My participation in ComSPEC’09

Yesterday I participated in ComSPEC’09 and presented my final year project with my group member Aisf Shehzad. This event was organized by computer science department of CIIT Lahore. My project…

Slideshow of online images with Cooliris

I found a fantastic internet browser plugin which gives interactive full screen slide show of online images. Cooliris has  re-innovated the entire experience of browsing through the web in a…

Quick Review: Lenovo 3000 N200 (0769-A63)

Its quite a long time I decided to purchase a notebook. Because I relocated myself for work from home to flat in Lahore, so I don’t want to bring my…

Firefox 3 – Lets pledge it

Today I downloaded my copy of Firefox version 3. After installation most of my Add-ons and all of my themes got out of order with newer version compatibility issues. Ya…

Working 100% time

Agree…? 😉

Sun to acquire MySQL

Wow! A hot news I came across here and here today. Sun is going to acquire the open source icon MySQL. It can be a big leap for open source…

Boss is always right? (cartoon)

Rule # 1 Boss is always right. But if you think he/she is not right, see Rule # 1. After seeing this picture, what do you think about Rule #…

PakTranslations.com – Urdu translation service

PakTranslations.com first machine-based Urdu translation service on the web. It just takes seconds to translate your web page in Urdu. It is a zero-install Urdu translator for website owners. It…

Pakistan’s Internet Timeline

1988 786 BBS service launched in Pakistan. 1991 X.25 Packet Switched Public Data Network (PSPDN) introduced by PTCL. Tariffs are high, service is low, but in principle one can get…

Late sitting in software companies

It’s half past 8 in the office. but the lights are still on… PCs still running, Coffee machines still buzzing… And who’s at work? Most of them??? take a closer…