Month: September 2008
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PhoneGap, bridging the gap between Safari and the iPhone’s API
Another quick one, phonegap is a tool for your iPhone which will allow you to talk to your local API’s. Currently it holds the following: Accelerometer Geo Location Camera (pending) Vibration (pending) This means that the iPhone portion of places.ae will support Phonegap also. But seriously, if you’re an iPhone user, this is just a…
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Quickly share music with your friends, TinySong
Suggested by a friend of mine, Tinysong allows you to share any song with your friends. A simple web application. I wish more web apps were like this, simple and straight to the point.
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UAE Banks hit by ATM fraudsters
Multiple banks issues SMS messages and emails for UAE customers to change their PIN codes. Some banks even disabled international ATM cash withdrawal (which would suck if you’re on a holiday and need cash). So, if you are living in the UAE; it never hurts to change your pin. Which is something you should do…
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CSS Optimizer shrinks your CSS files
CSS Optimizer is a tool that will shrink your CSS files and shave off a few kilobytes. I tested a few CSS files on places.ae and, shamefully, saw an average of 33% improvement that’s possible. (Though not as bad as some other sites: salik (49%) and dubai police (62%)). Very useful tool, especially on mobile…
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Minimalistic browser, Google’s Chrome
Google came out with a new browser, called Chrome. A company that pushes so much into a browser, made their own browser with minimalistic design (as usually done by google) multiple features, such as the incognito windows (wont leave traces in your sites’s history), the built in javascript console, V8 Javascript engine. See it as…
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Dubai jails yahoo email account hacker
An Egyptian secretary guessed the password of a yahoo account of an Emirati UN employee, and was sentenced to three months in jail and deportation. The “hacker” emailed the victim that he broke into her email account, and was going to release pictures and “other secrets” of her, according to GulfNews. Not the cybercrime caliber…