Technology
Google guessing answers to your query?
I saw this today and thought it’s kind of new, to me at least. Google seem to be trying to build an AI that can understand and answer your query. The query seems to be able to best answer birth and death dates by analyzing popular sites content. You may try things like “Larry [...]
OpenSignalMaps Tells Tower Location and Signal Strengths
Open Signal Maps is a free service that relies on data sent from Android mobile apps installed on users welling to contribute a little data back, to help map all the world cell towers and signal strength, so that you no are no longer under vague promises or in need of answers by the telecom [...]
iPhone WiFi Doesn’t work after going to standby?
Started having this problem few days ago where iPhone wifi tends to fail so frequently even when wifi signal strength is full, almost all requests fail. Restarting, or forgetting network didn’t help either. If you’re having this problem the solution that seemed to work with me is the one suggested by clonergan here, which is [...]
Wataniya says “Your email or no Wnet service!”
I’ve been living a couple of dark days after my upgrade of Qualitynet connection caused down time by MOC to switch me to their new port, taking more than two days and spanning the weekend. So I thought it would be a good time to get the Wifi router I wanted from one of the [...]
Don’t you hate copycats?
[Unlimit-Tech] [Original Engadget article] Not only did he steal the article from one of the most famous tech news sites on the web, he took their photo, and didn’t even bother to do decent translation. Heck, Google translate knows better. Ministry of Knowledge? Do we have a Ministry of Magic as well? UPDATE: I posted [...]
Block Unwanted #ZwaratKhames Tweets & More with “Go Away Tweets”
If there is one good thing that can come of those endless Ramadan shows, it’s the motivation to build something to filter them out. It wasn’t really bothering me that much, but it was getting loud enough that it seems there is nothing but this #ZwaratKhames to talk about on twitter that I decided to [...]
Khalid Al-Zanki Confirms copy/pasting his content
Few days ago I posted on Posterous about the fraud Khalid Al-Zanki is involved with, which ended up with the help of friends and the social web being circulated around the web massively. Today Khalid has posted a blog post which vaguely replies to ours, and is ironically mostly a copy paste from Wikipedia, but [...]