Sultan Al-Shaer passed away today morning in Frankfurt. He was known as “esh7afan el ga6o”. He was sent yesterday by a private plane but he couldnt make it.

Rest in Peace inshallah.

My cousin got married yesterday (malach). The 3rd cousin to get married in less than 6 months (mashallah). Hey cousin, Congrats! I wish you and your wife a lifetime of hapiness inshallah

Zain Create have an offer for limited time, if you register before the 1st of april you’ll get KD 5.100 (thats 5 kds and a 100 fils) of credit to download songs off their music store. I went ahead an registered, it was an easy process and I got the promotional 5KDs credited to my Zain Create account. You should all register, there is no need to miss out on this one time deal.

Anyway, I looked around the site, then wanted to download something to try the service out. I went to the top 10 list and found that Fadhel Shaker’s new album is in the #1 spot (Not just that, He is #1 in the top songs, albums, and artists list!) so I went with Fadhel’s new album. I bought the album (10 tracks, each track costs 300fils. You can’t buy the whole album as of now, but it says in the FAQs section that the option will be available soon. It better be). I bought the album and am now listening to 2 of the songs.. the download rate is between 10kbps and 35kbps (I’m using ego 7.2).

I’m listening to Jowa Al Roh right now and the quality is superb. the song is 4:27 long, in MP3 format, 6.2MB, 192 Kbit/s. Obviously good quality. and comes with an ID3 tag with the picture of the album’s cover.

The whole site is very well designed and is easy to use. I love it.. but there is room for improvement. Hear me out if you have a say in this project:

1- I need to be able to tell which song is already downloaded. Like for example as I was downloading Fadhel’s songs, I lost track. There needs to be a sign or a label on the song which has been downloaded so i don’t download it again by mistake.

2- The lack of Mac software is not acceptable.

3- The song sampling is very fast, which I appreciate a lot, but sometimes the play button doesn’t work and I have to refresh a few times before I can start sampling the song.

4- I should be able to download the whole album as a package, coz it was a hassle downloading each track separately. I know it’s coming.. but still, it should be available from the start imo.

5- It says that once I download a song, I should receive an sms immediately, and yet, I downloaded 10 songs, wrote this post and still not a single sms.

I think the service is very good and that Zain did a great job with this whole thing.

Visit Zain Create and get the offer before it expires.

Update:

I was sent an email by Zain replying to the 5 points I wrote above. Here is their reply:

1-Noted will work on it you can check your downloads on my create section .

Finally , try out the streamed channels of Rotana( Audio & TV ) as well on the website & try to download the mobile application from web its compatible with Nokia & Sony Ericson symbian mobiles ,,, blackberry soon ….

Thanks Alia

Thanks INM & ANM

It looks like the new double faced speed cameras are popping out everywhere we turn, and that the existing cameras will all be switched soon. We’ve compiled a list of the new ones and we’ll be updating the picture above with every new camera added. Help us out guys and let us know if there is if know you know about a new DF camera that isn’t already pointed in the picture above.

Thanks Fawaz

Inspired by Mark’s post, my friend tried it and liked it, so He and I decided to have it this weekend. It was my first time making this McGangBang thingi, and If I had my eyes closed while eating I wouldn’ haven known what the hell I was putting in my mouth.

The sandwich is basically a chicken burger shoved in a double cheeseburger. The process didn’t make a mess, but I can’t say the same about the way it tasted.. coz that was a complete and utter mess, the flavors were all over the place, and it was too big it had my jaw throbbing by the end.

It tasted like 4 buns and ketchup.. won’t have it again.

“Within Gmail Labs, an option now exists under Settings to turn on “Undo Send.” From that point on, whenever an e-mail is sent, an “Undo” link will appear on the send mail confirmation. By clicking that link, the message will be routed back into composition – where the user can then change that “Meeting on Firday” to “Meeting on Friday.”

This feature can’t pull back an e-mail that’s already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button,” Michael Leggett, user experience designer for Google, wrote on the official Gmail blog. “And don’t worry – if you close Gmail or your browser crashes in those few seconds, we’ll still send your message.”

Pretty useful feature if you ask me and I sure did need it more than once.

Thanks Tariq

SOURCE

It’s a Kuwaiti based Company that specializes in skins for Macs (13.3″, 15″ and 17″) and more over they do have skins for iPhones, iPods and BlackBerries; BOLD only.

You can visit their WEBSITE to have a better look at what they’re offering.
Thanks INM

We were invited to the premier of the film ‘Journey To Mecca’ showing on IMAX in the Kuwait scientific center. There weren’t a lot of people and the place looked beautiful as usual. (Side talk: I was thinking how it is funny when we want to talk up a place we always say machinnik bilKuwait “it’s like you’re not in Kuwait”.)

Anyway. The movie tells the story of Ibn Batuta and his journey from Tangier, Morocco, to Mecca to do the Haj ritual.

I didn’t know much about Ibn Batuta.. I mean I’ve been to the mall but didn’t really know anything about the person. Pretty interesting life he must’ve led back then. He Left his family in Morocco to go to Mecca, and returned 30+ years later.. I guess he just couldn’t resist riding passing by China and India on his way back to morocco.

The Journey To Mecca is now showing on IMAX in the scientific center of Kuwait, Gulf Road, Salmiya.

Thanks Hind

Starting from 1st of March Amex/Gulf Bank credit cards holders will be restricted with only the card holder instead of 2 persons per card to enter Kuwait’s Pearl lounge.

Thanks INM