Archive for June, 2006

Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout!!

by Khaled on June 29th, 2006

This is the slogan of the new Google service launched today, Google Checkout (aka Gbuy).
This is only available for the United States customers only. It is claiming to offer faster, safer and more convinient shopping on the net.

This new service by Google seems to be really nice and easy to use. Looking forward to see it being an international service!!

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New Software in Ruby on Rails

by Khaled on June 26th, 2006

Many people are still asking about Ruby and Ruby on Rails etc… well here’s a nice story:
www.mog.com is a beta app that you can use to share your musical tastes with others in the social networking style! but what is important here is that
MOG.com software was totally written in Ruby on Rails! it serves up to 1.5M resuests a day! This software was devoloped by Lucas Carlson, Dave Fayram, and Joshua Sierles.

Nice!!

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Photoshop CS2 on MacBook Pro!

by Khaled on June 3rd, 2006

After all I’ve heard on this matter I wanted to see how Photoshop and illustrator worked on MacBook Pro (especially I was planning to buy one) so I borrowed my friend’s machine and installed them! even the installation step was a pain! as the installer froze twice!!
After installation I wanted to test them
they were really slow especially photoshop! and I am a patient kind of person!! Things that should take someting like 3 minutes take up to 5-6 minutes! so if you are gonna work for hours just imagine…
So Don’t get a MacBook Pro if you are a ‘Photoshoper’ until CS3 is here!
Photoshop runs in emulation using the Rosetta emulator technology and Adobe mentioned that intel native version of their CS will wait till the next version: CS3.
Photoshop CS3 will be probably released in the second quarter of 2007.

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New Design Team Mentor on Sitepoint.com: Me

by Khaled on June 3rd, 2006

Well well well… This was a great pleasure to accept this honor of being a Design mentor on the huge and outstanding community of Sitepoint.com…Those forums are just the best I’ve ever seen for webmasters and designers… I learned so many things there and I hope to be able to help some members there…My username there is Dark Tranquility.
Well I am really proud of my new badge: