After so much struggle and fight with my brother I finally got my Mackbook Pro 17inch model.  Today we had big discussion on the car and finally my loving brother has agreed to buy a mac for our personal use. We went in the night to iStyle store in Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai and bought it. Since I am a member in Emirates Mac User group (EMUG) I got a 6% discount :-). Thanks to Magnus for helping me out in sending me temporary ID card, without which I would have lost my discount. In the the discount money I went greedy and upgraded my RAM memory to full 4 GB.

It is really super fast and very large screen. I am really exicted about my new toy added to my gadget collection. Thanks to Dinesh for converting me into a mac user. He has successfully made me into a mac adict. Good nite

Today I got the chance install my won copy of Office 2008 for mac. The installation was pretty simple and removed my old crapy 2004 from the system. My biggest expectation for Office 2008 was Entourage.

At work we use exchange and iMail does a good job but not up to the mark. The office for windows had so many feature which was missing in Mac. So it made lot of people to think a lot to move to mac and who ever moved to suffered a lot one such is myself.

This version is an solves all the problems for people who use mac @ work. I will be really glad If I can voice chat using yahoo, msn. Still it is not there and it is pretty sad

Did I forget to mention, it is really fast

Tonight I installed BSD system on my iPhone. Once that is complete I installed openSSH, Term-vt100. I opened terminal and changed my root password using the command passwd.

I found the ip of the iPhone using the command ifconfig. Latter I was able to connect to the iPhone using ssh from my laptop ;-). I was even able to ftp files to my iphone over SSH.

I Installed apache, php edited httpd.conf and I was able to run php scripts from my iPhone. It has all the basic modules that is needed to write a simple powerful application with sqlite. Taken a screenshot too

Wow this gadget is really amazing

Yesterday I got a new iPhone. I am really grateful to Yousef for bringing me such a wonderful gadget. With tips from my friend Iyad I was able to make it work in U.A.E. Everything was smooth and works like a charm.This is the best mobile I have ever used in my life. The iPhone I got had firmware 1.1.1 and I used this website to make it work.

I am really happy now

The Hayah Film Competition. presented by Abu Dhabi Women’s College and EmiratesMac Apple User Group has just started accepting Submissions of films for the competition. Films can be submitted in three categories: Student, Professional, and Amateur. Films compete for a cash prize in each category and the chance to attend the final award ceremony of the Middle East International Film Festival at the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on October 19. The competing films have to be in an iPod compatible format, and they should be no longer than five minutes long. Films can be uploaded through the web site. We’d like to thank Imthiaz Rafiq, a member of the EmiratesMac Apple User Group for writing the film submission and uploading functionality. This would not have been possible without his assistance. — Magnus Nystedt, President EmiratesMac Apple User Group

Source - EmiratesMac website

Hi Magnus thanks for mentioning me in your post. I know how much you were behind me to get this done

My best wishes for the site and I hope it is a big success