Windows 7

Some of you may have heard about the upcoming windows software that will replace the current Windows Vista, which many of you tech-savvies hate. Windows XP is currently the most popular Windows software which remains simple to use and does not choose appearance over efficiency, as opposed to Windows Vista. Why do I know? I've both windows XP and Vista, and Vista is always much more slower and difficult to use, even though its on a laptop that has 2 GHz Clock speed 2 GB RAM memory, and the laptop doesn't have that much programs installed in it either! Not to mention that its compatibility mode (it can trick programs into thinking they're being used by XP, 2000, NT or '98, when they're actually being used by Vista) is crap.

Hmm, I barely understood any of that, you see - As long as it works and I can open Microsoft office and Youtube Videos on it, it's all good! Well that's what I tend to listen from people who couldn't care less if their windows was XP or Vista. But eventually, even those people tend to get annoyed by how complicated Vista can get for the most simplest tasks.

For example, my mom tried to open the calculator that's usually in the accessories category in Windows XP start menu. It took her 30 minutes to find out how she can access it in her newly replaced PC with Windows Vista!

Anyways, less ranting, and to the more interesting news: The latest batch of Windows 7 screenshots have surfaced, and from the looks of it, it pretty much has the Vista cover with much more tweaks than its prior one that should supposedly end (or atleast reduce) the Vista rant.

A few more pictures of Windows 7:

Lets hope Windows 7 isn't as slow as the current Vista, requiring a simple 1.2 GHz and 512 MB RAM laptop to take 13 minutes to load!

LED + Wireless = The future!

Yes yes yes, this is what the future is!
Not ridiculously huge HD plasma TVs that reach to the size of over 100 inches.

What's being shown in the picture above is an LED Sony 11" TV, with integrated wireless settings - hence there's no need for all the wires (Not sure if it runs on battery or wireless signals that supply it with energy - That'd be cool too!).

Yuseff, what an amateur mistake! It's LCD not LED!! Nop, Its LED which stands for Light Emitting Diodes. Turns out Physics was a little useful after all! Anyways, the technology in TVs is now more focused onto LED rather than Plasmas and LCDs, 'cause LED TVs suck up less electricity AND are thinner - just look at the left side of the picture, its paper thin! The reason why LED TVs haven't dominated the TV market as of yet is because it's still not complete. I hear its biggest size as a TV is approximately 15-inches. Now that's smaller than a typical laptop monitor! (which is around 15.4-inches). So until that's resolved, LED TVs wont create that much of an impact.
The other feat is the wireless. Paper thin TVs with a wireless system (hence reducing the horrible mess behind TVs) is one of those things that make life simpler than it is now.

I'm not sure if this is just another Sony TV experiment or a product that'll be released in the near future, but if Sony keeps on focusing on those two feats for TVs, they'll take today's TVs to the next level!

2 down, around 2 more to go!

Been ridiculously busy doing errands and arranging the basement to suit the gatherings that occur very often in Ramadan. Its usually an honor to get to invite family or friends for Iftar over at your place, but no matter how I see it, it's plain exhausting! I've invited my friends for Iftar once, so I'm done with that, and today was my cousins marriage, which would sound funny, but it basically happened in the basement!

Of course by basement I don't mean those poorly lit stores filled with dusts and spider webs, or a typical room of a teenager that's just a pure mess - I mean a whole huge fancy marbled floor, but we just tend to call it the basement since its paritally underground (It always sounds cool that way haha).

Uhm, anyways... The marriage happened, it was loud, it was filled with food, people and noise! The good thing is that I got to use my camera a little and got a few good photos - or so I think. So its not all bad.
Well 2 more to go, 1 of them being another friend gathering Iftar, and the other being my fathers freinds' gathering for Iftar.
I think my knees are either aching or its just me exhausted, either way I need my sleep which i'll be getting in hopefully less than thirteen minutes.

Hmm more updates

Decided to update things a little more often than once a month or two. Its funny how I get pissed off when I see a blog that hasn't been updated in a week, yet couldn't care less if my own blog hasn't been updated for over a month. I'm such a hypocrite!

