Recently I gave away both my Samsung Galaxy S3 and Grand smart phones and replaced them with a cheap old fashion Nokia phone. I have had it with the hype regarding how incredibly smart the smart phones are. All smart phones in the market lacks one crucial thing: battery life. They last maximum for a … Read more
I just got a mail from Filemaker to download the latest release of their software, and have started doing so. As far as I can see, this release addresses a major annoyance with earlier versions: The need to be on Windows or Mac for the clients. They have implemented something they call Direct Web Access … Read more
I just watched a commercial on CNN where a guy in the advertisement talked about a wrist watch. What I find funny about this kind of ads is the fact that they never mention the word watch in the ad. They always refer to it as a “timepiece”. So, what exactly is a timepiece? I … Read more
EFFECTIVE MOSQUITO TRAP THAT WORKS. GET RID OF MOSQUITOES. Update 23.06.2013 The trap works! You can read further down in the text how to make it. I checked the contents of the mosquito trap today and saw that there actually are some mosquitoes down in the bottle. I have checked around a lot in recent … Read more
Living in Egypt, I know how big news this is! BBM might not die after all! BlackBerry has just announced that its hugely popular BBM messaging service is going multi-platform: it will be released for Android and iOS as a free app this summer. BBM will support iOS hardware running iOS 6 and above; the … Read more
I have been a big fan of MyUS.com forwarding service since I moved to Egypt. It’s very practical to use their service to be able to buy stuff from Amazon and other online retailers in the USA. Here is the latest news they just mailed me: Hi, We’ve heard your feedback, and we have some … Read more
An Egyptian rights center issued a report on Monday stating that Egypt has become the top country in the world in terms of the number of protests. The “Democracy Index” monthly report issued by International Center for Development states that there were 1345 protests in March compared to 864 protests in February. “This is an … Read more
Since I am such a rational person that loves automating stuff, I will give you the top reasons why I have stopped following you on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or any other social media I am active. You keep repeating yourself. If you keep re-tweeting your own blog posts to get as much traffic as possible to it, I will … Read more
Update 22 September 2013: It’s again pretty safe to travel to Egypt. You can ask me in the comments for concrete travel advice. I live in Cairo, so I am pretty aware of the situation here. Ask away, and I will answer up to the minute about safety and tell you what you should do … Read more
As we all know, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has a real skill for classical statements. So, I will gather the more famous ones on this page so we can all admire his infinite wisdom. 26th of March 2013: “I will not allow anyone to put their fingers in Egypt,” Morsy said again at the Arab League … Read more
After I moved to Cairo, I went and bought a Nuvi 1200 GPS from RadioShack here in Maadi. I felt I needed a good GPS to be able find my way around here in Cairo. Having used a GPS from Becker when I lived in Poland, I thought that probably the map data is fairly … Read more
We have been using PPC BidMax from Apex Pacific for quite some time now to manage our client’s advertising campaigns. The software runs okay on one of our servers in the US, but it has some major drawbacks. So I am looking for alternatives to PPC BidMax to consider. What I don’t like about PPC … Read more