Month: September 2007
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Are designers illiterate?
Watch this short movie to find out.. Read these related posts on 360east: Become your own technical support person SYNTAX is looking for designers Gatecrashing TypeRadio Careers: Quit that advertising job and do something better with your management skills! Zarqawi font designers!
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Ramadan + Dubai + Too much to do = no blogging
So much to blog about. No time to do it. Here is a photo from the Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai at night. There is something magical about passing by the highest man-made structure in history: Burj Dubai. You can see it glittering in the background.. That’s it for now..
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Jordanian inventors create an iPhone that runs on Kerosene!
And it it also produces more energy than it consumes! I am sorry.. It’s just a Ramadan hallucination, induced by lack of caffeine in my blood.. I just could not resist coming up with this post title when I saw this in Al-Ghad: Two Jordanian engineers unlock the iPhone! This was the lead story in…
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How to create the perfect Ramadan drink..
See more on ikbis.. Read these related posts on 360east: Win Nokia Nseries devices with Ikbis in Ramadan MixUp Arabia episode 7 | Oct 12, 2005 | The Ramadan Cast Ending my self-imposed blogging hiatus Aqaba’s tourism brand starts to make an appearance Wanna have some Slaves’ Nuts this Ramadan?
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A ‘special’ mobile plan for parliament election candidates only!
I am not making this up. Jordanian mobile provide Xpress has just announced a special package for the candidates of Jordan’s parliamentary election and their campaign staff. Talk about fanatical customer segmentation! The company said it will rent out the handsets to the candidates during the duration of the election campaign. The most important thing…
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A great Palestinian football team: Work hard, play hard!
This, and more great TV content on ATV.
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I love Jordan Post
I’ve been wanting to blog about this for months. This letter has been lying on my desk for a long time and every time I look at it I am amazed. This is an invitation from a Chinese (or events/expo company, who apparently got my name from some online directory. It was sent on the…
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Unlocked iPhones start trickling into the Middle East
Now that the iPhone has been cracked, people around the world want to get their hands on an unlocked iPhone. In the past few days, the software to unlock the iPhone to make it work with any GSM SIM cards has moved from being priced at $100 dollars to being free, and also has been…
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Samsung on a “crusade” to kill the iPhone
Behold the Samsung Croix (Croix is French for cross). It almost looks like an iPhone. It has a touch screen. It has a nifty (Flash based?) interface that already has won the iF Design Award. The camera is a 3 MP (or even 5 MP). It has a MicroSD expansion slot. It is 3G and…
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Where is the boss? It’s ‘The Office’ with a Jordanian twist!
This is hilarious stuff.. ‘Where is the Boss‘, another ATV show, switches the bosses of a travel agency and a software company. Oh my god! Read these related posts on 360east: Careers: Quit that advertising job and do something better with your management skills! Don’t Tell the Boss: Episode 1: Shooting mobile shooters Testing Google…
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‘Hearts of Light’, a man without identity and more ATV programs now on Ikbis
The more content I see from ATV, the more furious I become that this media project has been stifled. It is now certain that ATV launch will be delayed till beyond Ramadan. The channel had a full Ramadan schedule prepared including some specially commissioned productions (for more info about this, read this month’s JO cover…
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Jordan and the power of blogs: Nailing a negligent hospital today.. What’s next tomorrow?
Those whose only reaction in life is cynicism and negativism can scoff all they want at blogs and the power of electronic media. But one thing is certain: blogging and other forms of electronic, people powered media can change something. The change will not happen over night. But when you have people who are emboldened…