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2015...
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Posted: July 19th, 2014, 1:36am UTC by Humeid
Gaza July 2014...
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The mighty IKEA is here. Certainly one of my favorite brands. Part of my and my wife's childhoods in Germany. The number 1 shopping destination whenever I went to ...
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“The Jordanian Spring in the continuation of Jordan’s founding story (or why doesn’t Jordan’s status as a “modern country”, translate into proper urban and town living for its citizens, ...
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Posted: July 11th, 2013, 9:17am UTC by Humeid
Yesterday I had my first chance to use iOS7. I played with it for an hour on an iPad (actually my mother's iPad which my younger brother has used ...
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Posted: April 3rd, 2013, 5:02am UTC by Humeid
Marko loves his Nokia's devices. And he talks like a craftsman. But can this object mark Nokia's comeback?
Around a month ago I was given the Nokia ...
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Posted: March 3rd, 2013, 12:40am UTC by Humeid
Occasional visits to my dentist in Shmeisani sometimes end with a walk retracing the footsteps of my teenage days in Amman, spent ...
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If Google would disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow:
I will use Bing for search.
I will use my Yahoo Mail or Outlook.com ...
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If Google would disappear off the face of the earth tomorrow: I will use Bing for search. I will use my Yahoo Mail or Outlook.com for email. My company email ...
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It was just four years ago that HM King Abdullah II commented on The Black Iris, the well known Jordanian blog. You can see His Majesty’s comment here.
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It was just four years ago that HM King Abdullah II commented on The Black Iris, the well known Jordanian blog. You can see His Majesty’s comment here. In that ...
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My previous post from my trip to the IFA consumer electronics show was all about OLED and 4K and what LG, who invited me to the show, were ...
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My previous post from my trip to the IFA consumer electronics show was all about OLED and 4K and what LG, who invited me to the show, were promising consumers ...
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Trips to the local electronic superstores in Amman will be a frustrating experience for me in the coming few years. Why? Because I seen the future of TV screens ...
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Trips to the local electronic superstores in Amman will be a frustrating experience for me in the coming few years. Why? Because I seen the future of TV screens at ...
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Forget about 84″ screens with 4K resolution.. Forget about OLED and true blacks. Forget about 3D with active glasses, passive glasses and no glasses. Forget about tablets, smartphones and ...
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Forget about 84″ screens with 4K resolution.. Forget about OLED and true blacks. Forget about 3D with active glasses, passive glasses and no glasses. Forget about tablets, smartphones and super ...
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For the past decade and a half, a large part of my belief in Jordan as a homeland has been based on the fact that we had a free ...
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For the past decade and a half, a large part of my belief in Jordan as a homeland has been based on the fact that we had a free uncensored ...
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Posted: July 31st, 2012, 11:54pm UTC by Humeid
Whenever journalists, investors or ordinary people ask me: why has Jordan been able to shine in the region in the field of technology, web business and web content, one ...
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Posted: July 31st, 2012, 11:54pm UTC by Humeid
Whenever journalists, investors or ordinary people ask me: why has Jordan been able to shine in the region in the field of technology, web business and web content, one of ...
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Posted: July 18th, 2012, 7:32pm UTC by Humeid
A story about love and life in Amman unfolds on an outdoor screen on an unusually hot summer evening. Behind that very screen, the lights from thousands of windows ...
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Posted: July 18th, 2012, 7:32pm UTC by Humeid
A story about love and life in Amman unfolds on an outdoor screen on an unusually hot summer evening. Behind that very screen, the lights from thousands of windows glimmer. ...
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Looks like Prime Books at Baraka Mall is doing a clearance sale. I was lured into the store by a “50% off” sign. I walked out with so many ...
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Looks like Prime Books at Baraka Mall is doing a clearance sale. I was lured into the store by a “50% off” sign. I walked out with so many books, ...
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That lock screen looks promising, doesn’t it. That’s how Google’s newest version of Android looks. It is a major release of Android, and one of its major features was ...
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That lock screen looks promising, doesn’t it. That’s how Google’s newest version of Android looks. It is a major release of Android, and one of its major features was to ...
