MoRo's Banter

LinuxMINT is the real deal, period.

2007-10-16T12:48:00.001+03:00

I told you before about LinuxMint, the latest OS I've been playing with, it's a downstream version of ubuntu, and it is damn beautiful, and the most functional OS I have installed to this moment of time ... everything just works out of the box, I have not faced any problems since I installed it, I only still have windows to use a program called "ABC amber book converter" to convert my books from .lit to other formats so that I can read them on my PDA on iSilo ... but I haven't tried running that program in WINE (a program that lets you run windows programs on linux ;) ...) yet, and if it works, I won't have an excuse to remove windows once and for all off my system! there's a video above for you to check out my installation of LinuxMint, note that my laptop is an old slow one (1.5 GHz centrino - 512 MBRAM - 128 intel graphics accelerator) that's why the video is a bit buggy.

LinuxMint is fully free and open source and downloadable at http://www.linuxmint.com

Gay Artist Burns Rare $60,000.00 Koran

2007-10-16T12:45:00.000+03:00

Posted by Ummah News Links at 7/26/2007 4:50 PM and is filed under Ummah News Links

NEW YORK, July 26 - Charles Merrill, the artist who recently edited the Holy Bible with a black marker and pair of scissors, has lately burned a rare Islamic Holy Book, The Koran, valued at $60,000.00, in an undisclosed Chicago location. "The purpose of editing and burning Abrahamic Holy Books is to eliminate homophobic hate," Merrill stated. "Both ancient books are terrorist manuals."

He continues, "I inherited the rare Islamic book from my late wife, Evangeline Johnson Merrill. As the daughter of the founder of the international pharmaceutical giant, Johnson and Johnson, Inc., doors of kings and queens opened to her around the world. Evangeline was given the rare manuscript by the late King of Jordan when she was on a mission for the United Nations in the 1950's."

"Airplanes are flown into buildings because of words, and hate crimes against gays," Merrill said.

Merrill is a self-made millionaire, artist, fervent atheist and cousin of the co-founder of Merrill Lynch.

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم ... اللهم انصر الإسلام و أعز المسلمين ...

iSmoke myFingers ;)

2007-10-13T21:41:00.000+03:00

Ever wanted to get smoke coming out of your fingers?! I guess not ... but it doesn't harm trying anyway, here's how to do it.

Now there's a tenth dimension?!

2007-10-13T15:01:00.000+03:00

And you thought you were smart? check this out ... I recommend you fire up a big dubey and fly away with this scientific crapness (new word! seems the dubey is workin ...)

3D illusion imagery .... mess up your brain.

2007-10-13T14:42:00.000+03:00

What you see here is just a couple of frames taken from two slightly different angles with a high speed camera, I guess ... animating the image to and fro through the two frames gives us the illusion of 3D

A Battery that works for 30 years!

2007-10-13T04:24:00.000+03:00

Finaly a breakthrough we all have been waiting for!

Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years.

Although betavoltaic batteries sound Nuclear they’re not, they’re neither use fission/fusion or chemical processes to produce energy and so (do not produce any radioactive or hazardous waste). Betavoltaics generate power when an electron strikes a particular interface between two layers of material. The Process uses beta electron emissions that occur when a neutron decays into a proton which causes a forward bias in the semiconductor. This makes the betavoltaic cell a forward bias diode of sorts, similar in some respects to a photovoltaic (solar) cell. Electrons scatter out of their normal orbits in the semiconductor and into the circuit creating a usable electric current.

The profile of the batteries can be quite small and thin, a porous silicon material is used to collect the hydrogen isotope tritium which is generated in the process. The reaction is non-thermal which means laptops and other small devices like mobile phones will run much cooler than with traditional lithium-ion power batteries. The reason the battery lasts so long is that neutron beta-decay into protons is the world's most concentrated source of electricity, truly demonstrating Einstein’s theory E=MC2.

The best part about these cells are when they eventually run out of power they are totally inert and non-toxic, so environmentalists need not fear these high tech scientific wonder batteries. If all goes well plans are for these cells to reach store shelves in about 2 to 3 years.

At last, a real talent on a talent show!

2007-10-01T00:18:00.001+04:00

This guy made the female judge burst into tears and genuinely impressed Simon Cowel, and you know how hard this is, and I personally think he sang "Nessun Dorma" better than the late Luciano Pavarotti himself, I like his version better, I've provided the video for you, this is a MUST see ...

