N82
I’ve managed to get an N82 phone instead of my old K8ooi SE last xmas. I’ve been mainly using it as a music player as I’ve lost my old iPod. The thing that I miss from my old iPod is when you accidentally unplug the headphones, the song pause automatically. Now, when you do the same thing with the N82, the song plays from the internal speakers and that is quite annoying if you were in a lecture or at work.
I’ve googled for a solution but I couldn’t find any. I guess I have to be careful and stop the song manually before I unplug the headphones.
Extra Storage
Since the day I’ve discovered the wonders of Torrents I started downloading TV series and unsubscribed my ntl for good. This lead to a huge shortage of space on my 160GB HD iMac. Currently I’ve only got 6GB of free space and thats a bit scary. I bought my self iomega 500GB “Desktop Hard Drive” and started transfering stuff to it. Guess How long it takes.
Let’s hope its done before my flight back to Kuwait tomorrow 4am!
P.S.: This is just the Movies folder. There is another 5GB worth of music.
Kubbar.com
Kubbar.com was one of the first sites I used to check out regularly at the late 90’s. Downloading Realplayer song and Al-9al3awi episodes was amazing. Few years earlier the website stopped working and got hosted at qualitynet as a weather site. Now we get a fishing forum, an interesting evolution of the domain name and its usage.
You can check out the site at archive.org http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://kubbar.com
The is the new site now www.kubbar.com
Bloggin’ mood
Anyone notice that whenever you are too busy to blog you find it the best time to do so?
I remember last year during my final exams I started bloggin here. Now,although the exams are far away, I don’t have anything to blog about. I guess school life is a bit boring and nothing exciting happens nowadays.
Anyways, the idea of having an iPod touch is hunting me back again. I pretty much crossed over the iPhone idea as it is pretty much useless and I am quite happy with my K800i.
I guess I’ll buy an iPod Touch for the sake of having a blogging material at least 
P.S.: Anyone uses ZYB.Com ?
Why I’de Like to Get an iPhone
I’ve bean craving for a new phone since summer and I had the Tyten II in mind as THE phone to get.
But HTC phones aren’t that good. They lag and are windows based (a.k.a endless crashes and restarts). So as far as I know, the iPhone:
1- Runs quite smoothly
2- Has a lot of hype around it = a lot of programs coming out
3- It looks nice
4- Lost my iPod
What draws me back though
1- Lack of GPS
2- Difficulties with sms/mms.
3- Not supporting windows pocketpc apps.
4- 2MB flash less camera.
The GPS isn’t really a big deal in Kuwait as most of modern cars has it and you almost know where to go most of the time, and once you do, you don’t need the GPS anymore.
Not being able to write sms in the traditional alphanumeric way (3arabi) along with the lack of switching off the auto-complete feature is a draw back. Not to mention the absence of forwarding sms ability and mms!
Two issues !
First .. What do you think about the new theme ?
Second .. I’ve lost my iPod and now I have two options .. either use my mobile (Razor V3xx/K800i) or my PSP to listen to mp3s .. What do you think people ?
أتت هندُ !
بين كل يوم والثاني اسمع عله اف ام الكويت برنامج “عدنيات” يطلع تقريبا على الساعه 11 بالليل
وفي كل حلقه يطلع واحد ايي يطلب اغنيه اتت هندُ ويتوهق المذيع ويقول انت اكييد تبي تسكر البرنامج !!
فبطبيعه الحال اخذني الفضول وحست بالنت وطلعت الاغنية وكلماتها
اتت هند تشكو الى امها
فسبحان من جمع النيرين
فقالت لها ان هذا الضحى
اتاني وقبلني قبلتين
وفر فلما راني الدجى
حباني من شعره خصلتين
وما خاف يا ام بل ضمني
والقى على مبسمي نجمتين
وذوب من لونه سائلا
وكحلني منه في المقلتين
وجئت الى الروض يا روضتي
وهم ليفعل كالأولين
فخبأت وجهي ولكنة
الى الصدر يا أم مد أليدين
ويا دهشتي حين فتحت عيني
وشاهدت في الصدر رمانتين
وما زال بي الغصن حتى انحنى
على قدمي ساجدا سجدتين
وكان على رأسه وردتان
فقدم لي تينك الوردتين ؟
وخفت من ألغصن اذ تمتمت
بأذني أوراقه كلمتين
فرحت الى البحر للابتراد
فحملني ويحة موجتين
فما سرت الا وقد ثارتا
برد في البحر رجراجتين
هو البحر يا أم كم من فتى
غريق وكم من فتى بين وبين
فها انا أشكو اليك الجميع
فبالله يا أم ماذا ترين ؟
فقالت وقد ضحكت امها
وماست من العجب في بردتين
عرفتهمو واحدا واحدا
وذقت الذي ذقته مرتين
By Mishref
Backup: Discovering The Full Potential of Automator and iPod
So I am heading back to Mishref this summer, and I needed to backup all the stuff I have on my iMac to my iPod. iPhoto and iCal are already synced so as the address book and music of course. Few folders remained not synced so I enabled the desk usage on the iPod and dragged and dropped the folders. Then I remembered a nifty tool called Automator. After spending 20 min’s I made up a workflow that whenever I plug my iPod it will:
1- Rename the files on the desktop by adding todays date after each of them
2- “clean up” the desktop by moving these file to a backup folder on my iMac
3- Copy all the new files to my iPod
This will make me miss my iMac for the whole summer. Luckily I got my macbook to play with meanwhile.
For My Own Reference: Use google to download mp3’s
I’ve heard a lot about it and I couldn’t bother at that time. Now is the time to use it.
Use this in google search to get a list full of goodies!
“Name_of_crappy_song_here” intitle:index.of mp3 -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
