• Computers don’t complain. That’s the best thing about computers and tech. They does precisely and perfectly anything you want, quickly and without saying “I can’t do that”. They are designed to always and forever say “Yes”.
• My computer will not blame or insult me if I didn’t open it which is the opposite to what people does. You have a lot of duties to finish and you “must” call everyone you know, and everyone your family “knew” and everyone your family knew just a few days ago, or, they will say that you don’t have the least of respect, and eventually you will end up with a trouble.
• Computer will never lie, unlike people who always and forever will keep lying to you because they want to cover every piece of mistake they did to you, they love to look and sound like angels.
• Computers are designed to help and support you while there are many people who wait you to fall because they want to look at you and say “He failed”. Your computer will always find you a solution to all your problems and will not laugh when you done something unsuccessfully.

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We are following tech news all the time but we are really confused about the endless stuff companies and individuals are developing all the time. Android, iPhone 4, tablets, BlackBerry 6, Google Cloud, Web Apps, Desktop Apps and even mobile apps. We are lost with all these stuff, we don’t know what to buy or what to recommend to others. Quality is good but perfection is something you cannot get these days. All these stuff are making us a little bit worry about what the future is hiding for us.

Today, when you want to buy a new mobile, you will end up with a loop of endless models and different features, you will be hearing pros and cons on the same mobile and you will never ever see 100% agreeing on your chosen device. For an example, Nokia 3320 was the first choice and everyone was saying it has no problems. We were totally satisfied with our limited mobile phones and we were happy. That thing is not noticeable these days and you can barely pick a phone without hearing “It sucks!”.

Patricia Seybold, Said:

“A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it’s being fueled by the internet – as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like – but that it’s really about customers.”

and Stephen King, added:

“Buyer should be aware that ‘Cell’ is a violent piece of work, which comes complete with zombies set in motion by bad cell phone signals that destroy the human brain.”

For the record, I’m missing my Nokia 3320 so much. There was nothing to care about, no applications, no complicated software issues! All you need is to make a call and do your job. That was awesome. These days, I spend a couple of hours daily to find new apps for my iPhone and iPad. It’s all about being curious what this app does, and how about giving it a shot, you will not be able to resist. Eventually you will find that you are paying for apps you don’t use or at least you don’t need. Eh, but you are happy, tho.

I’m missing those days and at the same time I cannot go back for less features devices. God, I must stop reading news and only focus on what is much important.

This annoying fact is applicable on Android Marketplace as well. I’ve spent 3 full days with Android mostly searching Android Market for iPhone apps alternatives. I expected to get better search results than the AppStore but they were worst. Apple says that they have +220,000 apps in the AppStore and I believe that but I think +40,000 apps are totally unusable and useless apps and for Android Market I can remove up to 10,000-15,000 apps that are fully ugly, useless and unusable apps. Apply that to Windows Mobile Market and every platform stores around.

Firefox has a big challenge now with the its coming release Firefox 4. Try to browse Firefox Extensions, Plugins and Themes libraries to realize that there are many extensions and themes should be removed right now because they are insanely ugly and pointless. I can tell you that seeing a very old theme or extension has no meaning and I’m wondering why Mozilla still host them.

The problem with Apple, Android and Firefox Stores is the fact of their willingness to host as much as possible of apps, themes and extensions to their platforms no matter how good or usable these stuff to users. They want bigger numbers of developers and apps on their stores and the user is a secondary issue to care about because their excuse always is “Users will eventually get what they are looking for”.

Actually I think Apple, Android and Firefox will not take this issue for real because I mentioned previously, they need bigger and attractive numbers to gain more users. If you think that a question like “How many apps?” is not popular then I tell you, you are wrong. Today’s smartphones aren’t a big deal and that simply because there are hundreds of smartphones out their, but the winner is who gain and build a solid platform for app developers. Statistics says that many users aren’t satisfied with their smartphones but they need to use there favorite apps, they cannot switch to a new mobile device and start exploring alternatives to what they left behind and that applies the rule “No everyone is a geek”.

