Archive for August, 2008

Microsoft & Nikon Collaborating on… Microsoft Surface?

BetaNews is reporting on a deal between Microsoft and Nikon that “covers digital cameras made by Nikon as well as a [range] of other consumer products each company manufactures and sells.” according to Microsoft spokesman.

No further details have been revealed yet about the deal between the two, but BetaNews is predicting it could be [...]

Finally, Google launches Google Suggest on it’s main page

After years of Lab testing, and inclusion in some search plugins like Google Firefox Search plugin, allowing major competitors to go fully live before them, Google finally released their Google Suggest autocompletion feature on their main page, and I guess there would be so many people who didn’t know it existed several years back.

I have [...]

iPhoner beware – Locking not safe at all

Just in case you were looking the other way, I thought of sharing this piece of news I read. A recently discovered SERIOUS security hole in the iPhone software would allow, according to the news source, access to your address book, e-mail, text and voice messages. Regardless of how many people actually DO lock their [...]

Cinescape and their outdated movies

It’s sometimes nice to see how Cinescape brings movie on their worldwide release date, and with our early weekends, we actually get to see movies such as Star Wars before so many other countries. But that’s for certain top movies. Others however have to wait long enough, perhaps to get a discount on the price [...]

ShowtimeArabia site down?

Is anyone else facing this or is it just me? ShowtimeArabia.com is not returning anything since yesterday.

Be Thankful…

A relative and close friend of mine was on his honeymoon for 2 weeks across Europe. On his last night in Paris I was talking to him over Gmail. He was talking to me about Euro Disney and how marvellous it was. He was taking the train next day to Barcelona. He said it’s more [...]

Enable Mac Time Machine on NAS

So I just finally got my self a NetGear ReadyNAS device and was thinking of trying the Time Machine that everybody have been talking about for long time. Unfortunately, for either technical or business reasons, Apple has made it that Time Machine by default does not use NAS drives. Why exactly? I don’t know. I [...]