Makl Ndrix

Entropy is not what it used to be.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • AIR version for your Google services

    GMDesk is an Adobe AIR program that allows you to do your Gmail, Gdocs, GCalender and other GPerks all in a desktop application, cross platform. There’s no need anymore to open Google in your browser.

  • 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

  • New blog

    Hi all, Welcome to my new blog. I will slowly move away from blog.code.ae and start posting things here, see it as a slow “exit strategy” of mine. Expect a bit more technical talks here, and a bit less UAE -non-techy- related talks, I wish to focus mainly on programming in environments such as Ruby…

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