2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

Loads of handy tips & tricks my favorite being the following:

Receiving E-Mails without giving your real address
Sometimes you want to use your GMail address on a website, but you fear you will get a lot of SPAM afterwards coming from that website. So instead of creating another address just for those kind of websites, you can very easily alter your address. if your address is [email protected], enter on the website [email protected]. We will still receive every e-mail, but if the website do send you a lot of SPAMs, you can create a filter for every message sent to this address ([email protected]) to go directly in the trash !

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CoverFlow is an album browser for OS X, using Cocoa and OpenGL. If you have OS X 10.4 you HAVE to download this now! [Link]

You have to see it to believe it. Two videos, one shot from inside the Mercedes SLR while the other from the outside. The Land Cruiser according to a commenter is pimped out with 4 turbos generating +800hp. Crazy shit.. [Link]

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Some people seem to think that this webpage by Tim Berners-Lee was the first webpage. [Link]

O….K…… [Link]

55mph motorcycle hits the side of a car, all three people die instantly. If you look at the pictures on the site you will see that the motor bike is actually embeded in the car! [Link]

1st Pagani Zonda F – 1.18.4

2nd Maserati MC12 – 1.18.9

3rd Ferrari F60 Enzo – 1.19.0

4th Ariel Atom – 1.19.5

5th Porsche Carerra GT – 1.19.8

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This is very practical and easy to do:

This tool allows you to customize a PDF notepad. I was always unhappy with a regular piece of paper during meetings because I rarely needed to take notes – but I did have to jot down actions and due dates that I had to complete. Often loosing tasks in a sea of random notes, I had to begin using something better. I created an Excel file first, but then found that I wanted to be able to customize it. Here is a tool!

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Today there was an article in Arab Times related to what I posted the other day on the fact that I heard expats will be limited to staying in Kuwait for only 6 years. I am glad the majority of people think this is a stupid idea. Here is the link to the Arab Times article or click on more to read it here.

If you go to the TV Shows section under the iTunes music store you will now find a lot more shows including Knight Rider, Law & Order, Alfred Hitchcock, Jay Leno, Conan, The Office, Monk, Galactica and more.

Just downloaded a Firefox extension called Fasterfox. Basically what it does is it prefetches links and tweaks the network so pages load considerably faster. What impressed me the most other then the increase in performance was the quality of the extension. Fasterfox has a nice appealing logo and its menu options (located under preferences) are very simple and easy to understand. Pretty cool. [Link]

A large collection of pictures of video game controllers and joysticks. My favorite is the Coleco controller of course. [Link]

I got an email from the Belgian Shepherd breeder in Belgium yesterday. He sent me pictures of the puppies and also had some new updates. Turns out he won’t ship us the puppy when they are 7 weeks old, he will ship it to us once it turns 12 weeks old. I think that means I would get the dog mid February which seems too far away. His reason was that he called the Kuwaiti Embassy and they told him the dog needs certain shots before they would let it into the country and he needs to do them before the dog can be shipped. Anyway I have to say, this has to be the ugliest puppy I have seen so far!

Click here for larger puppy picture

Now that Aramex closed their Kuwait City office you need to go pick up your packages from Aardiyah (if you don’t have them delivered to you). Here are the directions to their Aardiyah branch.

When you are coming on the 5th ring road from Salmiya towards Jahra, you will reach Ragii Area (which will be on your right hand), and on your left side you will notice a large Panasonic sign.

Right in front of you there will be a bridge; make a U-turn under the bridge as if you are going back to Salmiya. When you make the U-turn and before you get back on the 5th ring road, you will find an entrance on your right side. Take it and drive 200 meters in and you will find ARAMEX on your left hand. You may turn behind the fire station if you do not wish to pass the sandy area in front of our office.

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