Thursday, February 14, 2008

Bayt Abdullah Art Project: Art 20*30

When: Sunday, February 17, 2008 - Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Opening Hours: 10am - 8pm
Where: Dar Al Funnon. Behbehani Compound, House 28, Al Wataniyah, Kuwait City, Al `Asimah

Details:
The aim of the Art 20*30 exhibition is to raise funds for Bayt Abdullah Child hospice through the sale of artwork.

Established and amateurs alike, from all walks of life, have been given a 20 cm by 30 cm canvas on which to create their work. The idea of the exhibition belongs to Thuraya Al-Baqsimi, a renowned Kuwaiti artist, for her belief in the strong relation between art and humanitarian causes.

Each artist donated their masterpiece to Dar Al Funoon and all art work will be sold for 50 KD each. 100% of the proceeds will go to Bayt Abdallah. The target is to raise a minimum of 15,000 KD.

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Friday, February 08, 2008

Working Class Heroes

Nothing much to say but GORGEOUS! I have been waiting quite some time to see this bag out on the market, and here it is - for only $355 Dollars. I have never seen a better looking laptop bag, and it seems so comfortable too! link: http://workingclassheroes.eu/unfold.html.

Features:

• premium aniline cow leather & cotton canvas
• folds in half both front and back
• fits up to a macbook 13” horizontal
• fits up to a macbook pro 17” vertical
• flexible protective padded lining
• concealed magnetic closure

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Monday, January 28, 2008

A very unique pen review

M. Williams has written a wonderful pen review at Amazon, it’s really funny, this is how it goes:

Very good if you need to write on paper
Since taking delivery of my pen I have been very happy with the quality of ink deposition on the various types of paper that I have used. On the first day when I excitedly unwrapped my pen (thanks for the high quality packaging Amazon!) I just couldn’t contain my excitement and went around finding things to write on, like the shopping list on the notice board in our kitchen, the Post-it notes next to the phone, and on my favourite lined A4 pad at the side of my desk.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Calling all Mac users! Unite for a good cause…

Ok - first, let’s make it clear that this is F. typing, not Shaymaa. Shaymaa doesn’t like Macs and refused to post this. So I will. Don’t worry, this is all legal and halal....

Now - fellow Mac users, most of you must know MacHeist. If you don’t, then please note that if you are serious about your Mac oriented life, then this is something you will not want to miss out on. Here’s a quick intro to MacHeist:

MacHeist is a website that resells Mac OS X shareware. The site has become known for its marketing tactics. These tactics include challenges (or “heists") that entitle successful customers to free software licenses and/or discounts, as well as the concept of selling software in a bundle that increases in size as more customers purchase the bundle. The site was founded by John Casasanta, Phillip Ryu, and Scott Meinzer.* from Wikipedia.

Their new bundle is now available - actually, it was available for the past two weeks, but Kuwait University does not acknowledge important Mac dates (they don’t even give us a Ramadan holiday, so.. their ignorance is well expected) - so I only just got a chance to buy it - and this is where you friendly, cooperative, Mac users of the Middle East come in: if you buy the bundle using my referral link, I get TWO free apps.

I’m a starving student.
My money goes on books and book cases to put those books in. Seriously. I’m IKEA’s no. 1 customer when it comes to those white bookcases with glass doors.

So, buy the MacHeist bundle. You won’t regret it, because this year it’s loaded with amazing applications at only $50. And while you buy it, use my link (referral) to help me get more apps. Share the joy.

One more thing - I’m not the only one who benefits here - like always, MacHeists donates 25% of your purchase to a charity of organization, and more information can be found about that on their website.

Take the time to look into the bundle but keep in mind that the last day to buy it is the 23rd of January.

And thanks for letting me post this Shay! I’ll get my site set up soon - inshallah - so that you won’t have to do this again.

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

What’s your favorite programming editor?

Intype. It is by far the coolest editor I have ever worked with. Maybe not the best, but that’s because Intype is still in the early stage of development (current release is 0.3). It already carries some amazing features. You can create your own color theme or download other peoples’ themes. I have downloaded a few, switched around between them and they are amazing. Personally, I prefer to write on a black background, I find it easier on the eyes especially after long hours. Intype was inspired by the famous Mac editor, TextMate.

Some Intype features include tabs, line and column counts, language parsing selector. I have been using it ever since it was first released to testers and the improvements are outstanding. Testers have helped improve Intype by listing some feature requests at the Intype forum. This little app is free to download and use during the alpha and beta development phases, but once it reaches release 1.0 it will be priced similarly to TextMate.

Intype will cost between $25 to $45 (€20 to €35). One license will be valid for one version of Intype and all updates for this version (for example version 1.0 with updates until version 1.9).

There are many other Windows text editors, some of the most popular include TextPad, Notepad++, Programmer’s Notepad, Notepad 2, Crimson Editor, Zulupad, JujuEdit, TopStyle, EditPlus and a whole lot more.

What’s your favorite programming text editor? What’s the feature you love most?

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Sunday, December 30, 2007

More Than Zero

Nasser recently came up with a post on graffiti art in Kuwait. I think it’s a wonderful talent and it should be taken to the next level.

Diesel throws an on-line contest every year for the artistic and creative. This year they are sponsoring something new.

ARE YOU A GENIUS OF WEB OR A DIGITAL CREATIVE ARTIST?
The MTZ Festival offers young creative artists and production companies the opportunity to meet potential cross-media content clients thanks to a “pitching"/contest, in other words, of finding oneself face to face with the potential client and of giving a live presentation of those projects that have passed the selection process. The selection bid is open to all creative artists, authors, production centres and ICT designers with an interest in all the latest developments in digital communication, without any restriction of nationality, type of company, age or profession.
All details in www.morethanzero.it

To give you a foretaste of life as a creative artist in a business environment, all works have to be delivered by 10 March 2008.

by The Diesel

I encourage everyone interested to head on over there and give it a shot. You can enter for either of the two categories: Tv Visual Identity or Brand. I don’t know why the official more-than-zero website is only available in Italian when the contest is for everyone! Even the registration form is in Italian! I think I will “Contatti” them and find out some more.

Update: I did find the “English” version of the contest page only: http://www.morethanzero.it/page15/page21/page21.html

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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

The LaCie I love

When it comes to buying an external hard disk drive, I have learned the hard way, that LaCie is the best solution. I recently ditched my 60GB ipod and didn’t have a replacement. I needed something small, portable and reliable. I have used LaCie drives for quite some time and really liked them.

My experiences with Maxtor HDD have been horrid and I decided to stick with LaCie ever since.Recently, I bought a new addition, small mobile HDD from LaCie (160GB, 5400rpm). It’s awesome. It comes with three ports: bus-power, 6-pin FireWire and Hi-Speed USB 2.0. Cables included. It is bus-powered, so you don’t need to carry any heavy adapters. The drive recharges from the laptop/desktop it is connected to, hence its portability. I have used it on Windows and Mactinosh and it was great - plug and play without a problem (hamdilla). You do not have to install the One-Click Back-up Software included in the package, but I found it useful as it moves large folders smoothly and doesn’t deal with the Windows’ manually drag-and-dropped transfer errors!

What I liked most about it was that its very small and lightweight. I only needed it for backup when I am traveling, so 160GB was great. I have realized that the more GBs you carry, the more you want to fill’em up - with anime, videos, e-books, files, whatever… and then, you never have the time to watch/enjoy it all. So I decided to stick to 160GB.

I bought the drive from Integrated Offices in Hawalli (Kuwait). Price: 50KD. Tel. : +965 2664278

What external HDD you carry with you on the road?

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