There are many ways to make a store less crowded and at the same time full of useful and usable apps. They may have a lot of ideas on how to do that but here is what I suggest or truly believe in:

• Platforms creators must force and apply Support rule on all developers to keep updating and enhancing their apps and keep supporting and response to users reviews about missing features,
• There should be Demo versions of paid apps to let users test an app before pressing buy button and start complaining on their unfair deal. I don’t care about demo period but let me be fair with developers and say that 1 day is enough. Demo versions of paid apps is a feature of Android Market
• A new technique is to delete any app if it has no popularity or if it remains for 2-3 months without any user purchase. That could be better for filtering apps and discover what users have dismissed.

Platforms creators and developers should know that users will surly stick to their platforms and apps when they notice increasing enhancements and support for what they paid for. I would love to see many apps in Android Marketplace and Apple AppStore but only useful and featured apps.

After I changed them I noticed that I am relying on the internet always and in every piece of problem. How to open the cover wasn’t a serious problem but the problem here is my laziness to try more and more . I went Youtube and I have found the way.

I want to quote a few words by Douglas Adams:

First we thought the PC was a calculator.  Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII – and we thought it was a typewriter.  Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television.  With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.

And another one by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google:

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.

Do we really need the Internet in everything? Actually, Yes, we do. The issue isn’t the Internet but it’s the decreasing rate of using our brain and reply on the Internet. Now I use the Internet to know how to open a mouse cover.. I don’t doubt that I will be searching for “How to wash a car” -By the way, There are many people asked this to google, Check it out.

Networking guys knows that the answer is “Subscribe with the newest ISP in your country”. That’s the most correct one. I don’t want to explain how your service is handled by the ISP because it will take a long time  to explain QoS and a few more factors but the issue is about “Sharing“.

The principle is simple, imagine yourself walking through a street with many people, previously, someone told you where to put your feet when you want to walk. you are walking without any problem but your “feelings” will be much better when the street is less crowded.

Feelings above means Performance, when your ISP links are less crowded you will get the best out of your ISP. That’s the real story of our issue, but here is a few questions to ask about the new ISP you want to subscribe with:

1. Stability of the connection.
2. Download limit (Bandwidth) – If available.
3. Customer Support.

If the answer of these questions is positive then do not hesitate, go and subscribe directly but incase it was negative, you should wait.

A few things to consider before you subscribe:

• The “home” connection isn’t feasible anymore. People now are looking for Internet connection wherever they go and the home connection isn’t that good if you want to enjoy the internet inside and outside your home. This is a feature you should consider and take care of this side. (a.k.a USB Internet).
• Download limitations: In Jordan, we are limited to a fixed download limit. 15GB monthly for 1.MB subscription. The more bandwidth you get the more happiness you feel.

Google Reader is FREAKING SLOW. It sometimes takes longer than a minute to open it up. “But my Google Reader account is super fast,” I can hear you saying. Yeah, but you don’t have any friends and you don’t have many things you are subscribed to. Compare to Twitter lists or Twitter itself. I’m following 10,000+ people. More than 100,000 are following me. Yet Twitter opens instantly.

That’s what is changing the comparison. to go for Twitter Lists not for your slow Google Reader. Instantly, you can get everything you want and publish it within a single click.

The problem is having many RSS feeds, feeds you like, feeds that add a value to your work or study and etc. but having them in one place and loading them all is just pointless. Why would you add everything you like and what “may” benefit you in one place and load them all then switch from folder to folder to find your targeted feeds? what a waste of time.

Twitter Lists are quite powerful and better – at lest to me – than RSS readers like Google reader and the reason is here, I don’t want to get exhausted with thousands of links and resources, and I don’t want to open blog posts to read it then decided to “Fav” it or just delete it. what I want is a brief description of what’s inside and I need to have the choice of read any post or send it to Instapaper. What is much wanted nowadays is technique to keep you up-to-date with your favorite blogs on your mobile device. Google Reader does not offer a good mobile experience.