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Happy to report that I have just successfully upgraded my European GSM Nexus S (i9023) to Android 4.03 Ice Cream Sandwich, manually. I didn’t want to wait for the ...
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Happy to report that I have just successfully upgraded my European GSM Nexus S (i9023) to Android 4.03 Ice Cream Sandwich, manually. I didn’t want to wait for the Other ...
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What happens when you interview a diverse bunch of Arab activists and new media geeks one Skype, edit all of it dow to a few minutes, get an amazingly ...
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What happens when you interview a diverse bunch of Arab activists and new media geeks one Skype, edit all of it dow to a few minutes, get an amazingly talented ...
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The Nokia N9 has a strange story. It’s an exciting story. It’s a sad story. It’s an amazing story that is still unfolding.
But if you ...
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The Nokia N9 has a strange story. It’s an exciting story. It’s a sad story. It’s an amazing story that is still unfolding. But if you walk today into any ...
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The opening of a major mall in Jordan in this post-financial-crisis era is certainly an event to watch. We live in very different times compared to, ...
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The opening of a major mall in Jordan in this post-financial-crisis era is certainly an event to watch. We live in very different times compared to, say, 2005, when ...
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Another test...
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Just downloaded Ecto 3, the latest version of my favorite blogging application. Let’s see if it works.
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Just downloaded Ecto 3, the latest version of my favorite blogging application. Let’s see if it works....
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Shopping in Amman often can be an unhappy experience.
In many shopping situations, one has to deal with one of the following traits (or a combination of ...
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Shopping in Amman often can be an unhappy experience. In many shopping situations, one has to deal with one of the following traits (or a combination of them): unfriendliness, ignorance, ...
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A few months ago I was appointed as a jury member of an amazing global design competition. The aim: to create a universally accepted logo for human rights.
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A few months ago I was appointed as a jury member of an amazing global design competition. The aim: to create a universally accepted logo for human rights. Peace has ...
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I am writing this blog post just to find some meaning in the agony of three frustrating nights trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my kids’ Mac ...
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I am writing this blog post just to find some meaning in the agony of three frustrating nights trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my kids’ Mac Mini. ...
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Posted: June 30th, 2011, 8:55pm UTC by Humeid
I will freely admit that I am an opponent of nuclear energy. For me this is a moral stance. But I know full well that the issue of nuclear ...
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Posted: June 30th, 2011, 8:55pm UTC by Humeid
I will freely admit that I am an opponent of nuclear energy. For me this is a moral stance. But I know full well that the issue of nuclear energy ...
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Posted: April 24th, 2011, 7:02am UTC by Humeid
Why does a promising urban rehabilitation project like the one GAM is doing come with so much agony, dirt, carelessness. This fiasco has been going on for too long. Every ...
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Posted: April 24th, 2011, 7:02am UTC by Humeid
Why does a promising urban rehabilitation project like the one GAM is doing come with so much agony, dirt, carelessness. This fiasco has been going on for too long. Every ...
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Posted: April 18th, 2011, 4:25pm UTC by Humeid
The Jordanian state, media and large part of public opinion are loudly condemning the violence that happened in Zarqa last Friday. Of course, many people are extra nervous because the ...
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Posted: April 14th, 2011, 7:12pm UTC by Humeid
I get contacted by PR agencies quite often to plug product launches and stuff like that for 360east, and I usually decline, unless its something that really interests me. So ...
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Posted: April 10th, 2011, 2:46am UTC by Humeid
1. Jordanians have been forced to be interested in politics and public affairs. It’s Politics 101 for many young Jordanians. (Question from a young colleague at the office: “Ahmad.. What ...
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Posted: March 26th, 2011, 7:42am UTC by Humeid
Two photos from the last 2 days in Jordan. You choose what Jordan you want to live in.. The youth of the March 24 movement. (via 7iber) The so-called “loyalists” ...
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I’ve been glued to Twitter for the past 16 days. Too many thought racing through my head to think clearly. A total emotional roller-coaster. My generation’s first revolution! All that ...
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Google’s Android seems unstoppable. The Consumer Electronics Show, held in Las Vegas over the past few days, has seen the launch and announcement of an huge number of gadgets running ...
