Apparently you can now buy your gun online in Lebanon, all you have to do is go to Elmazad.com and bid on it! Bidding starts at 400$.
Category: Internet
The websites of Al Shira3 and of the ministry of tourism were hacked today by a guy called “Controller” that wants them to stop attacking Hezbollah!
http://www.alshiraa.com/alshiraa/index.asp
http://www.destinationlebanon.gov.lb/
Hacking is not something new and it is not the first time Lebanese do it to express a political view, Many .gov.lb sites were hacked during the Syrian occupation and Tayyar.org was hacked a year ago but what I really didn’t like about this hack (not that I liked the previous ones) is that this guy attacked the website that is supposed to let foreigners discover Lebanon. We are free to attack each others “internally” but not every person in the world should be able to see that Lebanon is currently messed up!
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Gmail gets IMAP
IMAP is now a Gmail feature, it’s not yet available in all the accounts but should be in the next 2 days (I already have it :P). IMAP is better then POP since the changes you make to your mails will be applied on all platform so a message you already read and answered will show as read and answered wherever you access Gmail from.
I usually keep Gmail open in a tab in FireFox since I didn’t like the way it worked before on Outlook with POP, so I am going to retry it using it with Outlook and see if it’s better then the Web Version.
PC and Parts is a Lebanese online PC store. On the web-site they claim to be the first Lebanese online store but I can’t verify that.
I am going to review the site first and then the customer service.
The website is organized and easy to browse, it is updated regularly with new products and price changes, the only problem with it is that it looks like a 1990s website on some pages.
One feature the website is missing is a search box, since it is organized you don’t spend too much time looking for the product you want but a search box will make life much easier for the visitors.
I bought 5 products from the site, you have the option to call or email them, I always emailed them. I never ordered in the first email but asked question about the products, they always answered my questions, sometimes even guiding me to a better product. When you finaly place your order you get an email asking you to confirm everything, they also ask you for your address. Aramex delivers the packages and takes the money, this is good, but the only problem is that the delivery time is between 9:30 AM and 2:30 PM so you can’t make plans for half a day because you don’t know when your order will arrive.
The products are good and the prices are usually better then the ones you can find at normal stores. The Items priced at over 20$ come with a one year warranty, but I once got a USB PCI card for 7$ that didn’t work correctly (worked OK during the first 10 days, after that whenever I plugged anything to it, it would work for 10 minutes then fail) so I recommend you only get the products that are covered by a warranty from them.
My final score will be a 4/5.
The new version of Free Download Manager was finally launched, it is now open source and contains many new great features, a Bittorent client, a flash video Downloader and an upload manager were added to the program.
The Bittorent client is easy to use and has the same interface as the download manager, the only problem it has is that you can’t stop some downloads and if you try to close them many time FDM crashes.
The Flash Video Downloads feature is great, you just have to put the URL of the page and select if you want to convert the video to another format after the download, FDM will get the download link and the video name for you and of course download the video.
Another new feature is a section for the “Not Completed + Recent Downloads”. This makes viewing your downloads easier since you only see a couple of downloads instead of the complete download history that was shown before.
Finally I must point out that this new version is 100% Vista compatible so if you had to change your download manager for it to work with vista you can now switch back to FDM.
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Email Signature
I once received a mail from HSBC with
SAVE PAPER – THINK BEFORE YOU PRINT!
as the email signature, I copied it and started using it, and I think everyone should.
The official Lebanese Army website offers a lot of nice useful feature, you can check the headlines of all the Lebanese newspapers, read a summary of the editorials of all the newspapers, check the Lebanese Army news, read a summary of news from the Middle East, the enemy (Israel) and the world, you can also read the introduction of the news on some radio stations.
Another page contains the precise hour of the start of the day and of the end of the day for september. (Useful for Ramadan I guess)
You can also get a couple of nice Lebanese Army wallpapers for your desktop.
All of those services are offered for free in addition to news and information about the Lebanese Army and a list of the martyrs who died during the battle of Nahr El Bared.
The new Google earth has a hidden feature! if you press Ctrl+Alt+A you get a flight simulator, it is still a basic one, you only get two planes and a few airports to take of from but this has the potential to become the most realistic flight simulator out there!
Here’s the list of controls available, and some screenshots I took:
From Marco’s Blog Via Digg
MUSIC: intitle:index.of +”last modified” +”parent directory” +(mp3|wma|ogg) +”song name” -htm -html -php -asp
MOVIE: intitle:index.of +”last modified” +”parent directory” +(avi|rar|mov) +”movie name” -htm -html -php -asp
Those are just a few examples on how to find files using google, this is not new but I am sure some people don’t know it, so just copy the sentence and change the file name with the one you want.
Here’s what every word in the search works so modify the search sentence according to your needs
-intitle:index.of > The page title contains index of (so you get an index of files)
-”last modified” +”parent directory” > index pages contain these words so we need them
-+(avi|rar|mov) > the file types normaly used by the medias we want
–htm -html -php -asp > we don’t need any of those page types
Here’s a list of Lebanese Online PC stores, I’ll review each one later this week