How to tell pirated software and genuine software…

We all know it…It is so simple to know whether software is pirated…

In a third world country like our Maldives, pirated software plays an important part in the social aspects of life…We can’t afford genuine software…So we rely on pirated software for our computing and daily life needs…

We all know it…If you downloaded a software using torrents or Usenet than it is definitely pirated…If you buy software for a few dollars it is again definitely pirated…

Only one thing can be used to identify genuine software…The price you bought the software is the same as the price stated by the vendor and the software is activated by directly communicating with the vendor…This is the only way to tell know a days genuine software…!!!!!!

Is Barnabas’s Bible the true bible of Jesus ( Peace Be Upon Him )….

Personally in my sincere heart I do believe the Barnabas’s Bible is the true bible of Jesus…

I read about it in 1993 when I did research on Islam at the National Library…

The bible describes the life and teaching of Jesus and it gives news of the coming of the final messenger of Allah,  Muhamad ( Peace Be Upon Him and all his followers )…

You can read this bible on www.barnabas.net and read what Wikipedia says on the bible at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas

Further information could be found by searching google using keywords “The Gospel According to Barnabas”…

My blog posts will be reviewed and updated soon…

I DON’T WANT THE WRATH OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY FOR ABUSING HIS SERVANTS….Of course they all betrayed and abused me…But I won’t abuse them and bring shame to them…
All my blog posts would be updated soon…I will review and removed all inflammatory remarks I made to my former friends who abuse me…
I do this only because I fear the torment of Judgment Day…As a moderate Muslim trying to cling to the golden mean of Islam, I will not abuse anyone!!!

Is FLAC better than MP3?

I heard about FLAC ( Free Lossless Audio Codec ) in mid 2008…Flac is a lossless audio compression technology…It compresses an audio file by 40 % to 60 % without any loss of audio quality…On the other hand MP3 ( MPEG Audio Layer 3 ) results in a small loss in audio quality…mp3 is supported in the vast majority of cd and DVD players and home theatre system and radio sets while flac is not yet supported like mp3…

If you are using a computer to play music flac is the solution and a better alternative to mp3…But if you want to play music in a house hold radio system…Than mp3 is the best since flac is not portable like mp3…

Personally I still prefer mp3…This is because software’s like Adobe Audition and SoundBooth readily supports mp3 but flac needs a plugin to be installed…

In terms of loss flac is better than mp3 but when speaking of portability mp3 is still the best!!!

Microsoft releases a new programming language called Visual F#…

Previously in 2003 Microsoft released Visual J# with Visual Studio.NET 2003 and continued the language with another release with Visual Studio 2005…

Now this year Microsoft released another language called Visual F# which I found by reading wikipedia as a language related to ML and Standard ML…

I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate using Usenet Servers…I took a trail and evaluation period account and paid 1 USD to Binverse ( www.binverse.com ) through PayPal to access Usenet …I only wanted to download Visual Studio 2010…

Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 on 12 April this year!!!

My question is what will be the developer response to Visual F# ?… From a developers point of view, it might not be successful !… Visual J# is no longer included with Visual Studio…Visual C# and Visual Basic is very successful…On the other hand regarding Visual  C++ , the majority of developers still use native C++ with Microsoft Foundation Classes ( MFC ) and C++/CLR or the .NET version of C++ haven’t been adopted that much as Microsoft had anticipated…

Time will tell if Visual F# is successful…We really have to wait for the next few months and see what happens!!!

Microsoft now offers cloud computing services…

Microsoft is now offering cloud computing services…The initial services are online versions of Office 2010 ( Word, Excel, OneNote and PowerPoint )…
The services are accessible on : http://skydrive.live.com or www.skydrive.com !!!
The cloud offers free services with 25 GB of storage…All you need is Windows Live ID!!!
Microsoft is challenging Google’s cloud computing services which was very successfu!!!

Why I prefer heavy metal music…

It is about to be 7 years I have been listening to heavy metal music…My favorite been Metallica and Megadeth…But I know Metallica and the grunge band Pearl Jam since 1994…It was late 2003 I began playing Metallica…Before that I hadn’t got the opportunity to listen to these bands…

Why I do prefer now heavy metal music ? Because the lyrics of these songs are beautiful and the distortion guitars are beautiful to me…THEY WILL NEVER HAVE A RELAXATION EFFECT…Some songs are contrary to my beliefs as a Muslim…And I don’t believe a word in these songs…I don’t prefer the progressive style of OPETH…The songs are death metal with durations of 1 hour…

Some of my friends say it is not my style to listen to heavy metal music…WHO SAID SO?…Music has nothing to do with the type of clothes you wear and you praying 5 times daily…

I WANT TO BE A MODERATE MUSLIM…Music is my pastime…I don’t watch TV shows now…I play with the computer and use the internet…Music is my other thing in life…

Heavy metal music will never relax you…But the talent in metal bands are much greater than those of sentimental bands who sings only romantic songs…

I don’t listen to Maldivian bands like Traphic Jam ( heavy metal of course ) because they portrays a bad image…

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Who invented coffee?

The original Arab beverage…hehehehe…

From what I know coffee was discovered in Arabia around 600 AD…It was exported to the Europe around the 16 the century…But coffee beans actually grew in Ethopia (whose ancient inhabitants had discovered it’s stimulating and invigorating effects ) and was brought to Arabia…

My favorite drink is coffee ( without sugar for the past year and of course I will avoid sugar for the rest of my days with Allah’s blessings …I am above 30’s and should look after my health now )…

The Italians makes different types of coffee…In fact coffee came to Europe through Italy and the Europeans added milk and sugar to make the taste more acceptable…

Today we can’t live without a dose of caffeine…caffeine is the stimulant that have invigorating effects…COFFEE…Mark one!!!

One year having a credit card…My success story!!!

I became eligible and was issued a Visa Classic Credit card on 13 May 2010…I succeeded on having a credit card…It had helped me a lot…
I was able to register on EBay ( today it is my one year anniversary on EBay, visit http://myworld.ebay.com/nahyz ) and I was able to register on Google Adwords ( http://adwords.google.com ) and pay to Google to promote my primary web site www.guestworm.com . I have done other business on the internet : dealt with Microsoft to buy a Windows XP update patch CD, dealt with book shop of India ( www.bookshopofindia.com ) , and paid and took E-mail read notify service ( www.readnotify.com )!!!
I send my sincere heart felt thanks to Bank of Maldives Card Center and Internet E-Banking Service…
THAT’S MY SUCCESS STORY OF HAVING A CREDIT CARD….MARK ONE!!!

One year on EBay…

Tomorrow, 15 May 2010, it will be one year for me to use EBay…

Visit my EBay profile:

http://myworld.ebay.com/guestworm

Will EBay’s acquisition of Fraud Sciences help defeat online payment fraud?

Ebay acquired Israeli start up company Fraud Sciences Limited early last year…Fraud Sciences Ltd does scientific research into online payment fraud and had developed technologies like SpotLight VFX and  SpotLight T2T which detects fraudulent transactions with remarkable accuracy.

The question to ponder is will it be fool proof…Sure it will be very difficult to break these systems…But no computer technology is fool proof…Before EBay and Yahoo had been hacked…And there is a possibility even these technologies will be by passed and broken.

Let’s wait and see…