I like Robert Scoble @Scobleizer lists, he a strong follower of social media, web all tech stuff. I follow Most Influential In Tech, Tech News People, and Founders. Tim O’Reilly @timoreilly has great lists as well, I follow Web 2.0, Tech News and more. You can discover more and more of useful lists from your friends and from people you follow.

The good part is you have the choice to create or just follow anyone’s list. This is a great feature and tool that nobody want to miss. Another good thing is that you don’t need to follow Mashable, TechCrunch or anybody else because they are in your lists. Less stress and load to read and more flexibility.

What about mobile devices? Okay, for the iPhone there are many twitter clients with Twitter Lists integration like Twitter for iPhone, Twittelator, and Echofon. For super users there is a dedicated iPhone app for that called TweetList. I use this app and I can not delete or replace it with any twitter clients. I’m a Twitter for iPhone (Formerly: Tweetie 2) strong user but TweetList makes the process much exciting and time saving.

Mac users? This is good mention for Mac OS X users. I use Nambu the free and feature-rich twitter client for Mac OS X with fully lists integration. There are YoruFukurou (Awesome twitter client for Mac OS X), Socialite and more.

What do you think? Am I mistaken or you think that this issue could be solved in another way?

This short cartoon animation was produced by Kharabeesh for the opening event of Meydan. Meydan is an incubator fro innovative and creative business ideas.

The animation talks about the daily stories that happen to young Entrepreneur.. we would really appreciate your feedback, ideas and thoughts on how to develop this show.

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Imagine that there is no .dmg or .exe but there is a one extension for all operating systems, something like “.os”! wouldn’t be great? Mac OS X users will be able to use any Microsoft Windows application and vise versa. I think it is the most wanted thing after cloud computing.

I don’t want Apple or Windows to stop releasing their operating systems, I just want them to take a big step forward and make their apps cross-platform. Developers will work on a one copy for all operating systems and they will never worry about which platform to use or to support because their applications are going to work on both operating systems, Mac OS X and Windows as well.

I don’t really think that this dream or goal is impossible, everything is absolutely possible and they can do that, if and only if they worked together to bring out the best of both OSs.

What do you think?

70% of people I know think that being IT student will push to learn everything, programming, computer networks and even hardware stuff. I think that I have a little bit different point and I want to discuss that because I think that many programmers and computer networking students not only in Jordan are willing to know.

Okay, a small questions, why would you buy Pizza if you don’t like it and you have many different choices? It is stupidity to get a thing you don’t like and you are really silly and a big fool if you will eat what you hate, because simply this is not for you! This example fits our issue. I mean, If you are a programmer why would you learn everything about computer networking? and vise versa.

I have been discussing that with a friend today, he said that I study in a faculty named “Computer Science and Information Technology Faculty“, therefore, you must learn programming and become a professional programmer even if you are a computer networking student! I asked him back, “What is the main difference between TCP/IP protocol and UDP” his answer was :”I don’t know!” This is what makes me feel sick! why should a computer networking student learn coding and computer science student have the choice to learn or dismiss computer networking stuff?.

I am just wondering if they know a word called “Majors” of not. I think they know but they are convinced of the idea of 1990′s which says: “Everybody should know everything”. For goodness sake, thats really wrong. you cannot learn everything in the IT world because it’s super damn impossible! you may learn basics and some extra stuff but you are not going to be an expert in everything.

When you go to find a job, every company will ask you “What is your major?” and “What can you do?” Okay, imagine that your answer was :”I code, I build networks and I work in computer telecommunications stuff”, eventually they will let you do a single thing because you must be good mostly at a thing, you are a professional programmer with some good computer networking knowledge. Be sure, you will work on something, and a single thing. You are not going to establish a network for your company and code applications at the same time.

As I computer networking man, Do I need to learn coding?

Actually, having good skills in any programming language like (Java, .NET, PHP…etc)  is quite cool, but if you don’t like coding then be sure, it’s super normal because simply you don’t have to. It’s not a mandatory option, just be good at a thing and work harder and harder to be a professional at your favorite field.

What do I advise?

