Archive for March, 2008
Hosted or Self-hosted?
When you want to start a blog, you’re faced with many choices. One such choice is whether you should go for a hosted or self-hosted service. Basically, this means – should you have your own web server account and install the blogging software there, or should you use some other company’s already set up software?
Hosted
Let’s [...]
Adobe Tutorial: Arabic in Photoshop
How can I add Arabic text in non Middle Eastern Adobe Photoshop? I would get rich if I charge one dollar for every time I answer above question. Any one could buy Adobe ME version of their applications, but they they are released six to eight months later than International version, and when it is [...]
Peel the Apple
Q: I have a MacBook and I just purchased a new AirPort Extreme. I was trying to set it up earlier but the amber light kept flashing, even though I had connected the WAN cable from the wall to the WAN port on the extreme. What am I missing? I’ve done the AirPort Utilities set-up [...]
Profile of a Mac Seller
Name: Saleh
Title: Sales Executive
Store: iStyle Khobar, KSA
Q: When did you start working for iStyle?
A: December 2007.
Q: What did you do before working at iStyle?
A: I was working for HP (Hewlett-Packard) Middle East as a Sales and Merchandise Excutive.
Q: When was the first time you used a Mac and what was your first impression?
A: That was [...]
Brief Blogging Tips
Blogging can be about anything from your full-time job to something you do once in a while when you have time. In either case, here are a few quick tips for how to blog, when to blog, and what to blog about:
Blog about something you’re passionate about: This is even more important than to blog [...]
Review: Bose QuietComfort 2
Let me tell you straight up – I love these headphones. Bose is well known for creating high quality audio equipment, and its QuietComfort2 headphones are no exception. These are actively noise-cancelling, or more appropriately, noise-reducing headphones. This means they reduce the noise in the listener’s surroundings so they can enjoy the audio instead. Technically [...]
Review: MacBook Air
When it comes to design and build quality, the MacBook Air feels very solid to say the least. Picking it up with one hand produces no flexing, squeaking from hinges, nor anything else. There is a bit of flex on the top, presumably because it’s the screen. Everything fits together perfectly and I’m sure this [...]
Review: Blackberry 8800
I’m a big BlackBerry fan but this is not the greatest BlackBerry phone. The BlackBerry 8800 leaves much to be desired, but for a blogger on the go it makes a great platform for writing and posting. It has no 3G, no camera, no Wi-Fi, etc. But where this BlackBerry, like most other models from [...]
What’s in Your Bag?
The bag
I have a Blue Dicota BacPac Rain backpack with the following inside:
Apple PowerBook G4 15”
100GB firewire / USB external hard drive
PB’s charger
Mini USB cable
Firewire cable
DVI <> RGB converter
S-Video <> component converter
iPod cable
iPod headphone
SD Reader
512MB SD (in the reader)
Micro SD converter
Mini SD converter
Transcend Micro SD reader with 2GB in it
I like the Dicota BacPac Rain [...]
Blogging With a Mac and a Mobile
If you’re serious about your blogging and you want to be able to post using your Mac notebook from anywhere, even where there is no Wi-Fi internet connection, you could possibly use your mobile phone. This brief tutorial takes you through how to use a Nokia E61i (http://europe.nokia.com/A4344018) as a 3G mobile phone modem, connecting [...]
Mac and Blogging
The term blogging evolved over the last 4-5 years and has caught on big time in our lives. Before the advent of blogging, most of us used to maintain a record of our lives in a diary. Today, with the evolution of the virtual world, most of us have moved to recording our lives in [...]
17 Mac Blogging Applications
There is no doubt that you can blog without buying any extra software, or even without downloading anything that is free. But if you want to make your blogging experience a bit better and more enjoyable and if you want to go for some serious blogging and perhaps even try to make your living from [...]
Publish Screenshots With Skitch
The developers of Skitch have given it the tagline “Snap, Draw, Share” – and that’s a very good description of what it is. Capture a portion of the screen, or drag an existing file into Skitch. Draw an arrow pointing at something, circle what’s important, add some text and click to upload – and you’re [...]
Visit to an Apple Store
In February 2008 Crystal and I visited an Apple Store in the US, so we thought we’d share with you some of our experiences. Going to an Apple Store is one of those things that any serious Apple fan should do at some point in their life. There’s something very special about these stores, and [...]
Apple’s How-To Tutorials
In early 2008, Apple posted a number of How-To videos on their web site (http://www.apple.com/findouthow/macosx/). The collection includes hundreds of short tutorials and many of them are video tutorials. These tutorials cover a wide range of topics, from basic Mac OS X to photos, movies, web and more. Videos are typically only a few minutes [...]
