with the promise that you never have to delete an [...]