I am not professional at anything because I am still student with no kind of experience but I think I can say something regarding this part. To be a good IT man is really nice but be aware, don’t pick a little of Java, and a little more of .NET, and a little more of computer networking or computer telecommunications. Just pick a topic and focus of it, make yourself a professional, understand what is your topic says, then go and get a job. It’s not that hard to understand one thing at a time. You are a human, aren’t you?

Finally, Don’t anybody to change your mind, listen and discuss but don’t take what others like as your favorite thing, make your personality and build a place for you in this world. Honestly, we will never stop seeing people who think that they are super professionals in everything, people who want to say “I am great” and nobody can do this. just let them fly away with their visions and go to do something useful.

Mostly, I finish my homework before a couple of minutes before it’s deadline, I may miss it or something but eventually, you will see that I solved it very well and correctly. So if you want to get out the best of me, don’t give me more than 2 days! Because I will be chilling out in the first day and start working in the next one. believe it or not.

It’s not laziness or neglect, It is all about the awesomeness of “Can I do that or not!” not a challenge with anybody but its like “Don’t complicate things”.

I used to hear one of my friends saying “I am going to home now to solve my homework and submit it early” and when I ask him about the deadline he says “Ahhh, Next week!!” you can notice stress and depression on his face! Dam it! You are going to solve that “homework” for the next week? Okay, go solve it but why stress and depression? Chill up buddy.

Its nice to manage your time but you shouldn’t put yourself under all these things at once. I am not a wise man but I still think that I can feel what is good and what is bad. Always remember, you cannot eat Cherry in winter, everything has its own semester (يلعن ابو الفلسفة)

I have been talking before a couple of hours to someone and I tried to help solving it but the problem was bigger than I thought, everything eventually turned around one point “Your help is useless!” Didn’t expect this reply but no problem at all.

I really started to notice couple of things showing up in every conversation I made since months in reality or on the internet! The first thing is “Assuming”! You speak over and over trying to persuade someone of an idea but at the end, he will understand what he want and he will start assuming things without even making sure if what he has understood is right or wrong. He will not ask because he want the conversation continue to drive you crazy and catch the first bad word you say!!!

Why the hell you are assuming things I didn’t say? Why don’t people ask before they say? A student will definitely ask his student to reexplain how he solved the mathematical equation but people will never ask you what do you mean because they already GOT what supposed to be “All you are saying”. This is such a very bad thing! Don’t assume anything, if you didn’t understand a point then you should ask for clarify!

That will really looks ugly way, when you get angry of what the second party is saying and it will be worst if you are speaking publicly what means that X of people are listening, Y of them are laughing, Z of them wondering why don’t you both stop this stupid and noisy conversation right now.

Look at the maps below, you can see different places from NYC, Dubai and Amman! you can easily notice the differences (the huge difference) between each one and clearly, Amman’s map is absolutely the worst one! you cannot understand anything from this map, you can only see the main street and the spot isn’t clear, it’s located in a blank space where even Google don’t know a thing about it!

I don’t know who is the responsible of adding data and updating the current on Google Maps, Google itself, the government or users! I don’t think that users can edit the maps or add spots because I tried that many times but didn’t work at all.

This is just a spot light on the problem, wishing Google to update Jordan maps and add spots. I think users are ready to start adding and editing spots.

Map: 4 Federal Plaza, NYC, USA

Map: Burj Khalifa (a.k.a Burj Dubai), Dubai, UAE

Map: International Institute, Queen Rania St., Amman, JO

I have been watching Abu Dhabi 2010 Media Summit conference and I really enjoyed it so much.  The greatest part of it was when Eric Schmidt the CEO of Google started talking about Google and it’s will to be in Abu Dhabi.

He was totally to announce that Google will be soon in Abu Dhabi and expressed that any company would love to work and invest in United Arab Emirates. That was the greatest part of Schmidt’s talk! Brings the happiness and hope in our region and the whole middle east.

Google in this step is simply moving the middle east and especially the Arab countries toward a great step forward! More job opportunities and innovation, new ideas will definitely come up as soon as they started talking to the world from the middle east. The brightest side of the conference was the motivation from Google to the world to start looking again at the middle east and to invest more and more, that’s wat Google CEO said: “It’s a rich environment.”!

