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New 3G iPhone Pictures.
2008-06-08 00:12:00 The rumored 3G iPhone from Apple has been expected by many but no one knew if the phone itself would change. Today some pictures started popping up around the internet. TechCrunch has a picture of a packet that shows the new iPhone in colors and with a front camera making it able to have video ... More About: Pictures , Mac , Gadgets , Iphone
Metered Internet.
2008-06-06 19:28:00 It seems like Time Warner has officially decided to test metered internet in Beaumont, Texas. For those of you who don’t know…people “use” a certain amount of internet every day that could be measured just like your phone minutes. Time Warner is planning on putting limits on the amount of internet you use and charge ... More About: Internet , Time Warner Cable
The DotCom Bubbles.
2008-06-06 05:59:00 CNET has this great article on some of the most famous websites of back in the day that went bad. Everyone calls it the bubble effect; a website grows popular until it reaches a certain point, like a bubble, and then it explodes and it is over. Some of these websites are considered the first ... More About: Bubbles
Applying To College: SAT
2008-06-03 06:27:00 Seeing that it is around that time where most students start thinking about applying for college; I am going to talk about my process and what I think worked and did not work for me. The best way to make an impression on a school is through your SAT scores. Every school wants smart students and ... More About: College , Tests
Facebook Platform Available To Public.
2008-06-02 21:08:00 TechCrunch just announced that Facebook has made an interesting move in making there platform open source. It is available for people to download and use under their copyright rules. As far as competing with Open Social then it is a smart move since you never want to stay back in an industry where everything is ... More About: Programming , Open Source , Public , Platform
Firefox 3 Making The Buzz.
2008-06-02 04:33:00 The big buzz going around is the upcoming release of Firefox 3. According to some reviews people say that it is a new amazing experience. They have found ways to solve some of their memory leaking problems also known as the firefox memory hogger issue. I hope this would be solved in some way as ... More About: Browsers , Mozilla , Tech , Buzz
Sending Text Messages From A Website.
2008-06-01 06:25:00 It had been a long time since I have been curious with how certain technology works. Tonight I discovered simple tricks of how to send text messages from websites and how to send emails through text messaging. It all works with SMS Gateways, which are paths or “doors” that enable the transferring of text messages. ... More About: Website , Messages , Text , Sending
Netflix Player, Movies On Demand.
2008-06-01 04:38:00 I was just reading an article about Netflix ’s new box where you could watch movies on demand. In the same way Apple TV and other products work; you could download movies and videos to watch on your television. The obvious difference is that Netflix is known for their wide range of movies and TV Series ... More About: Movies , Gadgets , Player , Demand
Sophmore Year Is Over.
2008-05-28 21:15:00 It’s another year gone by down the road. I recently finished my second year at R.I.T. and a great one it was. I took some great classes that not only applied to my major but also applied to my knowledge in general about society and life. One of my favorites was International Relations where ... More About: Year
Indiana Jones
2008-05-26 02:36:00 The summer is here and the blockbuster movies are going to start rolling out. I have never been a big Indiana Jones movie but the hype got me going and interested in watching the latest movie. The Kingdom Of The Krystal Skull is a typical American action movie. The movie moves on quickly from places ... More About: Entertainment , Indiana Jones
Price of A Life.
2008-05-06 06:15:00 As I’m doing my research for a term paper I have to do, I found this article called Sometimes in War, You Can Put A Price In A Life . The article talks about different ways and situations where prices are given to human life. If you would ask anyone rational the price of life they would say that it’s priceless. Apparently some people have thought of “great” ideas of giving price to life. In a certain case they considered $2,000 a reasonable price for Afghanistan’s life. This is a ridiculous low amount for a life, at least in my opinion. This price was given to people who got shot during the war but were innocent people. In the same scenario 50 other people got injured but received no money. It is true that war brings out the worse in people. Even people who die in airplane crashes get more money than this and those are really bad accidents. War is less than an accident. But this is just my opinion. Yasser
Iron Man.
2008-05-04 18:39:00 I know it has been a long while since I post anything and specially comments about a movie but I think this one deserves the attention. Iron Man is officially one of the coolest movies of this year. The year is just starting and a lot of movies are looking good but this one is ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Fat America.
2008-03-24 23:27:00 The United State’s is known as the fattest country in the world. And it is slowly getting to be known as one of the most uneducated countries (statistics, not calling people stupid). I came from Dominican Republic where my mom would cook almost every day a decent food (by decent I mean not full of ... More About: America , Donald
My Blackberry Pearl.
2008-03-07 07:21:00 I finally got a new phone and it is exactly what I have been wanting for a while, a Blackberry Pearl . It is the nicest phone I have seen in a while and it is full of applications. Most PDA are a bit big but this one is the perfect size. I have also become ... More About: Gadgets , Thoughts
U.S. Border Patrol and Racism.
2008-03-02 21:48:00 Immigration and border patrol’s have now been more focused on catching illegal immigrants at bus stops and at train stations. Yesterday I witness the way they treat people who don’t seem to have the write papers to prove they are legal in the country. When I got in an Amtrak train, border patrol was checking ... More About: Racism , Border Patrol
Qtrax, Free and Legal Music to Download.
