Blogger introduced three right-to-left languages – Arabic, Farsi and Hebrew – and not only flipped the whole interface for those languages around, but allowed the text editor to be fully bidirectionally aware, ie, you can mix English and Arabic in the same post and the editor will know which is which. This is a major …
Needless to say, THIS is what I want for my birthday! 😉 A brand spanking new MacBook Air! The buggers never let up do they, they almost never disappoint either. The features in this one is that it is almost completely wireless, no cd/dvd, and limited physical connectivity. The “gesture-based” trackpad is really sexy and …
BahrainBlogs.org, the free blog publishing platform is dead and I don’t have the time to continue to maintain it, especially considering the plethora of various free and much better managed platforms available on the net like Blogger and WordPress. Therefore, I have decided to re-define the domain’s role to just an aggregator which now moves …
We discussed some very thought provoking questions at the Digital Arab break-out session this morning. The basic questions posed were: To what futures do Arab youth aspire? What do you see at the intersection of the Internet, Arab culture and technology? Will the lag in technology adoption between the teachers and the students restrict the …
500 intellectuals from over 30 countries have descended on Bahrain to participate in the Arab Thought Foundation’s FIKR conference, the annual think-tank that strives to make a change to the Arab world not by force or arms but those of thought. These gatherings have identified and provoked a lot of thought in what needs to …