“Going viral” is a term I usually associate with the latest internet memes (LOLcats for instance) and funny videos. But as of late, I’ve seen this trend, of seemingly instant gain in popularity, here in Pakistan too. Whether it’s “Faraz” poetry in text messages, or “Zubaida Aapa ke totkay”, there’s always someone being made a punch line of jokes and text forwards these days. With [...]

The need for high speed transfer of data has spurred many technologies like eSATA and USB 3.0 but Intel’s newest offering might just one up the others. Codenamed Light Peak, Intel has launched it under the title Thunder Bolt. The reason to be excited about this particular technology is that it features two bi-directional channels with transfer speeds up to 10Gbps each. It allows external [...]

Gamers, gear up. Epic Games, the developers who brought you Gears of War and BulletStorm, just showed off what their latest upgrade to the already great Unreal Engine 3 can do. A demo scene titled, “Samaritan”, highlighted the features of the engine at the Game Developers Conference last Thursday. The upgrade consists of various graphical updates which will be provided to Unreal Games’ partners. Epic [...]

Mobile world congress 2011 in Barcelona went on from 14th to 17th February and it provided plenty of stuff to munch on for the tech savvy. The conference itself included high profile speakers, the CEO’s of Google, Intel, Microsoft and Nokia to name a few. However the real deal was the exhibition put on by nearly 1,400 companies who unveiled new phones, tablets, technologies and [...]

Obsessed. That’s one word that pretty much defines people when the 14th of February comes around. It seemed like Cupid itself had painted the country in red this year. It seemed like every shop had dangling hearts and a “Valentines” theme. Huge underground parties were planned with, let’s just say, morally questionable stuff on the agenda. Hosts on popular TV shows were wearing red. I’ll [...]

Load your shotguns and get ready to blast your enemies because today, I’m going to showcase a project related to game development by Muhammad Saad, a BSCS graduate from Iqra University. A computer game enthusiast, he decided to do something he loved and at the same time rather unique for his final project, a game level for the massively popular Quake 3. It took 10-11 [...]

Groupin.PK is the latest in internet ventures by Pakistani entrepreneurs. Its method of operation and idea is similar to Groupon.com (name is slightly different), the massively popular couponing service in the United States. The basic idea of Groupon, and by extension Groupin.pk , is that each day it offers a deal available for purchase in 24 hours. The discounts range from a minimum of 50% [...]

Whenever we need to make presentations, the software that immediately comes to mind is Microsoft PowerPoint. It’s widely known as the simplest and most effective way of creating the best possible presentations, and it’s one of that software’s in which you can simply jump in and start using it. Ironically enough, its ease of use is why people tend to end up with similar looking [...]

Last year Google decided that it wasn’t going to let other services automatically export contact information from users’ email addresses, unless the service offered the same in return. The change meant that users weren’t able to import their contacts into sites like Facebook, since it doesn’t allow export of contacts’ email addresses. "We have decided to change our approach slightly to reflect the fact that [...]

These days more and more people are shifting from newspapers and in part from TV channels to their corresponding e-versions. I used to read a couple of newspapers in the morning but now I just point my browser to BBC and other news websites when I want to know what’s happening in the world. With this fundamental shift in how we obtain information, it is [...]

A little birdie just told me you bought a new car, it also told me you’re throwing a party for it! I must be invited right? Because you just posted it on twitter and I am one of your followers… Imagine this happening to you. This and countless other stuff highlights how twitter can be a nuisance, reason: everyday our youth spends hours and hours [...]

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