The fourth season of Future TV’s Arab Super Star show will be kicking off in a few days. The first episode will be on Sunday, January 14th.
The contestants have been chosen from 8 different countries after a number of auditions in several countries including the US and Canada.
The judges this season will be the same as in the last season: Elias El Rahbani, Ziad Boutros, Fadia Tanab and Abdallah El Qa
Apple has used the CES to finally confirm the existence of the iPhone and to release details and specifications.
The full specs are as follows:
Screen size: 3.5 inches
Screen resolution: 320 by 480 at 160 ppi
Input method: Multi-touch
Operating system: OS X
Storage: 4GB or 8GB
GSM: Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900)
Wireless data: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) + EDGE + Bluetooth 2.0
Camera: 2.0 megapixels
Battery: Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing, Up to 16 hours Audio playback
Dimensions: 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches
Weight: 4.8 ounces / 135 grams
The iPhone is actually a combination of three products
A round-up of some of the interesting news coming out of Tunisia these days…
A new Tunisian literary prize dubbed the
Last night, I finally watched M. Night Shyamalan’s last movie “Lady In The Water“, featuring Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard and M. Night Shyamalan himself.
The reviews I read after the movie’s release were pretty mixed, and even a friend who saw it last week told me that it was so-so, but personally, I really really liked it.
The movie is about a depressed apartment superintendent who discovers a narf, a sea-nymph out of a bedtime story, who may hold the key to humanity’s hopeful future.
What I really liked about the movie is that it talks to the inner child in every one of us, taking us back to that world of fairy tales that we’ve been disconnected from for so long.
People don’t write fairy tales like they used to anymore, stories that used to inspire us as children, and that filled us with thoughts and lessons we carry with us to this very day; M. Night Shyamalan was successful in creating a new fairy tale of his own, and putting it onto film for the whole world to enjoy.
The movie also confirms how great an actor Paul Giamatti is; he did a great job here again.
I really recommend this movie to everyone who is into this genre of movies and who still has a connection with the inner child within them.
My score for this movie would be: 8/10.
Another great post on Ririan Project listing the ten commandments for living a bold life. The list goes as follows:
I. You shall not quit, because it ain
For a very long time, I hated mobile phones and didn’t see much use for them, and honestly speaking, I still don’t like them that much to this very day.
I only got my first mobile phone after my first to-be-employer emailed me saying they were trying to call me on my home line to set up a job interview but weren’t able to get a hold of me.
After that, the idea of a mobile phone for me was mainly a device that I could use to contact whoever I wanted, anytime, anywhere I was, but as I’m not much of a babbler, I do that very rarely and only when it’s really important.
But the big downside was that other people could also call me whenever they wanted, wherever I was, at anytime they wanted, even when it’s not important. That I don’t like at all.
So basically, the perfect mobile phone for me would be one that I could use to call people, but that wouldn’t accept calls. A one way thingie.
But the problem is that in all of those calls that I don’t want, there are some that are either urgent or from people that I’d actually like to hear from.
In a perfect mobile phone there should be a feature to take decisions on whether to accept the call or not depending on who the person is, what the subject of the call will be about, and a number of other factors.
As that requires a lot of artifical intelligence from the phone, maybe it could be done simpler and there could be some way for me to configure the times when I’m not willing to accept calls (evenings, weekends), who I’m willing to accept calls from at the different times of the day (close family almost always, friends only after work, work colleagues only in work times, some people never, …etc).
As for all the other features that manufacturers throw on phones today, they’re really secondary, what I think they should work on is offering more flexibility in using a mobile phone and configuring it as the communication tool that it is and will always be.
