Author Archive for Waleed Jameel
Apple’s new MacBook Pro lineup – minus the 13 inch
It took a long time in coming, almost one year, but the hardware upgrade to the MacBook Pro line of machines has been well worth it. The new Core i3, Core i5 & Core i7 chips, in addition to the upgraded video card processor, has almost doubled the speed of these laptops – clearly elevating [...]
DEWA’s iPhone app
Dubai Water & Electricity has officially launched their first iPhone app. Developed by the in-house DEWA IT department, it was released in March 2010 with the aim of providing customers multiple routes to accessing DEWA services.
The app, called DEWA, provides for two communication between Dubai tenants and the government. Some of the services can be [...]
Gizmodo and the next iPhone
In the past 24 hours, Gizmodo has shared possibly the biggest scoop of the year so far: Apple’s upcoming iPhone.
Recap: Someone supposedly found the new protoype iPhone (known as iPhone 4) in a bar, tried to return it to Apple and eventually sold it to Gizmodo who in turn wrote up in full detail everything [...]
Quirky Power Curl – Review
Your standard PC laptop comes with a clunky black power adapter. Some are fortunate to have an element of cord management stuck to them. Apple’s standard white adapter stands out a bit with its cord management prongs but still leaves much to be desired. Heat wise though, even Apple’s product is on same level with [...]
Notifications for your Mac with Growl
Growl is often listed as one of the must-have applications on any new Macs. Growl’s premise is simple: Allow applications to communicate short messages, alerts to the user.
Growl is installed as a pref pane in the System Preferences menu. From there, it can be customised in many ways. You can select which applications have permission [...]
Snow Leopard and its Exchange support
One of Snow Leopard’s biggest corporate appealing feature was its straight out of the box Exchange support. iCal, Address Book & Mail App all worked directly with Exchange 2007 server (sorry, Exchange 2003 only supported via IMAP). While it is not as fast as Outlook 2003/2007 on Windows, the ability to work directly from Mac [...]
Browsers for your Mac
One of the more common questions I get asked about being on a Mac is “But how will I browse the Internet?”
It seems there is a perception, however small, that browsing on a Mac is limited to Safari or to unheard of browsers.
Good news! As many of us know, the reality is completely the opposite! [...]
Presenting a five tier system for backups
Over the past few years, through trial and error I have had the experience to test out and refine several backup processes. I’ve been wary of having backups in place to ensure that the most important element of these machines is protected: the data.
In this post, I will outline the 5 Tier System that has [...]
Overcoming a non-working DVD drive
Earlier this year, I ran into a slight hiccup with my MacBook – the DVD drive stopped working. In this post, I will outline various solutions and workarounds that have been very useful in overcoming this little hardware limitation.
There are several times when a DVD drive is required and none of them more critical then [...]
Mobile Number Portability – coming soon to an Emirate near you?
By now, iPhone fans across UAE must have heard of the The Great iPhone Battles of UAE (TGiBoUAE – pronounced as written). Du and Etisalat have both launched their iPhone 3GS. Du of course has also gone ahead and released some seriously amazing, tempting, delicious plans (link) while sadly, Etisalat has yet to share their [...]
Snow Leopard 10.6.2 update adventures
Mac users like us are very used to having a stable platform. Updates? Piece of cake. New software? No problem.
By now, many of you would know about the recent Snow Leopard update (10.6.2) that came out last week on Wednesday morning (for us here in Dubai). I have always been an early adopter and love [...]
Suggestion to improve iTunes-iPhone management
iTunes is the famous home of good ol’iPhone. They pair very well together – almost as if they were made for each other. Strange.
When iTunes 9.0 was released, it came with a powerful new feature to help manage the masses of apps that iPhone users owned: Application Management. Located in the second (2nd) tab of [...]
Bundles of Mac apps on sale
PS3′ers, Wii’ers & XBox’ers have it lucky – they’ve got lots of options here in Dubai when it comes to buying software for their platform. Every single mall has gaming stores, gaming kiosk booths and then there is the famous Al Ain Plaza when good deals must be had.
For us Mac users, it is a [...]
This is Waleed saying hello
Hello World!
I‘m Waleed Jameel, evangelist of many things, living and working from Dubai. I’ve been working in the open source industry for 5 years now and find it an incredibly rewarding place to be. I’m a 3rd generation teacher and live/work/sleep in eLearning for a global corporate academy. The open source system I work daily [...]
“Remember the milk” will help you remember other things
In a life filled with hundreds of things that need doing and dozens of places to be it gets very confusing what needs to be done when, how, by who, etc. Some times even the why gets lost.
Over the years, I’ve tried multiple systems to get things in order and they’ve usually not done so [...]
