Category: fun
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How to fake it with Alexa?
Many people ask me why their website has a low Alexa rank. Alexa, an Amazon-owned analytics service shows and ranks different websites and can even tell one the audience their website is getting; including gender, education and age groups. The question often remains; How does Alexa work? Do they monitor the entire Internet? The answer…
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The Android Ipad
A fake, android powered iPad in Dragon Mart.
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Dot the I, why QA is important with license agreements
Granted, as many others, I don’t read each and every license user agreement when installing software, but the following tops it all. Having an extra pair of eyes doesn’t hurt before you put your creation to market: Yes, this is a real screenshot.
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Archiving outlook emails, gmail style
In Nakheel we have a maximum email quota which gets filled up pretty quickly if you receive large attachements, such as presentations, manuals and silly movies. I wanted to build a macro that imitates Gmail awesome archiving method. Based on the lifehackers’s article, my version had to move the my selected mails to a PST…
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Dubai Twestival 2009
Yesterday evening, it was the Dubai Chapter of the Twestival. Twestival is a festival, organized by the Twitter community worldwide. Over 165 cities worldwide participated on this event to support the Charity Water foundation. The Dubai chapter was held yesterday in Barasti, Mina Seyahi. It was an amazing event, and had a great turnout. It’s…
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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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Yearbook yourself
A fun website I heard about, http://yearbookyourself.com/ allows one to upload a picture and see it with different hair styles and fashion styles. Try it, it’s awesome. Michael