2008 September

A phone is just a phone

But the new Google G1 phone is fruit and cake.* If I were to ever buy another mobile phone, it would most likely be one of these.  It is slick, user-friendly, and reasonably priced.  The best thing, however, is that it runs Android, a free and open source Linux-based operating system.  It is extendable, expandable, [...]

Zekr 7.1

Zekr 7 was released just in time for Ramadan, and there are some nice new features worth checking out. For those of you who do not know, Zekr is an cross-platform, free and open source, Qur’an study tool.  It allows you to read the Qur’an in Arabic, numerous language translations, transliteration, and audio recitation. Two [...]

Google has a web browser

There’s all kinds of reasons why this might be a bad idea, but hopefully, if Google stays true to their roots, it will just be healthy competition. The new Google web browser called Google Chrome, is currently available for download for Windows and will soon (we are told) be available for Linux and Mac OS [...]

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