I was about to sign out of my email account, when there appeared a new email in my inbox. I immediately opened it to check it out. It was from one of the citizen journalism social networking sites I am a member of. All it said without any details to the information was that Bin …
Category Archive: Computers
Jul
17
2009
Use Google Urdu Transliteration tool to convert Roman Urdu to simple Urdu text
Just a few years back, designing and building websites or simply chatting in Urdu appeared to be nothing less than a Herculean task. The main difficulty that users came across was typing text in Urdu. As a result, most web users would resort to conversing in Roman Urdu, the typing of Urdu with the help …
Apr
18
2009
Microsoft releases hotfix (patch) for Pakistan 2009 Daylight Saving Time
I wrote just 3 days back about Microsoft releasing a hotfix for Windows Vista and Windows Server users for Daylight Saving Time (DST) in Pakistan for 2009. Well, just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that they have released a hotfix for Windows XP users too. If you’re running Windows XP and would like to …
Apr
15
2009
Tutorial: Configuring your Windows XP systems for Daylight Saving Time in Pakistan
Effective April 15, 2009, Daylight Saving Time (DST) has been re-introduced in Pakistan meaning that all watches, clocks and mobile phones needed to be shifted one hour ahead. The same goes for our computers at home and work as well. Microsoft has recently rolled out a hotfix for enabling DST changes for Windows Vista and …
Oct
16
2008
Killing time online with flash games
For a change, I thought I’d give some food for relaxation, rather than thought, to all of our dedicated readers out there. I mean, we do need a break once in a while! I’m sure you’ve all played online flash games while at work, either out of sheer boredom or then perhaps addiction. Here’s a …
Oct
15
2008
Windows 7 is now officially… ‘Windows 7’
It has been recently confirmed by Microsoft that the upcoming version of Windows will now officially be called as ‘Windows 7’. This was revealed by Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Windows Product Management in a blog post at the Windows Vista Blog. For as far as we know, this is final deal and perhaps its …















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