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I love comedy shows, who doesn’t, and believe me I love Ikbis too, I am actually an Ikbis user, and I do find their contest ideas interesting, Airplane Contest Singing Contest and so on. They even have a new contest choosing the best of your uploaded images to be hanged on their wall, you might end up getting an Ikbis mug, I know its not much but still new and nice way to engage the users. They are trying to build an interactive community, so that is great.
Their latest “thing” is a new Comedy show named “Ground Zero”, Only 2 episodes have been released til now, and more to come for sure. They are very short episodes, each episode has 3 segments, Movie Dubbing, Lost in Translation and Coming Soon Movies. The show has some other tiny segments, such as the intro and the end bits. I will be a liar if I say I didn’t laugh, I did laugh but I think, and after watching both episodes, the only “FUNNY” part of the show is the “Doblage” Movies Dubbing segment.
The other segments are simply NOT FUNNY, the intro is ok the Movie Dubbing is Hilarious, the Lost in Translation segment were they translate English sentences or proverbs into Arabic which could sound funny is not really funny, but the really really REALLY annoying segment is the last one where a pirate appears and start speaking in English and tries to crack a joke or two and then they show a movie’s trailer, that I can easily say is not funny and even ANNOYING.
The two guys, Mike V.Derderian and Mohammad Jaradat are talented, and I see potential in the show, and it might end up to be a net sensation, but they really need to reorganize their show, cancel segments and add new segments. The possibilities are endless here.
Here are both Episodes…
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June 1st, 2008
I do not usually use specific home pages, I use Flock browser, so I get “My World” page which does all what I need. But if you usually set a Home Page in your browser, and if you have couple or more websites you like to have as home pages WhatPage.org is what you need.
After you signup and login you enter to your list page, where you can add upto 100 URL’s to be your homepages. You can order them the way you want to. You are given one link to use as your homepage in your browser. After setting your browser, everytime you open your browser or click the “HOME” icon you are sent to a new URL from your list.
What is nice about this service is that it is hassle free, and has no ads and you simply do not need to install anything. But for those who use firefox it is very simple to set multiple Home Pages. I guess nowadays I rarely see people have more than one main start page. Most of the people I know either rely on start pages such as iGoogle, Netvibes and Pageflakes or rely on the sorts of “My World” in Flock browser, or simply reload last browsing session 
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May 9th, 2008
USB AutoRunner is a useful utility that makes it simple to make your USB Drive autolaunch applications, documents, photos and videos when plugged in. Of course when a file is being autorun it will open using the software available on your PC. So if you are autorunning a word document it will open in MS Word or Staroffice Writer or whatever word processor you use.
Actually all what USB Autorunner does is create an (autorun.inf) file. Although you can manually create the autorun.inf file, USB Autorunner saves you the hassle and gives you even more options and features.
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May 7th, 2008
After spending around an hour browsing I end up having too many tabs opened, sometime I could reach maybe fifty or a hundred opened tabs!! And that just makes surfing the net slower, and when I look back on my opened tabs I realize that more than half of them I just would like to save to read later.
Taboo is a Firefox addon that helps in doing just that, developed by Jesse Andrews, Ian Fischer and Manish Singh. After installing it, two new buttons will show up one has a “+” and the other has a “T”. Pressing the plus button saves the tab, not only the page is saved but actually even the scroll location of where you have reached reading in the page and if you were filling a form, the content will be saved too.
To access the saved tabs click on the “T” button, there are two views to access the tabs, either by Grid or Calendar, in the Grid view you will be shown thumbnails of all the tabs you have saved, you can get a better view of the tab by moving the mouse over the thumbnails where you will get a bigger snapshot of the page accompanied by the Title and the URL.
On the other hand, the Calendar View will show you one thumbnail on each day on the calendar and when you click on any day all the thumbnails of all the tabs saved on that day will be shown.
The other feature that I like the most is the search, quickly find saved tabs while typing in keywords. You can also access the latest 15 saved tabs from the drop down menu when clicking the arrow beside the the “T” button.
A newer version of the extension is promised by Jesse Andrews to release soon with new cool features such as a mosaic view and resizing in the grid view.
Taboo could be useful for many reasons, such as bad browsing habits like over tabbing, or while working on a project and reading materials from number of sources. Whatever your reason is, if you surf the net, you need Taboo. If you still do not use Firefox or Flock, you are in trouble 
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April 29th, 2008
It is quite rare to find any website nowadays that do not provide RSS Feeds, but for those still not in the game and you still would like to monitor their pages, well, Page2RSS to the rescue.
It’s simple, provide the URL of the page, get the RSS Feed, subscribe to it using your Feed Reader. From now on you will get updates on whats new in the page you provided.
To make the proccess even easier you can use the Page2RSS bookmarklet, so you can just click it while on a page you would like to monitor.