Pocket PC reviews!

2007-09-17T13:12:00.000+04:00

Hey there! long time no see! I have a new blog for Pocket PC reviews now! it has the first english language review of the long waited for i-mate ultimate 8150 pocket PC, you can go and check it out at http://pocketpcreviews.blogspot.com

I'll repost again soon ... stay tuned!

USA gone broke!

2007-08-03T13:05:00.000+04:00

In the light of the tragic collapse of the Mississippi bridge in the USA, a full evaluation of the US infrastructure has been done, and shocking numbers have been revealed, showing that the USA, the planet's richest nation has never been in a worse shape.

According to CBS news, about 27% of the bridges in the united states are concidered "out of service", and the US infrastructure needs 1.59 trillion (that's a million billion and 590 million, or 1.59 times 10 to the power of 13!) US dollars for repairs! which means that every US citizen has to pay 53,000 US dollars to get his bridges, water and electricity up and running for the next few years! (you do the maths, 1.59 trillion divided by 301,139,947 which is the US population)

Will numbers like this affect the world economy which in turn affects us? will they change the US policies in Iraq? You all know they have been spending billions upon billions on the war, this money could have helped a little with their infrastructure, couldn't it?!

Waiting for your comments.

Working at Google.

2007-07-22T15:23:00.002+04:00

Now that's what I call a job ... I mean I'm ready to work UNPAID for google, what would you want the money for?! they feed you and help you buy a car! I'll live in my friggin hybrid and still be content! Oh I wish I can become one of the five doctors that are "on site" at google! watch the video and tell me what you think.

Parakey deal bridges gap for Facebook

2007-07-22T15:06:00.000+04:00

By Josephine Moulds

Facebook has bought a site that suggests its ambitions reach beyond the internet and on to the computer desktop where it would compete directly with Microsoft Windows.

The social networking site is rumoured to have beaten Google to buy Parakey, a site which has not yet launched but aims to be a web operating system that can act as a bridge between online and offline content. It is Facebook's first acquisition and the company declined to give any financial details of the transaction.

Parakey was built by Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, co-founders of Firefox, the second most widely used web browser after Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It is thought to have received seed funding from Google-backers Sequoia Capital in early 2005 and subsequently O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

In an interview with technology publication IEEE Spectrum, Mr Ross said Parakey was designed to be a platform for applications that can manipulate email, photos, videos, calendars, or just about anything on a computer's hard drive.

From a web browser users can view and modify all of their files and decide what they want to display to the rest of the world. They can also update their Parakey page offline.

Mr Ross wrote on his blog: "The project remains very much alive, and since we will be working to port the concepts and technology to Facebook, it will remain stealthy."

In May Facebook opened up its site for developers to create applications that work within the site, a little like Microsoft did with its Windows operating system in the 1990s. This acquisition could help it bridge the gap between its online platform and the computer desktop.

Duncan Riley wrote on the highly respected technology blog TechCrunch: "Imagine that in two to five years time Facebook has become the No. 1 destination on the web.

"Facebook as a Web operating system (OS) is the leader in online storage, online applications, email, blogging and of course social networking.

All previous Facebook applications work under Facebook OS, but they work more like Windows does today; Facebook has become your desktop and not just an internet site.

The Facebook Paint application substitutes Photoshop, Facebook Email is a superior offering to Outlook, Facebook Office (Facebook having acquired either [start-up online office suites] Thinkfree or Zoho) provides the market leading word processing and spreadsheet platform.

"It might sound far-fetched, but this is exactly the position Facebook wants to be in and the direction they are headed."

Five polyps found, but Dubya's OK

2007-07-22T14:52:00.000+04:00

BY ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, July 22nd 2007, 4:00 AM

Doctors found five small polyps, but President Bush will be fine.

Presidential power was transferred to Vice President Cheney for two hours yesterday while doctors performed a routine colonoscopy on President Bush.

The doctors found five small polyps in President Bush's colon.

The growths were sent for tests. Results are expected to be back by Tuesday, but none "appeared worrisome," said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel.

President Bush used the disability clause of the Constitution to transfer power to Cheney at 7:16 a.m. while he was sedated during the procedure, which lasted 31 minutes.

It was only the third time the clause had been invoked. Bush used it during a similar screening in 2002, and President Ronald Reagan turned over power to George H.W. Bush during surgery in 1985.

The vice president was at his home on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, 30 miles from Washington.