Mr Khaldoun Al-Mubarak said that Google’s step and the continuous development of the Arab media and technology will not only provide UAEs with job opportunities and creativity methods but that will benefit the middle east, all of it!

Personally, I think this step will absolutely open the doors in front of us to enter the of media and technology again but this time as producers not only consumers! That’s a great step and I bet, It will be so helpful in three ways, providing job opportunities, motivate the biggest companies in the world to come to invest in the Arab world and put the Arabs in leadership track of the world’s technology.

Congrats for United Arab Emirates and all Arab countries.

But I admit it, I reached a very bad level of twitter addiction in way I cannot do anything without tweeting about it and if I didn’t I will feel so bad because I had no chance to tweet about my location and things around me. That was 2 days ago when I went to renew my National ID Card and Passport, I wanted to tweet a lot but in a place, they took my mobile, at that time I noticed that I has a very habit and I really felt so bad because I am living a very weird life and experiencing the worst side of the Internet.

I really lost a lot of hours on twitter while I was in need to every minute, but I preferred to spend them on twitter instead of using them to do my work. The time isn’t too late to control my self and stop my addiction! I have lots of things to do and I should make them as satisfactorily as possible.

I will blog everything I want to say instead of tweeting it, this will really make more sense on saying what is in my mind. Now with closed comments section I can blog anything even a post with only 140 characters! It is the same.

I do not want to stop it, but I want to reduce the time I spend on twitter. I will avoid tweeting or picturing what I used to post. A new plan has been started to come out to my life.

As I want to control my self, you should do the same tweeps! I really advise you tweeps to try control your self, try to not tweet anything for a day, and watch your situation! At a time, you will really feel so bad.

A lot of words above but a small prayer to make it real.

Lately, I figured out that some friends have understood my respect toward them as a weakness, therefore, they gave themselves the right of saying anything at anytime. Eventually, I was really angry and mad on some of them who supposed to be matures and know what they say. It was my rule about a perfect friend but I have changed it to a new one:

Treat people as they treat you and the respect is a very important thing you should always keep in mind! If the reaction was the opposite or not what you have expected, treat the one as he did.

This is really working just fine. Now i don’t need to open a conversation with anybody (rarely happens) because I just smile and leave the place or I pretend that I am really busy.

Hopefully to see better understanding and acceptance for people with different views.

I have been hanging out with X and X2 in 31 December, we were trying to find a place to relax, chill and “celebrate the night” after a long day. We passed by Books@Cafe!!! The first charge was 10JD to enter, but the price wasn’t the problem! If you saw the entrance of this cafe you will never know that it’s a public cafe, closed doors, security inside and outside the place, and weird people at the entrance trying to enter. Apparently the night was so “hot” but in way you will not feel okay.

This place in Amman is really known as a not-for-normal people (In general) i know there are lots of normal people who like this place but i don’t know how they enter and enjoy their time while they already know that this place has a very bad reputation!

We took a taxi to move to Wakalat Street, the driver was really so weird. He joined our conversation because we were talking and laughing at the issue. I remember this from the conversation:

Driver: So what? They still people and you cannot judge them.. freedom. The freedom has won! so why don’t you enter Books@Cafe?

Me: Our prophet Mohammad -Peace be upon him- said:”اجتنبوا الشبهات”.

X1: Did you know that the throne of god will be shaken?

Driver: So what? Let the throne shake, why it will shake now? he continued: Do you really think that Books@Cafe is the only place where you can find gays? No!!! Culture Street (a.k.a Thakafa street) as well.

X1 didn’t get what the driver said! Huh! What do you mean..

Driver: explaining… (Lies and liens and lies)!!!

Me, X1 and X2 shocked: Huh!?

Driver (Telling a big lie to show his powerful and the ease of gays): a 13 years old kid, forced me to enter inside the parking because he wanted to suck my dick!!!!!.

I don’t really understand anymore!! What happened to Amman? what happened to our society? I don’t really want to see the word “Gays” become normal and i don’t want to see those people in this city. because simply they are going to destroy everything. Their effects are spreading everyday and the word “Gay” becomes so normal.