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April 26th, 2008
Two months ago we got the bad news that DIVX will be shutting down their video portal Stage6 for multiple reasons. Stage6 was so popular and successful but the costs were so high that in the end DIVX just had to pull the plug.
Now we read some new news that a Stage6 clone is in the making and going to be ready on the 29th of April 2008, at first the clone was named “DivXit” and had the domain name divxit.net, but now when I tried accessing that address it took me to another domain vreel.net.
So now the Stage6 clone is named Vreel and will launch on the 6th of May 2008 rather than 29th of April 2008. Why the quick change of name and delay in date of launch, well in their Q&A Session they say:
“Our lead programmer had a family emergency, which required him to take a leave of absence. Over this time, we continued to develop on the design and layout of Vreel, and we believe that this extra time will benefit the end user in the long run. We promise it’ll be worth the wait.”
For more Q&A Click Here.
So lets wait and see maybe tomorrow there will be another name and address I just hope its not a prank in the end.
[Via gHacks]
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April 25th, 2008
How many times have you tried to take a screen capture of a website and end up taking multiple images and going to photoshop to glue them together? It is really a difficult thing to do specially when you need to scroll down a number of times.
I used to use couple of applications that would to do the trick for me, but now there is an easier and faster online solution. Just go to Super Screenshot and enter the URL you want to capture, you will be able to save it as a JPG or a PNG, in addition to that you can also specify the dimensions and the size of the image. Ofcourse if you want more control and more options you will need a more advanced application.
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April 20th, 2008
South Park’s latest episode “Over Logging” is one of many amazing episodes, but I guess I can relate to this episode more than anything else, I Guess anybody who uses the net for anything these days can totally relate to it. Just imagine one day you wake up and there is no Internet!! Don’t tell me you wont do the unthinkable to get your precious INTERNET back.
I guess one of the best lines from the episode was:
“Don’t you get it? There’s no Internet to find out why there’s no Internet!”
“What did we used to do to get the news before the Internet?”
“TE..LE..VISION!!”
You can watch the Full Episode on South Park Studios, Click Here.
But, here is one of the best scenes:
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April 20th, 2008
Although I do not shop much online, but I do bid on some auctions from time to time, and most of websites I use have a feature were you get alerts either by email or SMS when the price or status of the item has changed.
BuyLater is a firefox extension that alerts you by either email or twitter (which could be forwarded to your cell phone) everytime the status or price of your item in amazon has changed, it does so by adding a “Buy This Later” button bellow Amazon’s “Add to Shopping Cart” button. So for example if the item was out of stock you will be emailed when it becomes available, or if the price changes.
When you are viewing an item you already added to your “Watch List” the button will be “You’re Watching This”. Ofcourse the extension is only available for Firefox and Flock, and it works only with Amazon, and you can easily maintain your items watch list online.
I believe that Amazon will eventually add this kind of feature themselves. I wonder why they didn’t until now.
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April 7th, 2008
I know that earlier I have said that Buzzword is great and questioned why is Zoho and Google and others are so fixated on using AJAX and so on. I have used nearly all sort of online word processors like Google Docs and Zoho Writer and Buzzword and others, I also was invited to try some private betas of other services. All have their pros and cons, but today I found out that Zoho Writer is the best.
I was helping a friend editing an essay, so there was big number of documents going back and forth, some from MS Office and some from Open Office and so on. On my Toshiba Qosmio G30 NoteBook I have not installed anything of this sort, I was depending on using an online application.
So when I started my browser Zoho Writer was not my first choice, a mistake I will never fall in again sure, anyway so after trying some of those web services, they were either slow or did not have all tools I wanted. So after all that horror and time wasting I “remembered” Zoho Writer, and you just do not know how thankful I am for doing so, Zoho Writer REALLY knows what you need in a word processor.
I was in a hurry so speed was an issue and Zoho was just amazing, fast and full of tools and the saving and exporting to many formats was so simple and hassle free. So If you are looking at doing some serious work USE ZOHO WRITER.
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April 7th, 2008
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I love comedy shows, who doesn’t, and believe me I love Ikbis too, I am actually an Ikbis user, and I do find their contest ideas interesting, Airplane Contest Singing Contest and so on. They even have a new contest choosing the best of your uploaded images to be hanged on their wall, you might end up getting an Ikbis mug, I know its not much but still new and nice way to engage the users. They are trying to build an interactive community, so that is great.
The other segments are simply NOT FUNNY, the intro is ok the Movie Dubbing is Hilarious, the Lost in Translation segment were they translate English sentences or proverbs into Arabic which could sound funny is not really funny, but the really really REALLY annoying segment is the last one where a pirate appears and start speaking in English and tries to crack a joke or two and then they show a movie’s trailer, that I can easily say is not funny and even ANNOYING.
