Category: Technology
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How Do They Measure Wind Chill?
Despite what you might hear on a weather report, wind chill isn’t actually a measure of how cold the air feels. A wind chill temperature is, rather, a calculation of how cold it would have to be to cause the same rate of heat loss from your skin if there were no wind blowing. Wind…
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Spammers sue Spamee
Found on SlashDot In an interesting take on the law, some (alleged) spammers are suing some poor chap who got them blocked by ISPs due to the fact they kept sending him spam. According to Spamhaus the company doing the suing is on their books as spammer, and also as a spyware company… If this…
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Picasa 2.0. released
Those of you following the constant development of the Google empire should check out the latest release of Picasa. I started off with ver 1.618 have liked it over other off the shelf products but who can beat something for free. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures…
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Doodie Animations
For a lighter side of the web tune into the flash animations from Doodie.com some are whacky and some hilarious check them out. Would recommend you to check out WhackYourBoss PS. Its a bit off the edge humor so don’t get grossed out. Courtesy – BandBaja.org
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Blog Shares
Be it Real Dollars or Blog Dollars – we still love the ‘$’ symbol Blogshares has created a stock market for people to invest in potentially aggresive shares – aggressive blogs are those that are basically incoming links from other sites hence these links in turn lends credability to the actual blog. BlogShares is a…
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Change This
Are you an optimist? Sometimes it seems as though our disagreements – over everything from politics to business to a controversial run-out decision – are more serious and more divisive than ever before. People are making emotional, knee-jerk decisions, then standing by them, sometimes fighting to the death to defend their position. And yet, we’re…
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CyberWireless Wi-Fi Hotspot Joint venture with Mobilink
I had a meeting with a the Cyber Broadband Product Manager and he had come to pitch for creating a Wi-Fi Hotspot for my Dental Hospital. This is a joint venture with Cyber and Mobilink and the goal is to setup numerous hot-spots around Pakistan so you are virtually always connected. To access the network…
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Blogs worth a mention
I have been an active reader of various blogs and some very good blogs out there are as follows Spider BlogA group of 10 or so odd people actively envloved with keeping us informed KO – BlogKhalid Omar – neat layout and a very old blogger, I personally came across this blog long time ago…
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SA Tribune Still blocked
If you all recall that a few months ago the South Asia Tribune website was blocked by the Pakistani Government for carrying anti-establishment articles criticizing Musharraf, well the site still remain blocked thought out Pakistan – though it can be accessed via anonymous proxy server SA Tribune is run out of Washignton DC by the…
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BandBaja.org
Bookmark this site if you are interested in discovering the latest Pakistani music scene. They publish an online monthly newsletter, which is an outstanding piece of work, as well as a decent BLOG – BandBaja you ROCK
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ChangeThis.com
A website that one should surely pay a vist – this group of individuals ask people to write manuscripts published in adobe format on any topic that is of interest – browse through the website im sure you might find some good reading.
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Email to Blog service
Im impressed at the developers at GOOGLE to be able to develop such a user friendly service – you name it anything published by GOOGLE is outstanding – I am a loyal fan of google – here is an EMAIL-BLOG test CYA next time
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Mobile Blogging into the Next Frontier
Technology leaps forward by leaps each and every day the open world with its unregulated policies permits companies to be creative and hence today I can blog from my cell – what the future holds next year, I dare not even predict On the other hand the Government of Pakistan feels threatened by each and…
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Are the Saudians guilty of 9/11
Surprisingly After the Michael Moore’s “Farenheit 9/11” was released it has haunted the Saudian Government to such an extent that they have launched a web campaign and adverts were displayed on Slate.com (picture attached) Are the Saudians really guilty or is it just a clean up affair? One has to wonder – I am secretly…
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Vodafone & Orange controversy
Rumors have it – (Pakistani gossip scene) The reason why Vodafone and Orange backed out of the Cell Phone licenses in Pakistan was due to the reason (rumor) PIA was going to sign a purchase agreement with AIRBUS but at the last moment with some US pressures backed out and committed to BOEING this infuriated…