Month: April 2005
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Keep those internet surprises coming along
TELECOM | New services and increased competition are bringing new conveniences to the consumer A few weeks ago I was departing from Queen Alia International Airport and was, for a change, pleasantly surprised. I am saying ‘for a change’ because I have written before about the dire need to inject technology into our main airport.…
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Podcasting: The liberation of (r)a(u)dio
MEDIA | Just under the mainstream’s surface, a new media revolution is about to happen, says Ahmad Humeid “Hey DJ! Are you done mixing yet?” shouts a girl’s voice. “Your DJ has only just begun!” comes the answer in a movie trailer-like voice. That’s what the listeners of the ‘Daily Source Code’ hear at the…
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Branding the Cedar Revolution – Revisited
My post about the ‘branding’ of Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution last month got linked in all sorts of places and resulted in the traffic to 360east.com to skyrocket. Anyway, today a friend emailed me a link to an article in the Washington Post that goes deeper behind the scenes and talks to the ‘brand builders’ of…
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Dubai! Dubai!
Posting from Dubai. Been here fro 2 days on business. This place is just crazy.. and in more than one way. I will be posting some photos soon along with some of my impressions from the past few days. Meanwhile, try to help me decode this
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Recording Skype calls on GarageBand with LineIn and SoundFlower (Mac)
I’ve been going audio-crazy over the past few day. Will write more about that later.. Ok.. In the spirit of sharing solutions with other Mac users out there, here is how I managed to record a Skype call on GarageBand using the apps LineIn and Soundflower: I just kept messing around with the settings and…
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just another test..
testing something test link
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Upgraded to WordPress 1.5
I just managed to upgrade this site to WordPress 1.5. That’s why the header image is gone and the text is now in a ‘wrong’ font. Upgrade was easy. But FTP is always a pain (it’s soooo slow). Thanks Ammar for remembering the ‘secret code’ Will fix the header and font tomorrow. Let’s see what…
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Incredibly shrinking music
MUSIC | Ahmad Humeid gets his hand on Apple’s latest iPod: the Shuffle My first portable music device in the 1980s was a cheap Walkman-like cassette tape player. It probably cost no more than 20 US$s. I had a few plastic boxes full of tapes, most of which were copies of friends’ tapes or copies…
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Israel finally gives the Palestinians something: its Garbage!
Read this story from today’s Haaretz. What a bloody outrage! Israel has decided to transfer garbage beyond the Green Line and dump it in the West Bank for the first time since 1967. The project was launched despite international treaties prohibiting an occupying state from making use of occupied territory unless it benefits the local…