Category: Technology
Why is digital media different?
I have a grievance against international media companies. They have a very strange policy of not selling their products in certain geographical regions. There are many services that I would like to subscribe to, but cannot because I am located in Egypt.
Read MorePlaybook vs iPad
Playbook does seem to outperform iPad, but the tests were conducted by RIM (conflict of interest) and the real competitor for Playbook is iPad 2 not iPad.
Read MoreHow to set up your own website
I have just recently set up a website on my personal server. This blog entry aims to document the steps I took to host the website. I hope this is useful for those who want to try this out.
Read MoreSetting up a blog
So, a couple of moments ago I did not have a website and now I do. This blog is hosted on one of my personal servers. Cost of my new website, zero dollars. In the old days, when I first started using the Internet, it was very expensive to host your own website. Now, with…
Read MoreTwitter released it’s iPad app, when will Facebook?
Twitter officially released it’s iPad app a couple of days ago. Since I downloaded it, my experience of Twitter on iPad has completely changed. Prior to using the official app, I used TweetDeck on iPad, which, essentially, is a blown down version of the desktop app to fit the screen size of the iPad. It…
Read MorePC vs Mobile web access
I don’t know if this is the general case or if this is just a personal idiosyncrasy, but I have discovered that my mobile web accessing pattern is different from my normal PC based web browsing. On the PC, it feels normal to access a certain web-page and spend a lot of time on that…
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