Category: Technology
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Sugar Boycott (Pakistan) – Nov 5th to Nov 12th
Boycott consumption of Sugar from 5th November to 12th November 2009 – The Power of One can make a difference
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Jaag Meray Talib-e-Ilm, Students Protest Against Terrorism
Jaag Meray Talib-e-Ilm a group of students from various universities in Karachi gathered at Karachi Press Club on Saturday 24th October to protest against the Terrorism being vaged against the school students across the country. Fasial Kapadia and I, as concerned citizens decided to join the protest and record short interviews for our Laidback Show…
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PR Seminar on The Blasphemy Law – Live Stream from PMA House @ 5:30pm
The Blasphemy Law: An Objective Assessment from Religious, Legal & Social Perspectives seminar organized by the Peoples’ Resistance is being live streamed from the PMA House at 5:30pm catch it live here on the blog or head over to the page at Ustream.tv APOLOGIES: Due to a technical glitch – live feed is *not available*
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Laidback Show Episode 4 – @skdev
Show notes after the jump
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Elektra-1: Prototype for Pakistan’s First Battery-powered Vehicle
For the past few months I have been privileged to have watched the progress of the development of Pakistan’s First Electric Powered Vehicle by a close friend, Faraz Ruknuddin Khan, a Cornell graduate, running his own Opensource Consulting firm called Emergen Consulting and has recently started an offshoot project Zivios.org. I got to know Faraz…
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Routable GPS Map for Karachi & Pakistan
Its been a long time coming but independent efforts by a group of volunteers have finally paid off to present a fully routable GPS map for Karachi available FREE to the general public. Ali Ahmed and his team of GPS enthusiasts at PKMaps has been doing a remarkable job updating and mapping the entire city…
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Telenor EasyPaisa Launch Event: Karachi
Today a number of bloggers were invited to the launch ceremony of EasyPaisa at PC Hotel, Karachi. EasyPaisa is a new service launched by Telenor for its subscribers allowing them to pay utility bills across any retail outlet in Pakistan. EasyPaisa comes in partnership with Tameer Bank allowing general retailers to signup and serve their…
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The NoNam Show – Episode 1.0
The Nonam show Ver 1.0 from Nonam Show on Vimeo. Show Notes for The NoNam Show Episode 1.0 below
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Watch out, we’re the Green and White
Join the revolution – Watch out, we’re the Green and White Credit Faisal Qureshi
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Living with the Infidels
Is a new five-part series of short online video clips of five muslims managing a Bradford [UK] based terror cell. Initially set on a path to martyrdom, these jihadi warriors discover that the West isn’t as bad as it seems. Tempted by the likes of Manchester United, Cable TV and even hot looking girl upstairs,…
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Dent-twit-tics
Touseef Ikram of Paksatire has drawn a cartoon on yours truly, with the raging twitter phenomenon this new keyword Dent-twit-tics rings true. Thank God the twitter fanaticsm has still not reached the dental chair to an extent that my twitter world has yet to see me twittering while I perform Dentistry upon my patients at…
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US Immigration Form lists Baluchistan as Country of Citizenship
Over the past many years there has been a strong lobby of Baluchistan Separatists Movement who strive to separate the Province of Baluchistan from Pakistan. The efforts in recent times have gained significant foot hold to become the talk of the town in recent few months, Patriotic Pakistanis are generally averse to this proposition while…
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Rehman Malik [Dakait] had a head bounty Rs. 50 Lakh – Jang News fumbles another news item
It seems that the Jang Group [the leading Urdu news paper in Pakistan] is getting a little rustic around the edges of news reporting, a few days back it had inadvertently made Twitter as a Microsoft blog and more recently it has fumbled another hilarious blunder on the local front. The blunder comes when a…
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“Microsoft Blog called Twitter” DDoS’d – Jang
Today at 8:00pm Pakistan Time Twitter.com service went offline due to a massive DDoS attack on its servers. DDoS attacks are an attempt to make a website inaccessible by technically overloading the servers with millions of instantaneous requests from hundreds of computers scattered across the world. Twitter a very popular suffered this attack and was…
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GO GREEN & Twitter Hashtag #Pakistan for 14th August
Its exciting to see a very vibrant and motivated community of Pakistanis online, spreading from twitter to facebook and even the age old community on Orkut. Young energetic Pakistanis are doing their best to be the new face of Pakistan on the digital sphere. This comes more as a counter to the depressing situation that…