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المؤسسة العالمية لمساعدة الطلبة العرب - Arab Student Aid International Organization

02.05.08

I’ve passed through an organization website that can be so useful for Arab students who are in their way to take a Master or PHD degree abroad, and may need to apply for an aid or for a student loan.
“link”
Deadline is March 1st, 2008.

The organization (ASAI) is formally registered in Ohio, USA as a charitable public foundation.
The site is full of Information about the requirements & is having a newsletter that keep them updated of new applications date in the future.

For those who are capable to contribute to this non-profit organization, please follow this
“link”

To view the list of contributers, check this link” here”. We can see a lot of well known Arab business figures.

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Jordan Realestate Facebook Group

11.25.07

Facebook is the new generation of networking among the professional majority of the world. Facebook is beyond a normal social networking site, but it’s extended now to be a network of products, artists, professional organizations and companies. There is also a big mature chance of monetizing a lot of ideas and there is a sunrise of a lot of marketing opportunities that many individuals & groups may leverage to benefit from this huge network that has an occurrence nowadays everywhere. Personally, I have found a lot of my university, high school friends and ex-coworkers, without facebook; this dream wasn’t possible with all the development of any internet social site at all.

I have created a new facebook group called “Jordan Real estate”.
The group is talking about new developments in Jordan. Individuals and companies may be able to make listings for any property they wish to advertise on this group. Please Join this group for everybody’s mutual benefit.

Amman Real estate

My 2nd facebook application - Popular Friends!

11.24.07

Popular Friends Facebook Application

Two months after the launch of my first facebook application known as iDescribe, which now that I’ve mentioned it has crossed 800,000 total installs all over facebook, I have finally come up with the second one, Popular Friends.

Popular Friends is all about finding who your most popular friends are, as well as the most popular people on facebook! Popular friends creates a popularity factor for facebook users based on their activity on facebook, number of friends, number of wall posts, number of votes that they recieve from their friends! As the application develops, I will try to make the application judge users’ popularity smarter!

Check it out and you can all help out by inviting 20 of your friends, everyday! Let me know what you think…

Our Video Submission to MetaCafe.com Producer Rewards! (Fork Trick)

11.04.07

I remember this trick which my brother Imad has used to show us back on school days. Its simple & depends on some Physics laws : )
Anybody can try it, its a safe DIY (Do It Yourself) trick.


Flying Forks - Amazing Trick - The funniest home videos are here

My entry to the BBC Writing Contest in March 2007!

10.17.07

I know its OCT 2007 now & most of the blog posts are talking about ‘Bab El Hara’ :-) but I am going to submit my entry to the BBC contest which was already held in March this year.The contest came neighboring a debate with subject “How the Internet change our life“, held at Zara Amman. The subject of my entry to the contest was “What does Google Press tell us about UK online interests?” and below is the entry.

Search giant Google in their press page Zeitgeist is showing us interesting facts about the top subjects do people in the whole world search for.
UK’s February 2007 top searched terms will help us understand a lot about UK culture and people. The list had 15 terms. We discovered that “Social Networking” is having the biggest share of Interest among all other topics and that shows how open minded, friendly and thirsty are the UK people for communication internally or around the globe. Another interesting discovery came from an article on e-consultancy.com; that the #1 most popular Blog in UK is Mashable.com. It talks about social networking and video sites like You tube. Blogs are the verses from the spirit of individuals within the crowds.
Sports and Autos News also had a strong presence. Absolutely we know how popular the TOP GEAR program is on the BBC Prime. The other keywords are about Travel, Mobiles, Property Search, Celebrities, Online Shopping, Children CBBC Program and Computing.
It is so fascinating to know that these are the most pursued topics ever aggregated by the Google UK users on that month. Aren’t Travel, Properties, Celebrities, PCs and shopping having a typical and a common formula of life? This is the formula of the UK people as expressed statistically by Google press.
UK February terminologies in Google list include also: SKY SPORTS, TESCO, PC WORLD, FACEBOOK, RIGHTMOVE, ORANGE, EASYJET, BRITNEY SPEARS, AUTOTRADER, BEBO and FACEPARTY.

