Archive for December, 2008
The Gift of NAS
NAS, or Network Attached Storage is probably the now most personal reliable, and afforadable backup and central storage solution that is both easy to use and setup, as opposed to regular back external hard drives which needs to be connected every time you want to backup, and can only talk to limited number of computers [...]
Wataniya eight digit bug not fun anymore
The bug of the eight digits with Wataniya came back yesterday, but this time it has evolved into something worse. Not only I couldn’t make a call at the intersection, but I kept calling while going forward to Fahaheel and I got like 5 consecutive “We cannot redirect your call, please add #2 infront of [...]
How to force Google.com on Google Chrome
This is a follow up to the disappointing first fix to enforce Google.com as default search engine. While it have worked for few days on all browsers, today and all of a sudden, Google Chrome bar default searches took me back to Google.com.kw. I don’t want you for God’s sake! Do I need to give [...]
New Free Software Every Morning for Breakfast
That’s the healthy for geeks to start the day. The rules of this site are very simple (and smart): New FREE software everyday for the next 24 hours You download and install the software within those 24 hours, and it’s yours for FREE as long as it works on this PC. With zero dollar [...]
How to Switch Back to Google.com from your local domain one?
For the people so much annoyed with Google forcing them to go to their local domain version, e.g. Google.com.kw or what ever your region is, this is how to switch back to normal Google.com as your default search. Simply go to your local Google home page, e.g. Google.com.kw, and then click on Google.com in English. [...]
Finally, RSS Links In Sidebar Fixed
For some time now the sidebar RSS Links were not working, as it was referring to “http://blogallalong.com/<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” I didn’t know what’s the problem at the time, and why the PHP code was not being executed. I put it on my long todo list and forgot about it until early this morning. You know [...]
Can we trust 6alabat.com?
I was really surprised to see this “Signup Now. Your information will be confidential” box as I was browsing the 6alabat.com page, as I still recall the day they sold us out for spam. So I thought maybe that’s my mistake I didn’t read their privacy policy [...]