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The Ministry of Communications in Kuwait decided to cut all international calls, except GCCs, by 20%. The decree is already in effect since the beginning of the year. An official spokesman says that the reason for slashing the price is to “curb the spread of unlicensed international call agents and exercise control on the international calls ‘black market’ in addition to reducing the financial burden on citizens and residents”. More

List of overseas call rates can be found here. (Note: Arabic content).

Here’s TIME’s poll result of best gadget of the year:

Hehe at least I own one thing off the list… the DragonFly and soon iPhone I think!

Greetings to all my uber-geek readers. Here’s a video song I came across “Gotta Digg”.

Don’t forget to Digg me and my posts!

Wael Abbas, the Egyptian online blogger, has been nominated as the #1 People of the Year in the Middle East. If you have been keeping in touch with news or at least reading my blog you should know Wael Abbas uses his blog to show police brutality video and pictures in Egypt.

We are in the second day of 2008 and there are number of Arabic blogs reporting that that Aljazeera Channel in YouTube has been blocked in UAE. Here’s the source… if you can read Arabic!

So you want to kick-in Arabic language? If you are interested keep reading on.

Arabic is spoken in large part of the world, North Africa and Middle East. Moreover, Muslims everywhere have at least some basic knowledge in Arabic since the Holy Qur’an is written in Arabic. If you are interested in learning Arabic here’s some websites that teaches Arabic.

http://arabic.speak7.com/
http://www.searchtruth.com/arabic/lessons/unit1_writing.php
http://www.islamopas.com/arabic/eindex.html
http://www.funwitharabic.com/

Okay this one of the best articles I have read during the year. The author starts off talking about the Quite Structure design concept. Then he goes off explaining and comparing the between CNN and USA Today website design. For web designers this is a most-read article as it gives more and deeper ideas to consider when designing a webpage such as layout and image with text positioning, logo complexity, white spaces… etc.

I’m trying to form a team for Imagine Cup 2008 contest sponsored by Microsoft. I’m currently looking for 2 out of 4 students to join the team, if anyone interested please contact me or leave a comment with your email or phone number.

You don’t have to know .NET programming as we are going to train together one of the .NET tools. But you have to be a Kuwait University Student, undergraduate or studying master, and you need some experience in any other programming languages.

Contact Email: DELETED

For whoever is interested, I got a project for my E-Learning course and I have to advertise my online class as a homework. If you are interested in Arabic online course for Actionscript you can visit it here:
http://t3leem.6moo7.net/course/view.php?id=54