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Review: Mada ISDN – @Mada_Kuwait

  

A generous gift that I have received from Mada (ISP) two days ago, a bag including “Mada SOHO” router and landline phone set. I took few shots while I was installing the package to try the ISDN service, which will provide you with a landline phone based on Mada’s router. The setup was so easy, just plug the router to a power socket, connect your phone to the router.. and thats it! However, you should be familiar with setting up the router access credentials to be able to change the default Hotspot name and WEP key to your own.. if you weren’t, just follow the included guide! :)

Above, is the Mada SOHO router, that you might already be familiar with

As you can see above, Connected to Mada WiMax netwrok, the WiFi is on, and the “Phone” light is on (in blue), this means that the ISDN line service is active.

Connected the router to the phone.. I mean “The PINK phone” :p 
The funny thing is that I got a “PINK” phone, while PINK GIRL and JACQUI got YELLOW phones..
Looking at the bright side, its a phone that works :P

A trial call, calling from my cell to the new ISDN line

This is a service that will come in handy to manage your small business, coming with a reasonable yearly subscription. Here is a LINK to Mada’s website including service usage instructions, and pricing.

Follow Mada on Twitter: @Mada_Kuwait

Oh, one more thing.. Thanks to Mada, you can now call BLOG37 hotline

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Kuwaiti style Internet spamming

Here’s a fact, we in Kuwait pioneer Internet spamming in every way possible.. I keep receiving weird stuff on my email everyday from forums or marketing companies that I have never heard of! Take this one for example “thekw.info“, their website has only one page that display and image of Kuwait towers, and lyrics of the national anthem!! But trust me, you don’t want to receive their emails. Below is an example email that I have received today:

 

 

How do they reach us?

Here is how: take a walk in “Bin Khaldoun street” in Hawali, you’ll see some ads about sending your promotional messages to over “100,000″ local emails. Go around and ask about the pricing, which will not exceed KD 50 max.

How do they get our emails?

Discussion forum owners do actually sell their user database information (Emails in specific) to different shops in Hawali, for 100 KD/list.

How can we stop it?

Enable spam filters and blacklist any spamming email (make sure to blacklist thekw@thekw.info)

BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is out

 

Just few hours ago, RIM has officially announced the release of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. As news confirmed before, the new OS provides an integrated email client with a unified inbox, integrates your social accounts with calendars and contacts, updated BlackBerry Bridge, and now it supports a range of “Android apps”!

More details are on BlackBerry blog.

Zain instagram competition

 

Zain have just announced their first instagram competition, to participate do the following:

  1. Find and follow Zain on instagram (@ZainKuwait)
  2. Snap a photo with anything related to Zain (logo, product, poster…etc)
  3. send it to instagram.kw@kw.zain.com with you account name on instagram
  4. Zain will upload the pics to their account, and the voting will start by from today until Saturday 11:59pm
  5. 5 most liked pictures will win a BBQ set (Camping bag) from Zain

I have already participated :P my instagram name is: @nasseralmutawaa

and If I win, I’ll run a competition on the bag for my readers…

Good luck everyone! :)

Recent changes on facebook

I have tried the recently announced changes on facebook user homepage. At first sight, you will definitely get confused unless you follow a graphical guide you’ll find at the top of the home page. But, after reviewing and actually using these updates, I found them very useful, smooth, and easy to use.

THREE MAJOR CHANGES:

1- Updates time line:

A dynamic timeline that loads the “twitter way” showing recent updates at the top. This timeline will show at the top right side for your facebook homepage. Below is a screen shot of hovering an update, and getting its details displayed:

2- Custom lists:

Have ever wanted to list your friends into limited access, close friends, workmates, family members..etc to view updates from that specific list? As well as targeting them with specific status updates or walls posts? facebook custom lists now give you this feature. Below are two screen shots I have taken while creating a list for friends interested in receiving Blog37 updates.

 

 

3- Top Stories marking

Yes, you can mark stories in the timeline to be Top Stories showing always at the top of the page. Some stories will be initially marked as Top stories, I’m not sure on what basis, but I think it’s based on the level of people interaction with that specific post/article/story. Below is a screen shot of how to set a recent story into a top story, on your own feed!

 

Official video released by facebook below…

YouTube link

DOWA: 1st online pharmacy in Kuwait

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I received a tweet from a friend informing me about this new online pharmacy, DOWA, the first online pharmacy in Kuwait. To be honest, two questions popped into my mind, and I was really happy to find the answers in DOWA’s FAQs section:

This is enough for anyone to consider Dowa.co really trustworthy. Good luck guys :)

 

Website link: http://www.dowa.co
Twitter: @DowaCo

 

Thanks Mohammed Ashkanani

Twitter introduces Web Analytics

Twitter has announced two days ago the new Web Analytics, a tool that helps website owners to understand how much traffic is driven from twitter to their sites as well as how much of their website content is being shared over twitter. Analysis also include the effectiveness of their lately launched “Follow button“. The new tool is to be launched within the few upcoming weeks.

Source: Twitter Dev Blog

New Internet rates

I read on @FrankomBlog that the new internet rates have been set by all the local ISP’s after the agreement with MOC. below is the list:

QualityNet

KEMS

GulfNet

Fasttelco

Source: Frankom

الفنان طارق العلي… و تويتر

الفنان طارق العلي ينفي أي وجود له على موقع تويتر… بطريقة مميزة!

ADA2Z.com : free advertising website

ADa2z.com is a new Kuwaiti website that allows you to free advertise and have full control over your ads! a good idea. Website features:

  • Multilingual: supports Arabic and English.
  • Flexibility: you can edit your Ads at any time.
  • Map your store; provide map guidance to your store for customers.
  • Add your contact information.
  • Add pictures and videos to your Ad.
  • And a lot more!