Category: Technology
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DesiCritics.org Launched
After working hard for upwards of two months the team at Desicritics finally launched their website geared towards the South Asian Desi comminity worldwide, I was honored to be invited into the team ahead of the launch and with a collection of upwards of 90+ authors and counting I am sure it will climb like…
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Karachi Photographers Club
If you live in Karachi and are interested in photography either as a hobby or even as a professional come join the Yahoo discussion group by signing into the Karaphoto group. This mailing list was founded by Umar Siddiqi. Ladies and Gentlemen of Karachi start your cameras…..
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PCB Site Conked out
Its quite normal to see sites go down for maintenance once in a while, such incidents rarely need a post, but today when I visited PCBoard.com.pk the official site of the Pakistan Cricket Board I was more amused by the lame excuse displayed on the website. I quote We are very sorry but pcboard.com.pk, the-cricket-site.com…
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SA Tribune Domain Hacked
If you have a look at the domain www.satribune.com which usually hosts the ever controversial South Asia Tribune is being forwarded to PakistanPapers.com as I write this story. The domain still exists as one of my old stories referring to SA Tribune still shows the website, so it is quite possible that the main page…
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Letter to Comment Spammers
Sir or Thing I have no idea if you are actually human or just an idiotic computer trying to generate traffic on my blog. If you god forbid happen to be a real human a person with an actual brain then I am sorry I simply can’t help you with your mental condition as for…
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Nokia 888
The cell phone market especially in Pakistan is cut throat crazy, where this utensil is now officially become a part of life, even our guards and drivers carry it with them and naturally the upper class need the flaunt with the latest, so it is not surprising that manufacturers are putting a tremendous effort in…
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Dentistry in Karachi
Teeth Maestro is actually the pen name of Dr. Awab Alvi who is a dentist by profession in Karachi, Pakistan. He has been practicing Dentistry in Karachi since 1999 when he graduated from de’Montmorency College of Dentistry, Lahore and has since been practicing with his father Dr. Arif Alvi at Alvi Dental Hospital, which is…
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Google Blog Search
Google does it again, it has just released a Blog search tool that will limit its searches to only blogs. Blogger had a dashboard previously that only limited itself to the Blog spot domain and nothing beyond so technically this engine now covers the entire blogging world and can be used to keep track on…
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Dig to the other side
Haven’t you sometimes wondered if you were to dig a hole through the earth where would you most likely land. Or sometimes I have wished for a hole in the earth hence a direct route to the US rather then the ass-kicking 24-hour flight. Some crazy lunatic has a mathematical solution indeed worked it out…
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Yahoo Domains for only $1.99/year
Yahoo is currently offering domain names for only $1.99/year – The deal is available for 3 days only and ends on the 3rd of September. So if you are even slighly inclined to getting your own domain name go get yourself your own .com domain. I can assure you it cant get any cheaper then…
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Karachi listed on Google Earth
For those who have not seen satellite images of Karachi prepare to be mesmerized, Google Earth (previously know as Keyhole before being bought out by Google) now has some very high quality images of Karachi sharp enough to 0.6m. Be warned that the images are highquality so maybe with a dial-up connection things could get…
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Google Sidebar
Google has just launched a new service called Sidebar. It is used in combination with Google Desktop Search and is in Beta 2 version. Download it and enjoy another great item courtesy of Google Labs. A lot of other programs do run like a Sidebar but somehow if its Google, I’m all for it. You…
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Farting Facts
Don’t get grossed by the title, it a normal human phenomenon which everyone has once in a while enjoyed…. why not learn more about this natural event, maybe then this equation might work Knowlegable Farter = Better stinking Fart Go Figure! Everything you ever wanted to know about farting. From where the gas comes from…
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Email Chain Letter
The Flash based comic about Email Chain Letters (which I terribly hate) do have a look at this flash video, it definitely worth a lookWatch the Flash Video
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SpamGourmet
I would highly recommend you to use SpamGourmet.com to help you create disposable email address on the fly, personally I have been using this system fot the past 5 months and throughly enjoy its features. Give out self-destructing disposable email addresses whenever you want. The disposable addresses is in the form of someword.x.user@spamgourmet.com where ‘someword’…