Wordpress is a great blogging platform, in my opinion, the best. And if there is some feature not present in it, you can always install a plugin to get that functionality. There are few plugins which I believe to be must have for any wordpress user. (though I know some people who may not agree [...]
My favourite web analytics software Piwik just got desktop integration.
For those who haven’t heard of Piwik before, it’s open source web analytics software which you can host on your own server. It is still in beta, but I am using it for few months now and haven’t faced any problem. You can try it out [...]
I have (once again) updated / changed couple of things on this blog. Most importantly, I have created a simple Yahoo! pipe to filter my feed, now you can subscribe to upto five different tags / categories, instead of subscribing to whole blog. As basically it’s my personal blog and I post anything I want [...]
Yesterday I found out about new Adobe AIR Twitter client, TweetDeck, finally an application that makes it possible to cope up with information overload on twitter.
TweetDeck has multi-column view, it’s first column display all latest tweets (like “home” on twitter.com). Other columns can contain replies, direct messages, groups (tweets from selected people), searches and latest [...]
Until recently, whenever I got option to choose layout during any software installation, I always wondered what’s the reason of using anything other than the superior QWERTY layout. That is until I came upon Dvorak and Colemak.
QWERTY layout was initially designed for typewriters. One of the reason told for QWERTY design was to slow down [...]
A friend has just started a blog, Politics Pakistan. As the name implies, this blog is about the political situation of Pakistan, with urdu translation for each post. Due to my exams, there are still somethings left undone, which are being worked on, like there isn’t translation of posts yet.
If you have any interest in [...]
Today, there was a small and very informal meetup at LUMS of bloggers and other IT related people with Mr. Rishi Jaitly, Google’s Policy Analyst and Government Affairs Manager for South Asia, and of course Badar Khushnood, Google’s Country Consultant for Pakistan.
I went there with Nabeel(my brother) and his friend Shahrukh, who have just started [...]
Once again, we are observing DST (Daylight Saving Time) in Pakistan; tonight at midnight, all clocks were moved one hour ahead - causing an hour early power load-shedding :(.
If you are living in Pakistan and haven’t changed your computer clock yet, you can update the zone info and have your computer automatically change it’s time [...]
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has finally lifted the lifted the ban, which it imposed few days ago, after YouTube removed the offensive video from the site.
I am a fan of YouTube (and other Google products) and am glad that it has respected the feelings of Muslims all around the world.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently ordered all ISPs to block access to popular video sharing site YouTube, due to some “objectionable content”. Here is an email sent to customers of micronet (taken from naitazi):
Dear Valued Customer:
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk) has directed all ISPs of the country to block access to www.youtube.com web site for [...]
