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Bilal As I mentioned in my last post that I have been selected as an Insider for the Fujitsu Lifebok4Life campaign so here is my first task: Fujitsu Ultrabook UH572 – Package Unboxing. The package received was quiet bag as compared to the Ultrabook itself. I was curious about its extra-large size. Let’s find it out: … Read more
Intel has introduced the Ultrabook concept. These lightweight, sleek, elegant and powerful machines comes between the laptops and the tablets. The main goal of the Ultrabook is to get a fully responsive machine with no compromise on style and weight. Fujitsu has recently launched two new Ultrabooks namely Lifebook UH572 and Lifebook U772. They have started … Read more
Inspired by the 6 week release cycle of chrome, Firefox has also introduced THREE (main) release channels General, Beta, Aurora where General being the most stable (and thoroughly tested one). There is another channel called Nightly, where the features/changes are introduced and they gradually pop-up after usage/feedback/refinements. [ Details about Firefox main channels is available … Read more
I have used timer many times in Windows Form Application. It’s a simple control that is easy to use and implement. Lately, I was working on a Windows Service where there was a requirement of implementing a periodic job. The timer available in Windows Form is located in System.Windows.Form namespace which is definitely not available … Read more
On Thursday, May 10, 2012, an event has been managed by Microsoft which is 3rd and last for this title. It has been held in Riyadh, Dammam and finally in Jeddah. It was conducted in the King Fahd Medical Research Center, King Abdul Aziz University Jeddah. The main feature of Windows 8 is its revamped … Read more
A lot of people nowadays are using services like Dropbox which provide you the ease to access your up-to-date files everywhere. Dropbox is currently limited to 2GB with some expansion via referrals (and it is not so simple). Some Dropbox competitors like Sugarsync, Waula etc. (with 5 GB) have been around for some time but … Read more
On 24th of March, Google conducted its 2nd event for the Saudi Arabia market under the brand name Google Saudi Arabia 2.0. Last year, the first event of its kind, was conducted by the search giant in Four Season Hotel, Riyadh. This year, it has been conducted in Jeddah Chamber of Commerce & Industry. It’s … Read more
When ever I copy the database from the production server to the development machine the database throws an error when updating a database diagram or creating a new database diagram. The error in question is The solution to this problem is rather simple go to dbo.sysdiagram table and set change the diagram_id default value to … Read more
This week, on 23rd of OCT Windows Phone Camp was conducted at Effat University. The event was sponsored by Telerik The agenda of he event was as below: 8:30 AM Arrival and Registration 9:00 AM Welcome/ Windows Phone 7.5 Overview for Developers 9:45 AM Building Windows Phone Applications with Visual Studio 2010 10:45 AM Break … Read more
Windows 7 is generally available for retail since 22nd October, 2009. Many things have been changed and many more have been arrived after that. The main focus from desktop has already shifted towards laptop/net-book. These days the trend has greatly diverted towards touch pads and slates. The main pioneer was Apple’s iPad followed by similar … Read more