Stanzel said Cheney had no reason to take any official action during the transfer - but the transfer was fodder for comedians.

"Good luck getting that power back," Jay Leno quipped on his Friday night show. "By noon tomorrow, he would have invaded Iran, Syria and Malibu."

Bush retook power at 9:21 a.m.

Stanzel said that after the procedure, the President spent part of the morning playing with his dogs, and planned to take a bike ride yesterday afternoon.

"The President was in good humor," he said.

The colonoscopy was a regular examination recommended after doctors found other polyps in Bush's colon during scans in 1998 and in 1999.

Polyps are usually benign, but can grow and become cancerous if they are not removed.

ربنا ينتقم منك يا بعيد!ء

فاصل نميمة ونعود إليكم

2007-07-22T14:38:00.000+04:00

ــ يتصور كثيرون أن دورة المياه خصصت لهدف واحد بديهي ومعروف سلفا‏,‏ لكن ربما كان هذا ينطبق علي الرجالي منها‏,‏ أما دورة المياه الحريمي فكثيرا ما يكون الهدف إياه يمثل الغرض الأخير من زيارتها‏!!‏

للمرة السادسة والسبعين يطمئن رواد دورة المياه الحريمي علي المكياج‏,‏ ما الذي حدث مع الروج‏,‏ وما هي اخبار الآيلينر‏,‏ وهل الأفضل لخصلة الشعر هذه أن تظل منسدلة علي الجبين أم نرفعها احسن‏,‏ وكذلك ضبط الملابس والمشي بخطوات ممشوقة أمام المرآة مثل عارضات الأزياء حتي تختبر اناقتها‏,‏ وبالمناسبة فإن عشق المرأة للمرآة لا يعود إلي فكرة البحث عن الصورة الحقيقية للنفس لا سمح الله أو الرغبة ــ والعياذ بالله ــ في رؤية الأمور علي حقيقتها‏,‏ وإنما السبب هو ببساطة أن حواء لا تستطيع أن تتخيل نفسها بدون مرآة‏,‏ والمرآة لا معني لها بدون حواء‏...‏ لا أكثر ولا أقل‏...‏ والمهم أن الجزء الثاني والأهم من الفاصل يبدأ سريعا‏,‏ وهو النميمة‏,‏ وما أدراك ما نميمة دورة المياه‏!‏

هنا لا تبث سوي الأخبار العاجلة‏breakingnews‏ ولا تنشر سوي انفرادات الشائعات المحلاة بأحدث باقة من توابل الخوض في سيرة فلانة وحكاية علانة‏!‏ كل شيء يجب أن يكون طازجا‏,‏ ويقال سريعا علي هيئة عناوين‏,‏ أما التفاصيل‏,‏ فيتم ادخارها لمكالمة تليفونية طويلة مساء في البيت‏!‏ بعد المكياج‏,‏ وسحب النميمة الكثيفة يأتي الدور علي دخان السجائر‏,‏ فدورة المياه هي المكان المثالي لتدخين كام سيجارة في السريع‏,‏ وهي ايضا المكان الذي قد تعود فيه سيدة كبيرة وقورة علي سن ورمح إلي سنوات مراهقتها‏,‏ فتبدأ في تخميس سيجارة خلسة من وراء الباب بالتواطؤ مع زميلة مدخنة‏...‏ واللي يعيش ياما يشوف‏.

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مصر تنتزع صدارة دورة الألعاب الأفريقية