I don’t think that the democracy allows this especially in an Arab and Islamic country as Jordan! Just a small question.. how could we accept what God refuses?

That night was really the weirdest night ever, I swear, for a couple of hours I didn’t feel that I am still in Amman! everything was really strange and not acceptable. Today I’m wondering who should stop this phenomenon? and who is the responsible?

PLEASE STOP THIS!!!

In another voice via @Nawal80

Symbian OS is approximately 28 years old and Windows Mobile is 9 years old. Windows Mobile is much better, reliable and contains million of features that every user will absolutely love and need everyday.

I want to write what I hate about Symbian operating system, I want to write because I use it currently:

The first issue is about applications! I love Ovi Store and I keep watching what’s new to install it on my Nokia E71 but when i look at iPhone applications, how many application and the functionality of each one, I always say.. I am going to buy one right now. When I see Photoshop, Flickr, tens of twitter apps and more I really feel so bad. They are 85,000 (I heard they are 100,000) applications with 2 Billion downloads!!! do you really imagine this number? it’s really incredible. Take also Windows Mobile applications. I don’t forget to mention Google Android operating system as well, it’s applications are growing so fast.

The second issue is about applications updates. When a new version of X app has been released you will need to download the whole application then install it on your phone. It’s the most annoying problem ever, isn’t it? but simply, Why they cannot release an update to enable installing updates only instead of download the whole application? do not tell me they didn’t think about this issue, never!

The third issue is about performance. I bet, you noticed your Symbian getting slower, more than 20 seconds to open or close an application, freezing, auto-shutdown and more! You may noticed one or more of these problems that related to your mobile performance. Imagine a simple scenario, you bought the newest mobile with Symbian, but you are suffering from one or more of these problems, would you like that? at that time you will not think about your mobile model but you will only focus on how to solve these problems.

I wrote this post not to say that Symbian is bad and iPhone is the best! I love every operating system because simply each one of them has special features. this post is to put a small spot light on Symbian and to say, you can develop it more and more to be better.

The question here is, Will Linux Maemo kill Symbian? is it more powerful? Personally, I don’t think so.

I should clarify that I personally don’t agree with that at all because I don’t see anything prevent a man of crying. the same life and the same issues generates lots of feelings that are sharable between “He n’ She”not only for one of them.

In the same spot, I have noticed that men are trying to wipe their tears away and they don’t like to share such moments with anybody even their wives because they really think that the first impression will be “SO WEAK”!

With women, the story has a different side! women tears are exactly like a machine-gun, I think it’s more powerful than that. You cannot stand and watch a woman crying, you would love to die before seeing that but then what?

everything goes to the end so quickly. Here, I think they use their tears to make an action, to Push, Get or end something! in another word to Change something from a state A to state B.

I said, I don’t think that a man’s tears are really precious or different than female ones, but if I may assume that, then the last reason is the only one.

Actually, this is really silly and it’s the pointless itself, who do you think you are? If you are a God just tell me to know how to discuss you because God’s way is totally different than human’s way.

I am reading a book titled “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne. Since I started reading this book, I found many things I didn’t even think about at all. I posted this update on Facebook:

What you sow is what you reap! Therefore, be happy and optimistic and ignore any negative thought or feeling. You are like a magnet, attract what you are feeling about.

A friend of mine wrote 2 replies:

we’ve already been through this “badi” .. can’t you understand ?!!!!

it doesn’t matter .. because it’s pointless.. I’m not going to argue with you this time !!

2. When someone ask you about something and you don’t know it, just say “I don’t know” and do not pretend that you understood it.

3. When you want to discuss someone about something, say correct words, don’t laugh and play like a child who received his new toy.

4. If you don’t know something, ask who knows to teach you.

5. What you do, like or want is not a rule! we mustn’t follow you in everything.

6. DO NOT write a reply just to have fun or just to write, if it has a value write it, if not, please keep it your ugly mind.

7. DO NOT piss anybody off, especially me!!! pisser