Thursday, September 17, 2009

Follow me on Twitter…

I just created my Twitter account. I know, I know, what took me so long… why so late…

Truth is… I didn’t think it would make a difference… right until 2 days ago when I realized it does make a difference…

So, here goes… follow me… http://twitter.com/basharlulu

Oh, by the way, you can also find me on Facebook… http://www.facebook.com/basharlulu

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Microsoft Maren

maren-logo[1]_thumb[2]Almost every Arabic speaking person I know does this; they write Arabic words using English letters. When chatting, SMSing or even blogging.

That’s somewhat normal, since they’ve memorized the English keyboard by heart. The problem is, some of the letters in the Arabic alphabet are missing in English, and therefore people have replaced these with numbers and combinations of numbers and letters.

For example, the Arabic letter ‘ع’ is replaced with the number ‘3’. And the letter ‘ء’ with ‘2’. Which makes the name ‘علاء’ in Arabic translate to ‘3ala2’ in English literals.

If anything, this makes reading very difficult.

Introducing Maren, Microsoft Egypt’s solution to the problem! Watch the video on the site and you’ll understand…

Download it here.

Links:
http://www.getmaren.com

Monday, September 7, 2009

Xbox 360: Project Natal

I’ve heard about this a great number of times but never thought it was this good! If you thought (like I did) the Wii was good… take a look at this!!

Like my friend Shijaz said: no words, just watch and see.

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