2007-07-22T14:22:00.000+04:00

الجزائر - (د ب أ)
صعدت مصر الجمعة إلى المركز الأول على لائحة ترتيب الميداليات قبل ثلاثة أيام من اختتام دورة الألعاب الأفريقية التاسعة المقامة بالجزائر. ورفعت مصر رصيدها إلى 60 ميدالية ذهبية 52و ميدالية فضية 47و ميدالية برونزية ( 159 ميدالية في المجموع) مقابل 57 ميدالية ذهبية 48و ميدالية فضية 60و برونزية للجزائر التي احتكرت الصدارة منذ انطلاق المنافسة في 12 من الشهر الجاري.
وتراجعت جنوب أفريقيا إلى المركز الثالث رغم أنها رفعت حصيلتها من الميداليات إلى 52 ميدالية ذهبية فيما بقت نيجيريا وتونس في المركزين الرابع والخامس بـ44 39و ميدالية ذهبية على الترتيب.
وتألقت مصر في مسابقات الشطرنج والتايكوندو والمصارعة والرماية بعدما تألقت أول أمس الخميس في رفع الأثقال وألعاب القوى والتايكوندو بشكل خاص. ويرشح الخبراء الرياضيون مصر لحصد مزيد من الميداليات في بقية المنافسات الأمر الذي يعزز حظوظها في الظفر بالمركز الأول في الترتيب العام بالرغم من المنافسة الشرسة المتوقعة من جنوب أفريقيا والجزائر المستضيفة للبطولة.
من ناحية أخرى وصل رئيس اللجنة الاولمبية الدولية جاك روج الجمعة إلى الجزائر لمتابعة بعض منافسات الدورة.
وسيبقى روج في الجزائر حتى 24 من الشهر الجاري علما بأنها الزيارة الثالثة له للجزائر منذ انتخابه رئيسا للجنة الاولمبية الدولية عام 2001 .
زامبيا تنظم الدورة العاشرة.
وأعلن الايفواري لاسانا بالنفو رئيس اتحاد اللجان الوطنية الاولمبية الإفريقية امس السبت بالعاصمة الجزائرية أن زامبيا ستنظم دورة الألعاب الأفريقية العاشرة التي تقام عام 2011 لأنها البلد الوحيد الذي تقدم بطلب استضافة الدورة.
وأكد بالنفو تأجيل دورة الألعاب الأفروأسيوية الثانية لاستحالة تنظيمها في الوقت المحدد لها سابقا من 28 تموز الحالي إلى السادس من آب المقبل بالجزائر.

Mogulus is live!

2007-06-16T22:50:00.000+04:00

Ever wanted to have your own TV channel? well ... I don't promise you'll ever get to have one, but most likely you can have at video publishing and live TV pretty soon, with the launch of beautiful web 2.0 services like Mogulus and Babelgum, it's not just a dream any more.

Mogulus has been in pre-beta for quite some time, and now it's in beta, and I got my call to try it out, I haven't tried the publishing section cuz I just logged on Mogulus for the first time now, and I'm in mcD havin a sandwitch and a sunday's, waiting for my ObGyne lesson to start, so I'm not gonna test it right now, but I watched some channels on it, was actually pretty cool, really good speed with an average quality, and the live channels rock big time, I'll blog about it again soon, and you better stay tuned cuz I'm also going to talk about babelgum, which is really nice btw, so stay tuned!

Is London's future Islamic?

2007-06-09T09:57:00.000+04:00

It’s the London’s fastest growing religion, based on noble traditions and compassionate principles, yet Islam can still be tainted by misunderstanding. Here TimeOut.com argues that an Islamic London would be a better place

The noise from the expectant crowd hushed to a murmur as an open-backed lorry that had driven slowly up the Mall – known since the Islamic revolution of 2021 as The Way of the Martyrs – nudged its way through the thousands gathered in Mohammad Sidique Khan Square. On the lorry, two masked guards held a young man, black hood over his head; a quiver running through the material suggested he knew what was coming.

The lorry halted by the plinth that had once held Marc Quinn’s sculpture ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ – long since removed as an insult to decency – and was now the place of public execution. A rope noose attached to a wire cable hung from a mechanised hoist. The main doors of what had been the National Gallery flung open and an Imam walked down the steps of the new Institute of Islamic Jurisprudence, opened only a week before by Sultan Charles, Prince of Islam and protector of the faithful in England.

The official executioner placed a stepladder against the plinth. The lorry pulled up and the young man was pushed out, then forced up the ladder. The noose was forced over the condemned man’s head. The crowd chanted ‘Allahu akbar’ (God is greater than everything).The hoist driver put his finger on a green button … Okay, not really – that’s a hysterical, right-wing nightmare of a future Muslim London: where an cruel alien creed is forced on a liberal city. A society where women are second-class citizens, same sex relationships a crime and Sharia law enforces terrible public disfigurement and death. But the reality is a long, long way from this dark vision.

For a start, Islam is not an alien religion to London. At the end of World War I the city sat at the heart of an Empire that had 160 million Muslim subjects, 80 million in India alone. London was the largest Islamic capital in the world. Forty years later and the end of the Empire, unrest and war and poverty in south Asia had lead to mass immigration to the mother country and London became a Muslim capital in another sense.