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I am no politician and neither do I have an ambition to become one. But I am becoming, despite my optimistic nature, a politically worried Jordanian citizen. Almost everyday there ...
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This is a real ad and a real page from Facebook, blatantly advertising “graduation project” ideas in the fields of electronics and communications engineering. It’s apparently a business in Irbid, ...
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I’ve been noticing that as I grow older, I’ve been generally thinking more about the people, places and events that made me who I am today. Maybe its the nostalgia ...
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OK. So Google is coming town (Amman, that is). And no, this is NOT about them opening an office in Jordan. What’s happening is G-Jordan. A three-day Google event for ...
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From a message I sent Yanone, the designer of the FF Amman typeface after watching a preview of this film he created. “Ok.. I just watched the entire film. On ...
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A postive post for a change Shadi Eideh, IT guru turned photographer, was on a journey to capture the spirit of the new wave of entrepreneurship with his camera the ...
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Cartoon by Omar Abdallat / 3alarasi.com (Candidate before and after Photoshop) Take a quick drive through Amman’s 3rd electoral district, spanning from the extremely affluent Abdoun to the poor neighborhoods ...
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Back to one of my favorite things to rant about. Arabic children books.
I’ve been helping out a little with teaching my 2nd grade kid with Arabic ...
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The iPhone and iPad are fundamentally changing the software business.
One of the most remarkable things is how easily these iDevices are making us slip from one ...
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I was checking the statistics of 360east.com this morning and saw this interesting graph that I thought is worth sharing.
Those who follow this blog ...
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I am the product of the Jordanian educational system in the late 1970s, 80’s and early 1990s. Not everything I learned came from the schools I attended, of course. ...
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One Day on Earth Participant Trailer from One Day On Earth on Vimeo.
On 10/10/10, the entire world is being documented as part of ...
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For the past seven months, our company duo, SYNTAX and Spring has been working on their most revolutionary web project to date. What was just a sketchy ...
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Be warned. It’s time for another long Nokia post on 360east!
Last week ago I was in Beirut to attend the first Nokia Levant Developers Forum.
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Posted: July 31st, 2010, 5:44pm UTC by Humeid
King Faisal Square in 1958. From Getty Images: [www.gettyimages.com]
Does the Amman Municipality and do Ammanis want that Amman’s downtown is turned into a a cheap-looking touristic ...
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Posted: July 23rd, 2010, 6:56am UTC by Humeid
SYNTAX and Al-Balad Theater present:
“The New (Type)face of Amman”
German type-design rising star Yanone will be telling the story of his Amman typeface, created ...
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Posted: July 18th, 2010, 5:35pm UTC by Humeid
The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Jabal Luweibdeh will host the exhibition “Open City: Refuge Urbanism” which is part of the 4th International Architecture Biennale ...
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Posted: July 13th, 2010, 10:37pm UTC by Humeid
Nothing like being able to start showing people what I’ve been immersed in the past few months! It’s been a crazy journey for the team at SYNTAX and ...
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Posted: July 4th, 2010, 6:44am UTC by Humeid
In 1992, my mother planted a little Agave Americana in my parent’s farm in the Jordanian village Aluk, 25 km north of Amman. Over the years, this agave ...
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Posted: July 3rd, 2010, 6:36am UTC by Humeid
It sounds like an offer no true music lover in Arabia can refuse: Buy a very capable touch screen smartphone from Nokia and get access to an all-you-can-eat music ...
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Posted: July 1st, 2010, 8:18pm UTC by Humeid
Can someone please explain this to me: brands and slogans that totally loose their edge when introduced into Arab markets.
Here are three examples:
I ...
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Posted: May 16th, 2010, 3:22pm UTC by Humeid
Coffee, tea, orange juice, Apple juice and water. That was the only liquid fuel needed at yesterday’s Meydan launch at Amman’s Zara Expo yesterday. The energy of the event ...
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Posted: May 1st, 2010, 5:48pm UTC by Humeid
TootCorp, makers of Toot, Ikbis and Watwet, have launched their fourth product and the company’s first aimed at the global market. It’s called ZOOFS.
