The gap of 5000 readers have just been exceeded today with 5015 subscriptions at Ajax Magazine. Big thanks for everyone who contributed to the magazine and make it successful. The last months I wasn’t writing much news on Ajax industry as before, but I have really a lot of articles in the queue waiting to get finalized and published. There is also a new book coming in December on Django, and probably others. Ajax magazine was one of the very first blog launched on PHP Magazine Network in June 2005, and until today I’m really happy with its results.
The latest Open Handset Magazine is just 18 days old and count already 94 subscriptions. My favorite french IT network ITACTU still not on the top, even the website code is still in beta tests, but I’m counting a lot on it for the next years.
Just noticed that UAE is currently the only arab country that paypal offer withdraw to it via a US Bank account or a card. Withdraw could be done to withdraw to a credit, debit, or prepaid card, really amazing !
I don’t know why Paypal continue to offer “Send” only feature in other countries, while I find it totally useless. You can do almost nothing with a paypal account, and even if you verify your account with a credit card, they will happily block your account and ask you to send verification document via fax or email.
Stupid enough to keep my KSA account blocked since last year, nothing urge me to verify something usless. Really I can’t wait for the withdraw feature.
The story started around July 2007 when I recieved my first Admob check with my name spelled with N instead of M. I become Haten for sometime, and the check passed without problems. It was a small amout that I spend it without noticing that it have been already collected when I was in Istambul.
Back to KSA in mid-October, the second check was waiting, but this time my bank noticed the mistake and they told me that my name is Hatem and not Haten, and of course that I have to fix it and reissue a new check . This have to be fixed one day or another, so Admob support corrected my name as I have indicated in my settings and send it.
Now the N is corrected by M so it should be my name ? Well, this time my bank told me that all my name isn’t written correctly not just the last letter ! According to my bank and my residential permit, my name here in english is Hatim ! Go and explain them that you used to write your name in French during your whole life.
I went to another agency close to me and they accepted the check without even looking at my name, so I’m sure that next time they will verify and notice that my name (in French) is different from my name (in English). I’ll have to change the agency every time, or simply write my Name exactly as it’s written on my residential permit.
So until now I got Hatem, Haten and Hatim, next time I don’t know how they will spell it, but I’ll have to deal with it.
Today I recieved my first digital camera, a Canon A560 PowerShot 7.1MP. I’m not big fan of digital photography at this time, but I studied photography in black and white some times ago, so this was somehow on of my fav hobbies. I also got this camera with a very low price, almost 80% of its current price here after discount. A friend called a camera shop here asking for its price and he told me that currently it’s 719 SAR (about 193 USD), while in total I have paid only 144 SAR (about 38 USD), so it was defintely a great deal !
The camera came with two AA batteries, memory card 16Mo, PC and TV cable. So next time I’ll try to get the camera case Canon PowerShot, a bigger memory card, and a tripod… There are some accessories kits available at Amazon but I was worried because reviews wasn’t encouraging at all, such the guy who recieved a Nikon case instead of a Canon one!! So I’ll simply leave this for another big deal.
Be sure to not miss this week the Black Friday Deals on Amazon, there will be hourly deals from 6am to 6pm PST along with thousands of products on sale for a limited time!
Ca fait un bail que j’écris rien ici, manque d’inspiration, ou manque de temps, ou peut être les deux. Dans les trois cas, la reprise après le mariage était quand même lente surtout au niveau de phpmag, mais ça va reprendre dans les jours à venir j’espère bien. Ca bouge surtout coté ITACTU ces derniers jours avec des articles quotidiens, analyses des dernières actualités et tendances, mais surtout deux nouveaux produits ITACTU qui vont voir jours dans les semaines à venir et un nouvel auteur Hatem Zidi qui a fait son entrée dans l’équipe. Donc après itactu.com et itactu.mobi, on va lancer itactu.biz et une autre extension qu’on va annoncer plus tard.
Sinon le dernier né aujourd’hui s’appelle Open Handset Magazine, qui sera dédié; comme son nom l’indique; à l’Open Handset Alliance et Android. A part les actualités et les analyses, le site va inclure des données technique sur la nouvelle plateforme Android, tout ce qui concerne le développement, les applications, les handsets … etc.
Finalement le paresseux que je suis n’est pas vraiment aussi paresseux 