According to the 2001 census there are 607,083 Muslims living in London (310,477 men and 296,606 women). The majority of Muslims live in the east of the city and, by 2012, the Muslim Council of Britain estimates that the Muslim population of Tower Hamlets, Newham, Waltham Forest and Hackney will be 250,000. There are plans afoot (though no formal application has yet been submitted) to build the UKs biggest mosque – capable of welcoming 40,000 worshippers – near the 2012 Olympic site, a move which has prompted predictable outrage from some quarters. Consequently, Muslim disillionment with a reactionary and often ill-informed press is at an all time high.

But rather than fear the inevitable changes this will bring to London, or buy in to a racist representation of all Muslims as terrorists, we should recognise both what Islam has given this city already, and the advantages it would bring across a wide range of areas in the future.

Public health
On the surface, Islamic health doesn’t look good: the 2001 census showed that 24 per cent of Muslim women and 21 per cent of Muslim men suffered long-term illness and disability. But these are factors of social conditions rather than religion. In fact, Islam offers Londoners potential health benefits: the Muslim act of prayer is designed to keep worshippers fit, their joints supple and, at five times a day, their stomachs trim. The regular washing of the feet and hands required before prayers promotes public hygiene and would reduce the transmission of superbugs in London’s hospitals.

Alcohol is haram, or forbidden, to Muslims. As London is above the national average for alcohol-related deaths in males, with 17.6 per 100,000 people (Camden has 31.6 per 100,000 males), turning all the city’s pubs into juice bars would have a massive positive effect on public health. Forbid alcohol throughout the country, and you’d avoid many of the 22,000 alcohol-related deaths and the £7.3 billion national bill for alcohol-related crime and disorder each year.

Ecology
‘The world is green and beautiful,’ said the prophet Muhammad, ‘and Allah has appointed you his guardian over it.’ The Islamic concept of halifa or trusteeship obliges Muslims to look after the natural world and Muhammad was one of the first ever environmentalists, advocating hima – areas where wildlife and forestry are protected. So we could expect more public parks under Islam, but halifa also applies to recycling: in 2006, 12,000 Muslims attended a series of sermons at the East London Mosque explaining the theological evidence for a link between behaving in an environmentally sustainable way and the Islamic faith.

Education
Presently, Muslim students perform less well than non-Muslim students. In inner London, 37 per cent of 16 to 24-year-old Muslims have no qualifications (the figure for the general population of the same age and location is 25 per cent). When it comes to university education the picture is equally gloomy: 16 to 24-year-old Muslims are half as likely to have degree level or above qualification than other inner London young people.

Again, social factors rather than religion have led to this state of affairs. Young Muslims in London are often of south Asian origin and therefore more likely to live in households where English is not the first language, more likely to encounter racism (both intentional and unintentional) during their education, and more likely to suffer from poverty and bad housing conditions.

But Tahir Alam, education spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, claims Muslim children do better in their own faith schools than in the mainstream state sector: ‘Muslim schools have their own distinct ethos. They use the children’s faith and heritage as primary motivators to provide the backdrop for their education and behaviour. This ethos is consistent with the messages that children are getting at home, so it is a very coherent operation between the home and the school.’

If Islam became the dominant religion in London the same ethos could be applied to schooling across swathes of underprivileged and deprived areas of the city. This could have a revolutionary effect on educational achievement and, perhaps just as importantly, general levels of discipline and self-respect among London’s young people. While controversy rages over faith schools, there are 37 Muslim schools in London. As of 2004, only five were state schools, but there is growing pressure to bring more into the state sector which, according to Alam, will ‘help raise achievement for many sectors of the Muslim community. Many private Muslim schools are under-resourced and if they can be brought into the state sector this valuable experience can be extended to more children.’

Food
Application of halal (Arabic for ‘permissable’) dietary laws across London would free us at a stroke from our addiction to junk food, and the general adoption of a south Asian diet rich in fruit juice, rice and vegetables with occasional mutton or chicken would have a drastic effect on obesity, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders and associated public health problems. As curry is already Londoners’ and the nation’s favourite food (see our Brick Lane food feature), it would be a relatively easy process to encourage the adoption of such a diet. Not eating would be important as well. The annual fasting month of Ramadan instils self-discipline, courtesy and social cohesion. And Londoners would benefit philosophically and physically from even a short period when we weren’t constantly ramming food into our mouths.

