Tuesday, April 21, 2009

A search add-in that so cool

I like this add-in when I watched its video demo. It's called Juiceapp

Can you predict the future?

What kind of future people will experience? watch the following videos and have your own answer






Microchips future:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kLGylATnQQ




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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Toward Society 3.0: A New Paradigm for 21st century education

Check out this SlideShare Presentation which shows that 19th century educational institutions of today can't teach 21st century ides.

the secret within the Song of Songs

Capital from the Song of Solomon in Winchester...Image via Wikipedia

the secret within the Song of Songs:
http://ping.fm/4Ebqt

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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Did you know?

A rendering of the seal attributed to Muhammad...Image via Wikipedia

Since I watched "Did you know?" presentation by Karl Fish I was and still amazed by the facts that were revealed in that presentation. Moreover, I kept tracking the different versions that were released since version 1.0. It shows you how technology is changing rapidly and how it changes the world in the same time. But in my opinion, the greatest lesson is that humans will never know, because their knowledge will always be limited and inferior to the heavenly knowledge. I remember the saying of prophet Mohammad:"A person is a scholar as long as he seeks knowledge, but when he thinks that he knows, he becomes an ignorant."
Please enjoy the different versions of "Did you know?" and other great presentations by Karl Fish.






















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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The tiniest projector ever

I was following the achievements of Microvision for the past two years. They manufactured the tiniest projector ever, SHOW WX Pico, which can be connected to any laptop, desktop, mobile phone, and media player to display pictures, videos and presentations on a scale that ranges from 12" to 100". I think their projectors which can also be embedded into mobile phones will revolutionize different sectors including education by providing an easy to use mobile projector that can be used by everyone and every machine. The expected price is in the range of 400-500$, and it is expected to hit the markets by mid 2009. The embedded type might be available by 2010.








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Monday, March 23, 2009

Annotate the smart way: Iglue

Today I tried the demo of a nice online annotation service called IGlue. As I understood from the demo, When a user tries IGlue he gets smart annotations for what he's browsing, which can be transformed into an organized data that shows everything a user might need about what he clicked such as information, pictures, videos and timelines...etc. And also shows everything connected to what he is browsing. It is still in closed beta for the moment. However it looks like a nice web 3.0 (semantic web) service.

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Friday, March 13, 2009

Prezi Vs pptPlex: A mixture would be better

Microsoft Office PowerPointImage via Wikipedia

I was looking for new ways to create or enhance presentations, when I found Prezi which is an online presentation creation service, it looked nice but it lacked allot of the options which can be found in Power Point. On the other hand Microsoft created an add-on for PowerPoint that is called pptPlex, which adds a tab to PowerPoint 2007. However, I think that a mixture of both tools would be the best option. check them out.




<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=c9715b5c-53d4-4e2f-a63a-e0281ac46361" target="_new" title="pptPlex details: Creating sections">Video: pptPlex details: Creating sections</a>

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=45e09d5a-88a6-4ce1-8cf8-79ae3495549d" target="_new" title="pptPlex details: the pptPlex ribbon, presenting pptPlex decks">Video: pptPlex details: the pptPlex ribbon, presenting pptPlex decks</a>

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

the future of humanity

Image representing Microsoft as depicted in Cr...Image via CrunchBase
While watching the following video of Microsoft's vision of the year 2019, two thoughts came to my mind, that we, the human race, achieved allot in the field of technology, which is something to be appreciated. However, we have done allot of evil on the moral side. Microsoft's vision of 2019 doesn't include the Israeli genocide at Gaza, the famine in Africa, hundreds of millions of jobless and homeless people around the world, and dark economic holes that will flush the world economy. What remains in my mind is a Quranic verse: "24. The likeness of the life of the present is as the rain which We send down from the skies: by its mingling arises the produce of the earth- which provides food for men and animals: (It grows) till the earth is clad with its golden ornaments and is decked out (in beauty): the people to whom it belongs think they have all powers of disposal over it: There reaches it Our command by night or by day, and We make it like a harvest clean-mown, as if it had not flourished only the day before! thus do We explain the Signs in detail for those who reflect." Surat Yunus (Jonah).
Watch the videos:














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