So what's new:

• For the first time ever, I've invited my friends over for Iftar (Breaking the fast + dinner for Ramadan).
• The Naruto Manga chapter 415 is out!
• Played Call of Duty 4 for the first time ever, real fun. Can't wait till I play it online.
• I realised how important Nintendo Wii is when you have a gathering of friends which don't have much to talk about. (3-4 friends would be just right, anymore and it might feel a little akward).
• I'm running out of space on my External Hardrive. Really need a new one pretty soon.
• Checked out a new anime I have in my unwatched anime folder. Its called Capeta. And its GOLD! Its when I see animes like these that I remember why I love anime so much.
• Google Chrome sounds like the new fuss lately, makes me want to check it out later on.
• Finished reading Who moved my Blackberry & Memoirs of a Geisha (the movie wasn't as good as the book). Douglas Couplands' Microserfs looks like its next.
  

Hobbies & you

Anyways, 'nuff latest news & lets talk about something useful!
The other day my dad was telling me: "Its your hobbies that define your personality when you grow up".
And after putting some thought to it, I realised: Well he is right to some extent. A personality with no hobbies is a dull passive personality if you ask me, as opposed to a personality thats fired up when it comes to hobbies and never gives up on them. Of course I'd like to be the latter personality within reasonable bounds. I wouldn't want to be so absurdly caught up in my hobbies that I wouldn't care anymore about my surroundings, nor do I want to be a person with no hobbies. Hence, as I've been taught and as I always say: "خير الأمور الوسط" a.k.a "The best is the middle of it".
So after that, I started to brainstorm: What are my hobbies? And the answers flowed as smooth as water! Drawing, Photography, Computer stuff, gaming and anime. Some of my friends argued that anime and gaming don't count as hobbies, but I still can't see as to why they don't count as hobbies.
Unfortunately, I'm not taking good enough care of my hobbies, and hence not constistently practicing them, but after putting some thought into it I decided I should start to take those hobbies much more seriously than I have in the past, 'cause its those simple things that define who I am, if you will.

But Yuseff, hobbies won't be useful when you start working to earn money.
Good point, but who said work is everything. You don't have to be working for Marvel comics if your hobbies involve drawing, nor do you have to take fancy Advertisement photos (see The Wave ads) just so you can practice your hobby of photography. What I'm trying to say is that just 'cause you enjoy something, it doesn't mean you're going to be stuck in that field for your entire life, even if you get fed up of it.
On a personal note; my parents didn't want me studying accounting nor law (which is what I applied for before going to university), since they found me so intereted in computer-related matters and web-designing. They tried to suggest to me to take IT or something within that field to the rate that it felt more like forcing rather than suggesting. But I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in front of a computer screen, I want to learn other things and become less ignorant and more knowledgeable. However, I still love computers and will remain on loving that stuff. And just 'cause I'm taking law, it doesn't mean I should forget my hobbies and try finding me a hobby thats closer to my field of study.

Anyways, enough stuffing you with my point of view and more sleep, since its thirteen minutes past 6 am!

Ramadan IceKareem!

Ladies & Gentleman, its Ramadan!

(I took this picture from the internet, not done by me)

Its Ramadan once again, and what does make this month so special? The insane offers that start appearing in the forms of sms on your phone all day long, the insane-er driving, the filled parking lots in the mosques and all the new TV shows.
Fortunately for me, I'll be staying all of Ramadan (and the Eid too!) in Oman, since university starts a little late for me, hence making my summer holiday the longest ever! (4 months and 1 day!!), but the busiest as well.
I've done so much this summer, I'm actually surprised of my usually lazy self. Examples include, doing half of my moms desertation for her Masters, doing the Lasik Operation for my eyes, doing the endoscope operation for my stomach acidity, reading so many books, running so many errands, making my new room (which was a store) live-able and lots of other things.
I also noticed that this was the most expensive summer so far, and by that I mean I've spent much money in it than in any summer! Things on top of my head include the 2 fancy camera lens, nintendo Wii, a huge-ass tv, nawras 3g and a new computer!

Yes, lots has happened over the summer, yet not much has been achieved (unfortunately), I really wanted to draw a lot more than I have (did only 1 decent drawing), wanted to take much more photos (took approximately 1000 pictures at best), wanted to un-rust my photoshop skills, since I haven't designed anything in ages! (did nothing at all this summer!) and read much more books than I already have (read only 4 out 11 books).

Anyways enough complaints, no-one enjoys reading them. Anyways, I'm out of time since I've gotta be at grandmas' in thirteen minutes!