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Scheduling A Meeting Using Doodle.
2009-09-10 20:59:00 If you host meetings or participate in some form of meeting then you know the hardest part of the meeting is trying to figure out a time when everyone is available. That is no longer that big of a problem thanks to Doodle . It is not a new service and it is a website that ... More About: Tech , Meeting
The Time Traveler?s Wife
2009-08-16 07:00:00 4 out of 5 stars Before I went to see this movie I didn’t have a clear idea of what it was going to be about. All I knew was that the movie was based on a very popular book that I have not read and that it was about the relationaship with a guy ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Wife , Time , The Time
Twitter Panic !
2009-08-06 18:09:00 It seems that the great Twitter is down. I am not a Twitter user but found out about it earlier this morning on Tech Crunch and now they announced that it is the cause of a Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDOS). Of course most people would see this news and ask why are people ... More About: Security , Panic
How Does Netflix Work ?
2009-08-06 16:42:00 Have you ever wondered how Netflix is able to send and receive so many movies a day? My best guest would of been all automated, someone picks up and throws it in a machine that sorts and what not and then someone drops off at the mail box tons of movies to be shipped. I ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Tech , Work
MagMe: Read Magazines Online.
2009-08-04 15:37:00 Not too long ago I wrote about a website called Mygazines.com that allowed users to read magazines online for free. They were scanned by people and had great quality, easy to read. Then a few months later that website ran into some legal issues and just recently re-launched but it doesn’t have as much content ... More About: Entertainment , Magazines , Tech , Read , Online
Funny People.
2009-08-02 18:48:00 4 out of 5 stars I am a big fan of Adam Sandler’s work, he always delivers funny movies and he has also showed he could do more serious movies like Reign Over Me. Funny People was a mix of both of those worlds. The movie had its classic Adam Sandler funny moments but ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
The Bing Challenge.
2009-07-27 17:47:00 If you haven’t heard by now, Microsoft revealed a new search engine called Bing which is set to compete with Google . I have realized that I am extremely used to using Google. Every time I am going to visit a website and I’m not 100% sure of the name I would google it and even ... More About: Search Engines , Tech , Challenge
Facebook: Make it easier to tag and find picture of friends.
2009-07-21 19:23:00 Everyone who uploads a whole album of pictures hates tagging pictures over and over and over again. But a company called Face.com has introduced a new program that uses facial recognition technology to find friends and possibly even tag them for you. This would save you lots of times. As of now it seems like ... More About: Friends , Tech , Picture , Find , Facebook
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
2009-07-16 15:20:00 4 out of 5 stars I usually never go to see movies on the first day they came out but a couple of friends convinced me to go see Harry Potter on the Wednesday it premiered. I have slowly become a Harry Potter movie fan because there movies are unpredictable for the most part and ... More About: Movies , Entertainment , Prince
Twitter Classified Documents Leaked.
2009-07-15 15:29:00 It seems that a lot has happen over night while I was sleeping. Reading Tech Crunch this morning, I learned that they received an email with plenty of confidential information leaked from Twitter . For some odd reason the users at TechCrunch have responded saying that it is unethical to publish that information, even though websites do ... More About: Security , Hack , Classified
HBO: Hung.
2009-07-13 17:10:00 I got to see the first two episodes of HBO new original series titled Hung. It is about a guy who is well hung, has a big member if you know what I mean… His life isn’t going very well economically and in other ways and has realized that he actually is hung and people ... More About: Entertainment
Google Knol, Still Alive.
2009-01-18 06:20:00 In late 2007 Google had announced a product called Google Knol . It was meant to compete with Wikipedia and help users make money by posting pages. Most of us thought that this idea had died but Mashable has an article saying that Google Knol now has 100,000 pages which i a quite impressive number. But ... More About: Tech , Alive
Windows 7: Beta 1 Leaked
2008-12-29 17:31:00 The “first beta” of Windows 7 has been leaked out and available for download at certain bittorrent sites. The beta that has been leaked out was meant to be shown in January for a special show. Some people are saying that it is pretty good, they have put a lot of effort into developing this ... More About: Microsoft , Tech , Beta , Windows 7
What Happened In 2008 ?
2008-12-29 08:37:00 Here is a quick list of things that happened in 2008 that I blogged about. Of course there is plenty of other important things that I didn’t get the chance to talk about. January: Google Adsense Killers: I have yet to see them kill anything. The Start of OpenID: The great OpenID project goes full gear. March: My BlackBerry Pearl: ... More About: Firefox , Blackberry , Thoughts , Google Adsense
Finding A Good Domain Name.
2008-12-24 06:58:00 It took me almost 3 weeks to think about a good domain name for my website but I finally got it. I wanted something that you could add a subdomain and still sound good. But coming up with a domain name isn’t easy and even worse yet the best names are probably taken and ... More About: Internet , Domain , Domain Name , Tech , Domains
What Did People Google In 2008?
2008-12-16 21:07:00 As the year comes to end it is time to slowly start rolling out those list of “what happened in 2008 ″ and those sort of things. So to start the list we shall look at what were people interested in finding this year. Google Zeitgeist has the list by global searches and by certain countries. ... More About: People , Tech
Quantum of Solace and Twilight.
2008-11-26 20:43:00 It has been a long time since I had been to the movies to actually watch a movie that came out recently. This past week I got to see Quantum of Solace , the new James Bond movie and the infamous Twilight. The James Bond movie was a good movie filled with good none too exaggerated ... More About: Movies , Entertainment
Rock Your Vote!!!
