Alfa Telecom (managed by Orascom)
First things first: Fuck you!
Now, when Alfa Telecom (managed by Orascom) released their Blackberry service, they offered an unlimited local data plan and a F.U.P. of 500MB. the whole service at 44USD including V.A.T. so far so good.
But to everyone’s surprise, today they announced that the data plan is unlimited at 200MB and every extra 1MB might be charged 1USD. what the fuck?
unlimited? at… Continue reading
The rules…*updated*
- I’ll retain the copyrights of the winning design.
- ALL SUBMISSIONS should have an explicit GNU General Public License license or an equivalent.
- I repeat, the copyrights of ONLY THE WINNING design will be mine (credit will be given though)
- Wordpress and Wordpress only (version 2.9)
- Design must be original (as in unique, as in NOT copying a design) and submitted only to this competition.
Design competition
made my mind up, gonna launch a small competition to redesign my blog. Will be giving away a wacom tablet (good as new) to whoever wins.
I am not using it anymore, thought would put it to good use instead of just giving it away. I am evil.
Will post the rules in a few days… Continue reading
Spot the difference
Title says it all…comments are more than welcome (LBC International is a local/regional/international Lebanese TV)
Edit: here’s the new logo taken directly from LBC International TV.
I should get over this and move on, but for some reason it gets on my nerves even more seeing an “international” television station blatantly ripping off a logo. And… Continue reading
NetCommercePay and Moursel…a lesson
Well well well…I was buying for the first time from Moursel.com (web to sms service), and like the idiot I am, I submited my CC number, Firefox blocked a popup window, I got a confirmation SMS on my phone that I was charged X amount of USD and to my surprise, my moursel account is till empty, no credits.
Called them on the number listed, no answer, skype no… Continue reading
Ketchup UX
I am brainstorming lately on how and what to present in a few days/weeks about user experience.
The audience will be folks (tweeple!), most are bloggers, all are internet savvy, but the vast majority is not familiar with user experience design.
I decided to take an ascending approach, just to familiarize everyone with UX and explain that UX is omnipresent and affects our daily lives…
What’s better… Continue reading
Quick update
Quite some time since my last post, but I am up to my ears with work, so here’s a quick update on what’s holding me back from posting (and as promised, whenever something is online, I’ll post about it)
An Iphone application for a British NGO that works in third world countries (yay!)
An interactive store locator using Google maps for a bank in Dubai (not a classical… Continue reading
4SITEForum
Taken from their website:
4SITE Forum is the first interactive conference in the Middle East to promote innovation and entrepreneurship towards sustainable economic development and social impact.
Now, if you are in the “online” business like some would call it and you didn’t hear about this, you are living in the dark ages. If you are a Lebanese online company and you didn’t hear about this, you… Continue reading
Fun(d) Raising
Please folks, pass the message around, Christmas is around the corner, putting a smile on a kid’s face is priceless. You are reading this, you, your kids, your family is more fortunate than some children and families, think about that, and help out a bit folks, even just by posting or having a banner up.
Much appreciated.
Taken from from the Fun(d)