I’ve been using Sennheiser CX earbuds for 3 years, not the same one I think I broke about 8 of them. But thanks to a recommendation by Shawn King of Your Mac Life podcast I bought an Etymotic earbud and I’m impressed. Here’s an interview with Etymotic’s CEO and founder, Dr Mead Killion: The one
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My Favorite Earbuds: Etymotic
Silence Twitter Followers and Manage Follow List [How-to]
I found the following two guides that should be helpful to any Twitter user. I hope that you find them useful. How To Bulk Remove Twitter Accounts From Your Follow List You can find a few web tools to easily unfollow non-followers, unfollow a lot of people in a single step and a final crazy
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Google fails in Saudi Arabia
Update: Google updated Riyadh’s satellite images to something from late 2010. The maps however are still outdated. I complained many times about the extremely useless and out of date Google Maps for Saudi Arabia: roads are from 2004 and you can’t even get basic directions! Allright, Google have problems with all the red tape, we
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Firmware Update for Novatel MiFi 2352
I finally found it after months of frustration, I can say this: this addressed a lot of issues I had with my MiFi 3252. Novatel doesn’t post the firmware on their website so I had to dig around and finally found MiFi 2352 Firmware version 5.26.2. I put a copy of the file right here:
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Been a while
It’s been a while since I last rambled about anything. Hope your Ramadan and Eid was good! I’ve been concentrating my free time on SaudiMac so you will probably find more of my posts there (that and Starcraft 2). I will continue rambling here of course. Thanks for still reading this website of mine.
Dealing with haters
Tim Ferriss discussed, at the The Next Web 2010 event in Amsterdam, how to deal with haters, how to benefit from them as well. Here are some ideas that Mashable listed after they interviewed Tim. Quoted from Mashable of course. “1. It doesn’t matter how many people don’t get it. What matters is how many
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Knockoffs ad in a major newspaper
In Alriyadh newspaper, advertisement for fake knockoffs and stolen designs. So much for quality of service. Photo by @SaudiLawyer was tweeted originally on Yfrog. He wonders what is the Ministry of Commerce doing. Apparently their site isn’t working.
Stupid MS Office ad in Arabic
Speaking of silly ads, just what is Microsoft Saudi Arabia thinking with this advertisement for Office 2010. If you care about Arabic speakers why don’t you make ARABIC OFFICE FOR MAC ALREADY? Originally posted by @Saudi.
Twitter trends did not block #Flotilla – use #FreedomFlotilla
A lot of sites are claiming that Twitter is blocking #flotilla from the Twitter trends. But let’s be honest, “Flotilla” is a dictionary word and my guess is that the Twitter trends algorithm avoids “dictionary words”. Instead #freedomflotilla should be used. It’s a composite and as you noticed it’s already the first on Twitter trends
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More plagiarism from the Saudi mainstream media
It never ends, does it? The following photo of Mohammed Abed Al-Jabri (Ar: محمد عابد الجابري), who died recently, was taken in 2009 by Fahd Alhazmi (فهد الحازمي). The photo was taken during Riyadh Book Fair 2009 and posted here. Interesting note about the original photo, Mohammed’s eyes were closed and Fahd has edited the
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