Category: Digital life
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Google listens to feedback, changes “Egabat” to “Ejabat”
And they even created a video to celebrate the change.. When I blogged about Google’s new Arabic Q&A service a while ago, I received a comment from Wael Ghonim, Google’s MENA Product and Marketing man, noting with interest the issue I (and others) raised about the service’s name “Egabat”. Now, after surveying the community and…
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“Migrating to the Mac feels like immigrating to a first world nation”
A Facebook update by my friend Bilal Hijjawi inspired this “360east imitation” Click to enlarge a little bit
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The Nokia N900 phone/tablet: very promising departure from Symbian
Check out the really new video of the new Nokia N900. It’s officially an internet tablet, but its also a phone. Important fact: it’s not Symbian-based at all (which phones like the N97 and Xpressmusic 5800 use). No, this is Nokia’s “secret weapon” Maemo operating system (pronounced “My Mo”), which used to run on Nokia’s…
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The funniest phone problem: Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic screen goes fuzzy when cold!
In last couple of weeks, my Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic has been having a weird problem. The screen goes fuzzy (all the pixels get jumbled up). The only way to get the screen to display correctly after this happens is a restart or by pressing the on/off button while screen is in locked mode. I started…
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Amman’s Google map now appears on mobiles!
Last night was the first time I drive in Amman with a GPS map in my car! Yipee! In the end, it was Google who were first in providing this experience. As I mentioned in a previous post, Google Maps has, for the past few months, included a Amman map with main street names in…
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My wish list for Apple’s upcoming/rumored iTablet
The web is abuzz again with Apple rumors. It really seems that the long rumored Apple iTablet will finally see the light of day. Most predictions about the device seem to be describing an oversize iPod Touch. It is clear that the success of the iPhone/iPod Touch App Store has been amazing. I mean.. show…
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Amman’s GPS map on Nokia should be released within weeks..
My own investigation and also some reader tips have indicated that the Nokia map for Amman and Jordan should be released within a month or so. It seems that Navteq/Nokia have finally gotten “local approval” to release their map. I don’t know exactly what was holding up the public release of both the Nokia/Navteq map…
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Follow where your friends are lurking online.. with Folowen.com
In the old days (just a few years ago) people maybe had a blog or a personal homepage (my first home page was on GeoCities!). Today, your friends (or enemies or people you are interested in are talking all over the web. They talk to friends on Facebook. They try to say interesting things to…
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Is your Nokia 5800 browser crashing? Hard reset is the answer
For weeks I have not been using my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic browser. It simply would start loading a page then crash and go back to the phone’s home screen. The only solution was to do a hard reset by dialing *#7370#. But make sure you back up you phone’s data to the memory card first,…
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American security cannot handle some big letters!
When security officials in the United States can’t stomach a bunch of big letters spelling “United States”, then that’s a good reason to be depressed about the state of the world today. I saw this story in the New York Times a couple of days ago. It’s a fascinating story about a newly completed, and…
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Yamli, Google Ta3reeb and now Microsoft Maren. What is the point exactly??!
What is the great secret or business opportunity behind all this activity to solve the “problem” of typing Arabic on a computer. Doesn’t this sound so 1985? First there was Yamli, which popularized the concept of web based Arabic transliteration (you type in Latin letters and Yamli intelligently transforms what you’re writing into real Arabic).…
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“Watwittering”, public API and other Watwet updates
Watwet, our homegrown mobile and web microblogging and social networking tool (do they still call this stuff “microblogging” or am I living in a cave?) has made some pretty profound changes to the service over the past few months. I’ve been meaning to write about them for a while, but this did not happen due…