Here is what ...
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Posted: April 11th, 2010, 6:24am UTC by Humeid
The incidents in Al-Salt are just the tip of the iceberg.
Wherever we look in Jordan there are signs: rising family and tribal violence, apathy, lack of ...
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Posted: April 9th, 2010, 8:42am UTC by Humeid
Over the past few years, Ikbis.com has grown in size and in depth. Ikbis Channels, in particular, have been multiplying in number and are being used by a wide ...
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Posted: April 1st, 2010, 8:47pm UTC by Humeid
I just want to follow up on my post from a few days ago, when I wrote about how Amman municipality workers tore out the grass near my ...
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Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:29am UTC by Humeid
Visiting Beirut is always a bitter sweet experience. My last trip to Beirut to attend ArabNet, the region’s first web business conference was my third trip to the city ...
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Posted: March 28th, 2010, 7:54pm UTC by Humeid
We have been blessed with good rain in Amman this year. Spring is all around us. Amman’s empty plots of land (and there’s many of those) are full of green ...
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Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:36am UTC by Humeid
Photos stolen from Andfaraway With a ballroom full of participants during all sessions, buzzing networking activity during coffee breaks, inspiring talks from both older web hands and young ones, startup ...
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Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 4:31pm UTC by Humeid
Here is one of my favorite anecdotes about the Arab web industry: the web advertising spending of the whole Arab region, including the rich Gulf region and Saudi Arabia is ...
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Posted: March 17th, 2010, 10:01pm UTC by Humeid
We’re SYNTAX. And we create junk. Celebrating 12 years of junk production. And 10 years of accumulating it in one office. We’re spring cleaning. Read more in the SYNTAX:CONTEXT blog....
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Posted: March 14th, 2010, 7:09pm UTC by Humeid
Here’s something that keeps Jordan interesting: there is always someone or some group initiating something. Regional politics might be depressing. Local politics too. The economy is not doing great. There ...
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Posted: March 8th, 2010, 6:19pm UTC by Humeid
When the self proclaimed “Sheikh of Amman” comes walking through the door at the SYNTAX offices, its not an ordinary day, especially when he comes unannounced.
It’s ...
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Posted: March 7th, 2010, 11:50pm UTC by Humeid
Photo: Dina Haddadin House 28 on the corner of Rainbow Street is in a state of flux. The old landlady and her old, bed-ridden husband have passed away. It seems ...
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Posted: March 6th, 2010, 5:12am UTC by Humeid
The iPad is so 2010. Say “hello?” to the ePad.....
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I really love my fellow Ammani bloggers and tweeps. I really think that they are one of the best things that happened to us in the last ten years. I ...
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I really wish I had a time machine in my basement. Here is what I would do: pay a visit to Cairo in the 1950s or 1960s. Here is one ...
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Zaha Hadid was officially announced as the final winner of the long standing competition to design the King Abdullah II House for Art and culture in Amman. Mayor Omar Maani ...
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Check this out: the sweat and tears (almost) that the SYNTAX (and Spring) team poured into the Amman Centennial website paid off in a new way. It was a nice ...
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This video, the product of the “sick minds” at Kharabeesh was first shown at the Jordan Web Awards a couple of days ago. It was one of the highlights of ...
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Yes, 360east is off to Barcelona tonight to attend the Mobile World Congress, the world’s biggest get together for the mobile industry and a symbol of the world’s obsession of ...
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The official release of the iPad is still some time away. Apple still has not disclosed all the details. And by the time the iPad hits the stores, developers would ...
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[Click to enlarge] I haven’t looked at my site analytics for a while, so this evening I checked out some of my browser stats. It turns out that Firefox users ...
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Every object, every product, says something about the people behind it. In the old, pre-industrial days you would meet your carpenter, your blacksmith and your potter. People behind life’s object ...
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Just opened Ikbis.com during lunch time and finally saw the Combo4 overlay “live”.. Just thought to share this moment!...
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Now this is just AMAZING. Nokia has decided to stop charging for GPS navigation on its phones. Voice navigation for driving and walking is now FREE. If you have an ...
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