Geo.tv is down

Posted by BA on Jan 17, 2012 in Pakistan | 0 comments

Geo.tv is a popular Pakistani news website. The site is found to be down with a message saying “Service not available”.

** Edit: 1:30pm local time (+5GMT)

We found Geo.tv to be down around 1pm and it’s been half an hour the website is down on web, on mobile and all other feeds.

Inside look at BlackBerry PlayBook

Posted by BA on Jan 8, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

While there’s a debate going on about the future of BlackBerry as whole and their only tablet Playbook in particular, I decided to tear open my playbook to see what’s inside. Well, a few things that were interesting are listed below:

• More than 75% of the device was stuffed with a huge battery
• Only thing that is noticeably visible other than the battery is the motherboard.
• Both of these items are lying above an LCD.
• There are only a few wires and connectors and rest is all clean hardware with minimum connectivity

Here are a few photos of the Playbook from inside.

Let’s Eat Twitter

Posted by BA on Jan 7, 2012 in Facebook, Google, Social Networking | 0 comments

No doubt social media is popular all around the globe. Now people are naming their non-tech tangible products getting inspired from the virtual world and online media. Recent addition to that is Twitter. Though I did not like the taste of it, it did look tempting and I ended up buying a few of them.

How did your site look in 1997?

Posted by BA on Jan 6, 2012 in Apple, Google, Internet, Microsoft | 0 comments

I just came across this amazing web archive. If you had a website several years ago or you want to see how your favorite websites looked like a decade back, this is your best bet. I just dug up and found the face of my websites and it was really great to visit so many websites back in time. For example, this is how the Google logo looked like back in 1998/1999.

And this is how Apple’s website looked like in 1997.

New Year, New Beginning, New Look

Posted by BA on Jan 5, 2012 in General | 0 comments

Happy new year to all the readers. I hope this year will bring all the good changes to everything on planet earth. May this year be one of the best years of your life.

Facebook completely translated to Urdu

Posted by BA on Dec 20, 2011 in Facebook, Internet, Social Networking | 0 comments

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Look what I got in my notifications on Facebook today. Facebook says it has been completely translated into Urdu and now just some fine tuning is needed. Makes me proud as an Urdu speaker. Users who have opted to help Facebook in translations get such messages and you can either translate untranslated phrases and labels or you can vote if others are translating it right or not. Facebook has already being translated in many languages. Wanna contribute? Head to Facebook translations.

Watch Hajj 2011 Live

Posted by BA on Nov 5, 2011 in Islam, Live TV, Live Web Feed | 6 comments

If you are looking for Hajj 2011 stream live from Makkah, here are a few options for you. I’ll update this post as i find more links. Youtube is the most reliable feed source, hence I embed it here. Click on the video below to watch. More live TV links are found at the bottom of this post. May Allah bless us all. Hajj and Eid-ul-Azha Mubarak to all Muslims.

These are a few more live feeds that you will find interesting.

KSA -1 : Broadcasting live right now from Makkah

KSA-2 : Broadcasting a different feed or at time same feed as KSA-1

Sunnah TV

Al Majid TV

Ekhbariya TV: A news Channel

Al Hurra TV : Another news Channel

Please do remember me in your prayers.