References:

http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
http://www.google.com/press/intl-zeitgeist.html
http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/361913/top-uk-blogs-ranked-by-unique-users-and-impressions.html

Lets have a look at September 2007 Top Gaining Queries for UK, UAE, and Saudia Arabia. Stats are below! It is for sure reflects common online Interests for that country in general & specifically on the designated time frame.

Saudi Arabia - Popular Queries: September 2007
1. mustang car
2. cool friends community
3. arab bluetooth
4. cartoon
5. mobile portal
(Indian Community Mobile)
6. the vail
(Islamic head cover)
6. al wehda al emaratia
(Name of Soccor Team)
7. general management institute
(Education)
8. kiss
9. emirates airlines
10. mobile tunes
11. king fisal university
(Education)
12. shiatt voice
13. saudi aljazera newspaper
14. porsche

United Kingdom - Top Gaining Queries: September 2007
1. magnet
(kitchen and bathroom store)
2. first buses
(bus operator in UK)
3. of mice and men
4. oxford brookes
(university - it was start of uni term)
5. nursery rhymes
6. glasgow universoty
7. southern electric
(energy provider)
8. gordon ramsey
(celebrity chef)
9. winkworth
(estate agents)
10. skin cancer
11. stansted express
(train to stansted airport)
12. interior design
13. world war two
14. wagamama
(restarant chain)
15. autism

UAE - Popular Queries: September 2007
1. نادي العين
(Al Alin Club (sport))
2. citibank dubai
3. jumbo electronics dubai
4. gitex
5. الوليد بن طلال
(Waleed Bin Talal (prince in Saudi and a business man))
6. اسامة بن لادن
(Osama Bin Laden)
7. ادعيه
(Praying)
8. chat room
9. سعاد حسني
(Souad Husni (actress)
10. ملابس اطفال
(Kids wear)
11. فلسطين الان
(Palestine now)
11. مملكة البحرين
(Kingdom of Bahrain)
12. تهنئة رمضان
(Ramadan greetings environment)
13. ذهب
(Gold)
14. الأخبار
(News)

 

iDescribe - My first facebook application

09.01.07

iDescribe allows you to non-anonymously describe your friends in 5 words from a ready list of words that we’ve selected for you. The words that you are described with are then displayed on your profile in a neat way, with the most common words appearing first to offer an honest look at how others really view you.

Check it out and you can all help out by inviting 10 of your friends, everyday! Let me know what you think…

My entry to the University of Aqaba contest

08.25.07

It’s been a while since we’ve blogged anything on JordanFirst.com but I have an urge to get back to regularly blogging. Anyways, the University of Aqaba had a logo contest that ended 4 days ago, the results weren’t announced yet but the deadline to any further logo submissions is over. So I thought I’d share my logo entry with all of you guys and hear what you think.

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Easily And Quickly Retouch Photos In Picasa

03.09.07

This video shows you how I retouch this photo of the brazilian fan from world cup 2006 using Picasa without the need for Photoshop.

How To Turn Any Image Into Colored ASCII Art

03.09.07

This demonstration shows how you can turn any image into colored ASCII art.

How To Reduce The Time Delay For Menus In Windows XP

03.09.07

This registry tweak shows how you can reduce the time delay for menus in Windows XP, and it works for all versions.

How To Make A Photo Look Like A Drawing In Photoshop

03.09.07

This method could be used on all kinds of photos as long as they have good contrast to make them look like they were drawn by hand.

دقة عالراس, قصعة, 4 جيد

11.24.06

دقة عالراس, قصعة, 4 جيد, فحص, كرت أبيض, كحتات, مضروب ومصلح, مضروب مشغول, غيار واجهة أمامية, غيار واجهة خلفية, دقات حجار, غيار لون, ميكانيكها مش نضيف, قديش يتمشي بالتنكة, اقتصادية, بالوعة بنزين, مالهاش سوق, سعرها طري, مقروط بالسعر, شادينك خاروف, دهان الوكالة, ملعوب بالعداد, السيارة واقفة! السيارة مهيونة, فل الفل, فل ما عدا الجير, من المالك مباشرة, دهان الوكالة, بداعي السفر. الخ الخ الخ….

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