Tag Archives: Technology

RSF’s 2006 Internet Report

Here’s what RSF have to say about Bahrain: Except for pornographic sites, Bahrain does not censor the Internet much. But it has unfortunately begun to regulate it in ways that endanger freedom of expression. The government said in April 2004 that all online publications, including forums and blogs, must be officially registered. Loud protests led …

MUSCATI is a CRIMINAL!

He had this, and threw it away! He just threw away the origin of the revolution called the Internet (ok, I’m emotional and exaggerating, but hey..) while spring cleaning! Muscati spring DOESN’T EVEN EXIST IN THE GULF WHACHWRONGWIVYOU? You go an throw away A SPECTRUM+?! Man, I’m jumping on a plane right now to come …

Google understands Arabic

If you didn’t catch my reference to the availability of Arabic/English and English/Arabic machine translation by Google as I’ve mentioned here, then this is from their blog. I thought I would highlight it again as this is an extremely important development. At last we have a very workable, and completely free translation service rather than …

Boot Camp

Thanks to the heads up by my friends Sofyan a couple of days ago, and now Doug, there is no longer a reason to buy crappy PCs when you can buy Macs, as now, thanks to Apple’s soon to be released operating system version 10.5 (leopard) Apple Mac users can simply install both Windows XP …