Inter-faith relations
In an Islamic London, Christians and Jews – with their allegiance to the Bible and the Talmud – would be protected as ‘peoples of the book’. Hindus and Sikhs manage to live alongside a large Muslim population in India, so why not here? Although England has a long tradition of religious bigotry against, for instance, Roman Catholics, it is reasonable to assume that under the guiding hand of Islam a civilised accommodation could be made among faith groups in London. This welcoming stance already exists in the capital in the form of the City Circle (see Yahya Birt interview), which encourages inter-faith dialogue and open discussion.

Arts
Some of the finest art in London is already Islamic. The Jameel Gallery at the V&A houses ‘ceramics, textiles, carpets, metalwork, glass and woodwork, which date from the great days of the Islamic caliphate of the eighth and ninth century’ up until the turn of the last century. Or take a free daily tour of the Addis Gallery of Islamic art (at the British Museum). London-based Nasser David Khalili, an Iranian-born Jew, has amassed what is considered to be the world’s largest private collection of Islamic art. Islamic influences have also flourished in other areas of the arts, with novelists, comedians (Birmingham-born Shazia Mirza was an instant hit on the London circuit), and music (from rappers Mecca2Medina on, to the less in-your-face Yusuf Islam).

Social justice
Each Muslim is obliged to pay zakat, a welfare tax of 2.5 per cent of annual income, that is distributed to the poor and the needy. If the working population of London, 5.2 million, was predominantly Muslim this would produce approximately £3.2bn each year. More importantly, everyone would be obliged to consider those Londoners who haven’t shared their good fortune. London would become a little less cruel.

Race relations
Under Islam all ethnicities are equal. Once you have submitted to Allah you are a Muslim – it doesn’t matter what colour you are. End of story.

Michael Hodges, Tue Jun 5 - http://www.timeout.com/london/features/2993.html

Your PC as messy as your desk.

2007-06-08T12:14:00.000+04:00

Have a good idea? well TED is on it, here's my second video from TED about a new idea called Bumptop which is a computer interface based on real life physics, where you can pile your files, stack'em, drag'em, crumple them and throw them to the corner, size'em or hang them on the wall! pretty intense, huh ? I'm just wondering about one thing, where are the file names?!

Get the picture ? - تصوّر

2007-06-06T04:06:00.000+04:00

Technology, Entertainment and Design; sponsored by the car manufacturing giant BMW, "TED" is a prize given to people who excel in the fore-mentioned fields, the initials of which form the name of the prize; it all started back in 1984 when I was born, and it was like a secret cult or something, now, it's in the open; In this video, computer architect Blaise Aguera shows us the lates state-of-the-art technology concerned with image and photo management and how in the near future we will be able to "dive" into our own photos and experience the complete environment.

يا جدعان إحنا نايميين في سااااااابع نومة ... الناس عمّالة تصرف ع المبدعين و احنا قاعدين نتفرج و خلاص, يعني الصراحة حمداً و شكراَ لله الذي سخر لنا الفرنجة, هما يتعبوا و يكتشفوا و يخترعوا و احنا نأخذ ع الجاهز ... عموماً إتعقّدوا شوية و قلولي إيه رأيكم في الكلام الجميل ده؟

Ronaldinho gets his first red card!

2007-06-05T11:12:00.000+04:00

Okay, now those of you who don't admire ronaldinho as a legendary soccer player, raise your hands! .... Just as I expected, very few did. Ronaldinho is an international soccer phenomenon with a huge smile! He's also known to be one of the most decent and respectable players on the green ... he still is decent and respectable, but the guy got a red card!

رونالدينهو ده فعلا لعيب جامد يا جماعة, حريف جداً بشكل عجيب, و مؤدب إلى حد كبير في الملعب, و لو إن إبن اللذين ده جاب فرقته الكاتالونية و دعكونا 4-1 ييجي من شهر كده, لكن برضه يبقى رونالدينهو اللاعب المفضل لدى الجميع, عموماً أهو أخد جزاؤه و لأول مرة طلع له الكارت الأحمر ....... آدي جزاء اللي ييجي ع الأهلي ! ء

Hacking your own memory: Storage to recall

2007-06-05T10:34:00.000+04:00

How to sharpen your memory:

1. Brain food: Don’t let yourself run on empty. A balanced diet will help keep your mind running strong all day long. Make sure to include plenty of fruits and leafy green vegetables. They are loaded with essential antioxidants and nutrients to boost your brain power. Some of the best foods for thought include: blueberries, blackberries, fish and fish oils, eggs, spinach, strawberries and almonds.

