Category: Internet

Help stop Internet Explorer, the world’s most popular and worst internet browser. [Link]

DSL prices in Kuwait have gone down recently. Both Qualitynet and Fasttelco have double the bandwidth. It started off as an offer but it seems they have decided to keep this permanently. This is how much 512KB will cost you in Kuwait

Fasttelco
512kb down / 128kb up
1yr Subscription Price: KD360 ($1232)

Qualitynet
512kb down / 256kb up
1yr Subscription Price: KD380 ($1300)

Both providers are reliable, I use both of them, one at home and one at work. Sometimes a site could be blocked by Qualitynet and not by Fasttelco, and sometimes its the other way around, they mostly come out even. So if you are new in Kuwait and looking for a decent connection, get a 512kb DSL connection, the 256kb is too slow, and the 1MB too expensive, 512kb comes in nicely at around KD30 a month.

Wait till the page loads, then click and hold on the left or right side of the image whilst the image rotates. [Link]

eBay for the Middle East? It seems they just started, I would have used a different design though, this is just a copy of eBay.. [Link]

Note: In Lebanon they have an auction site called elmazad [Link]

Gmail not enough for you? How about 30GB worth of email space? [Link]

MSN is not working yet according to Microsoft “All systems are stable and running.” [Link]

Update: MSN finally back up again.

This is cool, its a website that allows you to create an email which will be sent to the future. I just sent one to Nibaq and he should get it in the year 2008. [Link]

GmailThis! is an easy way to make a Gmail email without visiting gmail.com. [Link]

Here are the Top 100 Blogs according to Technorati. [Link]

I had an invite for wordpress.com and I didn’t know what username to get. Then I remembered when I signed up to 23hq.com I was able to get the username “mark”, so I tried mark on wordpress.com and it was taken, I decided to try the next 4 letter word that came into my head which was fuck and it signed me up! I was expecting maybe a step 2 or confirmation screen but it just took the word fuck and now I am stuck with fuck.wordpress.com. I guess it’s cool…

Google Video have stopped using VLC and now use Flash to play the movies. This means I can finally check it out using my Mac! [Link]

A few weeks ago as part of the Opera web browsers 10 year anniversary they had a special promotion where you could register the browser for free on that day. Seems like the promotion went better then they had expected because now they have gone ahead and made Opera free for good. Nokia users should be pleased. [Link]

I was just googling and I saw this [Screenshot]

This is a sad post on how Yahoo! taking over flickr is destroying what made flickr great in the first place. The post mentions 23HQ (23 People) as an alternative which I posted about back in June and which although doesn’t provide as much features as Flickr at the moment they are adding new stuff all the time. Anyway check out the post and then check out 23HQ if you haven’t already. [Link]

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I was a bit hesitant to check the Leo Burnett flash site out after seeing it on Waxy since I really really hate flash sites. I clicked on the link though and I have to say this is the best flash site ever. [Link]