I was working since yesterday on a Glofish eten X500, one of the new generation of Pocket PCs with integrated GPS, WIFI.I tested almost all available GPS mapping software for PPC, and was surprised to see that a very basic feature is not available. All available software allow you to enter two addresses and show the road between the them, but there is no way to enter directly coordinates of the two points. While it’s a very basic feature, addresses are automatically converted to coordinates, so what’s wrong if they allow to enter directly coordinates ?
After long trials, I have found a suitable solution with Destinator6, but now I have to find their desinator console which I’m not sure if it’s for PPC or PC since they have a proprietary format, and the procedure is really complex : writing coordinates in csv format, convert it using destinator console, then import it from Destinator !! The problem : we have coordinates and just the Glofish, is it too much asking to show a map with the two stupid points ? I need also to sleep for two hours then get back working on this 
Today I had my first VideoConference between our local team in Makkah and another team in Dammam, to work on a new project between the two administrations. The videoconference equipment was very new, and the network team made the necessary settings to establish connections … etc. The quality was amazing, especially that in Dammam they have a 36Gig line, and we have just 1Gig 
You can imagine the difference ! The meeting took about one hour, where we agree about different technical issues for the project, and we’ll have another VideoConference this Saturday.
The hardware we have is an TANDBERG Edge 95 MXP with the possibility to join up to 4 video sites and 3 audio sites together. Superior video quality incorporating the H.264 standard and also Protection against network interruptions in point-to-point and multipoint calls with automatic Downspeeding and IPLR. Something that we didn’t think about was to bring a laptop for the presentation, because it’s crazy when you talk with developers for the first time, and I was very happy when they mentioned “webservices”, but very confused when they didn’t understood XML and SOAP that my friend here mentioned to be sure that we are talking about the same thing.
Believe it or not and this is not a joke, Microsoft made three mistakes in Windows XP have cost the world roughly $25 Billion of Energy and resulted in the release of 225 million tons of CO2. Something was telling me that there were something wrong with WinXP’s entropy.
Microsoft has been touting Vista’s new power saving features, saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs. The question, though, is what marvelous new code makes this miracle possible. The answer? They fixed three stupid mistakes that have cost the world billions of dollars and millions of tons of CO2 in the past five years.
I always thought that Internet Mobile prices in Jordan are cheapest than KSA, until yesterday. I checked MobileCom, since Fastlink website was not working, and for example the price for 20Mo (monthly offer) is available for 13 JOD (about $18.34). While the offer that I use from Mobily is for only 25 SAR the 20MB (about $6.67), which is the best offer here. Even offers from STC are better for example the 20Mo at SAWA cost about $13.60 and for Jawal they have 25Mo for $13.33.
I forgot about exact prices of internet mobile at Tunisiana, I remember when I test it this summer it was very slow and too much expensive. If someone have an idea about prices for Tunisiana or other arab countries it will be great to know about different available offers.
It’s 8.6 Gigapixel no mistakes, and it seems to be the largest digital photo on the Net ! A composite photo of the “Parete Gaudenziana,” a fresco painted by Gaudenzio Ferrari, dated 1513. This fresco is in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, in the convent of Varallo Sesia, diocese of Novara and Province of Vercelli, Italy. The site uses Flash to let you explore the fresco over a zoom range of more than 180 to 1. The photo is made up of 1145 images, each 12.2 Mpixel and 16 bits per color channel. Read on for more technical specs of the photo.
Size of Photographed Scene: 10.80 m x 9.94 m (35.43 ft x 32.61 ft), corresponding to 107.35 m2 (1155.37 ft2). What can I say, just crazy !! The website is very slow, but it’s worth waiting. Via Slashdot.
If you are wondering what does the title mean, it’s the translation using Google Arabic-English Beta translator of “لا تخدعك المظاهر”, why I put in High-Tech category ? Because it’s an experimental translation product using an innovative technique to translate based on the cached database of websites in the Google’s Servers. The era of miracles is over since thousands of years, and an obvious formula that all programmers know : If you don’t tell to computers what to do, it can’t do anything by itself, the results in this case will be impredictable.
Nokia unveiled recently a new technology for short range wireless connection between mobiles 10 times more efficient than Bluetooth. The new technology is smaller and energy-efficient that it could be used in small devices such watches. Wibree, is the new name of this new technology, can work alongside Bluetooth short-range wireless connections but use just a fraction of the power.
“It’s up to 10 times more energy efficient than Bluetooth,” Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center, told a news conference.
Nokia said it had worked for five years to develop the technology and would put it through a standardization process along with a number of other wireless technology firms. When Wibree has become a standard, the technology would be available to anyone at the same reasonable terms. Bluetooth technology was invented by Ericsson in the 1990s and subsequently given away to the market as an open standard.
Source CNET news