2. Exercise: Get your body moving and your memory will soon follow. Exercise improves the heart’s blood flow. This, in turn, helps the brain function better and stay sharper. Studies have also found that cardiovascular exercises done over a long period of time help reduce the amount of brain tissue you lose as you age.

3. Brain Games: Unscramble your memory with Scrabble. Intellectually stimulating activities and games such as Scrabble, crossword puzzles and trivia games are great for boosting your memory. Have fun and challenge your brain with these fun memory games.

4. Pick Up a Book: The key to keeping your memory sharp is to continue to challenge it. Try to always have a book in hand. After you’re done reading a chapter or two, question and review the material you’ve read. Try to imagine what you’re reading. Discuss what you’ve read, and talk about it with friends or join a book club.

5. Take a Sip Down Memory Lane: Coffee is good for more than just getting you out of bed in the morning. Researches have found the stimulant affect of caffeine can help boost memory. Studies have also found that key enzymes found in green and black teas help improve memory functions.

6. Cultivate interest: We tend to remember the things that we enjoy. Find ways to make a boring subject fun by associating it to something you already know. If you have to remember a list, try to make a fun sentence out of the first letters of each item or try categorizing things into a group. You can also use your imagination and create a fun story behind a subject to help make it easier to remember.

7. Catch some those Zzzz’s: Sleep plays a critical role in your physiological function and is vital for your intellectual development. Memory failure is a common occurrence for many sleep-deprived individuals. A study conducted at the University of Luebeck found that creativity and problem solving appear to be directly linked to adequate sleep.

8. Repeat After Me: When learning new information, the more you repeat it, the more likely you will be able to recall that information. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory. Practice is the key to lasting memory.

9. Give It a Beat: Music not only helps trigger memories of past events, but also stimulates learning skills. Music has also been shown to help retain information and provide multiple modes of information retrieval.

10. Pick Your Own Brain and Share it with Others: Don’t keep your knowledge stored up. Teaching others is another great way to boost memory skills. You should also become your own teacher. Don’t be afraid of taking on new challenges. You might not be in school anymore but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t test yourself. After you learn something, it’s important to put the new information to use.

Google pays tribute to the pyramids!

2007-06-04T23:20:00.000+04:00

Ladies and gentlemen, the incredible search engine giant "Google" has officially announced that tomorrow (tuesday, june 5th 2007) they will open their regional middle east office in Cairo, Egypt. That's pretty good news for all of us because google is a huge investement opportunity which will definitely benefit all of us. I also expect google to activate its free SMS service on the google toolbar pretty soon, and I really hope this affects the adsense revenues for users all over the arab world, hopefully to the best because I read that click rates in the UK and the US are much higher than in Egypt, hopefully, this new office will correct the current status for adsense revenues.

Earn your living online! - كل عيش من ع الإنترنت

2007-06-02T01:08:00.000+04:00

Would you like to earn money off of the internet? well, you can't! hehehehe, no I'm just kidding! of course you can! You may already be a blogger, just like me, I met google Adsense just a few days ago, it's a service by your favourite (mine too) company, google. basically it lets you put text and image advertisements on your site, and you get paid everytime someone clicks the ads, it's that simple! With adsense you can earn hundreds of dollars on monthly basis, and you don't even need a credit card, they will send you a real cheque within a month of every time you earn 100$! It's free, it's simple and it will change your life. Adsense is one of the best things that has ever happened to me, I really encourage you to sign up with adsense now.

يا جماعة مش ممكن, أنا فعلا بحب جوجل, من ساعت ما العالم دي ابتدت شغل و أنا معجب بيهم جداً, من أول محرك البحث الرائع بتاعهم, لحد خدمة أد-سنس اللي أنا هتكلم عليها دلوقت, و هي عبارة عن إنك تحط في الموقع بتاع سعادتك أو البلوج بتاع حضرتك إعلانات نصّية, و لما حد يدوس عليها, يتحط في حسابك فلوس, و كل ما تكسب 100 دولار يبعتولك شيك مصرفي, يعني كمان مش محتاج بطاقة ائتمانية و لا حاجة, كل المطلوب منك إنك تعمل بلوج و تشترك في خدمة أد-سنس ببلااااااش يا معلم, و ادعيلي!

All fake ... كله في الكلتش

2007-06-01T19:15:00.000+04:00

This clip demonstrates the power of video editing. It's very startling to see how well videos can be doctored. There is no way to really know if you're looking at the real thing.