2008-10-28 00:27:00 Rock Your Vote ! Vote or Die ! However you want to put it make sure you go out and vote. It is not too late to get an absentee ballot if your not in your town which is the case for most college students. If you already got an absentee ballot and you’re not sure where you have to go and vote then check out CanIVote.org it will give you the information of where you’re voting and other general stuff. Don’t miss out on the elections, don’t let other people choose for you. Make sure you have your ID with you the day of voting even though rules change from State to State make sure you won’t be fooled. It is illegal to wear any type of “promotion” pin or t-shirt or what not when you go voting (this may not be true for certain states) but make sure there are no way of you getting cheated of voting. Go Out And Vote! Yasser More About: Rock
My New Toys.
2008-10-23 23:29:00 It’s been a long time since I write anything on the blog mostly because I’ve been busy with school and what not. Every time I try to write something I come up blank. Today I’ve decided to write about some new things in my life. I’m going to start off with my newest sneakers: I just got them recently and changed the shoe lasses to white because I think it looks better with white. If you didn’t know by now I’m growing to love sneakers, specifically Nike SB’s and read HypeBeast every now and then to keep up with whats hot and what’s not. On another note me and my roommate recently bought a new 32inch LCD TV. You can check it out on NewEgg. So far it has been great it even picked up Digital channels on its own through the basic cable. I didn’t know TV’s were able to do that. We tried buying a HD antenna but it didn’t really pick up many channels, we were better off with the basic cable and the HD channels it read. For no... More About: Toys
Heroes, Villains.
2008-09-23 23:36:00 The best television show of these times is back. Heroes had a two hour premiere yesterday and as usual they didn’t disappoint anyone I know. Adding more twists to the already complicated story; this season is dedicated to villains, the bad guys. And to make it even better they have introduced a whole new set ... More About: Entertainment , Villains
Google Chrome, The New WebBrowser.
2008-09-03 04:03:00 It seems like Google has done it again. This time Google has caught everyone by surprise with the release of a new beta program called Google Chrome . It is a new Web Browser developed by Google with a very clean and simple look. It seems to be based of Mozilla and taken some Firefox ideas ... More About: Tech
Reading Magazines Online, Free.
2008-08-19 17:25:00 A great new website is up and coming that lets user share magazine articles or a whole magazine. It is free for everyone to read and use. All the magazines and content is user generated, scanned articles, which makes me wonder if the website will end up in a few law suits from the magazines ... More About: Entertainment , Reading , Magazines , Tech , Free
Types Of College Loans.
2008-08-11 18:32:00 Whether you are going to college for your first year or you’re going back for one more year of adventures. College is very expensive and most people can’t afford it all together or didn’t get enough financial aid. You should know what type of loans you are dealing with or what types of loans can ... More About: Loans , Types
E-Passports Cloned In Minutes.
2008-08-07 19:23:00 I have never ever trusted security mechanisms that use Biometrics because they are simply not as secure as they say and the movie shows them. When the buzz started spreading about the use of electronic passports, I knew it was going to be another bad idea. The Times Online wrote an article about how two ... More About: Security , Tech , Cloned , Minutes
How Much Is Your Website Worth?
2008-08-05 02:05:00 How many times have you thought about the Internet Real Estate business but never had any idea of how it works or how much to pay for something. Martin Brinkmann wrote a great article about what helps determines the value of a website. Popularity is the first obvious thing to consider. The more visitors a ... More About: Website , Tech , Websites , Worth
From Web 2.0 to 3.0
2008-08-02 23:47:00 Marc Benioff (CEO of salesforce.com) has written an article for Tech CrunchIT about the evolution of Web structure. He explains what the future is bringing and what he labels Web 3 .0. The new rallying cry of Web 3.0 is that anyone can innovate, anywhere. Code is written, collaborated on, debugged, tested, deployed, and run in the ... More About: Internet , Web 2
Cuil, New Promising Search Engine.
2008-07-30 02:24:00 Every year brings a bunch of new companies and websites that try taking on the search engine market. But this year there seems to be a worthy competitor entering the game called Cuil. It was developed by ex Google employees who have been making a lot of claims of how great the search engine is. ... More About: Search Engines , Tech , Search , Search Engine , Engine
Customize Your Gmail.
2008-07-29 03:06:00 I was reading Tinta Fantasma where they found a website named Globex Designs for customizing your GMail account. It works with Firefox and Flock only. It seems to load a specific CSS for your GMail and changes the “theme” of your email. In order for it to work you need a plugin named Stylish for ... More About: Google , Gmail , Tech
Will Google Be The Internet ?
2008-07-27 03:40:00 Everyone has always praised Google of its accomplishments, of how it is one of the best things that happened to the internet, it was defined as the true competitor to Microsoft. But as Google keeps rising people start debating is the best thing over or the worst nightmare ever? It was recent in the news ... More About: Internet , Social Networking , Tech , The Internet
Concepts Every Software Engineer Should Know.
More articles from this author:2008-07-24 03:11:00 As a student I’m always looking for things to learn and what am I still missing. I know college teaches you a lot of things but reality is that it doesn’t teach you everything. I just came across this great list of things Software Engineer s should know and in my case I would also say ... More About: Concepts 1, 2, 3 |
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