2008-01-27 23:47:00 Update: Reuters.com is reporting that the major record labels have said that this information is false. They have not signed a contract with Qtrax but they were working together on beta testing. So now we would have to wait and see if any of the major record labels would actually sign the contract which ... More About: Music , Entertainment , Download , Free , Legal
The Super Bowl Economy.
2008-01-27 17:14:00 One of the biggest t.v. programs of the year is going to air on February 3rd. It is no lie that the Super Bowl is one of the most watch t.v. shows of the year, even people that don’t watch football love watching the Super Bowl. One of the greatest part of this event is ... More About: Economy , The Super
Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names.
2008-01-25 16:21:00 I found this great article in ITworld.com about the history of five generic domain names: milk.com , meat.com, music.com, eat.com and car.com . These would be names worth a lot in the domain real estate business but yet none of them started as what their name says, they were all geeky websites. It would be ... More About: Domain , Domain Names , Curious , Generic , Names
Why The United Nations Doesn?t Work ?
2008-01-22 02:03:00 The topic for discussion in my Intro to International Relations class was the United Nations . Most people know the name but know little about the organization itself. The definition according to Wikipedia is: The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, ... More About: Work , Thoughts
How To Do Things.
2008-01-19 17:53:00 The great thing about the internet is that when we want to learn how to do something we no longer need a book. We can always search for it online and hopefully find a good website that explains things slowly or at whatever speed you desire. Sometimes it is hard finding these websites that have ... More About: Things
Yahoo Implements OpenID.
2008-01-17 16:41:00 Yahoo has recently improved their service in OpenID. It now has over 100 million users ID and it could be used in 9,000 websites so far. OpenID is a project that Yahoo has that enables people to have one account that is valid for hundreds and thousands of websites. That means that you wont have ... More About: Yahoo , Tech , Yahoo!
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
2008-01-15 03:02:00 Finally a new show that I could look forward to watching. The Sarah Connor Chronicles started yesterday (Jan. 13th) and it was a great first show. It reminds me of the first time I saw Terminator I and Terminator II. They even used some famous quotes from the movie like “come with me if you want to live”. They also used the same house where they killed the guy who “created” the war of robots. Just from one episode I could say that it is going to be a great show this season and I recommend it to anyone who likes good shows, specially if you were a fan of Terminator. The whole series is based on what happened after Terminator II, the kid is a bit older and new adventures await. Don’t miss it. Yasser More About: Sarah Connor
Bye Bye MySpace.
2008-01-14 02:06:00 I finally got rid of my MySpace account . It was something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but never did until today. The reasons why I didn’t want to delete it was the fact that it’s a good way to keep in contact with friends who are very far away ... More About: Myspace , Thoughts
Steal This Wi-Fi by Bruce Schneier.
2008-01-10 18:09:00 The security expert Bruce Schneier has recently written an article on Wired.com about using Wi-Fi networks that don’t have password protections. His position on this topic is, use it. His own wireless network is not protected so others can use it. The way he sees it is that other people benefit from it. This might ... More About: Security , Steal , Steal This
Iowa Caucuses, The Presedential Race.
2008-01-04 18:11:00 I haven’t been following politics lately because I already feel informed of what is going on. As usual Mike Gravel is always excluded from talking and lately from participating in the Iowa Caucuses . Surprisingly, Hillary Clinton didn’t win at Iowa but it is no surprise that she is in the lead and to me it ... More About: Politics , Race , Iowa caucuses
12 Web Applications To Help College Students.
2008-01-03 22:48:00 I found this article that mentions 12 Web Applications to help college students be more successful or at least be more organized. A couple of them I already use like the # 1 which is Facebook. The only thing is that they don’t really say why it is useful. To me it’s useful to keep ... More About: College , Students
Changing The World.
2008-01-03 05:10:00 A great way to start 2008 is by thinking of others. We all see the commercials on tv and remember that there are people and kids out there that are less fortunate and need our help. I’m a college student and can’t really afford to be giving away money but I can afford to give ... More About: World , Thoughts , Changing , The World
Google Adsense Killers For 2008.
2008-01-02 02:42:00 We all know that online advertisement is one of the greatest growing market and everyone who has a website or blog wants some piece of that pie. I’ve been using Adsense for a while and to tell the truth it doesn’t pay much. It is great for websites that get over 1,000 visitors per day ... More About: Google , Tech , Blogging , Google Adsense
What Happened In 2007.
2007-12-31 21:27:00 Here is a quick run through the things that I consider interesting that happened during 2007. These are things I blogged about and there are plenty of more interesting things that I didn’t blog about that also happened. Here is the run down by month: January: MySpace Power: MySpace used it’s power to shut down a website ... More About: Thoughts
Australia Is Going To Censor Internet.
More articles from this author:2007-12-31 17:42:00 The Australia n government has agreed on filtering internet content from the people living in Australia. They join China who has been censoring their internet for a long time now and has created lots of controversy. The reason why Australia wants to censor its internet is because they had supplied Net Nanny to every consumer but ... More About: Politics , Internet , Tech , Goin 1, 2, 3 |
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