بعد كدة لما تبقى تتفرج ع الإعلانات ما تبقاش تتهبل على البنات اللي في الإعلان ... كلها فوتوشوب يا معلّم, و لما تتجوز إبقى هات مراتك و دخلها في الكمبيوتر (بس اعمل حسابك في هارد كبير عشان لو ربنا رزقك بواحدة تخينة) و ضبّطها على زوقك!

YouTube Testtube!

2007-06-01T04:38:00.001+04:00

Ever visited the "Testtube" portion of YouTube?! It's just a very small link on the bottom of the YouTube home page. It corresponds to google's "google labs", it's supposed to be where they keep all the upcoming new cool stuff, for example, there's this new service called Active Sharing which can be used to show other YouTube users what videos you're watching, another one is
AudioSwap which will allow you to replace the audio on your videos with officially licensed music, last but not least (I hope ...) is Streams 2.0 that lets you join streams to chat with others who are watching the same video you are.

Who doesn't love Youtube? Go tube, Go!

Leave comments and have fun!

I'm on Technorati !

2007-06-01T04:06:00.000+04:00

Hey there guys, my blog is now listed on technorati, the most famous blog search engine on the web, give my technorati profile a visit ... I hope you liked the previous posts!

Technorati Profile

Lucky to have an N73

2007-05-31T18:16:00.000+04:00

The Nokia N73 has proven to be one of Nokia's best products as a music/camera phone, with it's welcoming big beautiful screen, ease of use and multitude of capabilities, I mean it would have been the perfect phone if it had WLAN (wifi) on it, but it still is a pretty darn good phone, at least for it's price ... now for those of you who own one, here's a torrent to make you even feel luckier.

114MBs of N73 games, themes and apps.

And here's a link about the phone (Powered by GSMarena.com)
The N73 by nokia

Microsoft Surface - Your coffee table is more important that you would think.

2007-05-31T12:15:00.000+04:00

Gosh, is this cool or what? Microsoft has unveiled it's latest cool product, the Microsoft surface, it's an engine for an interactive touchscreen surface, in the form of a table! It's basically a table that recognizes what you put on it and lets you interact with it, watch the video and let your jaw drop!

يا نهار! ايه الحلاوة دي يا ولاد! العلم نورن و الله! الشركة العملاقة مايكروسوفت أطلقت يوم الثلاثاء منتجها الجديد "أسطح مايكروسوفت" و هو عبارة عن أسطح تفاعلية تعرف ماذا يوضع عليها و تسمح لك بالتفاعل معه (يعني ترابيزة ذكية شوية ... و عموماً لو لسة مش فاهم حاجة, اتفرج ع الفيديو!)

Cut your hair with virtual barber shop - الحلاّق الافتراضي

2007-05-31T00:52:00.000+04:00

Cut your hair with the virtual barber shop! After I started this blog, I thought, why not start with a fresh hair cut ?
WARNING : This requires HEADPHONES and to CLOSE YOUR EYES while listening, you will not enjoy the full experience unless you provide both. (and don't be afraid, this will not scare you or anything, I swear ...)

طبعا زي ما لاحظتم أنا لسة مفتتح البلوج بتاعي النهاردة تقريبا, و قلت ان أحسن حاجة في الدنيا إن الواحد يحلق و ينضف قبل ما يكلمكو ... تحبو تجربو الحلاق بتاعي ؟ عم لويييييييييييجييييييييييييييي !!!!!!
ملحوظة: لازم تلبس سماعات رأس و انت بتسمع البتاع دي عشان تتكيف, و يفضل جدا تغمض عينيك, و متقلقش, مافيناش من خض و الله!

إهداء .. للمياء !

Medical ebooks, Software, Food, and everything in between.

2007-05-30T18:34:00.000+04:00

This is my brand new blog, and one of the many sites I've launched recently ... I'll be talking about new software for both PC and mobile phones (will probably provide download links too!), medical education in Egypt, medical education and I will provide the best resources for medical students; I'll talk about food, cool outings and hangouts, life, the universe and everything! ;)

You may have read about me on my other blog at http://amirmahmoud.spaces.live.com or even visited my website at http://amirmah.googlepages.com , but this blog is going to be something else, I will tour the web and post the best bits and bites, and I will do some occasional video blogging every now and then, so stay tuned for the next posts!