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Month: July 2007

  • The new Google Analytics interface crashes Flash!

    The new Google Analytics interface looks good but is totally unusable for me. On both Safari and Firefox on my PoweBook G4 Mac, any attempt to click on the date range pull down menu produces the error message above: “A script in this movie is causing Adobe Flash Player 9 to run slowly..”. This is…

  • Ammanis flock to Wakalat street to rediscover pedestrian life

    Although Amman’s first contemporary pedestrian street is still littered with building materials and punctuated by unfinished patches, Ammanis are already flocking there to shop, sit on a table of a street-side cafe and.. rediscover the meaning of street life. Of course, street life always existed in Amman. Go to Jabal Al Hussein. Even better, go…

  • My 30 minutes with an iPhone

    I honestly did not expect to use see or use an iPhone just 11 days after its launch in the US. The phone is not out in Europe and the Middle East until the end of this year (which actually is crazy, considering that Nokia’s top phones come out in Jordan as soon as they…

  • Akhtaboot: Web 2.0 job hunting comes to Arabia

    Akhtaboot.com is nothing less than a revolution in the world of online recruiting in Arabia (and that’s not just because SYNTAX had a hand in it ). The launch of Akhtaboot marks the arrival of web 2.0 in the Middle East’s recruitment market. Far more than a database of ‘job opportunities’ Akhtaboot is a total…

  • iPhone on display at iSystems in Amman?

    Sorry.. another iPhone post. But I just got a comment on one of my post from the folks at iSystem (Amman’s semi “Apple Strore” in Suwiefieh), saying that the iPhone is on display there! I will definitely head over there and have a look! Read these related posts on 360east: iPhone Jordan launch REALLY nears…

  • Serious about IT in Jordan? DOWN with those DSL internet prices!

    If Jordan is serious about turing it into an e-society, one of the priorities that need to be tacked is the cost of internet access. I have written many times about this, but there is some news to report. First of all, it is great to see the ISPs reducing their prices (the reductions are…

  • King Abdullah: “You have one week to fix the airport management”

    How many times does HM King Abdullah have to visit the Queen Alia Airport to get its managers to fix it? A few years ago the king visited the airport and said he was unhappy about the way things are handled there. Things have only slightly improved since then. A renovation process took ages to…

  • Steorn cancels show: huge disappointment or another stunt?

    I kept checking the Steorn forums from time to time on Friday. Around noon the news came out, Steorn is calling off its show of the Orbo at the Kinetica Museum. Further to Steorn’s announcement yesterday (5th July) regarding the technical difficulties experienced during the installation of its “Orbo” technology at the Kinentica Museum in…

  • Is the Steorn Orbo delay just another publicity stunt??

    One of the members of the Steorn Forum suggested that this whole story of the Steorn Orbo breaking down might be a publicity stunt! THe scenario is: build anticipation for a launch.. Get initial attention of the media.. Declare you have a problem.. More attention from the media.. Keep everyone on the edge.. Then, when…

  • Your last chance to vote for “Humeid’s Really New 7 Wonders of the World”

    Come on! It’s you last chance now.. On 7/7/07 the results will be announced. Go and vote for your favorite invention and decide which will be “Humeid’s Really New Seven Wonders of the World”? Be part of this historic event.. Read these related posts on 360east: Vote for Petra? Why not “Humeid’s Really New Seven…

  • First images of the Steorn Orbo?

    I just checked the video stream from Steorn’s demo (on the Mac I used VLC video player using the mms protocol with this URL: mms://win.Astream.net/steorn3) and I saw the above picture. It’s obviously a glass encasement with something like a wheel in it. I don’t know if this wheel is the Orbo device or just…

  • Steorn playing with our nerves!

    UPDATE: The news now is that the Kinetica Museum will open on Friday the 6th.. But the video demo should be viewable starting today. UPDATE 2: A reader of Free Energy Tracker has posted photos of of Steorn’s promotional banners that are hanging at Kinetica Museum. My goodness. The blogosphere is buzzing and even some…