iPad Addons I want to see

The iPad is out. I wont repeat all its lovely features, you can always check them out at the Apple web site. I personally like it, a lot of grumbling is going on about how closed it is. Gadget geeks compare it to a laptop which it isn't and complain about its closedness and no multitasking. These critics are missing the point, the iPad is an appliance, that does all the functions it offers in an intuitive seamless simple way. When you buy a TV, you don't expect to hack it. The same applies to a washing machine, you don't want to tweak its spin cycle. The iPad will apeal to the greater non technical masses and I feel it will be a big success especially at the very reasonable price point of around $500.

There are some add ons that I would love to see on the iPad, among them are powerful but tiny speakers, the sort Bose excels at. The speakers in Apple laptops are ok, but I need a powerful bass and high decibels of sound for my music.

It would be great if my iPad can act as my master remote, I got my TV remote, receiver remote, DVD system remote, satellite receiver remote all lying next to me. I want to get rid of these and just have my iPad be my remote with a simple interface and some TV programs pulled of the web to not only select the channel I want to view but which programs I want to see.

A high powered projector would be awesome too, I can display the movies I play on the wall with the high powered speakers blasting away in 5.1 emulated surround sound.

I want a printer on the iPad. I even figured out a way of putting one on it. You place your specially treated sheet of paper on the screen, and then the screen blasts the paper with laser or ultraviolet and it imprints on the paper. Voila, instant software printer. (If anyone takes this idea and makes it a product, I want my cut)

I want a scanner on my iPad. Again the concept is simple, just place your paper on the screen and the paper is scanned in your iPad. Now how to do it is slightly tricky, but I am sure the geniuses at Apple can figure it out.

Put in a Camera for all the Internet geeks complaining and crying for one. I personally can't see myself or other taking the iPad and pointing it at something or someone to take a picture, it would look very silly, but the masses have spoken so give them a camera.

One thing I do want is the iPad to be waterproof, so I can read it while floating in my swimming pool, or in my bathtub. I also need the iPad to be buoyant, so in case I let go of it, I don't want it to sink to the bottom of the pool and have me diving for it.

Problems With Google Reader

I am having problems with Google Reader, some of the feeds that I subscribe to dont appear and I get the message "You don't have permission to view this feed." 


I looked around and found a solution. instead of using http://reader.google.com, use https://reader.google.com


You are welcome :)

Age is Just a Number

A lovely video, just watch



People In Order: 1. Age from James Price on Vimeo.

New Kuwaiti Traffic Fines and item 7

Here are the new Kuwait traffic fines.

I am sure you have all seen them before since, just like me, I got them in an email forward. Did any of you notice item 7 ? Very strange. I took a pic of it here, just in case they fix it:

Questions that need answers

Here are some questions that need answers:

1. Why do people jump up as soon as the plane lands and is still moving towards the airport, standing up and grabbing their bags and squeezing together like sheep? It takes almost 10-15 minutes before the doors are even open after landing.
2. When there is an awkward silence, someone must check his / her cell phone although it did not beep or ring or shake or flash.
3. You rush into a room in your place, then you stand in the middle of the room not knowing why you where in such a hurry to go there.
4. When you trip and fall flat on your face, the first thing you do is quickly look around to see if anyone saw you fall on your face, instead of checking any damage to yourself.
5. Why do we drink vile disgusting tasting stuff like Grapefruit juice or Green tea religiously just because someone somewhere said it was good for us?
6. This raises another question, why do things good for us taste vile and disgusting, why isn't milk shake and an extra everything quarter pounder burger not good for us?
7. Ever sleep in the afternoon and wake up when it is dark and you don't know what day it is ?
8. Why do we walk around the house when we are talking on our mobile, although we where sitting down just before  the mobile rang ?
9. Why is it when we are greeted by someone and we don't recognize them, we pretend to know them and become Sherlock Holmes trying to pick up clues in what they are saying to remember who they are ?
10. Why do people ask about your family and how they are when they don't even know them or even care ?
11. Why does a phone ringing take first priority over a room full of people you are talking to right in front of you?

Here are the Doors, telling us "People are Strange"

Happy New 2010

Terrorism Gone Wrong

The world is abuzz about the attempted bombing of a Detroit bound flight by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national. It seems that Umar had explosive sewn in his tidy whities that he got from Yemen. (Note to self: Don't buy undies made in Yemen). He tried to light them up in the plane but did not manage to have them detonate, just a small fire and lots of smoke. Passengers also jumped on him and managed to subdue him before he could do any damage. He is suffering from burns and has now changed his name to Nadia because he is no longer a man.

It seems that he was on the US, UK, and other watchlists. His own father called the US embassy and told them his son was acting weird and could be a potential terrorist.

Now, there are new regulations put in place that will not allow you to carry any electronics on your flight. In the last hour before the plane lands, no one is allowed to go to the loo, and more patdown for passengers and dogs sniffing at you before you get to board the plane.

These steps are useless. The real problem was that the security authorities where sleeping on the job. They should have checked their database and caught him on the ground before he could do any damage by boarding a plane. Maybe if they transferred their database to Facebook, then they would have found out that Umar was friends with BinLaden.

My advice is to put new regulations for the security people instead of harassing us peaceful passengers, and if anyone of the security people fails at their job then they would get a pair of made in Yemen undies that might or might not explode on them.

Google Logo Designer with Issues

Stolen Borrowed from here

How to Cheat on Who Wants to be a Millionaire

I am not encouraging cheating but these guys found a way of cheating on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. If you dont want to watch all 8 videos, the answer of how they cheated is written at the end of this post.

Check out Part 1:



and Part 2:



Part 3:



Part 4:



Part 5:



Part 6:



Part 7:



Part 8:



The way they did it was by the contestant reading out the answers listed as if he was thinking out loud. His partners in crime would cough when the right answer was said.

Today this might not work because with Swine Flu and Sheep flu and bird flu floating around and more flues appearing, everyone in the audience would be coughing.

Hee is a synopsis from the BBC about the cheating and the eventual trial.

Nefertiti Denied

The BBC states that "German officials have ruled out returning an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti to Egypt - saying it is too fragile to be transported". The bust was stolen and smuggled out of Egypt and Germany states that it acquired it legally.

Let us turn the tables around here, let us say a few hundred Mercedes cars where stolen from the German streets and smuggled out of Germany to Egypt and sold at a nice discount in Cairo. I don't think the Germans would mind. They are keeping Nefertiti and saying it is legal, so this would be cool with them.

About this excuse of the bust being too fragile and not being able to move it, the Germans allegedly built the safest cars in the world being able to withstand collisions of 100 km per hour or more. I'm sure your engineers can put the Nefertiti statue inside one of those cars and ship it over to Egypt with an apology for not returning it sooner.